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I suspect we'll find out only when he meets back up with Haley, and she inevitably exclaims, "Elan! What happened to your eye!" (Oo)
Only then, will be it be dramatically appropriate to explain that it is, in fact, a new class feature that he picked up when he gained the latest level of his prestige class.