Alternative Character Interpretation: Invoked. Jacob, his wives and concubines, their sons, Rebecca, Laban, and Dinah are all Biblical characters, but forget what you were taught about them in Sunday school.
Fridge Horror: It is known that Basemath has only two surviving children, Tabea and an unnamed son; the rest all died either in infancy or while Basemath was pregnant with them. It is also known that Adath is jealous of Basemath for being Esau's favorite and has been known to abuse the latter. This could be the reason for Basemath's "infertility."
The childbirth scenes are described in great detail. invoked
The Ritual of Opening, wherein a girl's hymen is broken at her first period with a sacred object called a Teraphim, to offer the resultant blood to Innana
The Dinah/Shalem romance: in the original story, he raped her.
The Woobie: Benia. He is widowed twice. He loses both of his sons from his first marriage, and he isn't able to have any children in his marriage to Dinah.
