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Hmm... One wonders if there will ever be a book that details exactly what happened, and what Hoid's (Elvis's) role in the whole thing was.  Or perhaps the body of work that happens around Hoid will become so massive that even from the tiny glimpses each affords us, we'll be able to piece the whole thing together.  Mayhaps we will wind up with a massive several world crossover wherein all of our favorite characters put Adolnasium back together again.  .... That sounds like really bad fan-fiction. But I bet Brandon could do it!  Of course, the real answer probably surpasses my puny imaginings by a great deal.

So, does he hang out waiting for the characters to ask for his help because he is powerless to help unless he is asked?  Or is he pursuing his own goals and agendas completely independent of the other characters?  If he has some sort of foresight, perhaps he can identify the important players on each world, but that seems unlikely.  Hmm... I like the idea about his only going out at night to hide his age though.  Perhaps it is to hide his apparent age, while he tries to make himself look more like how he feels he ought to look.  i.e. Really old.

Yeah, the only thought that I had was, "Hey Miyabi has Dragonsteel stuff in his sig.  That's a great idea!"    Turns out it wasn't a very good idea at all.

Oh! Idea! Maybe he manipulates the Shadesmar so that he can reach the Spiritual Realm, where all of the Shards are still vaguely connected. He than travels that way to planet hop from Shard to Shard.

Hmm... Given that one mainish type character's unique abilities in DS and how they work, I'd say you might be on to something.  And there's another use of Shadesmar by people who seem to know what it is!  What did I miss?

Sorry about the double-post, new thinking occurred.

Edit: Removed a character name and description of powers to avoid Peter's further wrath.

This seems like a good place for this.  As far as I know, Shadesmar is the name of a patch of water shaped roughly like Roshar. I picked that up from the concept art.  But in one of the Hoid Threads, EUOL is quoted as saying that Hoid is very adept at manipulating the Shadesmar for his own ends.  That map is the first I've heard of the term, but lots of you guys talk like you know what it is.  Did I miss something?

I have always believed that Hoid was trying to help the 'good guys'. I believe that Hoid is a good person, who has the ability to hop from planet to planet, maybe due to being connected somehow to the shards. 

Hmm... I wonder what he hopes to accomplish...  My thinking is that, yeah, he gave Kelsier good info, but nothing that was absolutely vital.  He helps the Terris people, and maybe he hoped to meet Vin in HoA, but unless he has some way to see the future (unlikely, since he spent most of WoA looking in the wrong place), he must have been up to something else when he spoke to Kelsier that night.  Why act as an informant?  Whatever he was doing was probably tied into the Ruin and Preservation thing, but he couldn't know that Kelsier was going to be a major factor in how those shard's conflict was finally resolved.  One wonders, what would Hoid have done had the Lord Ruler not been overthrown?  Wait 1000 years and try again?  Or would he have faced the LR at the well and tried to do...what ever it is he's trying to do?  Such Rambling confusion!

 

2.  If a Mistborn burned Lerasium, their power would become doubled.

Holy cow!  Oh, for the duration of the burn, or permanently?  When I first read it, I thought permanently, but now I think just for the burn duration is probably accurate.  Hmm...Lerasium Duralumin Steel Jumping would be insane!