Garrim and Ferya Silverbeard found the elf boy in the arms of his mother, who lay dead on their doorstep, three orcish arrows in her back, over 300 years ago. They raised him as their own, as they had no children of their own, in the city of Ironforge. His elven name unknown, they gave him the name Thurimar, after Ferya's father; but at dinner one night, a close family friend commented on how, compared to the dwarf children, their adopted son "grew like a vine", and the nickname "Grovin" was born.