Elantrians
The shining inhabitants of Elantris — restored. White-haired, silver-skinned, heart beating again, healed of every wound the Hoed decade gave them. Raoden's line in the dirt closes the city-figure of Aon Rao and the Dor floods back through them; they step glowing out of an oil-soaked pyre with skin brighter than the fire and walk back into a world they were nearly burned out of. EL:EL:Ch 61
The shining inhabitants of Elantris before its fall — said to heal almost any wound and to live forever. After the fall they remain on their feet but cannot truly die: a body severed at the waist on the courtyard floor goes on waving its arms, and the Korathi saying that they are the dead who go on thinking is, Sarene realises, literal. EL:EL:Ch 29 superseded at EL:EL:Ch 61
The shining inhabitants of Elantris before its fall. White-haired and silver-skinned, said to heal almost any wound, work magic with a gesture, and live as near-immortals worshipped as gods. EL:EL:Prologue superseded at EL:EL:Ch 29
Known facts
- do-not-heal-or-dieAfter the Reod the Elantrians no longer heal, no longer breathe, and have no heartbeat. Every cut, bruise, and stubbed toe stays with them undiminished; the only end most reach is to lose themselves to the accumulated pain, mumbling in the gutters of Elantris forever.EL:EL:Ch 1
- lifespan-and-the-hoedAlthough Elantrians cannot die and do not age, the accumulating hurts and hungers of an unhealing body wear most of them down within a year or two. Those who break are called Hoed — lying mute or muttering on the streets, their minds gone to the pain.EL:EL:Ch 4
- bodies-do-not-heal-or-beat-or-bleedDiren's interrogation surfaces, for the first time in the open, the physiology of the Shaod-cursed: the heart does not beat, the skin does not bleed, and cuts do not heal — they remain open wounds. Diren is taken by the Shaod while asleep, and counts himself dead since.EL:EL:Ch 18
- hypothesised-dor-linkTalking out the AonDor tome with Galladon, Raoden arrives at his first real theory of the curse: a thin trickle of the Dor is what keeps Elantrian minds alive in their stopped bodies. The same trickle is why they can still draw Aons at all, and why the symbols flash and die instead of doing what they once did.EL:EL:Ch 19
- muscles-atrophy-near-end-of-first-monthGalladon tells Raoden that an Elantrian's muscles atrophy most sharply by the close of his first month after the Shaod — and that exercise will not stop it, because the body is convinced it is dead even while the mind goes on working.EL:EL:Ch 22
- ways-they-can-dieElantrians outlive ordinary mortals by a wide margin, but they are not deathless: they can die of "heart-death," a willed surrender, and an Elantrian lowered into the hidden pool above Kae dissolves away to nothing — a release sought by those whose pain has won.EL:EL:Ch 25
Backreferences
- summaryEL:EL:Prologue
- factThe Shaod
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 1
- factElantrians
- factElantrians
- factHoed
- factAonDor
- factAonDor
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 5
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 6
- factHrathen
- factDilaf
- factSvrakiss
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 9
- factDilaf
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 10
- factIen
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 11
- factRoial
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 12
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 13
- factThe Well of Elantris
- factThe Children's Room
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 14
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 15
- factHrathen
- factRaoden
- factRaoden
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 17
- factSarene
- factOmin
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 18
- factHrathen
- factHrathen
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 19
- factElantrians
- factRaoden
- factRaoden
- factDor
- factAon Ien
- factAon Tia
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 20
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 21
- factHrathen
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 22
- factElantrians
- factElantris Bank
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 23
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 25
- factElantrians
- factGalladon
- factElantrian Library
- factElantrian Pool
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 26
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 28
- factSaolin
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 29
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 31
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 34
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- factHrathen
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 37
- factRaoden
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 40
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- summaryEL:EL:Ch 49
- factAonDor
- factAonDor
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 50
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 52
- factAonDor
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 53
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 55
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 56
- factRaoden
- factRaoden
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 57
- factHrathen
- factHrathen
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 58
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 59
- factRaoden
- factRaoden
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 60
- factDilaf
- factAdien
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 61
- factRaoden
- factGalladon
- factAonDor
- factElantrian Pool
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 62
- factSkaze
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 63
- factRaoden
- summaryEL:EL:Epilogue
- factSarene
- factIdotris