Sir Balian Lucian Denali was born of Sir Godfrey Denali and Conseiller A La Reine' Lady Selene Lestat-Ulric Denali, in the year of our Lord Ten Hundred and fifteen. Balian has ten brothers and sister's.  One winter's night in December, many centuries ago, Their family home was deliberately set on fire. Balian remembered the one whom was responsible. To this day, Balian could still see Azazel's smug smile and wicked eyes. Balian hunted every night in search of the heartless monster, Sir Azazel LeStat.  If only Balian knew where Azazel resided. A heinous death would be upon him, slow and merciless. Vengeance would be Balian's, for his family and himself. 

All of Balian's brothers and sisters were abducted along with himself that winter's night the bastard took them. All of them were separated after they boarded a train harboring five strange women, with silver eyes. They took us far from the Black Kingdom and our mother Selene. Balian was told that his mother and his entire family had perished from the horrendous fire that engulfed their family home. Never once, did he ever, believe that. Balian remembered the train ride, all of his siblings were all upon that slow moving train with him. The lies told to Balian regarding his siblings were indeed a fabricated story. It was blasphemy. They we're not dead. Balian knew it in deep with in his blackened heart.

At a very young age he broke free of my captors. Balian traveled the world in search of his family, He never believed that they were dead, not any of them. Balian fought along side his blood brother Sir Strife Dawnguard in the crusades.  We fought for Christianity.  Before the crusades Balian unknowingly, renounced God. His anger and blood lust had began to consume him. Balian set off to find his presumed, deceased family.  His heart was broken, consumed in darkness, most of all he was deeply full of hate. Balian was remembering his past and the one responsible for shattering of his family. In a remote village in France, Balian resided and worked as a blacksmith.  He was haunted by his wife's recent suicide.  Still angered by his painful losses, Balian had no idea how he ever began to reside in France.  He knew in his heart this was not his true home.

A group of Crusaders arrived in the small village that He resided in.  One of them approached myself, introducing himself as Balian's father, Baron Godfrey Denali of Ibelin. Godfrey, asked Balian to return with him to Jerusalem. After he refused, the Crusaders left.  Shortly afterwards the town priest, his younger adopted blood brother ReVan, revealed that he had ordered Balian's wife beheaded before burial a customary practice in those times for people who committed suicide. During the encounter Balian kills him. Balian follows after his father in the hope of gaining forgiveness and redemption for him and his wife. After he catches up to his father, Godfrey instructs him in swordsmanship. Then soldiers led by Godfrey's nephew arrive to arrest Balian. Godfrey refuses to hand him over and during the subsequent fight most of Godfrey's men are killed and Godfrey himself is mortally wounded.

In Messina, Godfrey knights Balian and orders him to serve the King of Jerusalem and protect the helpless then succumbs to his injuries. On Balian's journey to Jerusalem, his ship is run aground by a storm, leaving Balian and a horse as the survivors of the wreck. When Balian releases the horse from the wreckage it flees in panic. Tracking the horse into the desert, Balian is confronted by a Muslim cavalier and his servant. A fight over possession of the horse follows and Balian slays the horseman, but spares the servant, asking him to guide him to Jerusalem. Upon their arrival in Jerusalem, Balian gives the horse to the servant and releases him. The man then tells him his slain master was an important knight amongst the Saracens.

After being accepted as the new Lord of Ibelin by Godfrey's retainers, Balian soon becomes acquainted with the main players in Jerusalem's political arena: the leper King Baldwin IV, Tiberias, Marshall of Jerusalem, Princess Sibylla, King Baldwin IV's sister, and Guy de Lusignan, Sibylla's husband, who supports the antiMuslim activities. Guy is determined to rule after Baldwin's death and seeks to provoke a war that will allow him to dispose of the Muslims and claim the Kingdom for the Christians.

Guy and his co-conspirator Raynald of Châtillon massacre a Muslim trade caravan with the aid of the Templars. Saladin, leader of the Muslim forces attacks Kerak, Raynald's castle, to bring him to account for his crime. Balian decides to protect the villagers as they attempt to enter the castle from Saladin's cavalry. Though outnumbered, Balian and his knights charge Saladin's cavalry, allowing the villagers time to flee to the castle; Balian's knights are soon defeated resulting in their capture. In the enemy camp, Balian encounters the 'servant' he freed, Imad ad-Din, learning he is actually Saladin's Chancellor, who then releases Balian to enter Kerak. Saladin arrives with his army to besiege Kerak and King Baldwin IV approaches with his. The two rulers successfully negotiate a Muslim retreat and Baldwin swears that he will punish Raynald for his crimes. The exertion of these events cause Baldwin to collapse, weakened beyond recovery.

