There's a strong possibility that Mek is no longer working directly with the Consult.
Imagine you're the Consult. You know the Celmonan prophecy. Then one of your prominent members (Mek) runs into an Anasurimbor wandering the wilderness in a place where men don't really live. Assuming you learn this information, wouldn't you move every asset you have into the Demua mountains to find this dude?
The fact that this didn't seem to happen suggests that Mek didn't pass along that intel. Which could just come down to his being Erratic and therefore, unreliable. But it could also indicate some kind of rift.
i had never thought about this connection! glad u brought this up, profgrape! possibilities that spring to mind:
- perhaps Mek was only momentarily lucid when meeting Kellhus? otherwise he's more like Cleric, wandering around not knowing what he knows
(the stark diff between Mek and Cleric does make me wonder if Bakker did make a mistake early on, characterizing Mek as more coherent than Mek ought to be)
- Mek did tell the Consult and the Consult did scour the Demua but were prevented from finding Kellhus because...THE DUNYAIN/CISHAURIM ALLIANCE!!!
- Mek told the Consult and the Consult dismissed him as a shambling wreck with an idiot brain. "We're supposed to believe this guy" Shae says to Aurax, "dude doesn't even have his book with him."
(Perhaps a dismissal like this could lead to rebellion. Mek leading the Consult nonmen against Shae and the Clam Twins? Maybe it already happened and the Great Ordeal will find Mek hanging from the wall of Dagliash, where he's been for the last 20 years, pretty much no more tortured than being a nonman any other way.)
- Mek scours the Demua, captures Kellhus, and a third party later intervenes to cause Kellhus' escape. Kellhus doesn't mention it to anyone because GODDAMNIT Bakker like to hoard revelations
- Mek has a secret alliance with the Dunyain to the effect that if he ever meets anything labelled 'Anasurimbor' in the wild, Mek is to accost it, blather with it, feign to let it go
(what the hell is a wild Mek doing in the wild anyways? shouldn't this guy be up at Golgotterath staring into a big pot of guck, mumbling "double, double boil and trouble"?)
however much this mystery weighs on our heads, it SHOULD really bug Kellhus. there is definitely going to be a 'Kellhus chats with Mek' bit, i'm betting at Dagliash. they will make snide comments about each other's weight, it'll be like a high school reunion