User blog comment:D2r/Was Veil ultimately Redeemed?/@comment-3474228-20111225183255/@comment-3474228-20111226170728

I do agree with your statement about that being the ultimate thing he could do at the time (I hadn't thought about that earlier). But still, perhaps his reason for taking the spear (or whatever weapon it was) was not intended as an act to save Bryony. He could have had his own intentions which weren't stated. In that case, it could look as an act of redemption, but could be something that was not meant to be that way.