"Bring it before us as an offering so that an Eldest may sip from it," the curse said. Having filled the cup,

"Bring it before us as an offering so that an Eldest may sip from it," the curse said. Having filled the cup, Nyrissa appeared before the gods of the First World. That was when the Lantern King played another joke — he announced that the nymph, cursed for her attempt to become one of the Eldest, would now get to be one! The Eldest of dust and trampled hope, doomed to drink from her own cup and suffer terrible pain. Well, everyone got what they wanted: we got a peaceful kingdom, Nyrissa got her status as an Eldest, and the Lantern King got a finale to his horrific performance.