The Story of Gayde Rylock

Gayde grew up in a tiny house on the outskirts of the great city of Britain. His father was a hunter, keeping his only child and his wife fed by selling meats to the butcher of the town. It was a quiet life for Gayde. He never had much interest in his father's occupation, learning very few of his old man's trade secrets. He spent most of his time playing games with the other children of the town. His mother, however, instilled upon him a desire to know what was going on around him. He would sit on his mother's lap in one of Britain's famed knitting circles, listening to rumors about this and that. Soon, Gayde became his mother's favorite little spy, using his innocent looks to find out details of
things he, himself, did not quite understand.

Then, one day, the men of his father's usual hunting group came home to their wifes, bloody and tired. Yet Gayde's father was not among them.
"Twas a horrible sight," said one of the hunters to Gayde's mother. "We happened upon an Orcish party. They overwhelmed us. We started to retreat, knowing that we could
outpace those evil creatures on foot. But your husband, I'm sorry, could not escape their hellish mage."
Gayde's mother did not last long, after that. She soon died, only then realizing what her husband had meant to her, pitching herself off the bridge south of Britain and drowning.
Gayde, at this point, was just old enough to be left to his own devices. Knowing that he could not afford to keep up the family home, he sold it and used what he had for a few meager yet grueling training sessions with a drunken fighter named Arthur, once of the Trinsic guard. Gayde would often sit in the taverns, drinking with his fighter friend, learning of the stories about the world. It was this that piqued Gayde's curiousity, his desire to learn what was happening in Britannia. And this set him off on his journey, earning money as his father once did, yearning to know what was really happening in the world. Little did he know what he would find.
Addendum:

Things Gayde has found out so far that has surprised him:
1) The community of PaxLair
2) Friendship of a guild named Empire of Twilight
3) The difference between the Orcs that killed his father (Shardies) and the clan Orcs
that soon became his friends
4) How much one can find out about the world, staggering around drunk.
5) ... ?