Come on - work with me here, I'm trying to keep the conversation going.
Oops. Sorry about that- not thinking (again).
Here, I'll spec about what the Wheels within Wheels are trying to accomplish... It has nothing to do with your topic of course, but that's ok right?
There's a few questions as to who its members are, at least in my mind. I'm pretty sure A'kin has absolutely nothing to do with it, and that the Cheshire Fiend is the Ebon.
Hm... as far as we know thus far, there are 4 members- Shemeska the Maurader, Shylara the Manged, Vorkannis the Ebon, Helekanilaith of the Tower. 4 members, and each seems to control events in a different area- Shylara is in Hades, Helekanilaith in Gehenna, Shemska in Sigil and Vorkannis in Carceri. The Ebon is the leader, the eldest and probably the most dangerous- he seems to use the other three as puppets, making reference to 'using' Shylara and clearly knowing far far more than the last two.
Why the Ebon is bothering with killing off the Ultroloths still eludes me. Perhaps this is the Dementia that the Demented have? There's no clear reason to do all that- the Ultroloths are necessary for ascension, are they not? But then, maybe that's why- The Ebon has power where he is, wants more, but not at the sacrifice of what he has. The process of becoming an Ultroloth would weaken him somewhat...
Unless my last spec on the topic was right, and he's not in the running at all, but rather a Baern disguised. But why...
Then there is the question of what the Keeper, the Manged and the Maurader hope to gain from all this. Maybe the Manged hopes to stop being manged... but how could the others benefit?
Hm. I have to stop with the specing for the moment. Someone else take up the guessing; I can't be the only person who specs on matters of metaplot can I?