The True Purpose 

After looking fearfully at his older brother, Lars didn't take long and soon screamed in pain, feeling his brother's power.

Daemon didn't intend to kill this person so as not to anger the old man. But he would leave Lars incapacitated for at least a few months with that day's action.

Lars had crossed the line with Lothur, and now that young man had no home to call his own, for the Church would persecute him for the rest of his life.

If he had not been arrested in Peters City, Daemon's men would have been able to warn him of what would happen, and they could have moved him to the Three Great Lakes Region and kept him safe there.

But with Lothur's arrest, he had been exposed and forced to flee alone, with no chance of returning, as the Church would control that state's borders from now on.

If he wanted to return to this place in the future, the Church would understand!

So Lothur's life now was to flee across the continent, and at least in the short term, he could not return home!