A compact kobold with rust-red scales, a pale throat, and broad, alert ears. Kett wears a leather coat that is slightly too large, cinched tightly with cord at the waist, and patched with squares of green cloth from old field satchels. His left shoulder bears a carefully polished brass clasp, the only part of his clothing he never allows to tarnish. A small clay tablet hangs from his neck on braided reed cord, worn smooth where his claws repeatedly touch its edge. He carries a book of pressed leaves, copied notes, and observations in cramped, angular script.

Kett is intensely observant, bluntly helpful, and fascinated by anything that grows, decays, or remembers. He asks precise questions at inconvenient moments, records answers immediately, and becomes visibly delighted when someone corrects him with evidence. Around strangers he is cautious and formal, but around plants and small animals he becomes softly conversational.

Kett was hatched beneath the collapsed observatory of a long-dead scholar whose stone chambers had become a kobold refuge. While the other young kobolds learned traps, tunnels, and the careful reading of bootprints, Kett learned to read the scholar's surviving field journals. The pages described plants that flowered only after lightning, birds that nested in dead trees, and the old druidic belief that every living thing participates in a vast conversation. Kett copied the notes onto scraps of bark and pottery, then began adding observations of his own. When a mining company poisoned the stream that fed his warren, Kett left the tunnels to seek a remedy. He studied at roadside shrines, traded labor for access to libraries, and learned enough druidic practice to hear sickness in soil and water. His magic remains practical and unsentimental. He wants to restore the stream, protect the warren, and prove that a kobold's curiosity is not a childish defect but a useful form of courage. He still keeps the observatory's brass clasp, rescued from the rubble, as a reminder that knowledge is only valuable when it is carried back to those who need it.