ok so i got a theory about colum asht’s death and alecto and nona … bear with me!
so at the end of GTN when the 8th go up against ianthe, silas siphons colum. And siphon as I have interpreted it is draining one soul to enhance the another (and with it to become more powerful) so when siphon happens i presume that the soul almost floats further and further away from the body and deeper and deeper into the river.
So when colum is siphoned to a point where his soul is no longer with his body i believe that it created a portal into hell. (The soul been siphoned to the deepest depths of the river and when it reaches the stoma it’s can be siphoned no longer)
Colum’s eyes are described as “socket ringed with teeth with little tongues slithering out of them”
sound familiar….
the description above (“weird edges”…”edges of the holes were enormous human teeth”) is of the stoma found at the bottom of the river , which are the gateways to hell.
so in my mind if a portal had opened up from colum to hell then that would explain why eye socket had been turned into a sort of stoma.
Next we have to figure out what possessed colum. So i think that straight after the portal was open malevolent spirits were fighting to take possession…
to me i think of colum is staggering/out of control because six soul are fighting for complete control of his body. Additionally the “never been inside a human body before” suggest that the spirit are from devil/ other beasts from hell.
ok so this is where the real far fletched bit comes in. The ‘eye stoma’s’ start looking real stoma-ry when colum is face to face with gideoen and she’s looking at his eyes.
Now i think potentially Alecto spirit (collective souls probably) is a part of -or trapped in -hell and she might have some powers that allow her to control the stoma at times. This is important because if this portal allowed Alecto to see through the portal and into gideons eyes. She will see the gold eyes staring back at her and automatically think it was jod. Therefore at this point she takes control over colums body and tries to drag gideon into hell with her.(“the tongue in his original mouth extended out,down, wrapping itself around her neck”)
At this point ianthe twists colums neck from behind causing colums body’s death. Now as this was done from behind this would have caught Alecto by surprise, therefore not allowing Alecto the opportunity to get out of colums body and back into hell. And therefore because of this instead she ends up in the river.
Now onto the nona part - you can probably see where i’m going with this…
If Alecto was lurking in the river she could have inhabited harrows body - again maybe drawn to the gold eyes (maybe forgetting that her own eyes now possess jods face).
And therefore Nona is Alecto inside Harrows body (potentially alongside gideon).
Why didn’t she go back through the stoma and back into hell? Maybe she couldnt get through. Maybe hell was a jail that she is glad to have escaped from. (Personally the second option makes most sense to me)
(may also explain why colum wasn’t in harrows river bubble in HTN)
Ok i think that’s it … my 3am theory that i need to share
also shoutout to @mayasaura for inspiring this theory particularly this post:
@onefleshonepod - what do you think?







