Deep in the bowels of a ruined fort, drunk with wine and bloodlust, Stephan descended into unconciousness. As his body struggled in the wasteland that lies between the world of life and the world of death, his mind traveled to the world of dreams. There he met his god, Mithras, in the form of a great minotaur. Mithras made a convenant with Stephan – that he may never again drink wine or cut his hair, that he would make of his body a temple, and that in return Mithras would make of him a great warrior.