Sarene=Chaos
If you want to read more on this topic, read the critical afterword to ELANTRIS I wrote for inclusion with my Master’s Thesis. (September’s goodie—find it on the goodie page for Elantris) The short of it, however, is that Sarene is a force of change and chaos. Raoden, as mentioned above, is a master at working with what he is given. He manipulates his confines to the point that they are no longer binding.
Sarene, however, just ignores what she is ‘supposed’ to do. She is chaos. Not the ‘evil’ chaos usually used in fantasy novels—Sarene is simply unpredictable, a force that can’t be measured as easily as others. One manifestation of this comes in the nature of this chapter. If you read closely, you’ll notice that—for the first time in the book—I offer two viewpoints in the same chapter. We jump from Sarene to Raoden, then back to Sarene again. It’s a little thing, perhaps—a silly thing, even, for me to put in. However, it is representative of the fact that the first time Sarene enters Raoden’s world, she brings with her an uncanny ability to mess up his plans.
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