Editing SotDL: Forestalling Midnight: Durvan (section)

==Notes/Story==
He starts as a nice guy and loyal Dornish soldier, possibly hero material. He fights against Izrador at the start of the war (39 years before, when he was 20. Durvan and a fellow soldier fall in love, to the chagrin of an army wizard, who had deep feelings for the woman.

The wizard summons a demon that possesses Durvan, who now has to watch as the creature uses his body to murder his beloved and commit all sorts of atrocities. A few months later, the demons leaves, either for a better host or due to exorcism, leaving Durvan a broken man.

He becomes insane and homeless, spending several years as a beggar, until he’s found by the Order of Shadows. The priests rebuild Durvan’s shattered mind, indoctrinating him into Izrador’s creed. They tell him the good guys are actually evil (corroborated by his experience) and Izrador will fix the world (they rescued him from insanity and homelessness. The Shadow has extreme measures, but desperate etimes require desperate actions.

Durvan becomes an enforcer for the Order, climbing the ranks swiftly. He’s dedicated, efficient and brutal. By the end of the war, he receives the ultimate promotion: vampirism (his age is fixed at 40).

Durvan (now with an appropriate appellation: Black Blade, Dark Sword, etc.) spends most of the past 20 years as a nightmare for those who don’t toe the line.

A year or shortly before the start of the campaign, he’s pursuing a rebel cell. He corners one of its members, a Dornish veteran of the war. Durvan decides it would be “fun” to turn the man into a vampire and sic him on his cell.

He exsanguinates the man and, as Durvan is about to feed him his own blood, something clicks in his mind: he has become the same monster that destroyed his life 39 years before. The veteran might as well be a young Durvan, and him, the jealous wizard.