His mother was a Khoravar from the city of Sharn. Something brought her into the depths of Khyber, and something brought her out half a world away in Xen'drik, where she made the company of a drow who would become Vespero's father. They were separated, he was perhaps killed, and she was somehow returned to Sharn, to give birth to Vespero and raise him there.
He grew up, like his mother, a Dragonmarked member of House Medani. With adulthood he secured a lucrative living as an investigator, tracking suspected murderers and uncovering ever deeper and darker mysteries. His skillset grew from one very practical and straightforward to a much more esoteric body of knowledge as he studied the tongues and records of ancient empires. A desire to retrace his mother's footsteps and meet his father's people became, slowly, over a lifetime of work, a grasping at the very nature of Eberron's existence.
He had found the words of Bri'Anne not at a temple, but in a fragment of a book written in Ancient Goblin, discovere