It was a beautiful spring day, dew on the grass, cherry blossom petals soaring through the wind. It was by all accounts an average day, but it wouldn't stay that way for long. The date was May 15th 2025. Aberrations started occurring all over the world, goblins, ghouls, orcs, creatures straight out of a fantasy novel started sprouting up all over the world. The first cases were in France, reports of the creatures ripping innocent civilians limb from limb as if they were trying to paint the sidewalk crimson red. As humanity does they evolved to fight the creatures, about 1/3rd of the worlds population developed abilities that would be come to known as skills.
These skills brought out the worst in humanity though. The real monsters were humans all along, crime and murder skyrocketed. The people with skills started feeling that the skill-less were just dead weight and beneath them. It started as just slavery, but as the times went on the slaves just became extra mouths to feed. This was the beginning of what became known as the great slaughter. Not every skilled person was behind this though, Micke the blacksmith made weapons embedded with great power that for a skilled person could amplify there power, but for the skill-less it could even the battlefield. See these were no ordinary weapons by any means. Micke has the skill soul manipulation and put the souls of the skilled into these blades to grant them immense power. However these blades were not enough and the skill-less were annihilated. The blades were destroyed, but though in a final act of desperation Micke poured his own soul into three blades and had them hidden. These blades were lost to time. They were said to grant more power to whomever uses them.
After the purge the skilled started turning on each other, forming a hierarchy based on your skill. Only those with the best of the best skills would be able to live happily. People with lower class skills were subjugated to low worker class jobs that barely paid enough to feed themselves let alone a family. This is a better fate than if you were deemed skill-less, if skill-less you would be slaughtered at birth then strung up for all the townsfolk to see. The world is ruled by the powerful. In times like these the orcs, goblins and other monster seemed to be more humane. In some cases the lower class skilled would just be cast out, such is the case for young Bane. His skill "skill negate" was deemed as useless. The head of his small village deemed his skill to useless in the workforce. They cast him out to fend for himself at the age of 3. Against all odds he clawed his way to adulthood being fueled by nothing but his hate for humanity. They turned there back on him, he vows to tear down this awful hierarchy even at the expense of his own life.