It’s got to be soul-crushing to be the lad
It’s not like he doesn’t give happy flame fairies and cool fire threads to help out his homies (i.g. the one cinder acolyte left in existence) and can even do cool flight tricks, but noooooooo
Everyone else has to be like "Oh, Makhleb, you and your hell flames are so evil and that’s hawt" or like “Ohh, Vehu, hit me with those Conj spells one more time baby” and suddenly there are fifty million gods running around that can do fire stuff, leaving the guy dedicated to fire just standing there like The Dud from that one episode of The Simpsons
Unless he was super directly responsible for the Library of Alexandria’s mishap then i can’t imagine cancelling him so hard he ceases to exist is fair (eat a dong Jivya you and your eyes growing out of torsos and vacuuming up all inorganic material with your sludge puppies isn’t cool)
Can we all just press J to pay respects on the background selection screen to honor one of the soon-to-be-lost homies of this crazy and cruel toenail-golem-infested world