#her doing worldsinger training or just generally being his successor is the only theory im going 2 bat for

[kingjasnah]

I think there’s a compelling argument to be made that the listeners to Hoid’s story in Ssp1 and Ssp3 are two different people. If I remember correctly, he mentions rich sailing culture and I think aliens? As something the Ssp1 guy should be familiar with, which makes me think of Sixth of the Dusk, obviously. Roshar doesn’t have a sailing culture, only Thaylenah does. And I can’t think of any important Thaylen characters Hoid would be talking to. (Plus the aliens thing but that might just be me misremembering something else).

As for Ssp3, the mere mention of Vedens as something the listener should be familiar with pidgeonholes it to Roshar kinda hard I think. Would make sense for it to be Sigzil then, though I’d understand if it was Khriss or Shallan or something, as a previous ask said.

I haven’t actually started Ssp3 but I finished Ssp1 so tbh you’d probably know better than me tho, whadda ya think?

well i agree with you in that it's probable that there are two different listeners just cause the tone of address in ssp1 and ssp3 is a little different (though that might be chalked up to the varying degrees of how much hoid is embarrassing himself in either) but well.....i was pretty convinced whoever he was talking to was a worldhopper. both books are set in the future from where we are in stormlight so shallan and sigzil are still contenders because theyve both studied customs of different countries on roshar. i dont think your mention of thaylenah excludes them BUT im realizing i never considered rysn???? and she's like. likely. considering what's been going on with her recently she and hoid now share something very very plot significant.

scadrial had a quick shoutout in passing where im at in ssp3, but the references are still very roshar heavy