Giunti Editore

“The same thing that happens to a character at the end of a book,” Ryth replied. “You become finished . No sequel. No loop. Just an ending.”

“What trickery is this?” Sirid whispered, his gauntleted hand still tight on the blade.

“You saw it,” Ryth said. “The 15th Gospel. Sanderson wrote it as a mythic key—a way to break the cycle for the one warrior who would finally choose to stop.”

He did not die. He simply… stopped being the protagonist.