Resistance is always lying and always full of shit. - Steven Pressfield

Because a warrior carries helmet and breastplate for his own protection, but his shield for the safety of the whole line.

My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your imagination. Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be.

What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.