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I forgot that bit.

In Song of Susannah (don't highlight if you haven't read,) Mia states that the Beams arose out of the Prim suggesting they predate the Great Old Ones since we're talking about...

Spoilers for later books:

I've often wondered why The Crimson King didn't send his agents to destroy the portal machine rather than setting the Breakers on the Beam, particularly as it seemed to...

If you read on, the origin of the Beams is answered in later books. Song of Susannah mainly.

As for the guardians, I think they might have started off as spiritual beings. I think the Great Old...

Besides it was as much self defence as anything, and they are gunslingers! Remember Eddie was stuck up a tree with it clamouring for his blood.

Yes. Since the great old ones recreated the beam portals and (probably) the guardians, he might be a replacement of the original guardian that came before. (I don't know what happed to the original,...