Eithne / Laoise's Links
In her mortal life she was spared from death by Halia, though she knows she doesn't remember. When they met again when she was Laoise, she agreed to help in this war because she felt she owed Halia a debt. She's very frank with Halia, though thinks she's too stubborn for her own good.
Even after all the years of Halia being gone, she still remembers the woman she was and waits for her return. She holds a deep respect for Halia and would do much to keep her name from being tarnished or misremembered in history.
Though they met in the past, Halia has no memory of the woman who became the god-slaying sword. Though Laoise was someone she often confided in, she was too stubborn to heed her advice most of the time. She often wonders about the spirit of the sword and she she gave her Lugh's divinity instead of destroying it, but the spirit's secrets are not easily learned.
There's little she wouldn't do to undo what she did to Cathe. She now knows she was an innocent bystander, and not the evil force people claimed she was.
She never expected to die by the hands of a mortal, and accepted her death with a strange calmness that unnerves Eithne to this day. She warned her that nothing would change, but Eithne didn't take the warning to heart until it was too late.
Laoise was hesitant about him at first, but eventually came around to him through their common goal. She's come to care a lot about him, and is sympathetic to his past and the things he's done. Unlike with Halia, she's told him a little bit about her life as Eithne and the things she did under orders to relate to and sympathize with him. She wants to see him get the happy ending through his second chance that she never got.
The last time Niamh saw Laoise, Halia was using it to cut him down. He managed to get past his negative associations upon meeting the spirit sealed within, and has been found a companion in her that he didn't expect. They have a lot in common, and he often wishes they'd been able to meet when she was still alive... Maybe they both could have avoided their mistakes.