Professor Elliot Archimedes Rafkin is a friend of the Avatar on Earth, and the curator of a museum of natural history. The Avatar, after numerous strange dreams, visited his friend in Savage Empire to conduct some tests on his Orb of the Moons. However, something went gravely wrong and, together with the museum laboratory, they were sucked into a portal to Eodon. After the Avatar's original encounter with Darden, Rafkin was captured by the Yolaru Tribe, where he became their "schweitzer" (a play on Albert Schweitzer).