While he pleaded Father to let him die during his existence with it, after conquering it he decided that instead of choosing death he would choose life and thus purpose: by taking the name of the Ellimist, he vowed that the genocide of the Ketrans would never again be repeated while he was there to stop it.

Tobias, expecting to be made human again, is simply given his morphing powers back, as well as the ability to morph into his human body ( the Ellimist sends him back in time to acquire his past self prior to the trip through the construction site ).

The Ellimist rewards Tobias by granting him a wish.

Tobias does not truly make a wish, but tells the Ellimist that " you know what I want ".

Here the Drode reveals ( in the form of complaining ) that the Animorphs were, in fact, not a random assortment who had found Elfangor but that they had been picked out by the Ellimist: Elfangor's son Tobias, his brother Aximili, Cassie — a kind of ' nexus point ' who by her very nature would disrupt any attempt to replace the true reality with an alternate one -, and the son of Visser One's host body ( Marco )— as he put it, the Ellimist had " stacked the deck " with them for their specific abilities and positions.

The Ellimist had also meddled with the past, and caused Elfangor to go from being a human on Earth to an Andalite war-prince ; this change was made in the timeline while allowing Tobias to continue to exist, thus preserving the Ellimist's plans.

* Tobias: red tailed hawk ( regained morphing ability from the Ellimist ) ( became nothlit in Andalite form in alternate timeline )

He marries Loren some time later, but just before she gives birth to Tobias, the Ellimist repairs Elfangor's " timeline.

In The Attack (# 26 ), the Ellimist explained about Crayak's existence, and explained that the two powers were having a fight over a species called the Iskoort, and drafted the Animorphs and the Chee Erek to fight against a team of Howlers over the outcome.

First appearing in # 7: The Stranger, the Ellimist — without explaining about Crayak or their game — offers the Animorphs a chance to save a remnant of humanity.

In The Attack, the Ellimist finally reveals the truth about Crayak to the Animorphs, and uses them to help save a race called the Iskoort from Crayak's Howlers.

The Pemalites were originally created by the Ellimist, along with many other species, as his way of spreading life and counteracting the destruction caused by Crayak.

The Ellimist, upon first viewing him, contrasts his appearance with The Ellimist's original form as a winged humanoid and conjectures that Crayak evolved from a burrowing species in an underground ecology rather than a winged, aboveground species as the Ellimist did, wondering thus what effect this has had on his psychology.

The creatures are first featured in book twenty-six, The Attack, when Crayak and the Ellimist have a contest between seven of the species and the Animorphs, along with Erek when the Ellimist sought to protect a race called the Iskoort, who would play a vital role in the future.

They can, in effect, be seen as the opposite of the Pemalites --- who were created by the Ellimist to spread life --- though both species, interestingly, are noted for wanting nothing more than to have fun.

Also, a being known as the Ellimist has made species such as the Pemalites by this method.

The Ellimist is a fictional character from the science fiction novel series Animorphs.

Instead of dying, the Ellimist became one with the fabric of space and time, transforming thus from a technological semi-deity into a metaphysical one.

While the Ellimist is a distributed intelligence who exists within all the ships he commands, Crayak's mind is housed within a huge, central flagship crafted from an asteroid, with the rest of his fleet directed by races he has enslaved.

Crayak's history is largely unknown, but the Ellimist says he was expelled from another galaxy hundreds of millions of years ago by a greater power than he was.

* Elfangor: human ( regained morphing ability from the Ellimist )

Because the Iskoort represent an evolution of the Yeerks ( from parasitic to symbiotic ), Crayak wants them killed, and The Ellimist wants them preserved.

( In the book series, the only " documented " cases of morphing ability being returned to a nothlit involved assistance from a very powerful being known as the Ellimist ).

The Capasins are a fictional race from the Animorphs book series first seen in The Ellimist Chronicles.

The Ellimist suggests that they could become passive observers and watch life unfold and evolve, but the Crayak replies that he would rather choose his own destruction over that.

But, while the Ellimist loves to create and protect, Crayak prefers misery and destruction as his purpose of life, having no regard for the rights and desires of others.

The Ellimist suggests that they could become passive observers and watch life unfold and evolve, but the Crayak replies that he would choose his own destruction over that.

Before this, Crayak and the Ellimist had battled which resulted in the seeming destruction of the Ellimist as he fell into a black hole.

When they met, the Ellimist could not comprehend what Crayak had done to many innocent planets in the galaxy — the Ellimist was aghast by Crayak's principle of life.

The Ellimist claims that he cannot interfere in the Yeerk invasion, but that he can bring some humans — as well as animals, human accomplishments, etc .— to a kind of " wildlife preserve " much like Earth, thus allowing a portion of humanity to survive.

He makes an interesting comment in this book — that, when Crayak first saw Jake in # 6: The Capture, Crayak had seen that the Ellimist " had touched " Jake.

As the Ellimist didn't appear until book 7, this implies ( and Applegate confirmed on the Animorph website ) that the Ellimist had " known " Jake before this point.

The Ellimist would later explain that with the Yeerk dying in Jake's head, he had been able to see through life and death to glimpse Crayak.

The Hork-Bajir were totally enslaved for several generations, until the Ellimist managed to free two on Earth, a married couple named Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak.

The Ellimist created the Time Matrix, according to Andalite mythology ( in The Andalite Chronicles, the Ellimist informs Elfangor that he indeed created the Time Matrix ), which was essentially a time machine ; however, The Ellimist Chronicles does not mention the Matrix at any point in the story.

Losing motivation to continue fighting the Crayak, the Ellimist temporarily retreated to the Andalite home planet.

However, he was eventually approached by the Ellimist and reluctantly agreed to restore the damaged timeline.

In The Ellimist Chronicles, when the Ellimist visits the primitive ancestors of modern Andalites, names were apparently limited to terms such as Tree, Water, or Star.

The race was targeted for extermination by the Howlers, almost surely because their master, Crayak, opposed their service to his enemy the Ellimist.

After an unknown period after their creation by the Ellimist, they in turn created the Chee, intelligent androids who, following their philosophy, are physically incapable of violence.

The Ellimist is an almost god-like being, displaying many reality warping powers, though it is stated several times that while he appears to be, he is not omnipotent.

By standard values, the Ellimist is a force of good and his foe Crayak is a force of evil.

The Ellimist's backstory is detailed in The Ellimist Chronicles.

The Ellimist also uses the Animorphs ' Chee friend, Erek King, in his endeavors.

Before achieving through abnormal circumstances an almost god-like omnipotence and omnipresence, the Ellimist was originally a Ketran named Toomin.

The Ellimist journeyed through the galaxy, ending wars with the vast power of his spacecraft-body, fostering peace, and essentially taking on the role of a deity for many of the planets he visited.

Eventually, the Ellimist met Crayak, a seemingly irrational being who aimed to bring tyranny and death to the universe as a form of entertainment, and recreate it under its own perspective.

By living on the planet, the Ellimist learned that the key of survival was to create as many offspring as possible ; although so many die, with repeated efforts life could multiply faster than the Crayak could wipe them out.

In a final move, Crayak attacked the Ellimist, forcing him into a black hole.

The Ellimist then invites him to join him in the final game, where they would pursue their own battle indirectly by using sentient beings as gamepieces, and the Crayak agrees.