The story of Prince Bytor, or Torbin in some cases, is generally considered a myth, told originally to the Pathfinders by Ned in the Boar & Thistle . Three hundred years ago, a human knight from Laurasia set out on a mission to defeat a terrible necromancer in single combat. Neither of them was heard from again. Since the rise of the Necromancer in the Bone Ziggurat , there has been piqued interest in this tale.

In actuality, the prince was not a myth at all: he had indeed set out with an army, built a desert fort in the south, and then travelled north to fight a necromancer. The name Torbin, an pseudo-anagram of "Bytor," was occasionally used by the prince during his travels, meaning that some remember his tale under a different name. It is now known that the prince's foe and the Necromancer of the Dead Nation are one and the same: the prince left his army at Castle Callistan to provide a distraction while a small adventuring party including himself, an elven blademaster and a dwarf, among others, went to the Bone Ziggurat. Bytor and his party never returned to the castle. While Bytor's fate is still unclear, it is known that his soul is being held captive and cursed by the Dead Nation, if not fully subsumed by the Necromancer himself.

When the Pathfinders trained with Korred, he asked them what their quest was. Someone piped up that they wished to kill the Necromancer. At that, Korred mentioned that they were not the first to have that quest: he had personally trained Prince Torbin to that end hundreds of years ago.

A prince by the name Bytor apparently visited Alsea to seek aid on a quest centuries ago. The current blademaster of the time, an elf woman of the Telrunia family, left to join the prince on his adventures. The elves heard from neither her nor the prince again.

The prince, at the time accompanied by his elvish companion, spoke to the First Orc about how the Necromancer might be defeated.

In the Fane of the Necromancer, there is a room with a statue dedicated to Prince Bytor. The meaning of this is still unclear to the Pathfinders.

When the Pathfinders finally explored the Bone Ziggurat proper, they found Bytor trapped in the very depths of the dungeon, cursed into a wrathful undead existance. The Pathfinders managed to lead him on a merry chase and purify him in the shining light of the sun, returning him to his life and senses. Bytor stood with the Pathfinders against the Disciples and the Necromancer himself, and though he died against the latter, the group returned him to life again, so that he might experience life after the threat of the Necromancer had finally been lifted.