For whom, it is not certain, but all this stuff about people -- demons, presumably -- locking up their hearts to become invincible puts one in mind of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koschei Koschei]], whose soul is hidden inside an egg (which is then hidden under many layers of deception and so forth). Perhaps it will come in handy at the end to free or defeat a heart-less demon.

! Juno and Ganymar were each other's former spouses when they were human, and also Eira's parents.

Golems appear to have a predetermined amount of knowledge when they are created.  The narrator knows how to read, write, walk, and talk, for instance--it simply takes him a little longer to catch on to subtleties like using "the duck" to refer to a motorcycle.

The exact amount of time between Eira's birth, his parents' deaths, and the creation of Ganymar and Juno is never specified.  When D'Urfe tells Juno of how he was asked to take care of Eira, she says that it sounds like a story she knows.  The phrase "It is an old story", when used by D'Urfe, does not seem to refer to how long ago it actually happened--Eira was clearly a few weeks old at the most, and Juno had only just heard it--but to the cyclic nature of history.

It would, however, make Eira's death even more tragic.

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