Whatever happened to Londo?

[Tilion]

I am wondering since there was no actual closure on his story.

Are we to assume he died of natural causes or that the Drakh and that spidery thing that was attached to him kill him?

In which case, did Vir "inherit" the Drakh as his puppeteer masters?

[Kostmayer]

I'd always assumed he was strangled by G'Kar as in his dream, albeit at Londo's request.

[Strife]

that's right, G'kar kills him and Vir inherit of the eye

[Tilion]

Hmm, I seem to have forgotten that bit somehow.

Did that dream occur in season 5 or earlier?

[Winters_Sorrow]

It happened near the end of series 5 in the episode where Sheridan had called them all together to say goodbye. Londo, Vir & G'Kar didn't go and after Londo sent the vase containing a Keeper to Sheridan's son, he got G'Kar to kill him (presumably out of remorse or just weariness at being controlled). As he was being strangled, the keeper awoke and got him to strangle G'Kar back. My understanding was that they both died killing each other.

[Tilion]

Originally Posted by Winters_Sorrow

It happened near the end of series 5 in the episode where Sheridan had called them all together to say goodbye. Londo, Vir & G'Kar didn't go and after Londo sent the vase containing a Keeper to Sheridan's son, he got G'Kar to kill him (presumably out of remorse or just weariness at being controlled). As he was being strangled, the keeper awoke and got him to strangle G'Kar back. My understanding was that they both died killing each other.

Wow, I don't remember seeing that at all, which is all the more strange because from your description, it seems like it happened in the very last episode, Sleeping in Light, and I saw that just last week!

Thanks!

[Winters_Sorrow]

Sorry, a little bit of confusion here.
It's in the second to last episode in Series 5 "Objects at Rest" where Londo gives Delenn the urn with the Keeper in.

Londo's fate at the hands of G'Kar is actually shown in episode 17 of the third series "War without End pt II" which is set in the future (set after "Objects at Rest", but before "Sleeping in the Light") and is not a dream - although as Londo himself explains, he has foreseen his eventual end for many years and this is the original cause of Londo's great dislike for G'Kar. He knows that he will die at his hands.

[Werthead]

This storyline was expanded upon in the Legions of Fire Trilogy of novels by Peter David, which are canon.

So, B5 ends with Centauri Prime basically having been conquered on the QT by the Drakh, who are controlling Londo via a 'Keeper' a parasitic extension of the Drakh overseer Shiv'kala. The Drakh are playing a long game, amassing their own forces over the next fifteen years and having the Centauri rebuild, in great secret, their own war machine. Londo seals himself off from most of his friends and colleagues in an effort to protect them from possible Drakh reprisals. This is why he has Vir assigned as ambassador to B5.

In the meantime the Drakh attempt to use a Shadow Death Cloud to attack Earth, are defeated, and instead poison the planet's atmosphere. The events of Crusade take place and the plague is cured within three years or so (we don't find out how, though). The technomages start investigating the Drakh and learn that something is amiss on Centauri Prime. They recruit Vir to aid them and Vir eventually learns of the Drakhs' presence. He creates a resistance group called the Legions of Fire to resist the Drakh infiltration. He also learns that Londo has ordered the building of a vast warfleet which will apparently be used to launch sneak attacks on Earth and Minbar and weaken them ahead of a full Drakh assault. At some point G'Kar also learns part of this and Londo has him arrested and placed under house arrest. News of this doesn't get out and, oddly, G'Kar finds himself enjoying the solitude away from the adulation of the Narn populace. G'Kar is imprisoned on Centauri Prime for something like 2-3 years, in which time he and Londo's frendship is solidified.

Eventually, on David's 16th birthday (by Minbari reckoning; JMS mucked up his timeline and didn't realise that David would only be 14 by Earth years ) he opens the urn given to his parents by Londo, is possessed by a Keeper, and goes to Centauri Prime with Sheridan and Delenn in pursuit. The plan is for Londo to kill Sheridan and Delenn and plunge the Interstellar Alliance into chaos as just the moment the Centauri and Drakh fleets make their move.

Unfortunately for the Drakh, the whole plan falls apart. The Legions of Fire expose the Drakh's presence on the planet. The Centauri Prime Minister, who is another tool of the Drakh, is killed and all hell breaks loose. Sheridan, Delenn and David escape from Centauri Prime and Londo and G'Kar kill one another, as seen in War Without End, Part 2. Shiv'kala detonates the fusion bombs he'd hidden across Centauri Prime (the ones mentioned in the Season 5 episode The Fall of Centauri Prime), but the Legions of Fire have already disabled 90% of them. A couple do explode just outside the capital, flattening most of it and leaving the rest in flames (as seen in War Without End). The new Centauri fleet attacks the Drakh fleet hiding in Centauri space, destroying most of them and sending the remnants fleeing. Vir sets himself up as bait, with Shiv'kala planning to take him over with a Keeper and start the whole process over from scratch, but Garibaldi instead kills Shiv'kala. When he dies the Keepers linked to him - including the one on David - die as well, and David is freed from the Drakh influence.

Phew. Think that about covers it