Shoftim

Those people who just can’t stand to see something bad or wrong or unjust happen, those people who just have to help other people, those are Shoftims.

"When the Jewish druids of Israel originally created the monks... We were their children, their servants, their people. And as in all proper relationships of that sort, while we served them, they in equal measure had duties to us, to care for us and look to our needs and nurture us. A shoftim... is a druid that still feels that old connection, that old duty, in their blood, in their bones. Monks already feel the need to serve people and druids especially. But a shoftim... Monks will serve a shoftim until the ends of the earth. And in return, a shoftim will care for his monks and protect them to the last penny in his pocket and the last breath in his body. They are his. His property, his responsibility, his children. That is what Shay is to us."

"Shay is one of those people. But it shines brightest with monks. Every shoftim discovers who and what they are at different times in different ways. With Shay - and perhaps this will help you understand - he found out about a very rare kind of monk. A criminal one. And he was incredibly upset over it. He'd never met the boy, nor been wronged by him, but he took it as a personal affront, a sign of wrongness in the universe, that this monk was out there doing criminal things. And he acted, and brought him to justice. Like I said, it was no one he knew, it wasn't even in this state. But a monk somewhere was behaving wrongly, and he just felt it was his responsibility.”