(EW Spoilers) Tales from the Dawn #5 - Days Gone By, Days Yet to Come

[Alleluia]

Edit: I also like the idea that Azem was out trying to find a better way to save everyone. That is pretty much what I would have been doing too, so that works for me. Doesn't make it any less awful that the Ancients all died in the end, but at least Azem went out fighting.

I always feel mentions of this just call attention to something left undone. Azem failed. We ran off; left our best friends behind (who we made special magic just to call to us when we feel like it, that we didn't use), in their direst hour, leaving them to meet their end with no goodbye from us; and all to fail them in the end -- to go off and try to find some solution that we never actually found, and then, for all we know, we just died in a ditch somewhere.

Is it realistic in a "best laid plans of mice and men" kinda way? Yes. Is it a story I like? No.

The only way I can enjoy being reminded of this is to interpret it as a future story thread. There needs to be something going on there that we will be told eventually and will justify why Azem spent his/her final moments chasing their tail instead of being with those who loved them. Otherwise, I kinda hate being reminded of it.

And I'm an ancients' fan. I like this story a lot. Gimme all the World Unsundered content. Its just that having the "Azem left and that's the last we saw of them" button pushed makes me sad. Especially when the story takes pains to tell us that Hades held out hope to the last. I'd have a hard time forgiving us, if I was him. In fact, it probably explains some of his ShB behavior a bit more.