THOMAS'S FAMILY

BASICS & SUMMARY

FULL NAME: Mathias Obelyn	CLASS: Wizard	RACE: Human
BACKGROUND: Custom	HEIGHT: 5'10"	AGE: Around 60

FULL NAME: Dyna Obelyn	CLASS: NPC	RACE: Human
BACKGROUND: Custom	HEIGHT: 5'4"	AGE: Around 60

FULL NAME: Jonathan Obelyn	CLASS: NPC	RACE: Human
BACKGROUND: Fisher	HEIGHT: 5'10"	AGE: Early 40s

FULL NAME: Jeremiah Obelyn	CLASS: NPC	RACE: Human
BACKGROUND: Guild Artisan (Carpenter)	HEIGHT: 5'9"	AGE: Mid 20s

A typically large family unit from the Lower City, Dyna and Mathias had four children but with a gap of twelve years between the birth of the second and the third caused at least in part by the ambitions of the patriarch. Two of said children are now largely estranged from the rest of the family, those being Anne and Thomas. Everyone else is detailed below:


MATHIAS: A once vivacious man lucky in love rather young, Mathias married his sweetheart Dyna, had two children, and then threw himself into a dream he'd had since being a boy: that of becoming a powerful wizard, strong enough to become famed within Baldur's Gate. Able to reach a comfortable and capable average, that was more than enough to enable good working opportunities in the domestic fields of wizardry around the Gate but it was never truly enough.

When his third child was born twelve years after his second, and the child, Thomas, turned out to be a sorcerer who demonstrated magical power before he could fully walk, Mathias would call the boy a 'personal insult from the gods' and treat him terribly. The bitterness Mathias feels towards the failing of his life's dream that he would vent towards his son has never really faded away, and his only daughter, Anne, believes that he'll carry those feelings with him right into the grave.


DYNA: A quiet, artistic woman once swept off her feet by Mathias, Dyna's love for her husband would eclipse all else in her life... including her own children. While that didn't mean she did not love them, she loved her husband more, and this was, ultimately, why she was not willing to truly confront Mathias over his mistreatment of her third child, Tom. Instead Dyna constantly asked the child as he grew to 'understand what his father was going through' and taught him to conceal his powers as best she could, an overall disastrous approach. When he vanished to the streets she did not do anything close to as much as she could have to find him, which resulted in a fistfight with her daughter, Anne, who blamed Dyna fully for enabling Mathias's bitterness.

Years later she is aware her son is alive and laments their lack of contact but hasn't done much to attempt to fix the relationship, instead focusing her energy on helping her eldest son and his wife raise her grandchildren.


JONATHAN: Mathias and Dyna's oldest child, a fisherman by trade, almost 14 years older than Thomas. His feelings towards his parents and siblings and everything that has happened between them seems largely apathetic, and most who know Jon have said he seems almost perpetually bored (or perhaps something more like distant).

Married to a tiefling woman named Matilda with a son and daughter of his own, he lives right next to his parents, so he or his wife have to have some level of investment in his family.


JEREMIAH: The final child of their sibling group of four with a stubborn, highly loyal nature, and the one upon Mathias most doted. With Thomas picking up rather quickly on the favortism directed towards his little brother, an antagonistic relationship between the two was perhaps inevitable as young children. As adults the relationship pretty much does not exist at all. Jeremiah grew up with a warm adoration for his father and only scattered memories of Tom, never properly meeting Tom when grown and not really understanding what happened there. Why wouldn't he trust the words of his beloved father?

He works as a carpenter and is currently courting a woman named Rosie.

CATEGORIES

-> Backstory; short history of the characters before the events of BG3.
-> Personality; exactly what it says on the tin, expanding on the basics above.
-> Relationships; details on original creations from their backgrounds plus any canon bonds.
-> Appearance & Images; written description alongside screenshots, art and any commissions.
-> Magic & Mechanics; details on magical abilities (if any) and mechanical 5e stuff, for fun. ♥

STORIES/CHARACTER PIECES

• THE IRON THRONE: 2962 word character piece for Dyna, and also for Jeremiah, Jonathan and Thomas to lesser extent. Not canon to the set path of events I've chosen for them anymore but still works well at showcasing the family involve. Warnings for canon-typical violence and mentions of emotional abuse and neglect.
  
  A mother and her sons are imprisoned in Gortash's prison of horrors; they do not expect a rescue, especially not from the family exile.

MISCELLANEOUS

• The four siblings in birth order are Jonathan, Anne, Thomas and Jeremiah. Anne's listed on a seperate page with her wife here.

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