Raziel the Second went out like a badass. He and three other of the continents top swordsman (80% plus all around) gathered in Barad Lacrinth (atamara) to duel to the death. Raziel beat the first one (didn't kill him) and then died in the second battle, and confessed with his dying breath that he was in love with his best friend's, duke of the wealthiest city on the island at the time, wife.