OVERALL CHARACTER TIMELINE
This is organised by age rather than specific dates, being provided more to get a general sense of the flow of Tommy's life. ♥
AGE: 0
- Thomas Obelyn is born to Mathias and Dyna Obelyn.
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AGE: 1
- Thomas begins to show signs of sorcery, making little breezes blow around himself. This causes his father to become irritable with his son.
- Annie, his older sister by twelve years, starts to take over much of the care of her brother in order to protect him.
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AGE: 3
- Jeremiah Obelyn is born to Mathias and Dyna Obelyn.
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AGE: 6-9
- Annie is thrown out of the family home after she finally snaps and gets into a screaming match with her father over his treatment of Thomas.
- His one supportive presence lost, the little boy starts leaving home to wander the streets and is eventually taken in by a gang. One member, Myrri, a dwarven girl a year or two older than he, is the one who finds him first and takes a particular interest in looking out for him.
- Tom permanently runs away from home, stealing an arcane focus from his father on the way. His parents make some effort to find him but it peters off perhaps a little quickly.
- That is most certainly the opinion of Annie who, after getting herself a secure home elsewhere, returns home to request her little brother is given to her to raise and finds out he has vanished. She gets into a physical fight with their mother, Dyna, and breaks her nose.
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AGE: 10-14
- Tom's sorcery develops within the gang, the spells he acquires over time reflecting the needs of the group of kids. He calls them tricks rather than spells at this point of his life.
- During a nasty scuffle on the street Tom suffers from a glassing attack. The infection this leads to almost kills him, but he is saved by the Cleric of Ilmater that makes visits to the docklands on occasion to offer free healing to the homeless kids there (thanks, again, to the efforts of Myrri finding the guy). Thomas is left with a prominent cheek scar and a brief teenage crush on his healer.
- Myrri kills a Thieves Guild member looking to recruit Thomas, distrusting their intent and what Tom might become in that environment; it's her first kill. He never finds out about this.
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AGE: 15
- Found by his sister Annie through sheer chance, Thomas is almost literally dragged off the streets and taken back to her home, where he thereafter lives with Annie and her wife Genevieve. This quickly puts an end to his time in the gang, though he retains the connections and especially some of the friendships (Myrri most of all).
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AGE: 25
- Thomas meets a man named Silvester, who shows immediate attraction and begins a swift attempt at romancing him.
- Though initially shocked by the sheer intensity of the pursuit, Tom is quickly drawn in by Silvester's apparent kindness and devotion. They begin dating.
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AGE: 27
- After hitting an apparently troubled point in their relationship, where Silv appears distant for a month or two and Tom gets worried, Silv's mood bounces back quickly and he becomes adoring again.
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AGE: 28
- Despite a brief three week engagement after Silvester proposes, Tom discovers his beloved has been cheating for at least a year and breaks up with him.
- An uptick of missing person's cases lead to Tom focusing on those over the possibility of a permanent security job at Sharess' Caress.
- Thomas is abducted by a mindflayer nautiloid which leads to the events of Baldur's Gate 3 (these take place over approximately three months).
- Surviving those events and now a hero of his city, Thomas is proposed to by Gale Dekarios, one of his companions from the adventure with whom he'd experienced a deep romance. He happily accepts and commits to moving to Gale's home, the city of Waterdeep.
- Annie and Genevieve take in Yenna, who'd briefly been in the camp of Tom and his companions on their adventure; in the future, they adopt her.
- After a month spent helping recovery efforts, Tom and Gale leave Baldur's Gate for Waterdeep. Tom accepts a position of figurehead diplomat to Waterdeep on behalf of the Gate, despite not being entirely happy about doing so.
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AGE: 29
- After an initial bright period, flush with the joy of survival, the trauma of the experience hits Thomas and he has a severe breakdown over the course of a few months. Devoted and worried, Gale struggles to work out how to help him.
- A visit by Jaheira (another companion from the adventure and now good friend), accompanied by Annie, Genevieve and Yenna, helps Thomas and Gale to start tackling things more effectively and with better communication.
- When the clouds have cleared and Thomas is more settled, better working on his problems, he and Gale are finally wed.
- The epilogue party from the very end of BG3, six months after the final battle, occurs, and happy reunions are had. ♥