Editing The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (section)

==Premise==
''The Kindly Ones'' belongs with the second collection, ''[[The Sandman: The Doll's House|The Doll's House]]'', and the seventh, ''[[The Sandman: Brief Lives|Brief Lives]]'', in that it finishes off a story that mostly originated in these collections; but includes elements of ''[[The Sandman: Season of Mists|Season of Mists]]'' and the story of Orpheus, told mostly in ''[[The Sandman: Fables and Reflections|Fables and Reflections]]''. A character from ''[[The Sandman: A Game of You|A Game of You]]'', which also has its roots in ''The Doll's House'', also appears. The most structurally ambitious of the collections, ''The Kindly Ones'' is a single storyline written as a Greek tragedy, with Morpheus as its doomed hero and an aspect of the triad of [[witches]], the [[Erinyes]], as the [[Greek chorus]]. It pulls together various threads left dangling throughout the series, notably the grudges against Morpheus of several characters: [[Fury (DC Comics)|Hippolyta Hall]]; the witches themselves; the Norse god [[Loki]]; and the witch [[Characters of The Sandman#Thessaly|Thessaly]]. ''The Kindly Ones'' also continues several other stories, including that of Cluracan of Faerie and his sister Nuala; that of the [[Corinthian (comics)|Corinthian]]; and that of [[Rose Walker (DC Comics)|Rose Walker]] and her former landlord Hal.