1) We knows gods are blind to certain things: No-God existence, Consult plans etc. There is guess that Tekne makes borders of gods' blindspot and, more specifically, it's distinctive product -- intelligence, which lacks "proper" concience or "enough" complexity. Correct me if I wrong here, please.
Intelligence without a
soul is what they cant see.
So at least I reckon Kelmomas is somehow hidden from Gods eyesight thanks to a combination of few factors listed above. At most -- his metaphysical position is symmetricaly opposed to WLW. Either way, boy can fuck up other's plans, especially if they are godly.
PS That can be a possible answer to a question why Kellhus didn't drowned him in the first place.
PPS Dunno now, if Ajokli is an actual trickster god or it's a placeholder name for a sum of gods' debility manifested in the world.
PPPS What have I done. -.-
I've thought down this path before ... never lead anywhere. Him being invisible in the same way the consult machinations are seems like a fairly likely situation, but I can't seem to make sense of it.
On that note however, the WLW does interact directly with Kelmomas at several points. If Kel was always invisible to the God, or Yatwer specifically, then we wouldn't have any scenes with Kel and WLW interacting. Based on that, I'd say there was something else special about what happened with Kel.
I was thinking Kelmomas being invisible to the WLW, and thus Yatwar, had to do with him having two souls. But then I read some good stuff on Kel being a nanidar for Ajolki. Bakker did go out of his way to remind us of Kel killing the beetle before Ajolki's altar which on the surface seems like just a way to show Kel's personality when introducing him, but now we are given hints that it is far more important, else why did Bakker bring it back up?
Indeed, Chekov's gun scenario here. You don't waste words writing extra scenes into the book that are unimportant. Ajokli interacts with Kelmomas in an important way.
He might not be a full narindar, or maybe he is, but the distinction at this junction isn't important. I think it stands to reason that if Ajokli can see things the other Gods can't, then he can create or influence events in a similar fashion - without the other Gods being able to see.
I think Kel is a defective. Most of his siblings appear defective in some ways. I don't think it has anything to do with Tekne. Kellhus would likely have noticed any of flaw in her potential and wouldn't have bred with her.
Maybe there is a closer nonman relative than Omindalea, someone in either Esminet's or the Anasurimbor line that procreated with one of their ancestors and passed along some Tekne markers.
I pitched a theory here in the ARC subforum that perhaps the Gods are actually blind to self-moving souls ... The idea I had was that since to Gods are essentially the Darkness the Comes Before, then they can see the whole chain of cause and effect that guides the world. Kellhus is outside that though, as are other self-moving souls, because they are part the Darkness.
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This doesn't preclude that Kel might be "God-entangled" with Ajolki though, but could just be supplemental.
Doesn't seem likely. As I said above, the Gods clearly see Kellhus and Kelmomas and how they interact with the world. The Gods can't be blind to them or they wouldn't seek their destruction - the same way they haven't gone after the consult.
If the gods are blind to Kellhus then how did the WLW predict Kellhus would be in the throne room at that moment? It was Kelmomas that changed the WLW vision of the future, not Kellhus.
I would imagine that if I am correct (and mind you, I am probably not) that "blind to" more probably means unable to see clearly, or properly read the chain of cause and effect and extrapolate that to fully predict the future. Then again, perhaps you are right, that Yatwer had the right of it and only Kel saved him and so from there everything else is beyond what could have been anticipated.
I do wonder though, going all the way back, why are the Gods blind to the Consult? The theory was an attempt to possibly reconcile that.
I had that same thought as I was responding - why are the Consult, but more specifically the Inchoroi, outside of the influence of the Gods. It might just be that the Nonmen have something going with their Holy Deep. It seemed like when Sorweel was descending into the abyss down in Ishterebinth, that at some point Yatwer's hold on him diminished or disappeared entirely. Could be that the Gods can't see the Consult because they are similarly hidden deep underground under/in a topos.
Or, generally speaking, they Consult themselves don't really do much. Their direct influence of the world is minimal - they have minions do everything. The Gods can't see the weapon races, so they can't see who manufactured them, and don't tie back their actions to the Consult. With this theory, the Consult aren't so much as free from scrutenty from the Gods, rather they just simly aren't worth their attention.
The gods are finite, therefore they have limits including to their perception. The non-men attempt exploit this with the chamber of thresh-holds. The specific example is that they cannot see past the No-god's victory so no Unerring Grace, prophets, earthquakes etc.
At this point I hope everyone is on board with this idea. Yatwer's failing with the WLW shows so clearly that even the most powerful god has a finite view of the world.
The only way to avoid that thought is that if you assume that Yatwer intended to fail at that junction with Kel/Kell/WLW so that she could kill him at some later date... But that moves into the same kind of thought processes that puts Moenghus Sr. as the God of all things. Too much mental gymnastics to make it work.
Occam's Razor. The God's are finite.
There is no suggested connection between the Judgment and the hundred. They collect the harvest of damnation - and they can intercede - rather than dictate it's terms.
I think Gods is largely a misnomer. Our general concept of "God" does not really encompass what the Gods are. Big Ciphrang seems a much better descriptor. They are not omnipotent or omnicient. They can't directly cause outcomes, as you say, only influence.
Now, I have long held the belief that Kelmomas was annointed by Ajokli, but we collect another intesting Ajokli tidbit in Akka's penultimate dream. The Celmoman Prophecy. When Akka-as-Celmomas sees the four-horned mounted figure - Ajokli - in the vision. His descendant come to end the world?
I loved these scene. It totally subverts the Celmomas Prophecy in a way that seemed totally fair to me. Seswatha misinterpreted what Celmomas said, changing the prophesy entirely.
That the God there was Ajokli and not Gilgaol is something I hadn't considered. It did have four horns...
Also, not just 'his descendant' but specifically Kellhus, and not "at the end of the world" but rather "
to end the world". Not just the Harbinger, but the Reaper.
Khellus has been Outside and he has seen beyond the Thousandfold Thought. He knows he is irrevocably damned. He has had the same revelations as the Survivor. But we also learn that strong souls can become demons. My thought is that Khellus will ascend and become Ajokli causing all the temporal nuttiness like his visions and the Celmoman prophecy to be enacted via the temporal powers of the hundred.
It's the only way he can avoid damnation without turning to the consult, imo.
I think Koringhus' reaction is basically one of the 2 things a true 'dunyain' would do given the information. Either they would join the Consult to avoid damnation, or I guess commit suicide because of whatever Koringhus does that for.
Kellhus is doing something that is anathema to the Dunyain. Him trying to become a God is a good guess, I'm not sure myself though.