Thomas Rhymer

Thomas Rhymer grew up in war-torn Belfast, Ireland. The seventh and youngest child of a large Catholic family, Thomas was always clever, but also wild and frequently in trouble with the authorities. His grandmother told him he possessed the second sight, a birthright of his family line, but Thomas did his level best to ignore his occasional unusual visions and insights. By the time he was a teenager, Thomas left home to join a rock band called the Stone Muses and tour Europe. He also started using drugs and drinking heavily at parties and shows.
Towards the end of the nearly yearlong tour, Thomas had a recurring vision of the death of his friend and bandmate Leo Matterly. He did his best to ignore this vision, and then to blot it out with drug- and alcohol-use. Unfortunately, Rhymer’s wild partying, and that of his bandmates, led to the vision coming true; during a fierce argument between Thomas and Leo, the band guitarist fell from a seventh story hotel balcony to his death.
The police ruled the death an accident, even though Thomas claimed it was his fault. He admitted himself to a psychiatric hospital and attempted to get clean, but terrible visions continued to plague him. Therapy and anti-psychotic medications helped to quell the visions for a time, but upon his release, Thomas found himself drifting through the world like a ghost, disowned by his family and ostracized by his former friends. He ended up living on the streets of Belfast and, once his money ran out, so too did his regular medications. The visions returned, with awareness of... things moving in the shadows, just out of sight.
It was Beltane Eve when Thomas, half-stumbling through a dark alley, heard the jingling of harness bells. The woman in the dark limousine that pulled up along the street was the most beautiful he’d ever seen. He stepped into the car as if in a dream, and what passed that night was a whirlwind of sensations and visions. The woman told Thomas she was the Queen of Faerie, and she had chosen him to receive a special blessing. After what seemed an endless night of revelry, Thomas Rhymer woke up in the same alley a changed man.
Since that time, Rhymer has not only been able to control his second sight, but he has also immersed himself in learning arcane lore and using his gifts to deal with the hidden world of the occult. Although he’s not a mage at the level of masters like Adrian Eldrich, Thomas Rhymer is a force to be reckoned with in arcane circles. He’s famed—infamous, really—for his ability to show up when and where he’s needed and to use a combination of cunning, knowledge, and sheer determination to put all the pieces in place to solve the problem. He’s not conventional, and he’s not polite company by any means, but he gets the job done. Still, Thomas Rhymer’s gifts are just as often curses, as he must deal with his visions of what is to come and his endless wanderlust, driving him from place to place, never staying too long anywhere. His home is the open road, and his “village” is all of humanity, for as long as they need him.