Bane Slaughterwood is Wolfric Valor’s greatest friend and ally. When Wolfric became King, he pledged that one of his daughters would marry Bane's eldest son, Vengeance Slaughterwood.
Aurora Valor and Vengeance had been betrothed since Aurora's birth.
Aurora tried to break off the wedding to marry Lyric Merrywood, but Wolfric refused. He said Aurora was a silly girl who knew nothing of love. Aurora knew that no one ever won a fight with Wolfric. So she told her father that she would go through with the marriage to Vengeance. But on the morning of the wedding, she ran away. That was when Vengeance learned of her affair with Lyric Merrywood, and destroyed House Merrywood.