BACKGROUND

Amongst the many followers drawn to the Tormentor Cults are those who require little encouragement to embrace cruelty. Bullies, abusers, sadists and tyrants, these individuals delight in wielding power over those unable to resist them. Long before they encountered the cults, they had already made suffering a part of their lives. The cults do not create such people. They simply reward them.

Brute Wardens are amongst the most physically imposing of the Ascendants, transformed through acts of prolonged violence, ritual sacrifice and devotion to domination. Their immense strength and resilience make them ideal enforcers, tasked with guarding captives, suppressing dissent and delivering punishment.

Though often lacking the revelations and philosophical obsessions that drive many of the cult's leaders, Brute Wardens possess a brutal certainty all their own. They believe strength grants authority and suffering teaches obedience. To them, mercy is weakness and compassion merely another form of cowardice.

Where a Brute Warden is found, others suffer beneath their shadow. Prisoners and captives quickly learn that the creature's greatest pleasure is not violence itself, but the knowledge that nobody can stop it.

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