Bane is known to have been born and raised in the Pit, a hellish prison in a Middle Eastern country. He saw prison as a home, where he learned the "truth about despair." Bane vaguely claimed that he was "born" and shaped by it, and that he "did not see the light" until he was an adult. Once, the daughter of another inmate and a young girl named Talia, a mercenary, looked after the prisoner's welfare and protected him when several of the inmates attacked and killed Talia's mother. He became his friend and later helped him escape from the Pit. But this selfless act caused the prisoners to painfully take revenge and beat his face hard until he was wrapped in bandages, after all the efforts of the doctor to save him and after meager efforts, those who remained began to repair the damage. Bane is in perpetual chaos.