But you are not marked, are you? You should not try to intentionally get yourself marked. We do not know what will happen when we are all marked, and it could only lead us faster into ruin.

... thank you for that summary. It was much needed.

As for why they would trap the Hermit on the Grid - the Lovers and the Devil were in competition with him. They unleashed the Automata curse to contain him here, because the Lovers did not wish to kill him. But he could not stay in their competition, whatever that competition may be.

Essentially, we added a returning player to this 'game' of theirs.