Has anyone said that the Mahdoubt was Esmer yet?
I've been thinking that the
Elohim can't be natural time travelers, or else their history would be quite different from what it is. Why not go back in time and stop Kastennessen? Or do something about the volcano before it became so threatening? Or stop the Ravers from being born instead of making a giant Fist. Etc.
So I think Esmer may have hitched a ride back in time with Linden and the ceasure that
he summoned. Then went, aw shucks, us
Elohim can do stuff, and didn't mention that he hitched.
But he didn't get hitched for the return trip. It wasn't his ceasure.
So he wanders to Revelstone, and moves in for 3300 years. Who cares when you're immortal? I imagine him standing in the center of the close, immobile and imperious, but then gets tired of it after 300 or so years.
One day he asks if there's anything he can do. Someone hands him a mop. 3300 years later, he's the Mahdoubt. A powerful, immortal being still, but with a softened attitude, because over the years he's settled in and gotten mellow. He even adopted a new image to fit his new temperment ... and if occasionally someone sees through it, they shake their head and wander away.
Of course the
Haruchai would unquestioningly let him stay and serve in Revelstone. He is Cail's son. Fellow
Haruchai but with a twist.
The eye colors, of course, represent his duality. Merewives and
Haruchai. Esmer and Mahdoubt. Wild and Mild. Living two places at the same time for 3300 years. And, fundamentally, it's all about Master and Servant, Merewives/Esmer/wild Mastery, and Hauchai/Mahdoubt/mild Service. Purple for the majesty of the Master. Orange for the service of the Earth.
Who better than Esmer to set up a match-making service in Revelstone? His mother was a Merewife, passion incarnate, and his grandparents were the star-crossed lovers Kastennessen and his mortal spouce. Soon he is renowned for matching people up, people come for miles to get hooked up, and they give him fragments of their marriage garments as tribute, which he stitches together into a smock. Oh, after doing this for 3300 years, he knows all about Love.
When Marthiir sees his true identity - Esmer! - he would say "such a one serves?!?!?!" He saw the earlier Esmer. He did make that kind of impression. I can see Marthiir saying that.
Tell me I'm wrong.
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