Three pillars made Liam, or rather, his entire existence had been built around those core drives.
The first involved the meaning of Liam's very name, the protector, the role he had failed to uphold during the Bloodline Screening.
The second was pure revenge, the desire to kill the butchers who had come to Krosstoen's village and who had orchestrated the Screening.
As for the third, it was Liam's utmost devotion to his great Master, the one who had rekindled his will to live after the Divine Cult's imprisonment.
The three pillars had no real hierarchy, but their origin gave them different value. Protecting and avenging both came from trauma and loss, from dark and foul aspects of life. Instead, Liam's gratitude toward his great Master was life itself.
Liam would have been nothing more than an empty husk if Horace Rauret hadn't lit up the flame of desire in him. His Master had literally saved him from the depths of depression.
