User:Bigstackstwo/Bane

"'Accept death... or control death...'"
 * - Bane the Crucifier

Bane was the son of a Gilnean noble who sought to destroy the Horde through Gilnean infantry. However, King Greymane refused to follow this idea, instead intending on isolating the kingdom from the rest of the world. A civil war broke out, resulting in the imprisonment of those who questioned Genn's orders. Through continuous stressful events, Bane had suffered for a decade or so, along with Darius Crowley, and other "dissenters". They lived their days behind bars until one day, all hell broke loose.

Childhood
Edward Dixon was born to two wealthy Gilnean nobles who felt the need to continuously spoil their son. Edward's father, Dexter Dixon, was a fierce supporter of Lord Darius Crowley, which meant that he would sometimes oppose the king's decisions. His mother had died when Edward was a mere five years old, leaving him to be raised solely by his father, which had probably allowed him to follow his father's beliefs even more vehemently. At about age twelve, Edward had suffered even more emotional stress; the Gilneas Civil War had erupted among the populace, due to conflicting opinions about King Greymane's idea to structure a wall around the territory, which led to many people to be locked up in jail. However, Edward's father had been killed during the war, yet he had numerous unpaid dues to the city.

A few Gilnean nobles held a confidential meeting, and thus decided that in his father's stead, Edward would serve the remaining years in jail for the crimes. Edward was frightened and confused, until he came across a familiar face, Darius Crowley. Crowley had acted as Edward's father figure for the remaining years they would be in prison together, conglomerating on numerous ideas that they both staunchly agreed with.

Hell Breaks Loose
By the time Edward had reached his mid-twenties, he woke up to find that all was not well within his old home. Vicious beasts known as worgen had invaded the city and were infecting and killing people at random. Through some inexplicable way, the beasts had also sieged the prison. A Gilnean hero had unlocked the cells and helped the prisoners fend off the worgen armies. Dixon and Crowley had fled the area, relocating Genn near the Light's Dawn Cathedral. Lord Crowley had told Edward not to follow him, as he and an adventurer hopped on a horse and ran into a massive army of worgen, bringing them to the foothold of the cathedral. Edward had joined Liam Greymane, Genn's son, in helping citizens flee the city.

Crowley and his brigade were outnumbered and became infected with the worgen curse. Edward had avoided contact with worgen until meeting the new generation of worgen, who were - for the most part - not contagious. The worgen and Gilneans had allied together and took back the city from the Forsaken, who had invaded not long after the original worgen had. Liam Greymane had been killed by an arrow intended for the king, which led to numerous battles and the evacuation of the Gilnean people to Darnassus.

Bane
Edward Dixon had quickly returned to the Eastern Kingdoms, fighting off numerous foes for Gilneas's old allies, the Stormwind humans. In doing so, he had bolstered his powers, becoming a master of the dark arts of a Warlock. He had been seduced by these powers from seeing demons being summoned in Gilneas, but he had never been given the chance to ask anyone about them, due to his noble duties as a child. He was intrigued, and quickly found that casting a shadow bolt or searing flames became almost second nature in combat. When he felt strong enough to return to his homeland, Edward traversed to the Hillsbrad Foothills, where, unbeknownst to him, a war was going on between the Horde and the Alliance.

Following the advice of Alliance combatants, he had avoided Forsaken towns and head up north, where he found the Crater of Dalaran. Seeing Fenris Isle in the distance, he reluctantly swam there to find that it was under siege. Joining in the battle, the forsaken had paid little heed to him until they started to realize that his curses were becoming a hinderance to their advances. Given little choice but to flee, Edward mounted up on his demonic steed and tried to outrun the undead forces. However, a Dark Ranger had cut him off, and shot him off of his steed with a swift arrow. The undead had caught up with him and attacked Edward, until the Gilneas Liberation Front forces had aided him and held off the forsaken, but not before Edward having a severe wound that would cause him to be infected and assimilated. Edward Dixon was given a choice: Become a forsaken and serve Sylvanas for eternity or drink the blood of his old mentor, Darius Crowley, and transform into a worgen, something Darius had originally tried to prevent from happening to Edward. Edward had felt that he had to take the latter, and became a shadowy, malefic-mugged beast. In such occurrence, Edward Dixon had decided to drop his name and re-branded himself as Bane, in honor of the tragedy that had befallen him and of the hatred he felt toward the forsaken.

Cataclysm
Nowadays, Bane makes it his mission to kill forsaken wherever he sees them, and has no prejudice in killing other races of the Horde, as well, due to them being allies. With dark thoughts in mind, Bane must find mental peace, or he may end up being consumed by his own strength.