A seven-foot-three-inch goliath with slate-gray skin, broad shoulders, and a heavy, deliberate presence. Their black hair is kept in a short, practical braid threaded with bits of blue cord from old rigging. They favor their left leg slightly when standing, not from injury, but from years of balancing on pitching decks, and they instinctively shift their weight whenever a room feels too still. Their chain mail is carefully scrubbed and oiled, while nearly everything else is patched, salt-stained, and visibly repaired. A small brass compass hangs at their throat beside a plain holy symbol.

Quiet, observant, and stubbornly dependable. Kozma speaks plainly, dislikes wasteful boasting, and treats every group as a crew with shared responsibilities. They are unexpectedly gentle with frightened people and small animals, but become intensely focused when someone breaks an agreement or endangers others through carelessness.

Kozma Orvany was raised among the cliff harbors where goliath deckhands were valued for the same reason they were feared, they could keep working when the mast groaned, the waves rose, and everyone smaller had begun to panic. Kozma served aboard the merchant vessel Gray Minnow, first as a line-hauler and later as a night watchman. They learned to read a storm by the taste of the air, to judge a sailor by the knots in their work, and to sleep through any noise except the sudden silence that comes before disaster. The Gray Minnow was lost while carrying pilgrims through a reef passage. Kozma survived by clinging to a splintered spar until dawn, but remembers seeing a pale light beneath the water, moving against the current and drawing the ship toward the rocks. Afterward, a traveling priest taught Kozma that courage was not merely enduring the sea, but choosing what one would endure it for. Kozma took up the oath of a paladin before fully understanding its shape, promising to stand between the helpless and whatever waited beneath the waves. They still sail when they can, but now they travel from port to port seeking the truth about the light that sank their ship.