I guessing his smexy DE mother got intercepted by bandits and met a grim end (hopefully just murdered, nothing else). Thus she never returned. Makes me depressed when she was such a nice mother.
I liked his faces this chapter (but ruined it when he cried, cause he had the emitionless thing going for him), and it was nice his edge lord was really turned down. You can still kill them if you want, just dont get edgy about it.
Next chapter I expect he will go out and find her corpse. To if he will res her as an undead ? probably not, strikes me as a guy who would respect his mothers corpse. RIP.
ps everyone in the comments needs to chill the fuck down. Authors writing a tragedy setting story. Depressing yes, but thats how they go.