The respected family name of the Underwoods, once synonymous with a wealthy tailor and his socialite wife in Stormwind had more humble beginnings than the pair ever liked to discuss in public. Born into relative poverty many years before, Albertus Underwood was the eldest of three sons. His mother, taken pregnant from one of her many flings with the male denizens of Stormwind, was the only face he knew throughout his childhood and as such, he cherished her dearly. Unfortunately for Albertus, she didn't return the affection, instead disheartened that he wasn't growing up with the balls he would need to survive in the lower rungs of Stormwind society; she would beat him and beat him, thinking sometime he would get angry and try to fight back, but every time he lay there sobbing, he would te