: I seriously doubt he was fat or slow or anything of the
: sort. He was considered to be one of the greatest
: swordsmen ever, remember?
I'm not sure where it says that...but I agree that he's not a Journeyman. Their dress and mannerisms are peculiar to a very small subset of a largely non-magical order--the Heron Guard, who only practice one very narrow branch of magic--and it's quite unlikely that an Avatara-level sorcerer would spring up from the Journeymen, especially since they were living lives of penance and poverty.
--SiliconDream