Help with a Noble Warlock / Sorcerer character's Sorcerous Heritage

[Wynn]

I am looking for ideas to help add onto and tie in my already made D&D 5E warlock character, who is also a noble of Suzail in the Forgotten Realms setting, with a gold dragon for an MC into sorcerer.

I know Thauglor was around the area previously but he was not gold. I want to have a somewhat convincing character plot element for why my character is a descendent of a gold dragon.

So far my character does not know anything about his dragon blood and I want it to be a surprise to him when he see's scales begin to grow on him.

For reference, my character's family is the Obraskyr family of Suzail but with the current generation slightly modified.

 

[Redthistle]

Perhaps the gold dragon ancestor had a human paramour in the way-back-when. The liaison resulted in a child who's own offspring some generations later married into the Obraskyr family.

 

[Redthistle]

Here's one idea: per The Grand History of the Realms, pages 76-77, the history of the Obarskyr Dynasty shows that a commoner, Rathdar Orlenthar, was named Regent of the "boy kings" from 339-341 DR.

This was during the long and terrifying decades when Gorauna's scheming destroyed everyone who stood in the way of putting either her own offspring, or Obarskyrs she could control and manipulate, on the throne. It began when she arranged the death of her own brother, King Gorann, in 303 DR.

Until one of her own great-grandson's (Thargreve "the Greater") managed to kill her in 349 DR, she directly murdered or scared others into killing for her anyone in line for the throne. Her methods varied. Perhaps the most diabolical was the Purplethroat Plague that took first King Gorann's life and did not stop afflicting the Obarskyr line until Gorauna's granddaughter "Mad Meurthe" gained the throne and the crown after all three boy kings died of it.

Neither Muerthe nor the second-cousins that succeeded her fared well. The royal family was firmly under her grandmother's twisted thumb until Gorauna's death.

>>Bringing it back to your PC: Who was this regent, Rathdar Orlenthar, and how did a commoner gain such an important post? Was he, too, controlled by Gorauna, or was he someone other members of the royal family trusted to protect his charges where they themselves felt unable to do so? Did he facilitate the young kings' early deaths, or was he simply as unable as others were to keep them safe?

The brief record does not say.

So, let's say Orlenthar rose to prominence because he was the child of the dalliance between the gold dragon and a human parent. He rose above his low birth (in the eyes of his countrymen) with superior abilities to achieve significant success, receiving attention from those in power. His best efforts would not be enough, however.

Generations later, one among his progeny married into the Obarskyr line, an event that more recently led to your character. Which means your PC has hereditary links to both the gold dragon and to the sometimes mad ambitions of the royal family.