Khadrick grew up in Greysmere and spent his youth apprenticing in the Alchemist's Guild. While experimenting and learning formulas and recipes for alchemical compounds, he became fascinated with the idea of studying and mastering real magic. On an guild visit to Diamond Lake, he encountered the wizard Allustan and begged to be taken as his apprentice. Allustan agreed, at the displeasure of Khadrick's fellow guild-dwarves.