Once again,
MAJOR SPOILERS below. Stop now if you have not read Elantris.
Well, last night I finally finished Elantris. And I will say I really enjoyed it. However, I do have some questions.
The solution. Raoden draws the chasm line with the stick in the dirt (from the pool near Elantris down to Kae) to complete the picture so the AonDor is completely open and accessible. Correct?
My question is, isn’t that a bit of redundancy? I mean wasn’t the AonDor cut off originally
because of the chasm? Why would Raoden need to draw something that already had happened (the chasm forming)? I am probably missing something, but why I am throwing this question here.
Second question. As Brandon even says in his annotations section, Elantris is the source of the AonDor. But I had thought the Elantrians (however many years back it may have been) created Elantris and doing so in using the AonDor. If Elantris ‘powers’ the AonDor, how could the city have been built in the first place?
Third question, closure. I may have missed it, but what happened with some of the other ‘new’ Elantrians? Taan? Can’t remember his name, but the one who did all the cleaning. I remember reading that they were ‘dead’ when the monks attacked, but as we know, it’s very hard for Elantrians truly to die. So were they brought back when Raoden completed the restoration of the AonDor? Or did they true die? And if that is the case, I would think they earned a spot for their own funeral, as Saolin and Katara had earned.
And just to clarify, not bringing all these questions up in being critical of the book, I did truly enjoy it, but was left with these questions that I had to ask. Lol
Now I am going to take a bit of a break and move onto the first Alcatraz book. Should take me a night, two at the most.