Ornithologist

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The Ornithologist is a divine Other residing in a painting.

Relationships

Thea Knight uses his pocket world to help her gather resources to create her own personal fantasy world.

Appearance

He is fifty feet tall with a receding hairline, a white beard in old fashioned clothes and a white coat. He is surrounded by anatomical drawings of dissected birds and measurement lines.<ref>The Ornithologist.  Maybe fifty feet tall, slender, with a receding hairline, full white beard, with hair and beard that came away in flat locks that resembled feathers.  He looked like an old-school psychologist or something, with old fashioned clothes and a white coat.  He was slow to get his bearings, looking around, but other things moved around him: anatomical drawing images of men, of birds, mostly dissected birds, numbers, math, ratios.  Each of the drawings, numbers, and lines were written in the sky, they moved, a measurement extended to trace a quarter-circle punctuated by ruler-like lines between hip and elbow, then contracted as he lowered his arm.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.8</ref>

Abilities

Verona speculates that he was a greater power.<ref>Or that he was a greater power.  Not necessarily a god, but something big on a scale where he made his own rules, had a depression under him that let power pool and concentrate.  Maybe this was a demiurgic domain.  A lot of Others made their own pocket realities.  The confines of a box or other item, a painting in this case, lend itself well for that.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.8</ref>

He has a high degree of control over his domain and can reshape it at will.<ref>He rewrote reality around him, fixing brickwork, replacing it, molding things, letting more architecture and arches spring up.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.8</ref>

His realm is surrounded by aviation and bird related Others and is able to give them commands and is able to receive information from them.<ref>Every bird, bird-themed thing, and aviator in the area had landed.  Many cowered or shrank back.  Pigeons with human faces scrunched up their faces and looked away.

He pointed in the direction of Verona and Avery, and every single one took flight, obeying.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.8</ref><ref>He used that group, he even apparently used them to track her when it came to using the lines, but they had to signal him, or he suffered for any filters on their vision.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.8</ref>

He's able to impale people with lines, when a creature is hit by these line they are disassembled and vivisected, all their bones, organs and tissues are separated and put on display with measurements next to them.<ref>The Ornithologist glanced at a man on a unicycle with wings on the wheels who was getting too close, and the lines drawn through the air impaled the man.  As they reeled out, ruler-like lines on them, bones, flesh, and organs were pulled out and set at measured distances from one another.  Little numbers appeared above each, noting the dimensions.

The man on the unicycle was disassembled.  The unicycle itself was pulled apart, the individual components arranged against the sky, matching pieces in columns.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.8</ref>

Chronology

He attacked Avery and Verona after they became trapped by Theadora Knight inside a painting.

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