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Accompanying the monks during their assault on the city, Hrathen was in a constant state of disgust and shock. He was witness to Sarene being taken captive by the monks and learnt Dilaf's beloved had been driven mad by an incorrectly drawn Elantrian Aon causing Dilaf's hatred for Elantrians.
Dilaf and Sarene were placed in a circle with Dilaf and several monks. A monk in the centre was burnt up, body and soul, to allow magic to transport them to [[
=== [[Battle of Teoin]] ===
Meeting with Eventeo under the pretence it was time for him to convert to Shu-Dereth the monks prepared to assassinate the King of Teod. Hrathen became aware that Dilaf planned to murder Sarene in front of Eventeo before they killed the king and finally realising that his feelings of respect and rivalry with Sarene were in fact love he saved her life by attacking Dilaf.
Eventeo escaped while his guards fought the monks and Hrathen and Sarene retreated into a alley. They managed to avoid the monks and disguise themselves as peasants. Walking among the masses, Sarene questioned why Hrathen chose to change sides. Hrathen revealed still followed Shu-Dereth, still prayed to Jaddeth and still thought the Derethi teachings were correct, he just couldn't agree with Wyrn and his interpretation of them. At that point, Hrathen was stabbed in the chest by Fjon who had been sent by wyrn to assassinate the gyorn.
Hrathen got back up and saved Raoden and Sarene from Dilaf. He used the reshaping of the bones in his forearm to block Dilaf's sword strikes and expresses no pain when stabbed in the side. He grasbs Dilaf and snaps the monks neck. His eyes are unfocused and look to the sky and his arm begins to glow. With Dilaf dead, Hrathen tosses his body aside and topples forward lifelessly. Sarene theorises that both the wounds inflicted by Fjon and Dilaf should've been instantly fatal but Hrathen clung to life through his Dakhor markings.
=== Legacy ===
Hrathen's body was ferried back to Elantris and buried in the memorial barrows for heroes who fell during Fjordell's invasion. He was buried alongside Eondel, Karata, Saolin and Roial with his bloodred armour stacked alongside it and his cape draped over his sword. His funeral was performed last. Sarene speaks at his funeral saying that she thought she understood the man as her enemy by his sense of duty, his powerful will and his determination to save people through religion but she had no knowledge of his internal conflict or that he'd place the lives of everyone else over his own ambitions and how if it hadn't been for him then Dilaf would have killed both her and Raoden. She implores the people to remember Hrathen not as their enemy but as their saviour.
| Goodbye, my princess. Jaddeth be merciful to my soul. I only did the best I could.
| Hrathen, as he lays dying.{{book ref|Elantris|62}}
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| Let it be said that after all else, Hrathen, gyorn of Shu-Dereth, was not our enemy. He was our saviour.
| Sarene's words at Hrathen's funeral.{{book ref|Elantris|Epilogue}}
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