Quote Originally Posted by dancrilis View Post
Unless the Western Gods are right and he is just someone that Tiamet made up as one of her schemes.



Elan and Bilbo are effectively main characters with Bilbo being the main character and Elan is merely a main character - C-3PO is a secondary character and argueable merely a tertiary character (supporting the secondary character of R2D2).
Bilbo is something of a driving force for events (he undertakes rescues, thefts on his own initiative etc) where Elan and C-3PO are more present for events - and those events may center of them - but not really the driving force for them seperate from other characters.

The above is very arguable of course as I don't feel like putting much thought into it, but I think it broadly holds up.
Elan blowing up Dorukan's gate is still driving the plot to this day. That may be why he doesn't drink and drive the plot any more.