The Bane

The Bane is the ruler of the Mage World. He mostly rules Atlantis and is known as the most powerful mage alive. Anyone who defies him end up disappearing. He is feared by many, but many choose to not show it. The Bane was born in Lucidias, Atlantis by the name of Pyrrhos Plouton. Then after a covered-up event, he became Palaemon Zephyrus. Iolanthe and Titus found out he used sacrificial magic.

Biography
The Bane was originally Pyrrhos Plouton. He was dying of a deadly disease. When he miraculously was cured, but only after his best friend was believed to die from being swept into the Maelstrom of Atlantis. That was the cover up story. The real story was that Pyrrhos was fixed on not dying. His friend was a powerful mage who created the Maelstrom of Atlantis when he was sailing with friends. Pyrrhos used sacrificial magic, killing his friend to extend his own life. Decades later, Pyrrhos moved to the other side of Atlantis and took on a new name, Palaemon Zephyrus. He started the Zephyrus Clan. He married late in his life. But sacrificial magic does not last forever. When his children were in their thirties, they were said to perish by a giant serpent (NOT TRUE). No one questioned this because he was a respected man. Also he was said to have lost half an arm to the serpent too. Next, his son's daughter. She was only nine when she was " swept away by a sudden flash flood". Her body was never found and the Bane was said to have lost an eye looking for her. His life span was getting too unexpectedly long, so he faked his own death. Palaemon was said so to be heartbroken by all the tragedies in his family, he isolated himself to living in his mountain retreat where he later " died" at age 91. His original body is the base of his sacrificial magic, destroying it would permanently kill him  His funeral wasn't exactly done the way of the Angelic Host. The body was wrapped by his nephew on his wife side. The nephew was the only one to see Palaemon, but he was killed soon after in case he figured out Palaemon wasn't dead. The murder was covered up as a "sudden massive heart failure" or in reality, most likely an execution curse. The unfortunate incidents didn't stop there, a few years later his newly-born great-grandchild was kidnapped. The cover up story was that bandits or other criminals did it and there was unreasonably high ransom demands that stopped after a few weeks. The baby was never found, but the parents never stopped looking. So basically, the Bane killed his family members to extend his life. Even after his original body died, the bane kept "spares". He would take people who looked somewhat like him and inhabit their bodies. Evidence of this could be found in Delius Zephyrus. After using him to gain the rule of Atlantis then expanded to the entire mage world