This is just enormously sad. The war's over, but there are so many dead that it doesn't really seem like a victory. In a series where death is both inevitable and valued, however, that sadness is also just a little ambiguous. Cyrus, for instance, is more affecting dead than alive, and I don't mean by that that his memory impacts on the other characters and makes me feel for him through them. I mean his ghost, who talks and wanders round in a sort of benign haunting, who makes friends with the reaper of fear, has both more narrative heft and more emotional pull. He's more interesting when he's dead, which is somewhat the case for a lot of characters in this series.