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In which published book is Hoid the happiest?
He is the happiest when he is getting away with something. Not in the Stormlight Archive because he is nervous about Odium being there. I think he is the happiest during the Wax and Wayne series, in Bands of Mourning maybe.
Does Hoid have two Honorblades?
Hoid has no Honorblades.
That's wrong on both counts, actually? Waiting for Brandon to give them to him, right?
Currently has no Honorblades.
What was your inspiration for Wit, or who?
Hmm. You know, the closest thing I've been able to say is the court jester from King Lear, he's one of my favorite literary characters. But I'm not sure if I can, you know, if I can point to anyone specific other than that.
This is a very important Hoid question. He's still taking good care of Sir Squeekins, right? That little rat is going to become an immortal rat pet of Hoid's.
Hoid did take good care of Sir Squeekins.
Does Hoid have a favourite color?
Sure, I've actually answered this before and I can't remember what I've said. We're gonna say black, right now.
Can you give us some more tidbits about Hoid?
Can I give you more tidbits about Hoid? He loves bacon. *laughter* No I can't give you any, you'll have to go online and find out more tidbits about Hoid. I'm very tight-lipped.
Could you write in there what Hoid would think of Khriss.
Well, Hoid knows Khriss, so.
*written in book* Hoid thinks well of Khriss.
Hoid was a Dawnshard at some point in the deep past, and the reason he (even still) cannot physically harm people, or even eat meat, is related to the changes this made to his spirit. (Consider this the same fundamental principle as savanthood.) The few of you who have read Dragonsteel know that him being a Dawnshard was also the source of his immortality in that book, though the terms were different back then. (The word Dawnshard was never mentioned, for example--though the primary story of Dragonsteel (which is no longer canon) was about several people who unwittingly become Dawnshards.)
And a preemptive RAFO to all questions on this point. :)
After Stormlight, Wit was far and away my favorite characters. One of my friends came to me and heard I really liked Wit, and he's like, "Oh yeah. His name is Hoid, he's a worldhopper, he's in a ton of cosmere books. So I went and read a bunch of the other cosmere related books. Why's he so different? Like, in Mistborn, he shows up as a beggar/informant for half a page?
So there's a couple reasons for this. One is, there are certain books where he is a character and other books where I'm just writing him as a cameo. Most of the books I'm just doing a cameo for him. Stormlight's where you see the most of him until he gets his own book.
The other reason was, at the beginning, I wasn't sure how much people would be interested in behind-the-scenes stuff, and so I was very sparing with it in the early books. You won't see a lot of him until Warbreaker, and even then he's only in a chapter. Even in Wax and Wayne books, you only see glimpses of him. There will be other books he'll be a bigger part in, but if you like Wit, Stormlight's your jam.
Can [Kelsier] and [Hoid] be friends or companions or allies?
Well, anything CAN happen--but for now, I'll let their interaction on screen speak for itself.
But feel free to imagine anything you would like, for yourself. It will be a while before I can get back to this particular interaction.
Is Hoid going to be Jasnah's Wit?
RAFO
Who is Hoid's best friend?
Well, back in the day it was Bat'Chor. It's been various people at various different times. Who is it right now? It depends on which "right now" you're talking about. He's in a bunch of different books in a bunch of different time periods. Bat'Chor probably was the closest to a best friend for a while in the books that were relevant.
Is Hoid afraid of the Beyond?
*uhms* Yeah. Let's say yes.
Was Hoid a worldhopper before the Shattering?
Though there are some RAFOy things that I can't exactly say, I CAN say that I don't think most would consider Hoid a worldhopper before the Shattering.
You mentioned in the forum QA that Liar of Partinel was scrapped - does this mean that Hoid's backstory will no longer be told?
There are still plans to do Hoid's backstory, all that the comment about the book being scrapped meant is that when it comes time to write it, the current draft will be tossed away and it will be written fresh - similar to how Way of Kings was done.
Who is the most powerful non-Shard entity in the cosmere?
It's probably Hoid.
All right, regarding the 'Wisdom Shard' again. We have one quote where Hoid... I'll just cite it: "Some men, as they age, grow wiser. I am not one of those, for wisdom and I have always been at cross-purposes." Is he referring to that Shard there... or the Vessel?
*thumbs up, grins* ... Yes.
Hey, all. Brandon here. With the release of this book, there have been some minor updates to continuity that I think some of you will find relevant.The big one has to do with Hoid's visit to Terris in The Well of Ascension. For those unfamiliar with the backstory, this little behind-the-scenes action has been a source of some consistent problems. The outline, and original draft, of Well had Vin and Elend traveling up to Terris, then into the mountains, to find the Well itself.
