Alden grew up in a forest with no real house as to say. His mother, himself as well as his twin brother would travel from place to place in the forest and camp here and there. It was a simple and dangerous life, but Alden mother, Maria, was an excellent archer and a skilled huntress. She taught Alden and his brother Tomas how to use a bow since they are six years old as well as how to survive in a forest, making both of them capable of surviving alone in the woods.
Before they went to sleep, Maria would tell a story to her sons, sometime it would be a lesson with a morale of how to be good, sometime it was a scary story if they asked one, and sometime it would be a story about heroes and soldiers. The boys always loved those.
Tragedy struck however, during a sunny afternoon of a Grand Harvest. As they were playing around the river, fighting each other with wooden sticks, pretending to be the soldiers in the stories their mother told them, Tomas lost his footing and fell into the river. Alden was unable to do anything as his brother was taken away by the current. The both of them were only 10 years old.
Years have passed and Alden had accepted the loss of his brother. It was only him and his mother now, and the occasional traveler, with which the young human would always learn a thing or two.
As Alden eighteen birthday drew near, his mother and him left their forest for the first time in a long, long time. Maria never explained the reason for this departure, and despite Alden asking, she never answered. They arrived at a village at the dawn of Alden birthday and they spent the entire day there. It was a first for Alden to meet so many people in such little amount of time. But he liked being around so much people, despite having been rather silent during his childhood, he naturally opened and quickly bonded with the other teenagers at the village. He was so absorbed by his new friends that perhaps he didn't notice the honest smile from his mother, the kind he had never seen on her face before.
The next morning, Maria had left. Alden searched the whole village for her, but no one had seen her. He walked back to his forest but no trace from his mother neither.
And so the now lonely Alden begun travelling, determined to discover the world and make new friends.
