Thunder was born in North Carolina on mid December 1772, a week after his father turned 42. His subsequent relationships with his parents were restrained but close. After that, his parents separated and died four years apart; Marc in 1784 and Dee in 1788.
Thunder Quartermaine was biracial, half Jerriais and half Cherokee. He was pretty much a hero among his allies as well as - ironically - his mentor Franklin Burns and his best friend Cyrus Quimby, a strong fact deterring a few detractors from making colourism of him. He had siblings before him (Lonore, Jerry and Aubin), but they all died at a young age.
After his parents' deaths, Thunder left his birth house to trek through the woods for a few years until 1790. 2 years later, he met Abbie Hartman and both slowly fell in love. They married in 1794, but only for fourteen years into 1808, AS divorce was highly encouraged by the disgruntled witch doctor living next door. Thistle, Mindy and Emma were born during that time.
Thistle, born in 1795, lived a short and highly uncomfortable life; thereafter she died of various natural causes at about six years old. Mindy, born in 1799, lived at the Ashton boarding school for decades, becoming a boarding schoolteacher herself in the process. Emma, born in 1801 and a tomboy among the girls, later became a pirate in order to join a pirate group that had long been terrorising the Caribbean for centuries.
For a couple of years, he and his bodyguard cum confidante Georgina McCartney slipped on each other in bed, resulting in the births of Cora in 1807 and Max in 1812. Although they sometimes quarrelled with each other, Cora and Max were two funny siblings. They were nineteen and fourteen when they moved out of the house.
By the time Thunder dumped Georgina, he had a pretty young mistress named Jess Johnson, who bore him his last child, Edgar Quartermaine, in mid June 1826. He died in mid April 1833, aged 60.