Bane

Bane is a Sorceress living in Daemon's Crag on Pagan.

She was the first person the Avatar met in the enclave in Ultima VIII. She appeared very friendly and told the Avatar a lot about the enclave and the Sorcerers and their rules. She also spoke about the element of Fire. After having measured the Avatar's usefulness, she revealed that she feared that Vardion, the First Acolyte, could plot to kill the master Malchir, so she tasked the Avatar with finding out his true-name. In turn she offered to be his/her sponsor and gave her true-name. The Avatar then went out to gain Vardion's trust and his true-name.

Now there are two ways how things continue:

Variant A

The Avatar trusted Vardion's claims that in fact Bane was the one cooking up a plot. So he/she gave Vardion Bane's true-name. Vardion used this information to summon a Daemon who ripped Bane to pieces after being tasked with her assassination.

Variant B

The Avatar told Bane Vardion's true-name. As it turned out, she only wanted to kill him. After the summoning a Daemon who killed Vardion, Malchir scolded her for doing something so foolish, being force to promote her to First Acolyte. As such, she was responsible for the Avatar's training.

She gave the Avatar lots of information about the magic of Sorcery and oversaw the first tests of spell creation, before sending him/her to the Obsidian Fortress. She later assisted in the summoning of Pyros. After the Avatar got the Tongue of Flames by killing Malchir in a duel, she bowed to the Avatar, recognising his/her power.

Trivia

 * Screwing up two things in the summoning of Pyros results in Bane's death.