"I have experience with this sort of thing," he shrugs. And that's all the answer that John is getting at the moment as to why Elias knows his Entity stuff! It's just experience! He's certainly not an avatar himself!
As for the robot...Elias frowns, looking at the thing and holding it gingerly, like it's something disgusting.
"The Entities are never cut and dry. Something supernatural can have traces of multiple Entities. Is being trapped in a cave the Dark, the Buried, or both? Is picking at a scab the Corruption or the Flesh? It all depends on what you find terrifying. For these little things? I would guess either the Stranger trying something new or the Web being surprisingly unsubtle."
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As for the robot...Elias frowns, looking at the thing and holding it gingerly, like it's something disgusting.
"The Entities are never cut and dry. Something supernatural can have traces of multiple Entities. Is being trapped in a cave the Dark, the Buried, or both? Is picking at a scab the Corruption or the Flesh? It all depends on what you find terrifying. For these little things? I would guess either the Stranger trying something new or the Web being surprisingly unsubtle."