Horras stands seven feet tall with slate-gray skin marked by shifting azure tattoos that look like the teeth of a giant clock. He wears robes of deep midnight blue lined with velvet, and several hourglasses of varying sizes hang from his belt. His eyes are a pale silver, often appearing to look slightly to the left or right of people, as if focusing on where they were a second ago or where they will be shortly. He carries a quarterstaff topped with a perpetually swirling crystal of enchanted sand.

Horras is meticulously organized and often seems detached from the present moment. He speaks in terms of probabilities and historical inevitabilities, viewing life as a complex tapestry that requires constant maintenance. While others act on impulse, Horras is slow to speak, calculating every syllable to ensure it lands at the optimal moment. He is not unkind, but his pragmatic obsession with time often makes him seem cold or calculated to those who live purely in the now.

Born in the high mountain peaks of the Spine of the World, Horras was expected to be a warden of his clan, a position requiring physical dominance he never truly valued. While his kin competed in feats of strength, Horras spent his youth obsessed with the movement of the stars and the erosion of stones. After witnessing a tragic landslide that claimed his brother, a disaster Horras realized he could have predicted if he had only understood the sequence of events better, he left his people. He sought out the legendary libraries of the south, adopting the name 'Von Krieg' from an old human sage who mentored him in the arts of chronurgy. Horras believes that tragedy is not an inherent part of fate, but a failure of foresight. He does not wish to play god or rewrite the world, but he is terrified of the unpredictability of the future. His magic is his shield against the chaos of chance, a way to ensure that when the next landslide comes, he is already standing on safe ground. He travels now to refine his control, hoping to reach a point where no mistake can ever surprise him again.