It’s 100% Hoid. There’s a few lines in Chapter 5 where

I went last year for The Lost Metal, and it was great! Already picked up badges for this year, just need to get my hotel booked still.

Overall it was a great time, there was a good mix of smaller panels that were both spoiler and non-spoiler, and big events in the main auditorium.

I wasn’t there for Dragonsteel 2021, but with the bigger size of 2022 there were definitely some small growing pains. I liked the survey they did afterwards though, and as long as they listen to feedback 2023 should be great!

Probably a good time to start a Skyward reread as well now that I think about it.

Yeah, with theory crafting it can be pretty difficult. My favorite question, especially when she’s on the right track, is just “What makes you think that?” so I can feel out what she’s picked up and what she missed.

I saw a recommendation in a thread on /r/books over at reddit actually! I started reading around the time of Words of Radiance, and went through things pretty slowly in a relatively unintuitive order:

• Way of Kings
• Words of Radiance
• The Final Empire
• Warbreaker
• Oathbringer
• The rest of Mistborn Era 1
• Elantris
• Rhythm of War
• Mistborn Era 2 (Up to BoM)
• Arcanum Unbounded
• The Lost Metal (Went to Dragonsteel 2022 for this!)

Since I’ve caught up I’ve gotten probably a half dozen people to start reading, and have been carefully curating their reading order to avoid the nonsense I went through.