I mean yeah, Good Parents that will die are the standard start for any Fantasy Adventurer, but one of the more powerful stories out there would be people changing for the better due to suddenly being a parent.[X] The Woodsman
Let's get us some good parents to start with. Gypsy caravan , and creepy wizard that is weak and knows too mutch? No thanks.
Assassin might be interesting but also comes with its own issues.
He's ridden across hill and vale and mountain to be here at the appointed time and the appointed day, to raise the Witch who was a Wizard. He hopes to use you, of course -- either to raise you as his loyal servant, or, failing that, ride on your coattails as you, hopefully, ascend to heights unimagined. At the very least, he hopes that if he teaches you how to wipe your own ass, you won't vaporize him when you regain all that you were."