Raoden is keeping his identity a secret because he thinks if people knew what happened to him it would cause instability in Arelon, owing to his popularity exceeding the king's.
His pain is increasing faster than he expected. I do think it odd that people are able to overcome pain so effectively with mental attitude. Perhaps more is going on, involving magic.
Raoden is taking extra food from Sarene's handouts and giving it to the Hoed. I don't know why this has to be such a secret.
Meanwhile, as he predicted, his followers are leaving him for the free food. Although it wasn't just food they got from him, it was a sense of purpose that helped them overcome their pain. So I don't know what they are doing all day after they've eaten.
Raoden's remaining soldiers are struggling to keep Shaor's men away from the food carts. Again, why keep this a secret? Just tell Sarene's guards about the threat so they can help defend and hand out food in an orderly way. Raoden explains it's to stop the guards from killing the Elantrians. Also he suspects Sarene has another motive for feeding the Elantrians (he doesn't know about Hrathen).
Raoden continues to study Aons. He finds out that AonDor is the energy that drives the magic and speculates that something is blocking it. Galladon admits that his father was an Elantrian. Then he realises that one of the Hoed men was an Elantrian before the Shaod. This man directs them to a secret underground chamber filled with books. There are lanterns to provide light, which presumably are not lit, so I don't know how they can see where they are going. There is a passage leading to a lake outside the city. The Hoed man is placed into the lake and he dissolves in the...water? Acid? Anyway it seems like a way out. Presumably it is better than being burned.
Undoubtedly the secret chamber of books contains the secret to getting Elantris back to normal.
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