Ophelia O'Tarke

**Ophelia Zaphrina Camilla O'Tarke** was a half-human, half Omnikin girl that lived during the 23rd century. She was the subject of thousands of prophecies in the Omnikin's temporal library, some being a millennia old, but the most famous one being "You were born to die." She raised herself on Omnia's Moon, in most notably a village called the Dividend. She is known to have had the most extensive use of the Black Magick (*Dorrmagi* in Omnikin) in known history and her use of this rid her of her mortality given to her in her human DNA. She essentially became immortal.

## Biography

### Early Life (2232-2239)

Ophelia was born during Omnia's winter season in 2232. She was the second child of the Omnikin Oracle Zaphrina O'Tarke and the first of undercover human soldier Grayson *[surname redacted]*. Zaphrina intentionally conceived her because of the prophecy "You Were Born to Die". She was raised in isolation and received the best of education in everything Zaphrina could teach her, including her controversial teachings that consisted of experimentation on both live and dead life forms. Zaphrina exposed her to everything she knew she would see in the war that she was destined to end. Ophelia's older half-brother, Tavaris, often participated but was usually pushed on into other studies as he was not the foretold prodigal child.

The Omnikin Civil War started when Ophelia was 4 but didn't gain serious traction until she was 7 when both her parents were killed in a raid. In an attempt to free her from her supposed destiny, Tavaris pushed her through a one way transport portal and told her to never come looking for him and he left her by herself in a flat in The Dividend Village on Omnia's terraformed moon Praicos. Ophelia raised herself from this point forward, out of mere fear.

### The Dividend Village (2239-2259)

Ophelia was transported to an empty flat that Tavaris had secured a year before. All she had was the clothes she was wearing and her fathers family ring. Eventually she was able to change her appearance and work out a plan to never be discovered - thus never having to fulfill her prophecy.

Around 2240, after spending a year alone in the village, two Omnikin officials appeared at her door and were able to enter by brute forcing her security protocols. They searched the flat with life form scanners, apparently looking for her after word got out on Omnia that a "halfling abomination" had indeed been brought into existence and might have been hiding among insurgents on Praicos. She evaded them seamlessly as they went through her still empty flat until she caught them by surprise and completely decimated their existence with Dorrmagi. In an attempt to keep more of them away, she upgraded her security to kill any unwanted visitors.

For food, she effortlessly stole food from the neighboring flats while the owners were out. She was extremely careful to never be caught, and took preparations in case she was. In the summer season of 2245, when she was 13, she killed a female Omnikin that caught her stealing food from her flat. She performed a ritual she learned from her mother in the dead trials - called "Thought-Flux Destabilization" - where she absorbed the women's mind into her own temporarily. She decided to take the woman's identity as her own.

The female Omnikin - named Iylt of the house O'Banach - owned a luxury jewelry store in the village center. Using memories retrieved from the ritual and the woman's personal belongings, she was able to seamlessly insert herself into society as Iylt and carve out a life for herself.

On April 24, 2259, the transport door in the flat froze over. Assuming it was the old machinery either dying or having a surge, she locked it down and left for he store for the day, where a man with a black mask covering half his face followed her. He posed as a customer at first until she caught on and attempted to kill him but he blocked her and remote transported her away as the entire jewelry store exploded in a massive firestorm. He told her, "They're here, they're ready for you to become her" and he disappeared. Knowing the words were referring to the prophecy, she rushed to her flat to gather her few things and then leave The Dividend, but was cut short when the transport door buckled and the transport vortex pulled her in and dropped her into the middle of nowhere back on Omnia, an empty door staring down at her.

### The Prophetic Years (2259-2263)

Immediately after landing back on Omnia, Ophelia was taken by a group of slavers and dumped in a closed off room with dozens of others. She watched as a few others were sold to Omnikin Oracles and as others were forced to fight to the death or fight until the bid is capped. When it was her turn to be sold every body already knew who and what she was and almost every single bidder went for her. She was eventually sold to a rogue male Omnikin Oracle who named himself after the human's "Grim Reaper" and was being prepared to be taken when a girl in a velvet cloak attacked the slaver holding her and sliced him in half, along with 12 others in a matter of minutes. She introduced herself as Adhara and stated she only rescued her because she needed a favor.

After escaping the slavers and traveling to a small countryside flat, the girl revealed herself to be the legendary Oracle Escort Adhara Alezand and that the favor she needed was of utmost importance - she needed Ophelia to bring back her lover who was murdered 80 years before. Ophelia, already knowing she was on the path of the Prophecy, initially refused but was forced to comply when threatened with a reveal to the High Oracle. Adhara talked to her about the Omnikin Civil War and about the growing group of rogue Oracles looking to destroy a millennia of Omnikin influence. It was Ophelia's destiny to end the war and Adhara would see through to it that she would.

