Almirith's parents were from different worlds.  His father was Mindartis, an eladrin noble from the Birch Court in the Summer Kingdom.  Mindartis was young and adventurous, so he was often sent on missions abroad by his mother, the Birch Queen.

One of his missions was to determine the identity of a poacher who had killed one of the Birch Queen’s favored white harts.  Mindartis used his fey magic  to locate the poacher, but the poacher was not what he was expecting.  Rather than a foul goblin or tricky quickling, the poacher was a beautiful elf maiden.

Once again I am having issues with D&D Insider.  This time it is giving me the message "This service is temporarily disabled" when I attempt to login.  It's been like this for at several hours.

Hopefully it wiill be back soon.

I know this is repeatative but once again http://wizards.com is down while I've been trying to get ready for a podcast? Yeesh! Hey Wizards! Ditch Microsoft already will you? This is truly pathetic. If this is the kind of uptime we should expect from your D&DI stuff, then you might as well pack it in now. People are not going to take kindly to your site's uptime or lack thereof effecting their game sessions.