Yeremy Tobiavitch is the oldest member of the Western Dawn covenant: both he and parens had far more interesting things to do than worry about his gauntlet, so he was nearly 40 before his apprenticeship ended. He is short-sighted and somewhat deaf, and wears a small pair of spectacles. He is always tinkering with things: he carries a slate and charcoal with him at all times, and will start drawing up plans for some new project at the slightest provocation. Many of his constructions have the Heath-Robinson air so common to Verditius, but unusually for one of his house most of them seem to work.
He is the son of a blacksmith of Russian descent, and has three surviving siblings, with whom he communicates regularly. He is also in contact with his parens, Gnypfried Schultz of Three Lakes. Gnypfried is a Verditius nearing the end of his third century of life, and nearing final twilight. He is somewhat absent minded, and his laborotory explodes on a regular basis. One of these periodic blasts lamed Yeremy permanently in one leg, but he made himself a pair of telekinetic gauntlets that enable him to float rather than walking.
Yeremy is a kindly old man who does his best to get on with all those around him, although he finds the more militant tendencies of most of his sodales distressing. He is not an overly competant mage, and never will be, but he is truly gifted at designing and building new, strange devices both mundane and mechanical. His natural strengths are the magics of smithery and lava: melting and mutating fire and stone. He designed more or less everything around the covenant, and oversaw the construction of most of it.
Yeremy is nominally responsible for the twins, but in practice a worse parent is hard to imagine, and he tends to leave them to the grogs, and more recently to Helena and Cahiramee, while he potters around his laboratory. He is also the covenant's librarian, and is often to be found sweeping up errant words from the covenant's more faery-influenced books and shovelling them back between the pages. (Have you tried asking them nicely? It works so much better that way - Helena)