The death of Alastaire Wolfwood marked a profound turning point in the final years of the Mortal Age.

News of his passing spread slowly at first, carried through military channels and ecclesiastical correspondence before reaching the wider public. When it did, the response was not one of disbelief, but of quiet recognition. Wolfwood had long been understood as a figure who stood where standing could not last forever.

Mourning was widespread, if restrained.

There were no grand funerals, no monuments raised in his name. Instead, his passing was acknowledged through omission — battle standards left unadorned, training halls observing silent hours, commanders recording his name one final time in after-action reports.

Wolfwood was remembered less as a man who died, and more as a presence that was no longer there.

Aurora Vettori

Contemporary accounts note a marked change in Aurora Vettori following Wolfwood’s death.

Though she continued her work with resolve, those closest to her observed a deepening gravity in her demeanor. Her public sermons grew more measured, her private correspondence more restrained. Where she had once spoken with quiet certainty, she now spoke with deliberate care.

Avernan records describe her as:

“Unshaken in purpose, yet altered in spirit.”

Aurora never publicly disputed the account of Wolfwood’s sacrifice, nor did she speak extensively of him afterward. Those who expected grief instead encountered resolve — sharpened, but heavier.

It is widely believed that Wolfwood’s final act reinforced Aurora’s conviction that resistance must be sustained not through singular heroes, but through unity and remembrance.

Doctrine and Teaching

In the years that followed, Wolfwood’s name became a fixture of military and ethical instruction.

He was cited as:

• A model of preparation over bravado

• A warning against isolation

• Proof that endurance alone cannot carry an age

His life was used to teach that heroism, however exceptional, must ultimately give way to collective effort.

Wolfwood’s story was not told to inspire imitation, but to establish limits.

Cultural Memory

Among the people, Wolfwood passed into legend.

Songs and stories preserved him as:

• The unbroken blade

• The man who did not yield

• The one who stood when standing was enough

These retellings emphasized his feats rather than his end, as though memory itself resisted dwelling on the finality of his absence.

Marginal Dissent

While the official record treats Wolfwood’s death as settled, a small number of later scholars have noted the unusual circumstances surrounding his disappearance.

These observations are typically confined to marginal annotations and restricted appendices, and are rarely advanced as formal challenges to the accepted narrative.

They note, simply, that:

• No remains were ever recovered

• No confirmed necromantic manifestation followed

• No verified account places Wolfwood among the fallen of the war

Such remarks are generally presented not as accusations of error, but as curiosities — anomalies insufficient to outweigh the weight of established history.

Most authorities regard these observations as speculative and unnecessary.

Final Assessment

Alastaire Wolfwood is remembered as a figure whose endurance shaped an era, and whose final sacrifice underscored the cost of standing alone against inevitability.

Whether his death marked an ending or merely a withdrawal from history is a question seldom asked — and when asked, rarely pursued.

For the purposes of record, doctrine, and remembrance, the world accepts a simple truth:

Alastaire Wolfwood stood, paid the price, and did not return.