Where Ulrikke came from is long forgotten by most people of Bree, save perhaps for very determined gossipmongers who cannot let the past go. These days, she is presumed to have always been alone. Ever she was a lonely child wandering the Beggar's Alley, eating scraps and hiding in crevices to survive year after year.

In truth, Ulrikke, like most everyone else, did have a family and a life once upon a time.

Ulrikke is the only child of a courier and his housewife. She was raised primarily by her mother due to her father often being away to deliver goods to nearby towns. They weren't rich, but they were comfortable.
Until one day her mother left. Gossip tells a tale of how her father was caught with another, and not just any other; a man who had been a close family friend for a long time.
Ulrikke was not taken by her mother, instead remaining with her father in Bree and taking over the homely duties despite barely having hit the double digits. So they lived for some years. It was just the two of them and they were, allegedly, happy.

But one day her father did not return from the road, and to this day no one knows what happened to him. Did bandits get him? Orcs, perhaps? Or did he seek to escape the shame that came with his scandalous entanglement, in one way or another?
No matter the cause, young Ulrikke was left all alone. It did not take long for their savings to dry up, and inevitably she ended up on the streets.

To this day, she still roams the alleys with nothing to her name. A girl who was forgotten; first by her mother, then presumably her father, and eventually the world.