Just reading through Wellsy's post again... He makes an extremely strong point, and it's absolutely right. We simply don't know everything, and we never will until it's in the games or whatever else Lun makes.
The answer to major question 2. who is gaius... based on what you've learned, who do you think. what makes him who he is, is even mention at least once in a conversation. The clues as to why Gaius would work with "Rhue" are every where and just barely short of heavy handed.
Lun and Fwacho are crazy, crazy people. They seem to magically find everything more obvious than everyone else does. Or maybe it's just more obvious when you write it than when you read it. The fact is, NO, the clues are not even remotely clear, you can't tell where you are, there isn't enough information, and even if none of the things I just said were true, there's still what has already been pointed out:
his vagueness, this gray area doesn't make the Way any deeper or more mysterious, only more frustrating - there's too much gray area, too much that's open to interpretation. Someone made a comment that it's unfair to make a comparison to Sherlock Holmes, where fans demanded an addendum to a story that was finished as opposed to here where there are major holes yet to be filled. There is too much in question and too many holes to just say, "Well, you figure the rest out." After looking at all the disparate theories on these forums, there will never be a satisfactory resolution to these issues unless it comes from The Way itself.
And I fear that won't happen.
So we go around in circles until we tire of the chase.
The clues are NOT clear enough, and even if there were, unless it comes from The Way itself, we can't prove it. And thus it doesn't end.