#worldhoppers

They’re short

They’re tall

They swear strangely

They have something they shouldn’t

They have something they should but are overly curious about it

They know simultaneously more and less than they should about the setting

They hint at things they shouldn’t know

They hint at things nobody knows

They hint at things everybody already knows

They ask questions the pov character doesn’t know the answer to

They ask questions the pov character DOES know the answer to but never considered asking themself before

They use magic which the pov character hasn’t seen before

They use magic which the pov character doesn’t recognize as magic

They know about the cognitive realm… like. At all.

They use the word “Investiture”, “Shard”, “Intent”, etc.

Did he turn back into a human or stay an elf?

Was the half-grown beard supposed to be a hint?

Caleb turns back into human in the timeskip between the two final chapters! It's been a while since I wrote it so I don't remember most of the specifics, but I do remember writing him saying at the end of the second to last chapter that he wants to return to being human. It wasn't really intended to be vague/hinted at as much as outright confirmed; maybe I need to be a bit more to the point in my writing lol.

It could have such fun

MB: [makes controversial but supportable claim regarding current plotline in Worldhoppers]

Brandon Sanderson: Yes. But not because of the worldhopping. A mortician would generally be able to tell because... I guess it depends. There's some that you would not be able to tell if they were. If someone left Roshar and came back to Roshar and died, a mortician wouldn't necessarily tell. Now, someone who can read their spiritweb might be able to tell.

But that's not going to leave an effect on you physically, unless, for instance, they're doing an autopsy of what's in your stomach. And they're like, "Oh, we found offworld food." I would say, a lot of times, there's going to be some forensic sort of things you can do to determine.

P.S. I'm going back and editing posts to tag "worldhopper" because I used that one for longer