| abstract | - "I do not know much of your order. Were you born a templar?""No. Our scripture says, "As a farmer reaps his wheat, so must the order harvest and purify the weeds.""You say you are a weed. I think that even weeds have their purpose under the sun and moon.""No. They strangle. They corrupt. And the crop fails. I was lucky to be taken when I was." — A companion and Kormac discussing the latter's past Kormac was once a soldier of Westmarch. However, he was conscripted by the Templar Order and initiated by force. He was chained to a wall by the order's inquisitors and beaten mercilessly. By the third day, he was mad from pain and hunger. That was when the whipping began. Kormac would later be told that he relived all of his past transgressions, of everything that brought him tainted joy, that the whip took away his joy and sin. By the end of it, he was a loyal follower of the Order, and was unable to remember his "sinful" past. Over the course of his service, Kormac was regarded as a paragon among them.
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