When he was young, Barrett was hot-blooded, loud, and had a mean temper. As the unwanted bastard of a noble and a whore he grew up rough, giving him tough skin and a grudge against the world. He did some time in an orphanage and later as a collegiate before he struck out on his own and quickly fell in with a bad crowd, a group of desperados and renegades that called themselves the Fairfield Raiders (after the town in which they all met). The gang was small-time, knocking over caravans and stealing horses for the thrill as much as the money. After riding with the raiders for a few years, Barrett fell in love with an escort named Lucille. He scraped together some leftover cash and left the gang, marrying the girl and settling down on a small farm to live an honest life.
Years passed and the memories of the gang faded from Barretts mind. He and his wife had a daughter, and together they managed to turn out a modest living on their homestead. It had never occurred to him that while he had left his former life behind, it was not quite as done with him.
In his absence the Fairfield Raiders had grown into something much more dangerous, turning from simple petty crimes to a darker path. Heinous rituals, infernal pacts, and wanton destruction culminating in their leader, Eddy "Bonskaw" Fasco, ascending to Lichdom. Maybe he had trouble coming to terms with his own mortally, maybe mind-boggling power had been too tempting? The specifics weren't important. What was important is that Boneskaw had a bone to pick.
The past has a funny way of coming back on you (funny, that is, if you're sick in the head). Years ago Barrett had clashed with the Eddie over the hand of Lucile, and now the newly made Lich was intent on having his pound of flesh. It was for that reason that Barrett found his home burned to the ground, his wife and daughter slain, and himself cruelly spared that fate so that he may live on in suffering.
Revenge is a two-way street and now Barrett is strapping iron to his hip for the first time in over two decades. Last he heard Boneskaw had fled into lawless country - Belkzen. It won't help. Barrett is going to track down that family-killing-son-of-a-b!~#& if it's the last thing he does, bloodthirsty orcs and failed crusades be damned.
