#yanluo

西遊記-

So, I didn't want to post this theory too soon after the release of The Lost Book of the White but now I think many of those who preordered the book already finished it. Now, this theory doesn't directly have anything to do with the future of tec but rather why Elias became how he was introduced to us in Chain of Gold. In 1872 his brother and his sister-in-law got tortured and murdered by the greater demon Yanluo. Elias then went onto a quest to avenge his family together with Ke Yiwen and other Chinese Nephilim. We learned in tlbotw that Yanluo had his own hell dimension with well, a lot of hells inside. And this quest lasted three entire years, just to kill one demon. What I'm thinking is that to defeat Yanluo Elias and Ke Yiwen had to go to Diyu and endure all the horrors there. Keep in mind that we only saw the run-down and empty version of Diyu. Back then it must have been full of lost souls and demons actually determined to kill intruders. So what if whatever Elias witnessed down there destroyed in such a way that for him the only solution to enduring everything was alcohol. And that this "solution" became a bigger and bigger part of his life to the point where his son had to take care of him. Now, I don't want to defend Elias's decisions regarding his drinking problem but I also don't want to believe him to be unnecessarily cruel until I'm proven wrong. I saw quite a few posts here on Tumblr depicting Elias as a horrible person who is physically and verbally abusive towards his children. But I see him more as a broken person who is haunted by his past and doesn't know how to deal with it. Yet, this theory doesn't explain his averseness towards Silent Brothers. For that, we have to wait until Chain of Iron. And maybe I'm wrong about Elias but until then I'm going to argue in his favour.

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