The Seraphic Order and the Legion
A Recruit Among the Seraphs
The Hero answers a vague appeal for help and meets Darkon, commander of the Seraphic Paladins. His ancient Order is meant to protect Lore from powerful evils, yet it has failed to appear when the Hero needed help against the undead. Darkon admits something has gone wrong inside the fortress. He asks the Hero to pose as a new recruit, with the trusted knight Thomas as sponsor, and report anything suspicious. Elsewhere, Envy tells Dage that the Hero has arrived. Dage anticipates Darkon's undercover scheme and orders Envy to ensure the investigator finds plenty of interesting information.
Thomas welcomes the Hero into a fortress he says is changing for the worse. His own hostility to the Legion has a personal cause: years earlier, its soldiers ransacked his family's village, and his father died trying to defend it. Under Thomas's guidance, the Hero explores the headquarters, questions recruits, and collects rumors, Seraphic Scrolls and Legion sigils. Thomas recognizes that the scrolls have changed and wonders who else has been altered. The investigation then turns against its investigator: Order members accuse the Hero of spying, and the Hero must defeat the challengers before proceeding to Darkon.
The investigation leads into a purge of the fortress. The cached quest account lists four assignments, ending with “Me? A Spy?”; the map then describes a personal progress meter advanced by handing in ten Legion Infiltrators Defeated items at a time. Access thresholds rise through 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100 percent. The official April 24, 2015 release announcement also calls this a personal victory meter and connects reaching 100 with unlocking the final boss. These are individual progression gates, not evidence of a shared war total or a fixed number of kills inferred from the percentages.
The Cost of Cleansing the Order
Darkon concludes that the Legion has infiltrated and corrupted the Order, with its own Grand Master, Adventus, implicated. He confronts Adventus before their followers and accuses him of dealing with Dage for personal glory. Adventus rejects the accusation and insists that everything he has done has served the Order, whatever the cost. Then the paladins loyal to him remove their helmets, revealing themselves as Dage's infiltrators. Darkon takes the revelation as proof and calls on the remaining Seraphs to drive the Legion out. Dage's attempt to steer the investigation does not erase this displayed infiltration, though it leaves reason to question how the Hero was led toward it.
The Hero and Thomas fight their way toward Adventus and his remaining bodyguards. With only another hallway ahead, an infiltrator disguised as a paladin approaches Thomas from behind. The Hero's warning comes too late to prevent the attack, and Darkon cries out. The scene account stops there, but Darkon's dialogue after Adventus's defeat supplies the aftermath: Thomas is gone, having given his life for a cause he believed in.
Adventus falls in battle, and Darkon formally discharges him as Grand Master. The victory does not keep him in custody: Adventus escapes into nearby woods, where Laken steps into his path and challenges his departure. The scene cuts away before showing what follows. The Order has removed Adventus from power, but this account does not establish that Laken kills or captures him.
Laken Steps Out of Hiding
With Adventus deposed, Darkon introduces Laken as the Order's new Grand Master and a longstanding, talented member. The Hero asks why he was absent during the crisis. Laken explains that leaving his position as Dage's second in command forced him into hiding: people who betray Dage tend to die. He now considers the restored Order strong enough for him to emerge. He offers knowledge of Dage's secrets and plans, asking the Hero to help stop the Legion; when the Hero describes his career as gaining Dage's trust undercover and then leaving to oppose him, Laken agrees.
Laken's Seraph dialogue adds a larger claim to that explanation. He says he came from the future to help Dage fight Nulgath, rose in Dage's favor, and had to betray him in order to leave. He also says the changes they made have prevented him from returning home. This is Laken's account of his origin and predicament. It does not by itself establish a general law of time travel or explain exactly how he escaped Dage's contract.
The recorded scene gives the Hero three alignment responses to Laken's invitation. The Good response welcomes a fight against an overstrong Legion; the Neutral response offers help to someone in need regardless of cause. The Evil response loudly calls for Dage's death, then privately treats the exchange as a contest in misdirection against a traitor. These alternatives do not amount to one shared pledge or establish this account's chosen branch. When the Hero asks why Laken believes himself safe from Dage, Laken introduces his new bodyguard and ally, J6, the Intergalactic BountyHunter. The scene ends there, with the confrontation still to continue.