The demon Curupira (Emilie De Ravin) meets Dar's father, a Beastmaster in his own right, and insists he put aside his own family's safety to take the tigers to the 'sanctuary.' Angered by Dar's father's hesitation, Curupira takes his staff and tells him that he will find it again in his wife's ashes. Dar witnesses his mother's murder when he returns from the Mydlands to see his father. Dar mourns for his mother over her funeral pyre and finally comes to terms with her death. Despite his wife's death, Dar's father realizes he must fulfill his promise to Curupira and take the tigers to the sanctuary. But when Dar reveals his foreknowledge of this sanctuary, Dar's father realizes that this mysterious Sula warrior is none other than his son traveling through Valhalla. He sends Dar with the tigers to guide Young Dar and the surviving Sulas, including the Young Kyra (Hannah Wang), to the sanctuary. Dar's father then finds his staff in his wife’s pyre, just as Curupira promised. The staff now contains newly inscribed symbolic totems that Dar's father does not understand.