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One always wishes for greatness, never realizing the cost such greatness may require.

So it is, that a younger Quintus, in service to the guild master of Ethos was sent to deliver a message to the patriarch of one of the patrician families of the city. Upon his arrival to the great estate that housed the many generations of this prestigious clan, he was set upon by men in the livery of this estemed family. Being of some skill with the blade, Quintus was able to keep the armsmen at bay long enough to escape. Unfortunately these four, now three, were joined by a half dozen robed figures in their pursuit of the escaped man.

Quintus fled, knowing he could not possibly outfight his pursuers and yet knowing that he was in an unfamiliar part of the city. His flight became a panicked scramble to whatever bastion of safety he would chance upon first. Yet even then, his pursuers were slowly gaining ground, splitting up in an attempt to corner the young man. Their plan came to fruition in a darkened alley as Quintus found himself herded into a dead end. So it was that Quintus prepared to meet his end, sword in hand, even as he found his hands shaking from the fear that now gripped his heart.

The end however, was to be far more gruesome than Quintus had realized. For even as he steeled himself as best he could, his courage left him as a cultist stepped to the fore of his pursuers to proclaim the glory that was to be Quintus' as a sacrfice to some voracious god.

Fate, however, is fickle at even the best of times, and so it was that a group of three shadow legion centurions happened upon the cultists. With a battle cry like a roar, they charged the assembled cultists. Seeing his salvation, Quintus took heart and with a cry of his own gutted the lead cultist even as she loomed over him. Continuing to fight, Quintus slew another three cultists before the fight reached its inevitable conclusion.

Quintus fell to his knees and profusely thanked his saviors, and in his euphoria he offered his loyalty to the knights. In him, the knights saw one who had the potential to accomplish great things and took Quintus as a retainer. Though, what these brave knights saw in the lowly son of minor nobility has been lost to time, just as these knights have been lost fighting the various threats that have plagued the empire.

However, little did Quintus know that his actions had placed himself, and as a result his family, against this particular cult. In the ensuing days, his father, mother, and younger brother were all abducted from the family estate on the outskirts of Ethos. While the rest of Quintus' family fled, Quintus swore a vow of everlasting hatred against the cult. It was this desire for venegeance and justice that has driven Quintus in his rise from retainer to legionnaire, always pursuing this cult wherever they may be found.