[[WMG: It will turn out there's a point to the First and Second Laws, and at some point it will blow in the faces of Khalul and Bayaz.]]
* The Bloody Nine is the reason you should never break The First Law. It IS from the other side.
** Lending credence to that theory is the fact that the one person Bloody-Nine identifies as being on its side is Ferro; who has demonic blood herself.
** The fact that the Tower of the Maker rejects Logen when he tries to cross the bridge, but attracts Ferro, is proof Logen doesn't actually have demon blood.

[[WMG: Shenkt from ''Literature/BestServedCold'' is/was the celebrated Union King Casimir.]]

Vitari's pet name for him is "Cas" (also a name given to one of their children), and it is kind of striking that Bayaz seems to have a particularly low opinion of King Casmir in the ''First Law'' books, referring to him as a coward. It seems plausible that Casmir/Shenkt was like the kings after him, one of Bayaz's pawns, but unlike the kings after him, was allowed to be more of an equal in power (hence the sorcerer/cannibal abilities). Eventually, Casmimir/Shenkt refused to comply with Bayaz's demands and became a DefectorFromDecadence- hence why Bayaz refers to him as a coward and chose more maleable kings in the future, like Jezal.

[[WMG: Bayaz is an Eater.]]

Well, it is not clear exactly when he became one, if he did, but notably, at least two of his students (Shenkt and Yoru-Sulfur) are Eaters. The scene which raises questions of this is in ''The Heroes'', wherein Bayaz psychs out Calder by eating a feast of meat in the midst of heaps of corpses. The meal is served by Yoru-Sulfur, and Bayaz's glee at the meal is very similar to the enjoyment Shenkt is shown to derive from eating human flesh. When asked about the feast, [[WordOfGod Abercrombie]] said Bayaz was eating ''something'', which doesn't prove this theory, but doesn't joss it either. And perhaps most importantly, Bayaz is such a lying hypocrite to begin with that his becoming an Eater to gain more power would be totally in-character.