All these thoughts ran through Soren's mind as he lay on the ground, his blood slowly pouring out from the wound in his body.

His mind was fully functioning, but the blade had pierced his lungs. Words were beyond his ability to speak fluently, and he had no desire to gasp out anything to them. Instead he reached into his robes, deep enough that the blood hadn't reached it yet, and pulled out a packet of parchment, neatly tied and folded together. Kurthnaga took it. Soren worked out enough to say his last words.

"That's all I learned about magic."

And the world went black.

I warned you that you wouldn't like it. Maybe because it sucks, maybe because it involves Soren's death.

Or maybe you're happy that it's over. I don't know, so why don't you get rid of my ignorance?

Italics in the dialog in other parts are because those are Soren's dying thoughts. The name thing is also because that's how Soren cares to think about them.

I heard once that you use names for people you care about. I used names for all the people that Soren probably eventually warmed up to, despite his melancholy later in life. A subconscious thing, really. And the lack of details is a stylistic thing I did because Soren wouldn't really spend time being highly detailed in his thoughts, especially after developing some form of sociopathy, slight negative schizophrenia, and fun stuff like that. He just doesn't care. Soren isn't at the cut his wrists point, nor is he really ready to enjoy life. He's very neutral and removed. Really, everything he did, was just because of Ike's last request.

Like I said earlier, inspired totally by keiiii on deviantart. Does really great fire emblem arts. Look it up.

Had some ideas I toyed with, and got rid of. Like Soren putting his life force into the seal to give enough strength to the boy and sacrifice himself....but that didn't seem like Soren. Same story about a long talk when he died. And the dude being Nailah's kid. That didn't pan out either.

What happened that he didn't plan? Nothing. Except for the blood-pact thing. That caught him off gaurd. Though here's Soren's plan because he did not agree to say it, or think it, in the story.

Since he was in a blood pact to this guy and he had this barrier that protected him from all magics, Soren needed a way to get someone to kill the guy without being direct about it, in case he decided to kill him. So he used a forbidden art that he knew about to take the life force of people that were recently killed into a seal of sorts that would gain strength as more people were killed. The seal required probably well over ten thousand people to do so. Soren was uncomfortable with a long time being spent, because he thought that the man would get wise to his plans. So, he went to Tellius, which was originally at the end of the plan, to find a man that could gain enough strength to break through the barrier, expecially if he used the strength gathered in the seal to augment his choosen hero's strength. There was one problem, that was Yune, he didn't want her to try and ease Kurthnaga's worries by telling the dragon was up to, so he arranged to have Yune stripped of all her strength. This allowed her soul to fuse with the remnants of Ashera, because Ashera couldn't fully die if Yune was still alive, to from Asheruna, the being that they once were. He took the strength he stole from Yune and put that into a different seal, because mortal energy and the energy of gods don't mix in one of those seals. He told the man that he would give him Yune's strength, although he planned to give him the strength in the seal powered by mortals, because that was obviously much weaker. but the two seals were on different looking objects. So when he met the group before the final battle, he used an art to switch the two seals in each others' pendants, so he could get away with giving the man the wrong (right) power boost. The man didn't realize this, because the power was still considerable. Soren had no desire to live after seeing this man, whom Ike would have killed just on principle, dead. He had fullfilled Ike's last request, of doing something with his life, which was really all that kept him sane and alive. So he planned, that when the man realized his treachery, he would kill him.