Kritka is a slight goblin with moss-green skin, a narrow jaw, and large amber eyes that rarely stop moving. His left ear is notched from the destruction of his settlement, and a pale scar crosses the bridge of his nose. He keeps his black hair cropped close except for a stiff, bristling crest. His robes are carefully mended, his spellbook is bound in dark hide, and several small bone and clay tokens hang from his belt, each marked with a date, name, or fragment of remembered lore.

Kritka is quiet, watchful, and intensely methodical. He speaks plainly, dislikes wasteful displays, and remembers nearly every name he hears. Beneath his controlled exterior is a fierce, tightly contained anger. He trusts evidence more than promises, but once someone proves reliable, he becomes stubbornly protective of them.

Kritka was born among the reed-huts and stone burrows of Kegtu, a goblin settlement built around an abandoned watchtower. His people were not warriors by profession, but they preserved maps, old contracts, burial songs, and the practical lore of the surrounding hills. Kritka showed an unusual hunger for written knowledge, learning letters from trade ledgers and copying fragments of spell diagrams onto scraps of bark. He was studying the tower's oldest inscriptions when armed outsiders came, searching for a relic they believed was hidden beneath the settlement. The attackers burned Kegtu, killed those who resisted, and left the ruins buried beneath the tower's collapse.