When Killian had reached age 12, his monestary had come under attack. Some wanted to blame a mysterious pair of residents who came and went as they pleased, but Killian knew better. It was none other than Lord Castig, destroyer of towns and ravager of the highlands. Killian, despite his age, accompanied his mentor, the abbot of the monestary, to act as an envoy of the monestary. But St. Cuthbert was not with them that day, and Killian witnessed his friend and teacher die at the hands of Castig.

For four days, Killian held out revealing the location of the secluded monestary, surviving against torture and pain that a man twice his age would have buckled under. But fatigue ruled over willpower, and Killian was forced to not only give away the location, but to watch Castig burn it to the ground, killing all those inside. But Castig spared him his life - Killian was sold into slavery. Three long years of brutality, slavery, and exposure to the pits of hell itself erased Killian's mind of anything he had learned or been taught as a resident of the monastery.

Castig returned for Killian, and began to shape him into a different man. A man of brutality. A man of hatred. A man of revenge. For eigth long years, Killian steadily moved up in the ranks among Castig's Army, soon surpassing many nearly twice his age. He quickly became Castig's "right hand", spearheading Castig's hand of tyranny throughout the land. There was no stopping Castig, and Killian had become a willing accomplice.

A raid on a nobleman's house in the northern highlands forced Killian into remembering his past. As the final deathblow was laid upon the nobleman and his family, Killian looked up. There, above the altar in the chapel of the nobleman, was a statue of St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel. Killian had been reunited once again with his god. St. Cuthbert filled his mind with the priciples that he had grown up with and revered. Priciples of law. Principles of honor. And most importantly, principles of RETRIBUTION!