User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-5938567-20130113181814/@comment-5927468-20130113230704

I don't know about Chiron dying. I mean it's kind of cliche in this genre, the teacher/mentor sacrficing himself. Obi Wan did it, Gandalf did it, Dumbledor did it, Aslan, Brom from Eragon, Jesus, etc. Sure, RR has used other common storypoints, but I don't think he'd use that one.