The emphasis on intention and creation in the previous episodes find such an excellent culmination in the scene between Vaelus and Hannan at the end. Vaelus, has felt alienated from creation for so long, owing to being under the thumb of an entity that tore away their ability and right to create on their own, and later owing to her own endless grief. It is in this eminently changeable, dynamic, mortal world, with the pretext of having her grief recognized as belonging to people, that she finds a means of attaching herself to creation outside of Sylandri, through intention, will, understanding, things she has already possessed in spades. Hannan, who has lived in the anger and pain of his loss, nevertheless attempts to secure creation with intention as a last bid in his very long life.
Vaelus reaching out to him, in fellowship and doubt and compassion, is also allowing him to return to something other than seeking death. Their acknowledging each other as kin in a world where their experience of life is both unique and commonplace, in that they doubt and fight and create along with mortals but they also remain forever, iterates the beginning of the true end of the Shaper's War in a front where it is still being fought in ceaseless memory. To relinquish the binds on creation no matter how beautiful they may appear (directly opposed to Yanessa's earlier "say something beautiful"), to stand in your own intention and assume responsibility for it even when it frightens you, to stand with each other above all. This is how plowshares are made.
