Caleb Wittebane

Caleb Wittebane is a posthumous character in The Owl House. He was the older brother of Philip Wittebane, the late lover/partner of Evelyn, and is an ancestor of the Clawthorne family. He is the person from which the Golden Guards including Hunter were cloned from.

Appearance

Caleb was a young human man with light skin, brown eyes, thick black eyebrows, and ash-blond hair tied back in a ponytail with a hanging forelock. He had a slender build and a hooked nose. His statue in Gravesfield depicts him without his ponytail, and memory portraits in "Hollow Mind" show he cut it off at some point while staying in the Demon Realm. "Thanks to Them" and "For the Future" additionally show him with large eye bags, sunken cheeks, and visible upper ribs.

Clothing

Caleb wore a ragged white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, olive green trousers that had a lighter olive green patch sowed onto the left pant sleeve, held up with suspenders, and boots. Artistic renditions of Caleb, such as those found in "Yesterday's Lie" and "Thanks to Them", additionally depict Caleb wearing a dark blue, waist-length overcoat and cravat.

Background

Caleb Wittebane and his younger brother Philip were born in the Human Realm, sometime around the late 16th to early 17th centuries. Through unknown circumstances, both Caleb and Philip were orphaned at a relatively young age, leaving Caleb, as the older of the two, to take on the role of being Philip's caretaker.

Caleb and his brother would eventually come to the town of Gravesfield, in the Colony of Connecticut, in 1613. Upon their arrival, the brothers sought to settle themselves in Gravesfield, in the hopes of making a better life for themselves. To do this, they became witch-hunters, a practice common in Gravesfield at the time. At some point around this time, Caleb would carve for Philip a wooden toy mask, which the younger brother would often wear as they played together or while joining the other villagers in witch hunts.

Things changed for the brothers, however, when the two encountered an actual witch from the Demon Realm named Evelyn. Despite his profession as a witch hunter, Caleb was dazzled by Evelyn's magical abilities and developed a close bond with her, to the point where she eventually convinced him to follow her back to the Boiling Isles through the portal between the realms. Philip, however, believing his brother to have been led astray, followed them to the Demon Realm in pursuit.

After an uncertain amount of time, Philip would eventually find Caleb. Although the exact specifics of their reunion are unknown, Philip's memories show that he discovered Caleb had fallen in love with Evelyn, and that she had become pregnant. This enraged Philip, and eventually, he confronted Caleb. Even though Caleb was compassionate towards his brother, things escalated until there was a duel between the two siblings, ending with the murder of Caleb at Philip's hand. This led to Evelyn immediately attacking Philip with her magic in revenge, although he managed to escape.

Legacy

At some point, Caleb would have impregnated Evelyn with his child, and their descendants became the ancestors to the Clawthorne family.

Additionally, after Caleb's death, Philip began creating grimwalker clones in his late brother's image. After assuming the identity of the witch Belos, each grimwalker would serve as his right-hand man, aiding him in his mission to wipe out all witches and demons on the Boiling Isles. However, every one of the grimwalkers met a tragic end; some implied to have rebelled against Philip, thus leading him to kill them and create a new one in their place. The latest in this line is Hunter.

During this same time, in the Human Realm, the story of Caleb and his brother's encounter of Evelyn would enter local legend, with their disappeara