ok wait. im rereading GtN rn and when colum’s body is posessed by Whatever Was In The River, his eyes turned liquid black.

who else has liquid black eyes? fucking John Gaius. whose eyes did John take? Alecto’s. Alecto is a River Creature.

i think Alecto is Earth brought back to life. i think that in the beginning, when everything was dead and he was alone, John ressurected the whole earth in a panic because he didn’t know what he was doing: an entire planet and all her life force condensed into a single soul. so Alecto is an RB but also not quite an RB, because Ressurection Beasts are agregete revenants, aka ghosts, and Alecto is a ressurection.