Atharen was the product, of an affair between his father, a wealthy Goldhand dwarven merchant, and his mother, a dark elf woman he never met. Though his father rarely if ever spoke of his birth, the few times he had he mentioned that she was pressured by her family to give him up as an infant due to their adherence to purity within their bloodline. So instead, Atharen was given to his father where he was raised in  Kaz'ulrah in the city of Kal'Tarak.  His father was a somewhat cold and distant f