Menkhar Julian was born in the year 582 (10 years before the events of Warcraft 1) in the Township of Hillsbrad, Lordaeron. He would live a relatively uneventful life until he was 16, when the Orcish Horde invaded Lordaeron and attacked Hillsbrad. Though he was somewhat young, Menkhar volunteered to fight in the local volunteer forces to fight against the Orcs. Teaming up with his childhood companion Dominic Kantar, the pair fought together in the Alliance armies from Hillsbrad to Blackrock Spire, and the pair would manage to survive the bloody conflict.