I had so much character development planned for SL, but it turned out so differently from what I was expecting I’m not sure how to fit it in lore-wise. Now I’m defaulting to ‘accidentally played volleyball with a cannon in a warfront and sat this one out while he recovers’. Vaard deserves a break.
He was going to get closure and finally retire Nyama’s rings he’s been wearing this whole time, but with how SL is set up, it certainly isn’t happening this time around. Now he gets to sit home and rest with Rue, and that’s fine too. He’ll find closure another way in his own time.
Well...as far as I can remember, there are other afterlives that they could've gone to aside from the four we've seen (If you watch the cinematic where the Arbiter gets attacked and put in a coma you can see her sending souls to hundreds of different gateways). Of course since we haven't seen them it's hard to imagine them. Either way I'll still keep this picture in my heart because, damnit, Vaard deserves some closure.














