Zarbes was born in Gondor, a man of Minas Tirith; his father a Citadel Guard Captain well known for his combat and strategical prowess. Zarbes never met his mother whom passed away during his birth. With nobody to watch and care for Zarbes while his father was in service to the city; he fell in with the more seedy groups of the city. Participating in fight pits for coppers, petty theft, and being a look out for his other thieving friends. This often got Zarbes in frequent trouble with the law requiring his father to bail him out of the dungeons.

When Zarbes was was in his late teens he was arrested for unknowingly aiding someone in an attempted murder this time, his father did not come to bail him out; he yelled at Zarbes calling him a disappointment to the family line. His father told Zarbes that they'd talk more upon his return from a patrol about Zarbes' future... But he never did return. Zarbes was told by a guard that the patrol was waylayed by an orc warband and his father survived but the Orcs ran off with a few of the guardsman. His father went after the orcs and told the only other remaining man to inform them of a the threat to Minas Tirith. He released Zarbes per his fathers final order he sent with the rider. Zarbes knew what he had to do and he didn't have long to do it.

Zarbes got every last coin out of every stash he hid them in and bought armor, a sword, and a horse and set out from Minas Tirith to save his father and his guardsmen. He had begged for aid from his friends and contacts in this but none would answer his call for aid. So, Zarbes rode out alone to their camp and with the combative skills he's learned through his time in the streets, sewers, and slums of Gondor he felled many a orc and rescued all of the surviving guardsmen that were taken prisioner by the orcs. Together they fought to the camps center where they finally came upon Zarbes' father; lifeless, on his knees, impaled by three spears one through his chest, two through his back. The orc chief laughed and roared at the party of Gondorians and Zarbes who flew into a grief filled rage; he ran at the chief, grabbing his fathers sword Gloombane along the way and fighting the chief one on one. Zarbes defeated the orc chief; cleaving off his head with the blade. Zarbes returned to the body of his father and wept with great regret yelling to the heavens his heart and soul. He gazed back down upon the blade of his father and ancestors, upon the blade inscribed in the tounge of anicent man is the lines from an old battle poem "Of Honor Within, and of Fear Without..."

Zarbes has not since set foot in the White City, deciding to move on, travel the world, give aid to those in need just as his father and forefathers have done before him... And if his father is watching over him, become a man that he can finally be proud of.