An odd, deer-like being with a brief but imposing presence. He is quiet and subdued, but sharp fangs can be glimpsed when he speaks, and plantlife seems to sprout and bloom wherever he goes.

Personality

Overall, Thorne is reticent and soft-spoken. He speaks rarely about himself, instead preferring to discuss others, or his particular interests-- living things, strange magical phenomena, and interesting mythology. He avoids conflict wherever possible, and will often decline to defend himself if questioned. He's quite affectionate with those he becomes close with, but getting close to him can be difficult. An air of sadness seems to hang around him.

Ophanki's appearance is deceptive; he is properly an ancient being from a plane above that on which reality forms. Beings that form on this higher plane have their powers and strength dictated by the constellations in the sky, and Ophanki was born under the strongest of the formations. This marked him as essentially the next ruler of the realm, a calling he violently rejected. He spent most of his early life hidden away from the others, relying on his mother and his two close friends, Ignari and Demisia for protection. When Demisia was forced to accept an arranged marriage proposal she found abhorrent, Ophanki and Ignari rescued them from their predicament, and the three fled to the lower planes to hide.

This didn't end well for either of them, but Demisia was at least safely hidden from their pursuers. Ophanki was separated from his body, and began wandering the lower planes in a more insubstantial form.

He wandered for a long, long time. When the first Vaskharr clawed their way out of the void, he offered their leaders protection, and forged a bond with their people that has endured for the peoples' existence. He befriended many mortals over the ages, aiding them when asked, and attempted to shape the evolution of life on the world he and his friends had landed on into something beneficial for its survival. Being unanchored from physicality, he drifted between frames often.

The pieces of Oph's body remained on the surface of Terra, immortal and unspoiling. The blood that oozed constantly from them infiltrated the water supply, kickstarting an explosion of life first in the seas, and then on land. Life advanced faster and in very different ways, and soon Terra was home to hundreds of anthropomorphic species, imitating Oph's own body plan. Oph did what he could to ensure they had food to eat without resorting to each other, keeping certain kinds of life from gaining sapience to preserve some kind of food chain.

The Collision was a sudden, jarring change to the status quo; the introduction of humans and their heavily constructed cities to the carefully balanced ecosystem very quickly threw things off. The food chain began to collapse under the strain. So Oph did the only thing he could think of, and used what he had gained from the riftclaws who believed in Vilkar Sei to tear the world asunder a second time, opening myriad doors into any reality he could reach, and the void as well. He brought the Vaskharr that would later form the Red-Sands clan to the planet, introducing them as a way of both navigating the foreign worlds and returning home, but also of maintaining the rifts, as without them the people would definitely be unable to feed everyone.

Ophanki's involvement in this event is largely unknown. Very little about him is known, in fact, outside a small cult formerly lead by Luminary and the Eclipse Corporation that's been secretly collecting the lost pieces of his body. The blood they harvest from his body has become the backbone of the Eclipse mercenary corp, allowing them to heal almost any wound and return a merc to service the next day.

Current Day

Oph continues to drift in and out of the worlds his charges are tied to, thoroughly unrooted from reality and only visiting when an achor is strongest. He's still angry about the loss of his body, an anger than manifests in a curse that burns its way into the flesh of anyone who touches the pieces bare-handed, but lacks the ability to recover it on his own.