The Culling of the Voiceless was a disastrous struggle, and Kieran reaped the consequences that the bloodbath had sown. He spent several days unconscious but not dead. The Order of War and Flame had made sure of that. As the last one standing of this Culling, Kieran had earned the right to slightly better treatment.
That involved dressing his ghastly wounds, providing food, and potentially earning a name. However, after the initial Culling had concluded, Kieran fell into a comatose state, which made it impossible to claim his rewards.
Luckily, though the Order of War and Flame was replete with fanatics, zealots, lunatics, and madmen obsessed with the grisly sight of War's aftermath and reckoning, they revered honor and treated those who earned it well.
Most of Kieran's rewards were deferred, save for his meals. Those were scarfed down by the voracious followers of War and Flame.
