Well but if he had survived we as the fans could have still visit him if we wanted to and we could have created our own stories about him..but with him death all of this ended. I am just not a fan of the "character`s story told now let them die" way to handle characters. Why would it be so bad if he just had no real meaning to the story anymore? And yes I still don't see his death as that meaningful. The main story would have been told the same way if he was alive and if they had badly injured him they could still had the character development for his brothers. So unlike Ysayle who not only saved our life from certain death (which was not really avoidable in that position) and who was the reason for the garlean ship to strand on Azys Lla and Moen´s death that made it possible to kill one Ascian, the only thing that his death did, was to let us feel sadness and bring tragedy to the MQ. We could and should have easily avoided that attack or defend ourself from it, which would have given Thordan and his knights the time to move away. His death in my opinion was truly not necessary. Maybe that is one of the reason that I still feel so strongly about it..(And I lost a little more respect towards my own character who stood there like an idiot..)
[Not only did we as the player loose our chance to see him ingame again, but there is even no way for our character to ever meet him again. I mean thanks to SE, who told us through the Scions how the afterlife in this world function we cant even say that our characters will meet him again after death,which I find even sadder]
Sorry for repeating myself about this and hopefully this does not sound to harsh. I just still not over the fact that it happened. (Which is strange since he is not my first favorite character to die in a game)