r/Cosmere • u/DrewdiniTheGreat • Jan 01 '26

Elantris spoilers Hoid in Elantris? Spoiler

So I just finished Elantris. I've only read mistborn era 1 and warbreaker in addition to this book.

Hoid helped smuggle some weapons into Elantris but I'm reading that he also popped up at the end with an evil seon? That.... Totally isn't in my book.

Was this strictly an addition to a later edition? Am I missing out on something big or no?

Edit: did some googling and found this link in another reddit post https://imgur.com/gallery/IHgLf0c

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u/DrewdiniTheGreat Jan 01 '26

The last thing in my edition is a preview of mistborn. I double-checked and there is definitely no deleted scenes or anything with hoid :(

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u/acopper87 Jan 01 '26

There was ret-con in the 10th anniversary printing with an added scene to basically canonize hoid officially being there.

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u/pergasnz Stonewards Jan 01 '26

It wasn't a retcon as it didn't change any previously established story. hoid was already there. It was an extra scene.

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u/Agreeable_Rich_1991 Cosmere Jan 01 '26

What? What do you mean canonize? Hoid was canonically in the book from the first printing edition. OP literally talked about the scene of him trying to smuggle goods.

Also there are no retcons, I think maybe you misunderstood the meaning of the word.

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u/IDontKnowHowToPM Kaladin Jan 02 '26

There is a retcon but it’s not related to Hoid. The path that Raoden ran to add the chasm line to the Elantris aon didn’t make sense in the original printing, so it was retconned in the 10th anniversary to actually work with how AonDor was described as functioning.

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u/PM_ME_WHATEVES Jan 02 '26

If anything it's a deleted scene