Talk:Ethan Wate/@comment-76.228.65.203-20150807034619/@comment-50.21.203.43-20161202045036

It actually was explained. The Order of things had been thrown out of balance, as described in Beautiful Chaos. And, in explanations with the shadowing songs, only the One Who Is Two could set the balance of the Order right again. It just so happened to turn out that Ethan had become the One Who Is Two on the Sixteenth Moon, when he was pulled back from the Otherworld too fast, which fractured his soul. The only way they could set the balance back in to place and restore a New Order was to have Ethan sacrifice himself.

Of course, however, it was later discovered in Beautiful Redemption that Angelus, one of the head Keepers in the Far Keep, had been manipulating The Caster Chronicles and added the page of his death, which created the need for his sacrifice in the first place. In technicality, he wasn't supposed to die a second time.