I’ve got to say, I think that one huge aspect of Jon and Elias’ relationship is that Elias sees himself in Jon. He sees a scared young man just barely learning about the Fears, but already inextricably intertwined with them. A man with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, a need to know, to understand. Someone who is deeply afraid. Someone who is hated or feared by his associates; surrounded by those he cares about who will die because of him. Someone who basks in the gaze of the Beholding, however unwillingly.