This was a huge momentum killer in the story. Having your cityscape-focused book suddenly turn into a traveling quest fantasy for a few chapters felt very out of place, and required too much strange time-jumping to make it work. In revisions, I set about finding a way to repair this, and to overlap the Well of Ascension discovery with Vin's return to Luthadel.
The end result worked much better, but I was forced to cut Hoid's cameo. (In the form of footsteps in the snow and frost leading to the Well, hinting that someone had been there just before her.) I knew where Hoid was, and added in the cameo of him with the Terris people—with the plan still being that he visited the Well sometime during the days after Vin's return to the city.
Well, in working on Secret History, I found that this had a problem with it. Hoid had to already know where the Well is, because after the destruction of the Pits, he'd need to use the Well to return to Scadrial after leaving in the middle of book one to attend to certain other events.
If you've read the story, you know this is how I proceeded. Official continuity is that Hoid went up to Terris after visiting the Well, as he had things to do there. He did not go looking for the Well. This doesn't change continuity for any of the books, though it does render one of the annotations for Well obsolete.
Otherwise, I'm quite pleased about this novella. I wasn't certain how it would go, writing something using threads I'd left dangling ten years ago. (You should thank the beta readers, who are all Sharders I believe, for their continuity help. They made me aware of several things I needed to make much more clear from the original draft, so that canon would be more crisp.)
I know there has been a lot of discussion regarding which times when someone appears to hear Kelsier's voice were actually Kelsier. The story offers the official canon for this as well.
It's nice to finally be able to give the answers to some longtime fan questions, such as what spooked Vin during her inspection of Hoid and what was up with Preservation and the Mist Spirit. It's entirely possible that, despite our efforts, we slipped up and made some continuity error here or there. If so, I'm terribly sorry! This one has been particularly challenging to do.
Do we see Hoid in this [White Sand Volume 1]?
Yes. *inaudible*
Aw! Is he Hoid though or is he hidden?
He's hidden, but the further the book progresses the more obvious it will be that it's him.
Cool.
I don't know if he's done the obvious things yet. I can't remember where this one cut off. I'll have to go back and look because you won't be the only one who asks that.
I have a question about the man at the end of Rhythm of War that Kaladin finds, that used to recollect lost objects from the Shattered Plains, such as Rock's razor or even Tien's horse. Will we get to know more about him, or is it just a random man?
So, what is happening there is all RAFO material. I'm not gonna answer any specifics about Tien's horse or even about Tien. There are lots of ways you can theorize that this happened, and I'm not gonna canonize which of them it is. One of those includes Hoid and his shenanigans, that's a possibility. One of which is kind of some Fortune being bent around what's going on. Other possibilities are that there's a divine manifestation. I'm not gonna say which of those it is, but there are lots of plausible answers there.
Is Hoid's hair color naturally white?
Yes, now.
Now? Does he have a counterpart who has black hair somewhere?
RAFO.
So in Words of Radiance, when Hoid has-- switches places with the carriage driver, who was mentioned as having a hat and a strange accent - is that carriage driver important?
Hehehehe… That's a-- I'll leave this one to you. It's a RAFO, but it's not a big RAFO.
Favorite thing Hoid's done?
RAFO, sorta. A lot of his fave things have happened off screen that we're not supposed to know about (yet). Wit is his fave role that we've seen!
Hoid and Vasher, can they recognize each other?
It depends on what Hoid looks like at the moment. He is very good at making himself unrecognizable.
Did Yolen ever have a moon? Is a past version of Hoid in any of Dalinar's visions?
Two questions, I'll RAFO them both.
When's Hoid's birthday?
I have not said when Hoid's birthday is. Because it's on Yolen, I don't even know if the days will line up, when we finally get there, to our world.
When will we see a Hoid book?
You will see a Hoid book-- You will not see a Hoid book until I finish the first five books of Stormlight and the next Mistborn trilogy at the earliest. More likely it's after Stormlight is done.
Is Hoid's inability to do harm voluntary or--
Involuntary.
1) Is Hoid still holding his Dawnshard?
2) If not, is the Dawnshard currently hold by Rysn the same as Hoid's or a different?
3) Nikli mentions 4 Dawnshards. Are there more than that?
4) Are all the Dawnshards currently (as of SA 4) on Roshar? Or in the Rosharan System?
5) Are there some of them on worlds we have already seen (Scadrial, Sel, Threnody, etc...)?
Hoid Dawnshard is a RAFO.
Same.
There are only four Dawnshards.
RAFO on whether they're on this planet or not.
These are great questions, but Dawnshard info is mostly for the future cosmere books--and so I consider most of it very RAFOy.
"Same," here meant RAFO. I answer these quickly, I'm afraid, particularly when they come in a list like that.
If Hoid encountered a larkin, would anything happen?
Hoid is aware of larkin.
So he's avoiding them?
