User blog comment:SigmaAlphaThree/100 Questions for the traitor Arkanov/@comment-7270135-20160103232532/@comment-7270135-20160118032719

Oh! We haven't gotten to that point of the game yet, and we've been trying to avoid spoilers, but I doubt that was super huge or anything. But that's actually a neat thought, at first I was thinking of it being more like a one night's stand, but the idea of him actually being in love with her only to have her walk away as soon as she got what she wanted is really sad. But yeah, I was thinking of some sad stuff for Morde, and I was thinking that he was literally abandoned outside right after birth, but was found and raised by an old couple, and when Eris takes him back years later when he's 12, she basically kills his elderly caretakers without him knowing.

He will die of old age eventually, and he's not necessarily a bad person to River... but he's just like everyone else and ignored her and turned away from her when she needed all the help she could get.