Remember how we decided that the disease had a chance to mutate living things into basically monstrous versions of themselves? That. That'll be Al. It'll take his negative thoughts and turn them up to eleven, while also making him strong, fast and crazy looking.
So yeah, it'll be fun!
And yeah, I haven't finished Conquest yet, but I've played the other two, and I know how it ends. I'm not really looking forwards to killing all my Broshidos, but it is at least kinda flattering that as soon as I'm not on their side, everyone literally loses their goddamn minds...