Cerrit made an impossible promise to his family that he would go back to them. All the other members of the Ring of Brass knew there was no way out for them, but Cerrit may have that chance. During the fight, Nydas inspired Cerrit with a bardic inspiration as he embraced what was to come, before being struck down by his own creation and fulfilling the promise he made to his best friend. Nydas had everything and lost everything, and when he had nothing left to give, he gave himself for them, running into the fray with just a meager life in him left. To Nydas, even when the end is nigh, there is no wrong in dreaming for something better, and he did so for Cerrit. Patia, before her death, sent the Orb transcribed with all her life's knowledge to Cerrit's daughter. Bearer of the Por'co name, she held that vast archive with Avalir as the base of her dream. She never thought about her parents before all of this, but she sees Cerrit with a daughter of vast intellect that is yet to endure this Calamity. Patia made sure to bring them hope in an impending desolate world with the knowledge of the Tree of Names she bore. Patia's knowledge that her family selfishly owned, now given to Maya, Cerrit's daughter, to bear and give fruit. Laerynn gave Cerrit all the intricacies and details of the Labyrinth to make sure he finds the exit, giving him the advantage. All her life she had been going up and about these halls, dreaming of a future where she can be above the gods. Yet, Laerynn uses her knowledge and life's work one last time, after dooming the world and averting its inevitable end, to give hope for his friend to return to his family. Laerynn's greatest work, her magnum opus, she utilizes as a tool to bring Cerrit home. Loquatious passed him his Pact Talisman Boon, something he had likely kept since his time in the Feywilds and meant a great deal to him. Loquatious, the man who killed the truth far too many times, sees Cerrit who, in his mind, told a lie to his family that he will go back to them. And so, Loquatious gives life to Cerrit's promise, a lie that now became truth. And there's Zerxus, who seemingly didn't seem to have a hand in aiding Cerrit. Yet just moments before, Cerrit followed Zerxus closely as the paladin went to meet his son one last time. Cerrit sees a man with such little time left to make sure his son was safe. A final goodbye, no promise made for his return, and the devastation in Elias' eyes seeing his own father, the first knight of avalir, a bastion of protection, in his demonic form, farther away from him than he already was before. Zerxus, keeper of oath, broke the father's vow that tore the heart of his child asunder, and Cerrit is given a new drive to make sure he does not make the same mistake, and to keep the vow he just made to his family. Cerrit, now bearing all these blessings and escaping Avalir successfully, tunes in with his friends one last time, not to thank them for their help, but to give back the hope that they gave him, so that even in their end it still burns brightly in their hearts as they go. "The Ring of Brass endures."
