@ anor277 - Wow! Your idea that the Indigo Plague was part of the Consult's plan all along, is really interesting. If they were close to 144k, then the plague might bring them there.
I guess, in this reading, Mog is just a means to an end--the Consult can seal the world from the Outside because they got the right number on the right world and that's that? This interpretation is neat, too, because it makes Anaxophus/Seswatha the witting/unwitting agent of the Consult.