Synthetic Hero

While in the course of their duties the player's Adepts manage to defeat a particularly powerful evil, causing word to spread. The player's Adepts end up doing it again - a big baddie comes looking for revenge and they kill it. The Adepts aren't looking for trouble, it just keeps finding them.
But word has spread and soon people begin to think of the Adepts as living heroes - people who spend everyday actively rooting out evil. 
At first the Adepts deny such high honor, they only fought to survive, scoring one against the Darkness was a bonus. But soon they begin to notice something about their new found hero status: people around them seem to draw strength from them, warriors in combat who were about to break and run will suddenly turn around and fight valiantly (just for a chance to fight beside a hero like the Adepts), broken people take comfort in them, the hopeless come up and tell them how stories of their exploits gave hope. 
As their reputation for heroism grows, the Adepts begin to realize a deeper truth to being a good guy: people need heroes to look up too, to believe that somewhere out there are people who are doing something about the state of the world.