I never really considered Ajolki as anything else besides a god like Yatwer. I guess it is possible, but Ajolki has presumably existed since all the other 100. Perhaps we can consider the backward time effect here, but then why not consider it for all the other gods too?
Seems like a Pandora's Box...
Me either, but it says it right there in the appendix. So, me thinks it's thrown in there for a reason.
@themerchant, see I always felt in that scene that Kellhus was just as surprised as the WLW. Without Kel screaming "mommy" Kellhus dies. Why the charade? Why would Kellhus control Kelmommas to say "mommy" so he can take a step and keep on living?
Now this could be someone trying to help Kellhus, as opposed to Kellhus himself, but i think it was an attempt to dodge the WLW and it worked. Finding out how it worked will also give answers to how the god's work how you can sidestep fate.
Well the reason he controlled him was to dodge the white-luck, which he would be directly blind to, so he needed a warning which wee Kel provided by shouting.. Kellhus wasn't surprised he heard the voice then immediately took a step.
Wee Kel is there thinking with certainty his "role" in this is to "distract father"
"He would help-Yes! He would distract father.Yes!That was his role. That was how it had
already happened. He could feel it,somehow,like an oracular density in his bones"
Obviously something happens and Kelmomas is central to it. The chronology could be viewed as this.
1. Kelmomas gets whelmed (maybe by Kellhus i went back and checked dates and it happened way before Skaparus) by Kellhus and then follows a bug to Ajokli where he makes some sort of pact.
2. WLW comes into the palace and Kelmomas uses the secret palace that Kellhus built (which doesn't seem like something he would need) to hide himself from him and monitor him. Where internally he is "certain" he is safe if he just keeps watching the WLW. Which he couldn't do without the secret palace.
3 Kellhus speaks to Yatwers spokesperson about how the infinite can be surprised.
4. The WLW is not only surpised he is "gawking...stupefied"
Other bits are Kel knowing about the ordeal, mages fighting sranc etc.