Bane

Bane, the Strife Emperor is the evil deity of war and conquest. His followers accept his call to conflict, seeking lesser people to break and subjugate. Warmongering nations and goblinoid tribes worship him as they conquer the world. The Strife Emperor twists all living things to his iron will, even forcing nature itself to bow to his whims.

Appearance
A dark reflection of the honorable warrior, the Strife Emperor is often depicted as a brutish ogre-like man clad in jagged black armor. Heads dangle from his belt and unblinking, piercing yellow eyes peer through the shadow that obscures his helmeted face. His helmet, lost during the battle with Melora, is now the central citadel of Tz'arrm, capital of a hobgoblin empire in the Beynsfal Plateaus in the Rifenmist region of Tal'Dorei.

Tal'Dorei
Bane is highly praised in the Iron Authority by hobogoblins. Tz'Jarr the capital of the empire was built near the place of Bane's defeat. Behind the emperor's palace, there is the 30-foot helm left by Bane after his loss to Melora. The rest of Bane's shattered armor helps to bolster the Authority's war machine.

Xhorhas
A few hobgoblins and bugbears in the lands of the Kryn Dynasty still worship Bane in a cult called the Lords of Strife.

Known worshipers

 * Tz'Jarr: the Iron Emperor
 * Zuun'dak: the Tz'Jarr's hier

History
During the Age of Arcanum, he corrupted the Dranassar race into goblinkin and used them in his attempt to conquer Exandria. This "Curse of Strife" that leads goblinoids to evil has been passed through the generations to the 9th century PD, though it can be broken by magic or extraordinary circumstances.

In one of the last battles of the Calamity, Bane and his goblinoid legions battled Melora and her Free Children on the Beynsfal Plateaus of the Rifenmist Peninsula, where Bane was defeated and his armor was scattered across the region. The site was reduced to ash, and plants wouldn't grow there ever again.

In ~400-500 PD, Neminar Drassig made an infernal pact with Bane, and the Strife Emperor mutated and fueled Neminar's armies beyond human limits. This pact carried through the bloodline to Neminar's younger brother, Trist Drassig.

Relationships
Bane’s greatest enemy is the Wildmother, the goddess who defeated him at the Rifenmist Peninsula during the Calamity. The Strife Emperor grew his armies by corrupting noble creatures into monsters and destroying the wilds to fuel his terrible engines of conflict, this enraged the Wildmother and the two deities clashed many times during the war before his defeat at Beynsfal Plateau.