Here's a question, is the process of being an elju possibly similar to the process of being a Mandate Schoolmen?
Does Kosotor dream the dreams of Nil'giccas?
It just makes me wonder, how could someone become an elju, remember things for another, unless there was something, 'written' so to speak on the soul of the prospective elju. How can an elju remember unless they remember.
I think we're being thrown by the translation for elju being book. That word 'book' puts me in mind of the elju becoming a book by doing a lot of reading. But the nonmen don't seem to have much in the way of writing, and they can't really create an 'oral' tradition to instruct an elju when they can't remember it to tell the elju.
That sort of suggests that an elju has to 'learn' or imprint from contact with the nonman's soul. Why the soul? Because RSB is assiduous at never using the words brain or mind, in Earwa all thought originates in and is stored upon the Parchment of the soul. And the soul it seems is connected to the hearts and eyes of men and nonmen.
So what's the one method we're certain of that imprints memories from one soul onto the soul of another?
The Grasping of Seswatha's Heart.
of course, this begs the question, 'how do you grasp the heart of a living man or nonman?' and in answer to that, perhaps we should look to the circumfix...