Builders

Builders were entities who built Azath Houses.Fall of Light, Chapter 13, US HC p.386
Much like the Azathanai, their origin or even purpose remained shrouded in mystery.
==In Fall of Light==
A Builder had dragged K'rul to a building (sub-contextually revealed to be an Azath House) where a Sidleways connected. The Builder had left K'rul at the entrance and had disappeared by the time Skillen Droe - having heard K'rul's call — arrived. When asked why he was there, K'rul explained that he had been exploring, and that the Builders had mostly ignored him previously.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.117-118
K'rul had been told the Builders had the power to reduce entire worlds to rubble, leaving them to float in clouds that continued to circle the sun. K'rul remarked to Skillen that the sun so mentioned was presumably not their own.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.138
Skillen believed that the Builders were enemies of the Azathanai, and the houses they built were prisons. The Builder had expected that the house would imprison K'rul, although it had failed — Skillen speculated — because K'rul had been too powerful, or the house had not been ready for him. Skillen further wondered whether the Builders were the children of the Azathanai, or whether it was the reverse.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.138-139
Long before the birth of the Vitr, the Builders were satisfied with working with "raw rock, earth and trees".Fall of Light, Chapter 22, US HC p.674 Skillen remarked to K'rul that the Builders answered to no one, and were essentially mindless, guided by elemental forces too ancient for the language of words. Skillen concluded that the Builders were forces of nature and "the makers of worlds".Fall of Light, Chapter 22, US HC p.681
==Speculations==
A number of readers have wondered if the Builders in Fall of Light; Maker at the Shores of Creation in Orb Sceptre Throne; and Elder, the builder of Azath Houses in Toll the Hounds, are the same individual/entities at widely different places and times or are closely related in some other way. There might possibly be interconnections of some sort, especially since the names used are more descriptive than specific. However, despite similarities, there are distinct differences amongst them as well, and the issue remains speculative.
==Notes and references==
Category:Azath houses