What happened to Banor?

Question

The genesis states some of Banor's acomplishments but never tells us about when he met his fate. Anyone know details about Banor's days? What happened to him in the end? Any place where I can find more details about him?

Answer 1

I don't think anything is known about Banor's end. There are some in-game references to Banor such as the prayers in this book and this book.

Further references to Banor include stories from the Kha'labal Chronicles and the Creation of Humans series.

Considering the praise that Banor gets throughout the books and other in-game references, it seems that Tibians consider him to be a God, and he may have ascended from being a human to being a God. Here's an example from Shauna, an NPC in Carlin's prison:

Shauna: I worship Banor of course.
Player: Banor
Shauna: For me, he's the god of justice.

Another example can be found in the book The Soulvortex:

The Soulvortex
Its said that in ancient times, the gods created a great vortex to allow the souls of spirits from 'beyond' enter the realm of Tibia. Through this vortexportal many great heroes were able to manifest themselves on Tibia. In their new bodys they fought againt the forces of destruction. But also agents of destruction and evil entered the world through this portal. More and more the dark forces used the portal to spread over Tibia and to annoy, disrupt and subvert the brave people of the world. Some of the evil spirits remained long enough in this world to wreak even more havoc on the good people of Tibia. Destruction of all that others had built, slaying of new manifested souls as soon as they left the vortex. 
The gods watched in grief what had become of their great accomplishment. And one day Uman and Banor combined their awesome forces and split the vortex.One strand now aimed to the isle of rookgaard, the other one remained aimed on the temple of Thais.
From this day on the newborn heroes awakened on the holy and protected isle of rookgaard and only the stronger and better prepared souls could travel to the continent. 
Guided by omens an expedition of brave warriors from the thaian order of the knights of noodles traveled the perillious seas the the remote isle of rookgaardand discovered the new soulvortex. 
Soon this base was built and this fine academy founded. 
Praise the gods and our King.

Thorwulf even straight out says that he's a god:

Player: Banor
Thorwulf: Some strange warrior god from the south. Seeing what kind of warriors those people are that god is not doing an impressive job if you ask me.

Lugri, however, says Banor is not a god at all:

Player: Banor
Lugri: Banor isn't a god at all, but one of their tools. It is stupidity to worship a tool, isn't it?

None of it tells us how Banor met his end, but at least we know he is not forgotten, and may be watching over us all as we go into battle!

Comments

May Banor bless your soul, adventurer. Thank you!

Answer 2

Banor's fate is pretty gloomy and unfortunate. 

We can read everywhere that this demigod was loved by his people and has become a great King. His fame made dark gods hate and envy Banor. As the good king was protected by his creators- good gods, he was untouchable by bad goods. This is why the conspiracy and a plan to ruin the good King has been designed.

As a decision- The Dark Woman was created from " thousand mortal slaves as well as the vilest and cunning of their succubus demons". This is possibly how the first Vampire ever was created. Beautiful like none else, seductive and admired by many, she caught the attention of the good King. Banor felt in love her at first sight and immediately decided to marry the Dark Woman. This was the beginning of the Banor's downfall... 

Deceived by the beauty, sweet words, compliments and pretentious good nature of the Dark Woman, Banor slowly become fully manipulated by his wife. Once, Good King, Banor become a tyrant to his people- greedy, self-righteous, ignoring the needs of his man and duties as a leader, he was enjoying himself in feasts and splendour. Only once the leaderless armies were severely defeated, Banor realised that he needs to act to protect his country. He decided to join his army in the battle- which was met with protection from the queen. To influence Banor and make him more potent to her manipulations and make him even weaker, she secretly drunk his blood while he was sleeping. 

Due to his misdoings and sins, Banor becomes forsaken by gods and steps into the darkness. As The dark woman was sipping his life force every night, Banor grows weaker every single day.

One day the monster which he married made a mistake and drunk more than usual. The shock made Banor see what she truly was. In a rage, he killed his wife with a single blow. Overloaded with the emotion and close losing himself in the madness, Banor decides to drink the blood of the slain wife to become stronger and bring victory in the battle which was just around the corner. 

This is how the first human become the first human vampire. 

Banor, instead of becoming stronger become weaker... fell into a deep sleep for a long period. Once he has awakened, he was not a human anymore. 

It looks that this story is also described  in "The Blood curse" book- in slightly different version . Anyhow, both not in Banor's favour. 

https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Woman_I_(Book)

https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Woman_II_(Book)

https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark_Woman_III_(Book)

https://tibia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Blood_Curse_(Book)