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After Ed got Al's body back, their father Van Hohenheim is shown at Trisha's
grave, where Pinako later finds him dead. Did the boys find out that he had
died or did they not even know what happened?


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In the Brotherhood continuity, do the Elric brothers know that their father has died?


**There is never a point either in the manga or the _Brotherhood_ adaptation
of it where the brothers are _explicitly_ told of Hohenheim's death. Note,
however, that it would be odd for Pinako to never tell the brothers of
Hohenheim's death.** Unlike with the Maria Ross incident, there is no reason
for the brothers to not know, and it seems unlikely that Pinako would lie
about the death (in the way Mustang lied about Hughes to Edward) and _never_
tell the truth.

**There is additional evidence at the end of the manga, where there is a
compilation of post-manga photographs at the end. In one of them, we see
Hohenheim's grave next to Trisha's.** There is [a similar
photo](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZURq.jpg) at the end of _Brotherhood_.
(Click link for anime screenshot. I am not cropping the images, since it
should be easier to get a sense of where they are from this way.)

[![manga end
page](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R69Zk.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R69Zk.png)

**With this, we can infer that the brothers probably know of Hohenheim's
death.** That a _marked_ grave was constructed for Hohenheim, who died shortly
after Promised Day (and thus, before the brothers leave Resembool two years
later), and placed at a meaningful position suggests that there must have been
_some_ level of ceremony put into his burial. Being Hohenheim's sons, the
brothers then might well have been given the chance to be involved with the
burial, and they would probably know of the death that way.

Moreover, even if Pinako quietly buried Hohenheim, it seems unlikely that she
have buried him _alone_ , without help from anyone, so word would probably
eventually get out that he was dead. Additionally, the brothers probably
periodically visit graves in the area -- for instance, Edward decides to visit
the Rockbells' graves at the end of ch. 41, after hearing about their work in
Ishval -- so they would be "forced" to know once they visited their mother's
grave at some point.


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