User blog comment:Darknessabove/The Explorer, Chapter 5, Volume 1: Graceless Goodbye/@comment-25720867-20150325081824/@comment-25421410-20150325183402

Well good to know you had plans on putting the final nail in his coffin (well more like a sword)

I was planning on introducing a hero into the story, specifically where it becomes more focused on his order ties.

That said, i haven't actually said if hes dead or alive, just that he was a few seconds from death and form my experiance, a few seconds can make or break something, ask my brother, whos a cycling nut.