Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post

(Although let's be real, we all know that the real reason we mourn him is because he's the first death who could've been shipped with the WoL; we lost Minfilia, Moenbryda and Wilred before him, but there weren't romantic undertones with the protagonist about them.)
I felt sad with Moen too but still mostly angry that they killed of one of the few interesting scions. (Thankfully they fleshed the rest out more with Shadowbringers)

Next to being husbando material Haurchefant was also one of the first people that threated us like a human being. In my view at least. He was nice from the start and it became even better after we saved his friend. There is even quest text where they told us that he had to be restrained by several men because he wanted to help us out with Shiva. It was so very refreshing, especially compared to the behavior of the scions.

And then in Heavensward he did even more for us and eventhough our other friends have no problems with sacrificing their lives for a greater cause he simply did it to save us.

All of that together (plus the "having the hots for the WoL") made him into a friend that our Wol deeply mourned for.

And SE the devils understood that a portion of the fanbase really liked him and now makes us suffer even more by including him in this Ultimate.