I'm just gonna say he's aware of them.
Will we have to wait until the end of Stormlight Archive to learn about Hoid.
Uh yeeees.
So like a dozen years.
Yes. You'll get little bits and pieces, but you won't get the whole thing until I do his trilogy, which is the next thing after Stormlight.
We have seen some Hoid-related groups on the diferent worlds of the Cosmere...
Worldbringers on Scadrial, Worldsingers on Roshar, Enefel on Sel (this one is a wild guess)
Is there a Hoid-related group on Nalthis? Maybe the Five Scholars are part of it? (That would explain the Shardblade/Nightblood thing you've been talking lately)
Hoid did not found the Five Scholars.
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Hoid is the King's Wit! That's who he is! Among other things.
Sometimes a coachman.
<Pregnant? Yes. Sometimes a coachman.>
Is Hoid from Elantris, the same Hoid from The Stormlight Archive?
Yes.
Are we ever going to get Hoid's story?
Yes.
Does... <Roial?> make it to one of the other books?
I-- That-- I have to RAFO that... Hoid's backstory is coming. It's going to be a while, but you're going to get it.
The prequel on Hoid, will it be your longest book?
I do plan it to be kind of long, so we'll see how long, "Kind of long," is but yeah.
Does Hoid fit a Lightweaver?
Yes, I think he does most fit it. He's OG Lightweaver. He was Lightweaving before it was cool.
It was not cool?
He got in trouble for it a lot of times, early on. I'm mostly making a joke about that.
He was Lightweaving back before Adonalsium was Shattered.
[My friend] thought Hoid is Compounding Luck.
That is an interesting question and they are a smart person.
Is Hoid's flute actually [the Lord Ruler]'s?
RAFO!
So, Brandon. Hoid. I remember you saying at the Idaho Falls signing last year that he was in Well of Ascension. We, your dedicated fans who like scouring books searching for obscure characters who have any possibility of being the mysterious Hoid, have yet to find him. Peter sent us on a hunt for him (Hoid, not Peter...) in the deleted scenes, and we found his boot-print.
Now, I think he broke the pottery there too—the one holding the lerasium—and since there's broken pottery in the actual version, I think he may have snuck into the cavern and broken it as well. If so, is this Hoid's part in Well of Ascension? This trace of him? I commend you if it is. It is clever, making us think it was a person, when in fact it's just something he did.
You are on the right track, but wrong on one point. Hoid does appear in the book.
I had originally toyed with making his touch on the novel more obscure, but decided that I wanted to be consistent with the other novels by actually having him appear. Once I realized I'd probably cut the scene with the footprint, I decided I needed this actual appearance even more badly.
Fortunately, I knew what Hoid had been up to all this time, and had placed him in a position where several characters could run into him. In Well of Ascension, Hoid believed (as Vin did) that the Well was in the North, even though it was not. He spent much of the book pursuing this idea.
Through events, however, he discovered he was wrong. He made the realization after Vin did, but only because of a chance meeting. (This is recorded in the books. Let's just say he was listening in when someone implied that the Well was in Luthadel.)
He hurried to Luthadel, and was in the town, skulking about in the last parts of the novel. He isn't seen here, though he does still infiltrate the Well. (Hoid is quite proficient at manipulating Shadesmar for his own ends.)
Hoid has Lerasium and breaths, Does Hoid have anything from Sel? Soul stamps perhaps?
RAFO. :)
Wit says an expression, "Speak your fears at a mirror when you get home tonight." I've never heard that. Is that a real-world thing? Or is that, like, a Yolish thing?
Yeah, that's not a real-world thing.
Any clues to what's going on with that?
No, I won't give any clues. I'll RAFO that.
How much Sazed is aware to Hoid and Hoid's action and what does he think about him?
He is aware. More is RAFO. :)
How long have you made up your mind to write Jasnah having relationship with Hoid? Was it settled at the very start?
I only started thinking Wit/Jasnah around the time I finished Oathbringer!
Question about Hoid--
Okay. RAFO. *laughter* No, no, go ahead…
When Hoid said that Ivory wasn't capable of harming him, is that related to his stated difficulty in harming others?
RAFO.
Did Hoid meet Frost before, after, or sometime in the same time range that he met the 16?
Before, but (on a cosmere scale) it was very close to when he met the others.
In Bands of Mourning, Hoid says he technically owns the place of the mansion. Is he referring to the mansion or Scadrial? Or something else?
He's referring to the mansion itself.
Has Hoid been on Roshar before The Way of Kings?
Yes.
So, Hoid can't physically hurt someone, but does this ban extend to mental harm and harm through inaction?
No. Hoid can mentally hurt someone, or allow them to be hurt, but when considering physical trauma he gets nauseous, to the point he can be incapacitated
