Voranthor has the tall, graceful build of an elf, but his skin is a sickly grey and his silver hair is matted. Half of his skull is overtaken by a massive obsidian palantir that has physically fused with his bone and skin. The crystal glows with an erratic purple light, and the surrounding flesh is scarred and stretched.

Voranthor is distracted and distant. He speaks in a fragmented voice that sounds like two voices overlapping. He is prone to stopping mid-conversation to answer whispers that only he can hear coming from the stone in his head.

Voranthor was once the most celebrated astronomer of his city, tasked with mapping the furthest reaches of the stars. His curiosity led him to a forbidden artifact, a black crystal palantir that fell during a meteor shower. During his investigation, the orb reacted to his touch and violently bonded to his skull, replacing his left eye and much of his forehead. The city leaders viewed his transformation as a curse and cast him out. Now, the orb shows him the terrifying truth of the Far Realm. He wanders the world as a broken sage, using the forbidden magic channeled through the crystal to survive while he searches for a way to stop the entity within from fully devouring his soul.