Silberhan was the result of his human mother and drow father's relationship. His mother was a tenured mining operations industrialist, running work that required additionally security near areas known to be under assault by various Mist inhabitants. His father was a drow that, after some labor shortages from a regional conflict, was enslaved by his 'peers'. His father eventually managed to escape slavery after a particularly horrible attack by Mist creatures, eventually escaping down into one of the quarries Silberhan's mother was operating. The two ended up meeting after a few days, hit it off, and eventually got married in a small community. Silberhan's father completely rejected much of his heritage, joining Silberhan's mother in her community, where the two of them continued running mining operations down there. A few years later, Silberhan was born.

From his early childhood to his adulthood, Silberhan was raised as just an off-looking human. Granted, being a half-elf led him to develop feelings of alienation from much of his community. He was barred from any communication with drow populations, with his father afraid that there would be retribution off for his escape years prior. His mother enrolled him in some communal education, focusing on a lot of practical knowledge surrounding the mining work he would later be rolled into. By his adulthood, Silberhan was working under his mother's mining corporation, taking on a few local groups for different excavation sites. He eventually got reins to start independent operations under his own label, acting as a subsidiary for his mother's now localized work.

A few years passed and everything was going smoothly, until there was a disastrous assault on one of the excavation sites. Silberhan led a team out down into a site parked right outside of Mist-ridden territory, something that he did because it was considered a 'good deal' by a contractor for the operation. What ended up happening was an elder brain's colony was located down in the site and the colony was accidentally blown open with a few mining explosives. Apparently the colony itself had been eating itself alive for the past few decades, with an introduction of vampirism used by the colony to keep the elder brain sustained. After the explosive came off, a swarm of vampiric illithids came running out, ravaging Silberhan's crew. It was disastrous, with Silberhan himself barely surviving the ordeal and being infected with one of the mind flayer's vampiric tadpoles. During the infection process, the illithid went berserker and ran off to rip apart one of Silberhan's coworkers, leaving him to deal with a tadpole entering his right-ear. Taking a pick that he tried to defend himself with, he slashed his ear open with it and slew the tadpole in the midst of its infection process. Disrupting the event, Silberhan crawled off into a debris pit to lay low.