Death Of A Hero is a tale in The Lost Stories, where Halt tells Will about his father Daniel's death in greater detail, and how his mother really dies.
It shows Halt as a black-haired young man, who follows two crooked soldiers about to rob Will's mother. Halt kills one but slips, and Will's mother kills the other, but dies herself in the attempt. Halt takes baby Will to the ward in Redmont Fief.