After obtaining a rare and illegal copy of her mothers Oracle book, Ophelia traveled to the continent of Antaria where Adhara's lover, Xavier, was buried in a private cemetery in the capital. Ophelia broke into the cemetery using a series of hacking techniques she'd been using for years and Adhara led her to a tomb where Xavier's fully intact, preserved body was protected in a stone box. The ritual to bring back a life from the dead (or the Abyss as called by most Omnikins), known as Soula Savion, was a dangerous ritual that was deemed illegal and immoral a thousand years before, and no one that had ever performed had lived to tell the tale. Ophelia, going against her desire to defy her destiny, performed the ritual and fell unconscious after Xavier had been brought back along with another soul. Adhara fought off the entity while Ophelia unconsciously rebuilt her damaged psyche and woke up - becoming the first survivor of Soula Savion.

Immediately after bringing back Xavier, Omnikin Escorts descended upon the cemetery after receiving reports of "explosions" and the trio were forced to run. Too weak to even move, Ophelia was carried by the newly resurrected Xavier until they reached a locked gate that she couldn't open. Ophelia then decided that she should be left behind so that the others could escape, and also because she thought the Escorts would possibly kill her and erase her destiny from time. The Escorts bound her in an anti-dorrmagi de-stabilization grid and delivered her to Caracura.

#### Caracura

Upon waking up, Ophelia discovered that it wasn't Escorts who had captured her after all - it was the rogue oracles. They had her strapped to a metal table in a room brightly lit with red lights and explained their plans to keep her there and experiment until they needed an object for ransom. Ophelia was in and out of consciousness most the time she was in the light room where a series of surgical experimentations and physical tests occurred. These were often so long and grueling she would pass out with exhaustion. These ultimately and most likely lead to her inability to control her emotions and eventually - lose her mind. It is not known what the rogue oracles were trying to get her from her but it's widely believed they just wanted to ruin the High Oracle's most important asset.

While not being experimented on, she was asked a variety of questions and to perform several different acts with her abilities. Sensory deprivation was used if she didn't cooperate and at one point she was in the sensory deprivation room for so long she became catatonic.

It wasn't known how long Ophelia actually spent in the light room but it was long enough for her to be unrecognizable upon release. Adhara and Xavier discovered her location to be in one of Caracura's black sites and broke her out by brute force, killing anyone and anything in their path, with Xavier carrying a weak Ophelia and Adhara guarding them. Once on their procured drop ship and safely out of the city limits, Adhara and Xavier started the long process of helping Ophelia recover, if it was even possible.

#### Recovery and The Glory Militia

Ophelia slept for nearly a week on the ship after the breakout, during which Adhara did her best to treat her frail and battered state. Adhara wondered if she would even be Ophelia at all, or an empty shell.

Upon waking up, Ophelia couldn't talk, walk, or keep down any food. Having been trained in medicine, Adhara did her best efforts in treating her but decided in the end they would need a healer. She contacted the Glory Militia, a separatist group on the planet Glory, and they're healer offered his help with no questions asked.

## Physical Description

Ophelia had long, wavy magenta hair, light skin, and pale blue eyes that eventually turned gold and black. She was nearly six feet tall with a strong, athletic stature. She mostly wore stolen clothes that were too big for her to make it easier to hide who she really was.

## Personality

Ophelia had a strong and independent survivalist instincts from spending so many years on her own. She was incredibly smart and more often than not came across as condescending to others. She learned how to read people so she would never make the mistake of trusting the wrong person.

As a child, her mother taught her the world was cold and cruel and didn't deserve her kindness.

She never let herself be that scared little girl that got left on the moon ever again.

## Etymology

The name "Ophelia" derives from the Greek *opheleia* and means "help" or "aid" and alludes to Ophelia's destiny of "helping her people" end the war.

"You Were Born to Die" did not mention the name of the subject, just that she was a "Halfing born in secret and born to die". Ophelia was possibly given this first name because of its meaning, but more likely was named this after an ancestor. Her two middle names, Zephrina and Camilla, were her mother's name and paternal grandmother's name, respectively.

## Trivia

* Ophelia enjoyed the human beverage coffee
* Even though most of the prophecies referred to her as "the last of her kind", she wasn't actually the last one with Omnikin blood, just the first and the last born Omnikin to have the power to stop the war.
* There was a prophecy for every single choice she made and every choice she could've made
* Ophelia's father, Gray, was a human soldier undercover as an Omnikin and never returned to the military when he was supposed to. He was later supposedly killed by Omnikin insurgents, along with Zephrina, and his surname has been redacted
* Ophelia was the most infamous Omnikin that ever lived