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Ironeye keeps the nightlord rune's for himself so that he basically has the powers of the night. Recluse is raising her baby to not be a nightlord anymore (kind of the whole point of the story is she realizes her mistake is she didn't love her monster baby enough).
but the point of their endings is that they are choosing the selfish option in order to keep living and hanging out with their bros at the roundtable hold