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I think that's the best option. After all, many young lads and lasses from small towns might grow up to be irresponsible. Having a child when they weren't ready for one, after all, they couldn't silence their wanderlust enough to be around for their own kin..
So it would make sense that they were akin to flights of fancy, wanting to be heroes like the Hero of Ehb and his/her followers.
And in doing so they cause the deaths of several other starry-eyed adventurer's.

Personally I would class them as bad parents rather than quiet heroes. So the child they were too irresponsible to raise was instead raised as the village child, and instead of telling him of how terrible his parents were as caretakers, they fluffed up their stories of greatness to make him feel better about their absence.
Funny how the magic in stories goes away the older you get, right? XD

But he always had that same wanderlust, thus why they called on him, as the most able-bodied fellow in Arhok, to solve their crisis.
Just my thoughts.