OOTS #943 - The Discussion Thread

[Amphiox]

Possibilities include, but are not limited to: to attract fan speculation, to just make a pretty image, and to explain where Xykon had buggered off to in the early chapters of Blood Runs in the Family. None of these possibilities requires that anybody visit the fortress ever again.

Ah, but none of these possibilities PRECLUDE the fortress being visited in the future, which by definition makes the fortress not irrelevant.

Well, the staff's not just a weapon. Durkon's (un)life depended on getting it back.

This is actually a clue concerning the debate about Durkon's desires. If he had not wanted to remain a vampire, he could have let himself be dusted. Instead he fought to get the staff back. This at least suggests, if not definitely proves, that the entity in side Durkon, at this moment, wants to continue existing in its current state.