Mother Aeloria Vane-Tide is an ageless sea elf woman whose luminescent silvery-blue skin seems faintly wet even in dry air, as though moonlit seawater clings to her. Her long pearl-gray hair streams behind her in slow, tidal motions when she walks, despite the absence of wind, and is woven with tiny glass beads, dried phosphorescent kelp, and fragments of prayer-shell. Her lavender eyes are soft and warmly maternal until she enters a prophetic trance, when their pupils widen into black vertical slits surrounded by rings of cold starlight. Her fingers are long and delicate, but the nails are ridged like translucent shell. She moves with a graceful, floating gait that makes every step appear half a heartbeat late. The contradictory impression she leaves is that of a gentle grandmother who somehow casts the shadow of a drowned giant across the floor.