Baldwin asks Balian to marry Sybilla, knowing that the pair have affection for each other, but Balian refuses to be associated with the necessary murder of Guy. After Baldwin dies, Sibylla's six year old son Baldwin V becomes King of Jerusalem. It quickly becomes apparent that he is also infected with leprosy. Grief-stricken and unwilling to condemn her son to a life behind a mask, Sibylla gives him poison. Sibylla succeeds her son and names Guy King of Jerusalem. Guy releases Raynald asking him to give him a war, which Raynald does by murdering Saladin's sister. When Saladin sends an emissary to demand the return of his sister's body, the heads of those responsible, and the surrender of Jerusalem, Guy answers by decapitating the emissary and sending his head back to Damascus.

In council war is agreed upon "Because God wills it" and against sound advice they march into the desert away from adequate water supplies to fight Saladin, leaving Jerusalem unguarded except for Balian, his knights, and the townspeople. Saladin's army attacks the Crusader army near to the city of Hattin, and at the Battle of Hattin, the Crusader army is annihilated. Guy and Raynald are captured; Saladin executes Raynald, and then marches on Jerusalem, sparing Guy out of tradition but stating that he is not worthy of this. Balian prepares the defenses, challenging the Patriarch's advice to flee, and then knights a number of men at arms because "Making a man a knight, makes him a better fighter." Knowing they cannot defeat the Saracens, they hope hold their enemies off long enough for the Saracens to offer terms, after three days and having proven their resolve, Saladin offers terms. Balian surrenders Jerusalem when Saladin offers all the inhabitants safe passage to Christian lands. 

Balian points out that when the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem a hundred years previously, they massacred the Muslim inhabitants, but Saladin assures him that he is "not those men". Saladin releases Guy back to Jerusalem where Balian encounters him in a fight. Balian tells him "When you rise again, if you rise again, rise a knight." As he returns to the city, Balian must step around the bodies of the dead. After he tells the inhabitants Saladin's terms, he says "If this is the kingdom of heaven, let God do with it what he will". He then encounters Sybilla & tells her that her brother's kingdom was in his head and heart, and that can never be lost. When she says she is also queen of several other lands, he tells her to stop being a queen and he will come to her.

In the marching column of citizens, he finds Sibylla who has renounced her claim as Queen of Jerusalem and other cities. Saladin's forces destroy many of the Christian books and replace the cross on the top of the church with a crescent. Privately, Saladin is shown refusing to step on the stones carved with crucifixes, and later picks up a cross and gently puts it back on the table. Imad returns the horse to Balian, saying it was not a good horse anyway and asks him if God didn't love him, how could he have accomplished so much. They wish each other peace in the other's language.

Balian returns to his village in France and a column of English knights ride through looking for Balian, defender of Jerusalem. Balian replies that he is the blacksmith, and the man identifies himself as King Richard I of England, and they are commencing a new Crusade to retake Jerusalem from Saladin. Balian responds that he is still the blacksmith and Richard rides off. Balian is joined by Sybilla, they passed by the grave of Balian's first wife. They ride towards a new life together.  A year later Balian and Sybilla became man and wife.

"Nearly a thousand years later, peace in the Kingdom of Heaven remains elusive."

Balian learned of secret powers he possessed. On the battlefield, he healed his friend Strife Dawnguard. Balian knew then he was not a human. He did not know how he had saved his life and how his wounds had healed themselves. Balian would find out much later on, that he was a hybrid creature part wolf and part vampire.  An elder vampire named Vlad LeStat, told Balian about his mother Selene Denali. Vlad began to tell the vicious story he had heard over the years about the Denali Family, his family. Vlad told Balian that the Lady Selene was still alive. He said that Lady Selene was lonely and desperate. That she was residing in the Black Kingdom. Balian and his wife Sybilla went back to The Black Kingdom after the elder Vlad and their conversation. Balian knew in his heart that Selene Denali was his mother. Balian and Sybilla left Vlad′s home without haste, in hopes of finding Selene Denali. This woman, his blood mother that he did not remember. Would Selene know him?  Would she remember him?

Balian desperately needed to find Selene, to seek answers regarding what had happened all those years ago. Balian was angered that she had not told him of Godfrey, that he was the man that Balian should have called Father.  Balian is still to this day in search of one of his siblings, his youngest sister Amilee. He never stopped looking for her. Even when Balian was fighting in the Jerusalem, he looked for Amilee everywhere. Balian is now back home in the place of his early childhood. His true rightful home. The Black Kingdom. Balian didn't remember much of his family or the kingdom from when he were a small boy. After reuniting with his mother, Balian began to remember missing pieces of his childhood. He found the place in his heart, that Balian thought was lost for all eternity. Although blessed and happy, there is still a great emptiness that filled his heart. The loss of his baby sister, Amilee Denali. Balian knew she was still existing. He would find her. Balian's oath, "I will slaughter that man, Azazel LeStat whom took you away from our family. Vengeance shall be mine, my sweet baby sister."