As the Sleepers poured through the rifts, the leader of the Flame Dawn, Aberion, recognized their imminent threat. The Sleeper menace would not die easily, and when one died, it would take his soldiers with it then all of them would resurrect under the influence of the virus. He tasked his Field Commander, Bromich, with finding a way to combat the ugly threat and vowed to give him whatever resources he needed. Bromich, in turn, turned his protegee, a soldier of the Flame Dawn who had shown amazing promise and had been rising steadily through the ranks: Kali.