Full Name: Marcus Bane
Age: 22
Class(es): Fighter
Race: Human
Subrace: None
Alignment: LN
Deity: Katia (loosely follows due to his youth spent on the farm)
Domains (if cleric): None
Short Bio/Description:
Marcus Bane stands roughly 6’2” and weighs around 220lbs, he is quite agile for a man his size and tends to use his agility to his advantage. He has a nasty scar that runs across his left cheek and stops above his left eyebrow. His left eye is completely blind so he tends to wear an eye patch over it (this keeps the children from starring at it). He is mild tempered and believes that justice will prevail above all else.
Marcus was born in the middle of Junar and was the only child born into the family of William and Jillian Bane. William had been a soldier from the nearby Fort Llast and was injured during a patrol in his younger days, his leg never was the same and he walked with a limp. Jillian was the daughter of a successful merchant who did not favor the marriage of his only daughter to such a man as William. So the couple lived in poverty on a small piece of farm land that William had managed to purchase. Though poor the couple offered more to their son than what could be bought with any amount of gold, their full and undivided love and attention.
Marcus grew up like many children in Mistone; wrestling with his friends, tending to the small fields of the family farm with his father, learning to read and write from his mother, and finally learning the ways of the sword from his father. As Marcus grew he become more and more interested in the ways of the soldier, much like his father had been before him. He became proficient in the ways of the sword. His father taught him to use both of his hands when wielding a blade so that in dire situations he would be prepared. At the age of 12 Marcus began to feel extremely confident in his abilities with the blade, so confident that on his 13th birthday it almost cost him his life.
That morning, of his 13th birthday, he was tending to the fields why his father was away; he heard a scream come from the side of the house where his mother had been feeding the various livestock that they kept on the small farm. Marcus rushed towards the scream only to see two men dressed in black leather grabbing and pulling at his mother. She fought to free herself but could not get away from the brigands. Marcus quickly ran into the house and grabbed one of his father’s swords from inside the house. Quickly running back around the house he found the two men tearing his mother’s clothes from her body, rage began to consume him and he charged the first man plunging the blade deep into him. The brigand fell from his wounds, but Marcus would not be so lucky with the second, who quickly drew a weapon of his own. Marcus charged; his mother quickly scurried away from the battle to get help. Rage clouded Marcus’s mind and he never saw it coming, the bandit quickly sidestepped the youth and tripped him as he went by. Marcus sprung to his feet as quickly as he could, but it was not fast enough as the bandit delivered a single blow to the boys face. That is all that Marcus remembers of his 13th birthday, as it took him two full days to wake up from the blow that cost him the vision in his left eye. Marcus learned several important lessons that day, and as he grew older the scar and loss of vision in his left eye proved to be reminders of those lessons. The bandit was finally brought to justice and sentenced to death for attempted rape, murder, and banditry in the most violent sense of the word. William could never forgive himself for what he had let happen to his wife and son and began training young Marcus with even more determination and commitment than before.
As William and Jillian grew older, their son Marcus grew taller and stronger. Marcus continued to work on the family farm until his 18th birthday when he felt it was time to follow his father’s footsteps and join the soldiers at Fort Llast. He quickly was accepted into the ranks of the soldiers as his fighting abilities were among the top of his class. Marcus was an excellent soldier, never questioning orders and always carrying them out effectively. This willingness to follow orders provided him with several experiences that he would not have experienced normally, like patrolling to the great city of Leilon and the outskirts of the Broken Forest. As time grew, Marcus wanted to see more of Mistone and the adventuring bug began to hit him.
Once his service at Fort Llast was over Marcus decided he was going to begin the life of an adventurer. Exploring new places that he had only heard about in tales told to him as a child. He vowed he would return home to see his parents from time to time, knowing that the burden of his adventuring is going to be hard on them. This is where history becomes present as Marcus Bane has begun his life as an adventurer and it all starts in Hlint.