Lore update for fellow Brotherhood fans.
For those curious but don’t wanna read, don’t worry the Brotherhood is not destroyed and seem to have a new path set for them.
SPOILERS
-The Bloody Cardinal cuts a path towards Basilea, the Green Lady offers aid but is largely rejected by the Basileans, who don’t trust her. In desperation She turns to one of the leading commanders of the Order of the Green Lady, Dillen Genemer (the protagonist of “Nature’s Knight”)
-Dillen calls upon all knights of the Brotherhood to gather
-Heeding Dillens call The Order of the Brothermark link up with the Order of the Green Lady. For the first time in over a decade the two Orders march as one like the Brotherhood of old.
-The Orders meet the forces of the Cardinal on the road to Elos Passage close to the city Ardar.
-The Orders fight the Abyssal horde for six days and nights, one noteworthy act was the Knights fell a Abyssal Champion, name Krie’thak, and capturing his soul preventing a later respawn.
-On the seventh day both armies are decimated with the Order of the Green Lady losing one in every two knights.
-Realizing that the Orders moral was hanging by a thread Dillen mounts a suicidal charge at the Cardinal retinue. Dillen faces of against the Cardinal and nearly kills him, the Cardinal resorts to the Imps carrying his palanquin swarming Dillen, holding him. The Cardinal hits Dillen with a blow of his hammer that sends Dillen flying, killing him.
-The remaining knights of the Order of the Green Lady are seized by fury and throw themselves on the demons, so intense was their rage they nearly kill the Cardinal, who flees with his much reduced host .
-The battle became known as the Final Redemption of Genemer but was a hollow victory. Order of the Green Lady was nearly destroyed and the Order of the Brothermark are crippled and forced to return to Basilea to recover.
-Carrying Dillens body back to Galahir the Order of the Green Lady is broken by grief and believing they can be no more use to her request permission to leave. During the battle they heard rumours from their brethren in the Brothermark and these kindled something in the Order, an “old longing that they had thought healed”.
-One of the Green Lady’s servants relays the Orders request which, after seeing how broken they are and were likely to leave regardless of her answer, granted their plea.
-A few knight remain in Galahir, devoted fully to the Green Lady, but the majority of the Order of the Green Lady leaves in search of their missing warriors (likely the Roamers, the knights who refused to join either Order and hoped to rebuild.) who were led by Swain the ranger.
-They depart south in search of Swains in the last known place he was heading, The Forsaken Isles.
Personally I am satisfied with this explanation for the Order leaving the Green Lady, they stuck to their Oath, both Orders came together for a time to do their duty and shielded the innocent despite great cost to themselves. I am very curious what they are going to do with them.