Brad Modeen

Brad Modeen (Made with HeroForge)

The founder of the Anti-Templar movement, and a former Templar. Brad turned against Simon after becoming disillusioned with the Templars goals and methods, pushing him away from the organization and eventually into the hands of the Horsemen. After killing caravaners around Boise and taking out multiple Templars, Brad was killed by Addie Kirkland, wielding the broken sword of Julia Aiken.

## History

### Pre-Campaign

Brad Modeen was one of the early Templars that joined Simon's order. He was one of the five Templars sent to take down the fallen Templar Julia Aiken, after she had fallen under the influence of a demon. Brad was the only Templar to survive the raid on her lair, and dealt the killing blow to her with his ax.

Brad made his way back to Boise in the aftermath, reporting on how powerful Julia had become. He believed that the Horsemen had played a role in making Julia so powerful, so much of a threat. He handed over Julia's sword to Simon, who broke the weapon in half and hung it in the Hall of Heroes as a reminder of her former efforts, and a warning to those who would dare to follow a similar dark path.

In the aftermath of the incident, Brad found himself lingering on how powerful Julia had become in such a short amount of time, compared to his fellow Templars. The questions followed him to Quissling, Nevada, a town that had been paying tribute to Combine soldiers and giving them quarter. While he was in the area, the Cult of Doom attacked the town. Despite his hesitance, Brad chose to back the town and its Combine residents, in order to save the townsfolk. The Cult was defeated in that skirmish, and Brad walked away.

A few months after the event, Brad returned to Boise and recounted to Simon what had happened. Simon heavily disapproved of Brad's course of action, telling him he should have let both sides wipe each other out. Brad defended his decision, and argued Simon was just as bad as all the other brutes in the wastes, and left the Templar order.

Jo found him not long after, wearing a black tabard and standing at the head of a group in similar gear, almost all welding axes like him. He told her he was founding the Anti-Templars, a new group similar to the Templars, but they would widen their protections to all but the absolute worst that lived in the wasteland. He challenged the Templar's "test of worth". After telling Simon about Brad's activities, he directed Jo to follow through with the Oath of Blood and take him out. Despite her protests, Simon was unmovable, and went with her to fulfill the deed, but Brad had moved on.

Over time, Brad and his movement gained followers, both from Templars who were questioning if Simon's tenants were just, others who believed in its original goals, and later those who simply wanted power. Brad took on the mantle of "The Destroyer", and fueled the movement against his former order. Brad started out with good intentions, but as he drew more and more power from the Horsemen after turning his back on Simon, he became corrupted.

### Arc 9: The Goat, the Witch, and the Warden

In early May of 2096, Brad had allied with the Combine, the Nomads, and the Wrecking Crew in an effort to take on Boise. Brad, his Anti-Templars, and his gang followers. Brad led his people in attacks on caravans that tried to enter Boise, killing travelers and Templars who tried to stop him. Between May 8th and the early morning of May 9th, Brad and his people attacked a caravan moving around Boise, killing a fair few and taking the rest hostage. Brad sent one survivor of the attack, Daphne Dunmar, to Boise to deliver his challenge to Simon: face him one-on-one, or a civilian he'd captured would be killed every day he had to wait. He gave her the head of a Templar he'd killed—Tim Brown—to drive in the threat, and let her go. Daphne followed his instructions, bringing the message to Boise.

Brad waited in Sam's Orchard, Idaho. While his people watched over their captives, they were attacked by a lone Templar. Aaron McConnell, the first Templar knighted under Simon, had tracked Brad down and challenged him to a one-on-one duel. Brad agreed, and the two engaged in melee combat. Aaron seemed to have the clear upper hand, and stabbed Brad through the heart with his sword, but it wasn't the killing blow he'd thought it'd be. Brad simply laughed, pulled out the blade, and used it to stab Aaron in the guts. Brad dragged Aaron and a Doomsayer named Barbara—one who'd been guarding the caravan—to the trees farther in the orchard, near the road. Before he hung Aaron, Brad whispered his weakness into the man's ear, believing the secret would die with him: he could only be killed by the sword of Julia Aiken, the first true Anti-Templar. Then he let the man drop, and Aaron succumbed to asphyxiation not long after. Barbara was hung not long after, and left to her fate.

Haven taking care of his challenger, Brad returned deep into the Orchard, waiting for Simon to answer his own challenge. It was on the evening of May 10th that Brad saw Simon's response. A large, fiery explosion rocked the forest when a tanker holding his bikers' spook juice reserves was blown up. One of his men had witnessed an opposing group entering their territory, and warned Brad not long after. Brad recognized one of the man's descriptions as Addie Kirkland, and went to face her himself.

He made no attempt to hide himself as he drove his truck toward the source of the explosion, 2 Anti-Templars and a handful of bikers in tow. His gang arrived to find what appeared to be an empty site. He called out a challenge to Addie, with no answer, and his men began scouring the area to find them. It was then that the NW6 made their move. Toussaint fanned his guns out from cover, wounding one of the Anti-Templars, and Addie charged Brad, clad in power armor. She landed two hits on him before he could make a move. Choc, Gregg, and Derpy attacked the bikers and the remaining Anti-Templar, attempting to protect the civilians fighting beside them.

In response to Addie's attack, Brad raised his ax and summoned a bolt of lightning from the sky, the first strike missing her as she back stepped, the second slamming into her armor. However, the hit barely phased her, and as she straightened back up, Brad realized the tide was not in his favor. Brad called for a ceasefire, and challenged Addie to a duel, only the two of them. She accepted, following him out to open ground. Before she could get in striking range, Brad stomped the ground, shaking the earth beneath Addie's feet in an attempt to knock her prone. The trick failed, and Addie launched herself at him, her blade glancing off his ax and across his chest. He fell to a knee, and laughed at her through bloody teeth, knowing she wouldn't be able to kill him.

That confidence faded fast as Addie produced the broken blade hidden behind her shield: Julia's sword. The fear could barely set in before she stabbed it into his guts, and he screamed, fully collapsing to the ground. He died quickly after. His skull was crushed by Gregg to assure he wouldn't return, and what remained of his corpse was left in Sam's Orchard.

Addie brought Brad's ax back to Boise and handed it over to Simon, who broke the ax from its hilt and laid it in the Hall of Heroes, as a reminder like all the rest of the Anti-Templars' weapons.