"I have never seen the like." Skirmishes, battles, even the slaughter at the Spire; none of it left marks quite like this. Burnt bodies and shattered steel, burning as they fled or burning to destroy evidence? Adelaide frowned as she knelt next to the templar in question, careful to keep from touching the crystals. The earlier stages of use from what little they knew of the practice.

"Were the villagers willing or threatened? With the war and most opinions on it- if they did not know what the templars were taking; I can see them easily assuming their cause righteous." Such was the faith the Templar Order inspired in the common man.