Do they remind you of robots? Anyone? My reference to this was in Loki the Time Keepers are robots. And it reminded me of the Asteri. These all powerful beings who are alleged to be invulnerable and immortal need to be powered up like robots. They’re essentially large batteries or maybe solar panels. And whenever the Asteri were mentioned in book 1 and 2, that’s the type of energy they gave off. Scary, untouchable, unknown entities. Only for us to discover that they’re just as vulnerable as everyone else. But in a strange way, a way where they constantly need to be fed power to.. function? Robots. And then in HOSAB in the finale where they’re in the throne room and Bryce sees the beacon of power Rigelus is sitting on like he’s being charged up? Or how their castle is a funnel of power and if that power were to go out, boom blackout like a power grid. Robots.