Bearclaw Valley Problems do have solutions, you know

Merrick raised me, but he said my father was loyal to him. That he left, or that he died. I forget now. Glaukos was eating while he told @Ancelin this story, as that was the deal.

He had shared some of what he recalled from boyhood: being promised to Avicus as her protector, being raised as such; the incursion they later made in to Moonglow where they stole the witch's focus.

The family worshipped gods they called the daedra, but the one which spoke to Merrick was the Great Bear. Maybe some of the altars remain; I will hunt them down if you want to see. He cracked the neck bones of the rabbit and began to pick it apart.