I liked the themes and ideas here. Getting to see flavorful insight into the culture of the prime brothers and their short life spans is really cool. It definitely would hit harder if the word limit wasn't so harsh. Small discrepancy, that I might be misunderstanding; you said that the main character answered the conduit's call, except they are a prime brother. Im still very new to this lore but I thought battle brothers were serving the conduit and the prime brothers were fighting him.
Yeah, I thought the cleanest (and most interesting) way to make my concept fit the jam's limitations was to show the beginning and the end and let the reader (hopefully) fill in the middle. It definitely wasn't because I just didn't want to write the middle. As far as the relationship between the Battle Brothers, the Prime Brothers, and the Conduit: I think I have it right? The Prime Brothers lore blurb on the OPR website describes Primes as "proudly dedicating their brief lives to the Conduit and his cause". I'm glad you enjoyed it!