Oh, thank you for filling this! It's sad and wonderful, and there's so much I love here -- Irrylath trying to be better, the years in Isternes from his perspective, the centrality of the women (and ouch at "the one who bore him and the one who stole him"), the way he automatcially assumes that his brothers will say no, the sadness of the fact that he knows Oriencor's example so well but almost nothing of Syllva's, even though she's the model he wants to follow (and yay for the brothers and the hopefulness of the end!).

And I loved that description of Oriencor, and I'm so impressed this all fit in three sentences. :D