Aedion is eighty-seven when Lysandra dies. He goes to the edge of Caraverre, where they first crossed over into its territory after the war, and he cries. Wishing it was him, he stays there for days before Aelin hears the news, and comes to find him and see if he is okay. After his cousin's words he finally journeys back, and realizes that there is no point without his wife. He leaves the continent and goes to live with Nesryn in the Southern Continent, leaving Caraverre in the hands of Evangeline and her lover.
Manon is two hundred and three when Dorian dies. She keeps a cool face as she hold court for the first time with out her husband, her princling, and she swears never to do it again; she instantly hands her title down to her's and Dorian's daughter, Asterin. Despite her cold exterior, she's breaking down on the inside and is struggling to hold it all together. She leaves their kingdom forever, and is never seen from again. She never speaks again, she never touches another being again, she never smiles again. She goes to the cabin Asterin's hunter had once lived in a stays there till she's long dead.
Lorcan is six hundred and thirty-one when Elide dies. He screams as the doctors tell him that his wife has died in the birth of their first child; despite having to raise their child he withdraws from the world, wishing it was him, until Rowan tells him that if he doesn't stop drinking his child will be taken from him. After the visit from Rowan, Lorcan forces himself to grow and become a better father for his child, his final part of Elide.
Yrene is twenty-five when Chaol dies. They had been planning to visit the Southern Continent to visit their friends over there, when their ship sinks and Chaol rushes everyone else off, losing his life to do so. After getting their child to safety, Yrene hires someone to take her back to the crash site and retrieve his body, so she can attempt to bring him back once again. After failing, she realizes that there is nothing that can bring him back, and pushes herself into her healing once again so others can have what she can't.
Nesryn is sixty-seven when Sartaq dies. When she hears the news that he was murdered during a midnight stroll, she can't help but wonder whether it was one of their children that killed him, for the title of Emperor. Heartbroken, she seeks to find out he killed her husband, and give them what they deserve in return for what they took from her. The Empire riots each and everyday when they find out that their Emperor was murdered in his own palace, when she finally finds the murderer, she wonders how she could have been so dumb to overlook Sartaq's own siblings in the start of her search.
Rowan was one thousand, four hundred and eighty-six when he first felt it, his body and powers weakening. This was it, he was finally fading after all this time. He'd lived a good, long life with his Fireheart - and now he was finally going to enter the Void. Rowan didn't know how much time he had left with Aelin, and did his best to make the most of it. She didn't know what was happening to him, he'd hidden it from her, he didn't want her to experience anymore loss. She'd already lost so many people in her lifetime. So in the months it took for his power and body to finally fade into the Void, he never once told her what was happening to him.
Aelin is one thousand, one hundred and forty-nine when it happened. Rowan had faded into the Void, and hadn't told her what he was going through. He'd been holding her in bed when it'd happened; she'd been facing him, and he'd just faded away. It had taken her some time to come to terms about what had happened, that didn't mean she was over it, it mean that she'd realized what had happened to her mate. They'd spent one thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine years together and now he was gone - in the void.
Aelin had lost so many people in her lifetime; Rowan, Dorian, Chaol, Yrene, Sam, Lysandra, Aedion, Elide, Manon, Evangeline, Nesryn, and, even people like Ansel. That was the day Aelin began it understand it, the loss, the grief, the hate, the unfairness, the loneliness. Someone she'd once known and hated someone who had once been been filled with those same emotions. She'd killed them for what those emotions had driven them to do.
She began to understand Maeve...
Just noting that Yrene dies when Chaol does.
BUT ANYWAYS I DIDN’T WANT TO CRY TODAY
