Arthur Curry (New Earth-Three)

Birth
The child that would become the Sea King, was born the illegitimate son of Queen Atlanna of Atlantis and Atlantean criminal, Atlan. The two conceived the child during an affair between the two. Atlanna hid the child's conception from her husband Orvax by having it appear that Atlan had kidnapped her. Atlanna would then go into hiding by herself in till the child was born. When the child was born she named the child after one of Atlantis' worst kings, Orin and would have one of her loyal attendants bring the child to the surface to have him suffocate to avoid having her affair discovered.

The attendant would do this, but when she was leaving the child on the shore, she discovered that the child was not suffocating. The attendant realized that the child must have the ability to breath both underwater and surface air. The attendant decides that she cannot risk the chance of the child surviving goes to the surface to kill the child. She goes onto the surface with a royal trident and prepares to impale the child, but as she prepares to land the killing strike she is shot in the chest by a shotgun shell, causing her to fall to the ground in pain. A man appears and orders her to tell him what she was doing. She panics and tries to make her way back to the water, but as she does the man shots her in the leg and orders her to tell her why she was going to kill the infant. The attendant asks if he will let her go if she does and he says he will. The attendant tells him about the infant's existence and how he is the illegitimate so of the Queen of Atlantis. The man then asks if the mother ordered the child's death, which the attendant says she did. The man then shots the attendant in the head and says he was never a fan of parents who abandoned their children. The man would then take the trident and the child and make his way to a nearby lighthouse.

Childhood
The man who saved the infant Orin was called Thomas Curry, who was a lighthouse keeper. Thomas happened to be near the beach shooting his shotgun when he heard an infant crying. Thomas investigated the source and saw that woman was about to kill and infant with a trident. Thomas would shoot the woman in the chest and then in the leg when she attempted to escape. Thomas would order her to tell him why she was going to kill the infant, which she did. Being abandoned as a child as well, Thomas didn't like her answer to deal with the child and shot the woman in the head and took the woman's trident and the child with him to his lighthouse, where he named the infant Arthur and raised him.