ShroudedMoon

For context, I just finished reading TotES, and I have read pretty much every book in the cosmere except Yumi, Sunlit Man, and White Sand. Question 1: I can't help wondering how Hoid knows so much about Tress's thoughts, and what she does even when Hoid isn't around. How does he know what Tress does in her private quarters, or when Hoid isn't there to watch? This story is presumably told from Hoid's perspective, so perhaps he is embellishing (and thus making parts of the study uncanon)? Question 2: Where does Hoid store his belongings? This may seem like a stupid question, but Hoid is supposed to have hemalurgic spikes, unkeyed metalminds, Stormlight spheres, metal vials and possibly midnight spores. Where does he store these on his person? He can't be stuffing it all in his pockets. Also, Ulaam stole his jacket, so they couldn't stored in that.

What do you mean by "the Heralds' spren"? The Heralds (except for Nale) are not bonded to any spren, so they could not have a bond to the Unmade. I believe the Heralds' madness was due to being tortured so long. But I'm not sure whether spren return to Braize. The Unmade, at least, do not go there.

This clears it up for me. Thanks for the thorough response! I have read Mistborn Era 2, but not the short stories like Secret History.

In the Hero of Ages Sazed says that Preservation gave up his mind in order to trap Ruin in a prison. What exactly does it mean for Preservation to give up part of his mind? Does it mean part of his Shardic Investiture? Wouldn’t he get his mind back once Vin released the prison?