Talk:The Light at the End/@comment-31.182.168.186-20140527155655/@comment-26396097-20150805170311

Do you know what would be twisted as all hell? If Call to the Spheres was NOT a fiction, instead it was an account of Hiram's (unmentioned) adventure into the Void. His returning to the "waking world" somewhat dampened his madness, and allowed him to function in society and rise through the ranks to Spymaster. The plague and dischord of the Empire was his "monument", and his eccentricities (paranoia, OCD like need for order) were all a result of his madness.

It never says that The Outsider gave him the mark and the ability to use powers in the books. All it says is that he went mad and percieved himself as the herald, which, judging by all that is known about The Outsider, he neither needs nor wants. Although, due to his curiosity and apparent amusement at testing human nature, it would not be above his MO.