Brother Justice is a weapon of the church trained for death and destruction; a creature that does not need eyes or ears to locate its prey and kill it; an evil force that, at the height of its power can destroy life with a mere touch. Molding a person into that being is perhaps the worst sin against Dalanos, the patron of life. That thought never crossed the Father Abbot’s mind. In fact, it was only one part of the grander scheme.

Days before Soran’s transformation into Brother Justice was complete, more of the Father Abbot’s plan was revealed. In Triel, the town closest to the Albian Monastery of Dalanos, a strange sickness started spreading. People stopped eating, stopped caring, stopped thinking. They shambled along in the streets, their bodies slowly withering and decaying as their apathy grew. Eventually they would die but some dark force kept them going, waiting for the Father Abbot’s commands. It is believed that the old evil man wanted to create an army he could use to launch an attack against the high king of Nyrondria. The walking corpses could distract the king’s army long enough for the Father Abbot to unleash his full force on the land.

Among the ranks of the Albian Order, a Master is highest in rank after the Father Abbot. All of the masters of the order were in league with the malicious old man, all but one. Master Jonas was a true believer of Dalanos and he realized what the Father Abbot was doing in Triel. Going against the Father Abbot’s wishes, he departed the monastery with two of his students and went to Triel to try and heal its dying people.

Enraged, the Father Abbot called upon the newly trained Brother Justice to exact the church’s wrath upon the disobedient master. He decreed the three as heretics and ordered Soran to go after them and bring back their heads. Since Master Jonas knew about the fashioning of Brother Justice and probably anticipated his eminent attack, and since Soran’s training was never tested, the old man wanted to increase the mission’s chances of success. He released Dymir, the renegade elf, from the monastery’s dungeon and left him in the care of Soran. Should Dymir try to flee, Brother Justice was instructed to eliminate him as well. But the elf had nowhere to go. He was lost, alone and filled with self-loathing for the murder he has committed. And so he followed Soran’s lead and did as he was told to do.

Together they reached Triel and were ambushed by Master Jonas and his disciples. They were captured and tied up. Master Jonas tried to reason with Soran, showing him the evil that was the Father Abbot. But he was addressing Brother Justice. Soran was only there by name, by some distant memory. All that was left was the Father Abbot’s will – nothing else mattered.

And so the elven hands burst in flames, scorching the ropes that bound them. And the brother of justice howled in rage, hatred and loathing and the ropes around him broke. Barely a whisper was heard as the two disciples were slain and a great battle between Master, Brother and Mage commenced.

But the two proved far superior to the Master standing before them and before long he was dead. They beheaded the corpses and left the bodies in an alley.

That night one of the Masters was tasked with building a pyre and conducting a dark ritual. He was then ordered to throw the heretics’ heads into the blaze. The next morning that master was found dead, the scorched remains of his head visible among the ashes. Master Jonas’ head and body were never recovered.