For the female character of the same name, see Door (female).
Ekolin (more commonly known as Door) was a rock-shaping Glider living in Blue Mountain. At an unknown point, he was turned into a sort of living stone by Winnowill, and used by her as a means to open a section of a rock wall in her chambers whenever she gave the command to do so via Sending. In essence, he became a door. Although he was intended to only respond to Winnowill and Lord Voll, both Strongbow and Cutter force him to open the wall at various times.
During the destruction of Blue Mountain, Cutter saved Door and left him with the Hoan G'Tay Sho, who eventually took him to the Forevergreen Forest. There, he existed in a stupor and let the increasingly corrupt human leaders lead in his name. After the New Blood tribe of elves found him, he was roused from his stupor and was revealed to be (or became) of an evil similar to Winnowill.
He later RecognizedDodia, who knocked him into a coma after they mated. He eventually recovered and made it his mission to answer the great Call of the Palace of the High Ones. Unlike other elfin pilgrims, however, Door didn’t intend to join the elves and leave the planet to return to the Star Home. Instead, still desperate to dominate, his plan was to imprison the elves on the World of Two Moons; he would control all access to the Palace in exchange for worship.
Though powerful himself, Door stood no chance against the overwhelming outpouring of light and love from the Palace Dwellers. Door’s layers of emotional decay and loneliness were sloughed away in an instant, leaving his true self – Ekolin – stripped bare. Finally accepting that freedom he, like most of the rest of the Gliders, chose at last to shed physical form and exist in the eternal bliss of spirit.
