Before the Great War, Connor Prowse was simply an insane asylum patient who had been institutionalized in Oregon State Hospital. After the Great War though, Prowse escaped and wandered the wasteland, joining a survivor band. Eventually, he became known as Skull-Taker and rose to become a cannibal warlord who razed Seattle and whose descendants people much of Oregon. When he died, Skull-Taker became enshrined in the local tribal pantheon and many tribes in Oregon trace their roots back to him.