Who is Ohnine from The Fifth Sacred Thing and what is their importance? The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing English & Literature Ohnine | The Fifth Sacred Thing

Leader of the military unit into which Bird is assigned. Ohnine has a mental breakdown while accompanying Bird to the city center to distribute water rations. Confronted peaceably by the members of a family whose mother Ohnine shot, Ohnine shoots the widower and several of his children. After his breakdown, Madrone helps heal him, giving him a name - River - something he has never had before. During the climax of the novel, Ohnine exhorts those within his unit to desert the army.