How is the Consult not relevant to the point? Destroying them is what spurred the TT.... I know maybe I am a little too much on wether Kellhus emotions matter (though I have been convinced that TGO doesn't make decisions based on emotion, emotion spurred him to be more, to make the TT his, I won't back down from that.), some of you guys take it too far the opposite way. Where is there any textual evidence Kellhus wants to join the Consult? In fact, the opposite is true, the Consult must be exterminated for Kelhus to transcend, whatever that might be (half ape, half monk God of Earwa, I guess). He might make tools of the Consult and their mechanisms, he won't suffer their presence. I mean, what are we reading about here? If he wanted to join them he would make a few jumps and make some new friends. For whatever reason, the text seems to indicate the Consult wants nothing to do with him, prophecy or whatever I guess.
Oh, indeed, it wasn't my intention to imply that Kellhus has any ideal to join the Consult, or even suffer their continued existence after they do whatever it is Kellhus needs them to do. In other words, what I was trying to say is that there is little distinction between enemies and tools for Kellhus. Indeed, the Consult is certainly an enemy and yet at the same time, the fact that Kellhus hasn't simply killed them all, or tossed the Ark back into the Void, speaks to them still having
some kind of role.
To bring this back full circle, I don't think Meppa somehow ends up not being Kellhus' mortal enemy. In fact, I think he is still alive to simply be that again. Why does Kellhus need that? I don't know, but it may have to do with him needing to strive, in a sense?
To answer my question, I believe Akka is an ally in Kellhus's own view of what a ally is. He let him live because he needed him, that much is for sure. Even in conquering Earwa, he did his best to make allies and not enemies. I'd say their is a distinct separation of the two in his mind. He made Malowebi choose, did he not? He offered to be allies, and look what "no" got Zeum. A demon-headed Malowebi coming to exterminate their line. So, I see that Kellhus sees them to be more than just tools. Life goes on after the Great Ordeal, after all. And, it is Holy!
Sure, in the abstract there is definitely a distinction between ally and enemy. But in the practical Kellhus-ian way, they are both things to be used. Indeed, the end for each will be different, allies rewarded or spared, enemies punished or killed, but the point is that they are all things to be used to achieve ends.
Thinking about how you phrased that though make me think of Kellhus as a "Bellicose God," that is "one who favours those who strive against him over sycophants and worshipers." Perhaps it really is about Kellhus achieving Becoming (More), and that something that required things to be striven against?