Opal

Opal is a human warlock who appeared in Exandria Unlimited. She is played by Aimee Carrero.

Appearance
Opal ordinarily has brown hair, but she dyes it an iridescent white color and wears it in a half-updo, and is very attentive to her makeup. She wears a pink sateen cropped jacket and has a rose-gold necklace with a pendant containing a small opal.

Her appearance changed when she equipped the Circlet of Barbed Vision. It caused black, thick, sticky liquid to run from the wounds where the thorns stuck in, and her eyes turned dark black. Her dye job disappeared, and her hair itself actually turned opalescent. She began to more closely resemble her twin sister Ted, with a more snarling smile and a slightly wider and stronger body.

Personality
Opal has been described as having a shining personality by Ted; she is very charismatic and easy to talk to. She is confident, albeit naive, and puts a lot of effort towards her physical appearance. She can be a bit full of herself, especially when dealing with her sister, and likes to show off.

Background
Born in Byroden in 824 PD, Opal and Ted are the twin daughters of an unnamed father and a mother named Paloma. Paloma originally named Opal Georgina, but she left Byroden before Opal was old enough to remember her. As a result, Opal grew to resent her and the name, and she asked her father to rename her. She grew up in Byroden, where she knew her grandmother, and at some point was crowned Miss Byroden in the Forever Byroden pageant. She also became skilled in rope-tying; by her own reckoning, tying things up is all she was good at.

When she turned 18, she left Byroden on her own, and she eventually came to Emon around Civilization's Dawn in 842 PD, where she saw the ocean for the first time while visiting the Ozmit Sea at the Port of Emon.

In a moment of desperation to defeat Myr'atta Niselor and reconnect with Ted, Opal placed the Circlet of Barbed Vision on her head. She was unable to bring herself to pull the circlet off immediately afterward, and it began shifting something under her skin so that it would be damaging to try to remove.

Campaign Three
Opal did not accompany Orym, Dorian Storm, and Fearne Calloway on their adventures to Marquet later in 843 PD, as she still had a lot to figure out regarding her sister and the circlet, which she continued to be unable to remove. Dariax stayed with her for support.

Relationships
Opal has a twin sister, Ted, to whom she sometimes speaks out loud though they are apart. She feels close to Ted, though they made different decisions in life. Ted is the source of Opal's magical power, and she is watching Opal from a low, dark place beside and within Opal. After a confrontation with Ted while Opal was unconscious, she saw Ted in a new light but resented her for not having her own life.

Notable items

 * Iridescent daggers
 * Vicious Whip
 * Spell Gem (Amber)
 * Ring of Greater Invisibility
 * Circlet of Barbed Vision

Warlock abilities

 * Otherworldly Patron: Hexblade
 * Hexblade's Curse
 * Pact Boon: Pact of the Tome

Cantrips

 * Eldritch Blast
 * Poison Spray
 * Druidcraft
 * Word of Radiance
 * Mind Sliver

1st level

 * Charm Person
 * Shield
 * Witch Bolt

2nd level

 * Misty Step

'Quotations

 * "Food! Food? They're not getting back to me."
 * "No last name, no stage name needed."
 * (Trying to express "change the channel" in setting-appropriate terms:) "I'm going to turn the papyrus, Ted!"
 * "Go away, ash!"
 * "I can't be alone."

Behind the scenes
Aimee stated that her first question when creating Opal was "What's the Exandria equivalent of Laredo, TX?" She described Opal as "an amalgamation of many incredible women" ranging from celebrities to friends who grew up in Laredo. She highlighted stories of her friends participating in local Las Marthas debutante balls, a tradition she found interesting and described as part of Mexican-American and immigrant efforts to assimilate. Of these stories, she said, "Opal needed to be from a place like this: flashy, a little curious, and full of rich culture." Through discussions with Matt, Aabria, and other members of the creative team, it was ultimately decided Byroden was such a place.

The intent with Opal was to tell a coming-of-age story, and her flawed and at times "unlikeable" character was intentionally developed as part of that. In remarks about, which features an emotional argument between Opal and Ted, Aimee said that she wanted their relationship to explore "2 very different people, connected forever, with 2 really valid (and opposing) core wounds" and felt that "they can't ever seem to give what the other needs".

Her Pinterest image board of visual inspiration for Opal included Dolly Parton, Jennifer Lopez, 1984 Miss America pageant winner Vanessa Williams, Goldie Hawn as she appeared on Laugh-In, and the character Cher Horowitz of Clueless.

Trivia

 * Opal got the first "HDYWTDT" of Exandria Unlimited when fighting the shadowy assassins in.
 * Aimee described Opal as being the Exandria equivalent of Latina.
 * Opal is right-handed.
 * Aimee dressed as Opal wearing the Circlet of Barbed Vision for Halloween in 2021.