The Ellimist knew at some point that Jake would give in. After all, everyone has a limit, thus Cassie was chosen.
Stupid Ellimist...stop knowing things! Gah...
I made a comment about it too. See! ::points up::
But yeah, I'm with RYTX on this. I really hate the idea of them being the "chosen ones". It's just so....hokey....
Aww, don't think of it as being chosen b/c if you think about the Ellimst DIDNt choose them. He stacked the deck, but they weren't chosen.
The war chose THEM. Time/space chose THEM. Not the Ellimist. Edriss just happened to take the host body of Eva and become Visser One. Eva just happened to have a son named Marco.
Cassie was an anomaly, not chosen or created by the Ellimist. But a virus in the space/time continuum, a rare happening. Sub temporally grounded.
Ax just happened to be Elfangor's brother. Elfangor, being a key figure in the war, especially with the creation of Visser Three, just happened to have a time-shifted son named Tobias. The Ellimist tried to correct the damage Elfangor did using the Time matrix. Nothing strange there.
Jake's brother being a Controller? No coincidence. That's just what happens. But Jake was the connection to them all. And he had leadership qualities. Natural. He wasnt just zapped with them. Rachel...nothing to say about since she wasnt part of the plan.
None of these were coincidences. These were natural happenings. Now, the Ellimist SAW a possibility. A small chance, an opportunity, and he took it. He noticed these individuals, these products of space/time/war from afar and coerced them to the same location one night to change their lives.
They weren't chosen. The Ellimist did not create them. There was no original purpose for their making. But he brought them together b/c he saw their ties to the war and the change they could bring about.