I had a thought that I had posted in the ARC subforum
here:
I just had an idea, because I was spinning some nonsense in chatting with Madness the other day, coming up with things that make sense but not really. My question was essentially, why does Yatwer seem to be able to see everything, what happens and move agents within that, yet, cannot account for Kellhus?
Well, I was thinking that Kellhus is somehow outside of time, but that doesn't really make sense, since if he was, why not just go back and kill anyone before they were even a problem? No, something more subtle is happening I think.
So, in spinning ideas of what goes on in the scene where the White-Luck Warrior tries to assassinate Kellhus, I started to wonder, what goes wrong? It's Kelmomas' intervention, seemingly, that disentangles Kellhus and the Narindar. That got me thinking, what do Kellhus (who has shown to be disentangled before and act beyond Yatwer's seeing) and Kelmomas share? Well, one, is blood, but what is the effect of the blood? Possibly the answer is to be "self-moving souls."
How? Well, Kellhus tells us he is moved by visions (a topic for yet aother thread, but here it suffices that they exist, whatever the source) and Kelmomas is moved by either the Voice, Esmenet's affection, or, as Inrilatas, tells us, the pursuit of God-hood, perhaps The Absolute. In either case, they are outside the usual cause-effect chain, outside the Darkness the Comes Before.
Why would this make them blind spots to Yatwer (and the rest of the Gods). Well, possibly because the God are that Darkness. Since they come before, they know what comes after. But with the Absolute, with a self-moving soul, they are blind, because they cannot be seen in the chain of cause-and-effect.
Indeed, Kellhus says "You can be Everywhere and still blind," "You can be Eternal and remember nothing." Also, "Even the infinite can be surprised." The Anasûrimbor's are outside what the Gods can predict, because they are outside the God's influence (mostly). They have the ability to move themselves, independent of the God's entangling.
Perhaps?
I later had this thought too:
My personal crack-pot theory is that Yatwer doesn't see the future at all. To me, it is something like the following:
The Gods are the Darkness that Comes Before. What arises from that Darkness they can read the implications of. So, what they see is basically a chain of cause and effect, because (when?) they are themselves the main cause. This could be why Yatwer's vision isn't 100% clear, there tends to be more than one cause at play, but She does seem to see the most of it (because (when?) She is the most of it) when it comes to the WLW. In fact, perhaps that is what the WL is, Her moving (as the Darkness) to line events up and place the WLW in the most advantageous place within the chain of cause and effect.
So, what She can't see are those totally outside the Darkness. That is, those who are self-moving souls, not moved by the Darkness at all and so outside the chain of cause and effect that She (or any of the Gods) can read.
This is probably a totally Swiss cheese theory, as I haven't really thought out all the implications of it.
So, several "points" I am drawing here:
1.) The Darkness that Comes Before is the movement of your soul. Your soul is what connects you to the God, as it is of the Outside and can be accessed by them.
2.) That the Gods
are actually blind to Kellhus, et. al. My inference is that they only see him through the lens of those who are under the influence of the Darkness.
3.) This could possibly explain why the Gods never got wise to the Consult's plan's. Everyone they are surrounded by directly is either under sway of the Inverse Fire, or is an unsouled Tekne creation. Also could explain another part of why they so often act through "shadow agents."
Still not fully formed, but perhaps there is something to this?