During my first read of the series, I didn't mind the ending of Padan Fain's story. He was a character that I thought was kind of interesting, but I was mostly indifferent to him. Since then, I have often read people (and I believe even Sanderson himself) express a bit of disappointment with the way that he dies, perhaps underwhelmingly and suddenly, at the end of A Memory of Light.

Now as I re-read the series and am working through The Fires of Heaven, it seems to me that the character has been aimless for a long time. It doesn't feel like his story is building to anything. It seems just that he hates the characters from Emond's Field, and Rand most of all. And that he does creepy things in an inscrutable way.

This makes me wonder what a good, satisfying ending for the character would have even looked like. And I don't think I can think of one. Can you?