Albrek's mother was one of the many adventurers in this city, and they say he was born in one of the many secret tunnels beneath this city. She retired shortly after that while her husband, Albrek's father, kept on adventuring. His father disappeared into the depths beneath the city a year after. His mother caught a horrid wasting disease when he was 3, and on her death bed she asked a former companion of hers, a dwarf named Rurik Ungart, to raise Albrek as his son.
Rurik raised him well, but Albrek never really connected with anyone. This may have something to do with the fact that he's been half-blind since birth. H eventually found a role as a minor acolyte at the temple of Lothian, although his heart was not truly in his work. Still he continued until one day he had a vision of the divine forces of the stone beneath his feet, and thus he found true faith. He left the church on that day, never to return for worship again.
