The Shards of the Final Empire

Hoid is in fact named in the final empire he is a beggar one of his most used disguises and kelseer has an interaction with him where he's just getting some information. A little bit of each breakdown is a hoid sighting did we see hoid in misborn the answer is yes, it was confirmed. that was a perfect description of the shards they seem like these and they are big powerful entities but they're also just men just humans people who have been saddled with this enormous amount of power.