Legends of Belariath
Scourge
Scourge was not born with the name Scourge, he was born with the name Aries Bane. He knew not his father, the man vanished after raping his mother. His mother did what she could to support him and herself but life was often cruel for them both. Scourge learned to fend for himself at a early age using what little means he had. Growing up in the streets stealing and fighting to survive has hardened him in more ways then one.One fateful night while doing a routine robbery of a large estate he was trapped, wounded and taken prisoner by the owner of the home. The owner a twisted soul of the "fairer sex" use him for years as her own personal pain slave. She altered his body for her own pleasure, she taught him the ways of altering flesh, branding, tattooing, peircings. She owned Scourge for many moons, using and abusing him, hardly did she show him any kindness, her cruelty spread to him and his plot for escape become a plot for revenge. No longer was he happy to just escape this hell, now he wanted to make her pay and his day did come...Perhaps she thought he was too broken but she gave him the opertunity one day allowing him to pierce her. The needle in his hand became a weapon, even the smallest thing in the right hands can kill... Her mistake was made and it proved fatal, he was free to his own devices now.
Scourge returned tot he streets, returned to the shadows that were his home, but he was a changed man, he had tasted blood with his first kill and it was sweet...His barbarian blood began to boil for more kills, he isnt much of a warrior but he knows the shadows...His new calling was clear to him now, he would become assassin, he would become the killer of men, the lurker of shadows.
He started to train himself for this task, learning and mastering the dagger, learning the ways of darkness and poison.
Alterations to body and mind over the years have brought madness to a boiling point.Mind is twisted and corrupt by chaos and madness, ever swirling withen his soul one never knows what kind of mood they will find Scourge in. Moods tend to be extremes and they swing quickly. He tends to stick to himself and uses his disguise to ward off those who would try to befriend him. The mask also hides his face for other reasons, one day he may desire to free himself from the assassins way, he can simply remove the paint and blend back into society.
Dispite his chaos and rage, Scourge has a great facination with the barbarian people, he has spent countles shours in libraries studying his people, learning what he never learnt as a child...He has a obsessionw ith them, not recongnizing his High human blood line, often claiming to be full blooded barbarian... He is clanless and thus has learned of all the clans and there unique ways.