User blog comment:Swampman/SPOILERS----- Arisen Timeline/Speculation/@comment-97.93.102.19-20120617005132

I honestly don't think its possible or a good thing to end the cycle. Allegedly, everything requires it in order to exist, or at least exist with will. The main theme song of the game, even speaks of it as a wanted event, to fix the post-game mess the world becomes. It implies to me at least, that without the cycle, the world would either die or remain in darkness. I think the act of stabbing oneself with the godsbane, is the final step in trading roles by shedding the mortal vessel, and requires a replacement Arisen to truly put a Seneschal to rest. And the cycle, is like a reset switch to fix the world going "rotten".

'Neath a faltered sky, cross loamless plains, and watered blight. Where gone those days once glory shone so bright? Fallen beneath baleful wings dark as night!

A moment give to me. Hark! Shall none hear this soul's tale, of a land benight?

Pitiful man whom death has undone, leaned upon a broken blade. Looks to skyward, "prithee above (Almighty one) be this thy word? Cried out, begged for truth, but no answer's sound be heard.

Yet now he sees the dragon's dogma, unbound by time, all-binding grand design! Land and skies, and seas yearn, finish the cycle of eternal return!

Finish the cycle of eternal return!'