Arinthendel Windswift worked as an apprentice blacksmith in Silvermoon City during his adolescence, seen as a friendly face with an outgoing and open attitude by those who met him. His work was his life, having been shunned by his upper-class family for openly indulging in street dancing outside the banks and mail offices of Silvermoon. It was during one of these performances that a hooded suitor approached Arinthendel, the two later seen entering an alley near a public house in Murder Row.