Kieran grew surprised with how the Fiends fell into the flow of things, following the examples the Followers of War set. He had come to regard the Order of War and Flame as a wild bunch of unruly men who only listened to the rule of the Flame.
Anyone below the Flame was unfit to lead them, discounting Cardinal Weiss, who could be considered an emissary of the Flame. He acted as an extension of the Flame's will, exercising little of his own discretion.
That much had proven the Cardinal's inability to act of his own volition unless he was drained entirely of Significance.
Unlike the Fiends, who assisted in transporting supplies and other minutiae needed to fuel a lengthy war where an unthinkable number of deaths would occur, Kieran fell into the background, lingering in the shadows where his presence was barely sensed.
