Elias tells Marco that Daniel needed to charge the orb with life energy for it to work. How could he have known that Daniel would use those instructions to torture and kill potential friends? There are plenty of places for Faeries to get all of that energy, especially when he could have asked nicely for volunteers to help out and contribute some of their life force!

It wasn’t his fault. He hadn’t meant it to happen like this. He doesn’t control how his friends help him out, and all he can do is encourage everyone to do what they can to protect people from her.