Othoro Vakrezharad

Othoro Vakrezharad is the senior principal mid-soprano at the Vermilion Opera in Amalo.

Appearance
Othora was “a tall goblin woman, heavy featured and with granite-gray skin”.

She had a beautiful voice.

Personality
Othoro is polite and thoughtful. She was nervous about talking about Arveneän Shelsin, particularly when it came to pointing out that Arveneän would have preferred Othoro have no principal roles. She also noted that delving too people for other people's secrets, as Arveneän did, was a "very dangerous habit." She was still curious about Thara Celehar's life, particularly his investigation into the murder of Varenechibel IV and his sons.

Life
Othoro worked as an opera singer in the adult chorus at the Vermilion Opera, and there was pressure from Arveneän to never give her principal roles. Iäna Pel-Thenhior supposedly wrote Zhelsu for Othoro, possibly in part due to the lack of principal roles given to goblins in opera houses. Othoro played the lead and name role of Zhelsu, a goblin manufactory worker who is miserable and hounded by her male overseer.

When Thara went to the Vermilion Opera to question the other singers about Arveneän in relation to his investigation into her murder, Othoro told him that Arveneän disliked her, so they weren't close, and that Arveneän was friendly with some of the Opera clerks.

While practicing for Zhelsu, Othoro was very nervous about making the climactic leap into the "machinery", which was a stack of mattresses.

Iäna planned for Othoro to take over the senior principal role in The Dream of Empress Corivero, and the other senior principal roles, offloading the burden from Toïno Culainin. Iäna firmly noted that Othoro would not return to the chorus while he was director.

Othoro's performance in Zhelsu caught audience attention in a positive way, and Iäna noted that he would keep giving Othoro principal roles.

Skills
Othoro was the only singer in the Vermilion Opera who could match Arveneän, and was supposedly a better singer.

Arveneän Shelsin
Arveneän hated Othoro, in part out of her jealousy of any supposed rival and because Othoro had the better voice, to the point that others would not have been surprised if Arveneän killed her. Arveneän was also incredibly angry that Othoro was picked for the lead in Zhelsu, as it was a coveted role for a mid-soprano. Othoro disliked her as well.

Iäna Pel-Thenhior
Iäna seemed to like Othoro a lot, and wanted her to do well.

Trivia

 * Othoro was seemingly one of the few goblins in the Vermilion Opera.