Valerius possesses a haunting, ethereal beauty that borders on the macabre. His skin is the color of polished bone, deathly pale and smooth as marble, etched with silver markings that glow with a faint lunar pulse when he is emotional or casting magic. His wild, short black hair is as dark as a starless night, streaked with vivid silver locks that catch the light like spider silk. He has an angular, aristocratic face with high cheekbones and a sharp jawline, framed by prominent, dark eyebrows that give him a perpetually brooding expression. Most striking are his innocent, gentle hollow eyes; they look like vast, empty voids that have seen the end of time, yet they shimmer with a soft, pleading kindness that contradicts his Unseelie nature. From his back sprout two large, tattered gray moth wings, their edges frayed and dusted with shimmering scales, and two delicate, feathery antennae twitch atop his head, sensitive to the slightest change in the air.