Original description by the artist,  Fishyboner was "Flanker explores a forest as dangerous as he is."

Meet Flanker clan Flanker daHar ad Sorbat ad Atherton, The First, the Lost Companion, The Hammer, Shatterer of Worlds. "I wish they wouldn't call me that. I only blew up two planets, and one was by accident!"

Heck of a nice guy, actually. Some horrible things happened to him but somehow he never lost his center. Another quote: "I don't eat sapient beings. Most of them would consider it impolite."