What do we know now?
1. According to FR, the Elohim that was bound in the Collosus was done so by the trees. What?!? The consciousness of the One Forest was capable of binding an Elohim for its own self-protection? (Am I totally misremembering this? Was my first read-through that cursory? Can someone help me with this one?)
2. We now know that the first Guradian of the One Tree was an Elohim. He/She/It was defeated by the Theomach, who was in turn defeated by Brinn. And since Brinn was not among the Dead in Andelain, we can assume that he is still with the One Tree guarding it.
3. Of course, we know about Findail. He was appointed to prevent Vain from fulfilling his purpose. But now we've also been told that the Elohim are susceptible to certain structures, that they are undeniably attracted to them. This is why they fear Jeremiah's power so much, for what the Vizard supposedly was trying to get him to do, namely build a door for the Elohim to enter and never leave again. A Durance if I've ever heard of one!
And the ur-viles have made manacles. TC/Roger states that these are for him, but are they? Are they maybe for the Elohim instead since they seem to be magnetically drawn to certain structures? A mass Durance for the whole race?
4. And then there's Kastenessen. This one's sticky, and even though we know a great deal more about it now, we most assuredly do not know the whole story yet. Allegedly, the Elohim appointed him to hold back the fires from the north of the Land, the skurj (whatever they really are, or however they really came into being). However, he seems to have been forcibly placed in his Durance as a punishment for imparting some of his power onto a mortal woman that he loved.
She is the inception of the merewives, one of which is the mother of Esmer. And Esmer aided his grandfather, Kastenessen, cto reate Kevin's Dirt.
We've been told how Kastenessen managed to free himself from his Durance, but we don't know for sure the whole story on that yet. He merged himself with these creatures, the skurj, but who gave him the idea? It was hinted at that Lord Foul whispered this counsel to him, and waited for Kastenessen to free himself in this manner. But what if this idea was mentioned to him by one of the Insequent? We don't know...or do we?
Anyone care to chime in and help us out with some of this? Have I left things out that are significant--(oh, most assuredly!
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