Jack Willow: Fortune's Son

Jack Willow’s childhood was spent with the Aramors of the No Man’s Land. The early death of his parents left him an orphan and he considered the creatures to be his family. He was found by Jonathan Wind, Gabriel Wind’s father, and taken into their home.
He was younger than Gabriel Wind, not by much, but enough to make a difference. In their first years together, they were close friends and they used to train by dueling each other whenever they had the chance. Much of their childhood was spent indoors as the many duels left scars, bruises and several broken bones.

When Willow was a young adolescent, Wind’s father died of old age(Wind’s mother died at birth) and the two left their home for good in order to form the Berserkers, a brotherhood of brave warriors.

He served as Gabriel’s squire in the years to come. Wind never agreed to Willow as being nothing less than his equal but Jack had insisted from the very start. He considered that the Berserkers needed only one leader. Jack Willow also designed and forged Wind’s weapons and suits of armor. Chapter II: Fortune's Son
In the battles with the Tainted Sages of Necrovion, he became known as “Fortune’s Son” for he was the only Berserker ever to venture head first into battle and never receive a scratch. Actually, except his childhood scars which also healed in time, Willow never had a mark on his body. Many portraits of him during that time and in his later years show Jack Willow as a beautiful man with a clean skin and gentle eyes while Gabriel Wind was always portrayed as a harsh and rugged man even after he gave up the way of the warrior.

During the first battle for the Chaos Woods between Daniel Raven and Gabriel Wind, Jack Willow offered to deliver the correspondence to and from Marind in order to keep Gabriel’s morale at its highest. When Marind disappeared, Willow accused Raven, although he later publicly apologized for this, at Wind’s request.

He still remained Gabriel's friend after they both gave up the way of the warrior, even though most of his weapons and armor were destroyed at Wind's command. Chapter III: Concerning his Reign
Early on, Gabriel Wind requested for numerous places to be named after his best friend, both in Marind’s Bell and in its Capitol, Wind’s Sanctuary.

When Gabriel Wind died, Jack Willow made sure that his body would never be disturbed and thus he hid it in a secret place, not known even in our times.

As Jack Willow became King of Marind’s Bell, relations between himself and Daniel Raven grew colder but, the two territories remained allied during their life-times. Many say that the two were too much alike.

As he had no children, King Willow took on three apprentices to whom he taught his craft. He returned to the ruin which was once the Wind home, in the No Man’s Land, and rebuilt it. He assigned his third apprentice to live and work there as a Weapon Smith, his second to serve in Loreroot and his first and brightest in Marind’s Bell. The secret of the craft was passed down to their descendants who still serve the three locations.

According to lore, he managed to enter the House of Liquid Dust but he never returned. His will left his first apprentice as King but Willow was irreplaceable.