their shadows, bluebenten? But I remember the first pages of Doll's House, where each sibling is described in turn, and it says something like Delirium's shadow bears no relation to whatever her form is at the moment.

Desire and Despair are twins. I don't think Desire would hurt the sibling who is closest to her/him/it.

...at the moment I am confused as to what 'Sidhe' actually means. I thought it was people but someone said it was hills.

I'm quite sure Desire didn't have a part in Despair's death. The only sibling that Desire had a problem with was Dream, and in the comics Desire and Despair seem awfully close.

While theories of Despair becoming happy and so dying make sense, I doubt this was the case. Didn't it say, rather specifically, in the comics that the person who killed Despair would take the rest of eternity to die? This should be taken literally to mean someone killed Despair. Loki's ruled out because I doubt he would have been so welcomed into Dream's domain in Season of Mists.

I like the theory about Rao. It makes an awful lot of sense.

Not to sound argumentative but...

although I don't personally believe it, I don't think Desire can be discounted in the death of Despair. Yes they are twins, and yes they do seem close, but there are factors to consider. Desire to me is cold and manipulative, she doesn't require reason to do things. And they are close, but only in Despairs second form, I don't think they meet in Despairs first. So is it the fact that Desire was responsible for Despairs death that made them close, or were they always so?


As for the killer being literal - as I mentioned before I'd believe them to be a means to an end. I.e. A driver that accidently runs down a person might be known as a killer but it isn't that simple. I base this on the way Dream died. We could see Lyta as the means to Dreams death, and in some ways she is his 'killer', but in no way could she have killed him literally.

Just a couple of comments to Oceanlee's last post (most were stated previously by others):

1. Desire shouldn't be discounted because Desire set Morpheus up before (by fathering Rose Walker's mother), and, I believe though I don't have the book here, was involved in the Orpheus problem as well, even if she failed the first time.

2. It was stated earlier that the killer doesn't have to be literal because Daniel calls him "the person who was responsible for the death of the first Despair." He likens this person to Lyta, who doesn't exactly pull the trigger herself. Morpheus knew full well what would happen when he granted Orpheus's wish. (He says so in A Doll's House, I believe, in relation to Rose.)

I'm sure the first Despair died in much the same way as Morpheus: some fault in her personality led her to her own end, though others (Desire?) may have taken advantage of the situation or have even started it.