Master Orin Pell is a compact gnome with the neatly contained energy of a spring trapped inside a cage of brass rules. His robes are slate-blue and cream, stitched with tiny hexagonal seams that shimmer when he moves, as if each panel remembers a different shield spell. Fine chalk dust lives in the folds of his sleeves and along the tips of his cuffs, giving him the faint look of a man who has been caught inside his own lecture. His spectacles are too large for his face and are held together with a silver binding wire instead of a bridge. He walks with small, precise steps, yet his hands never stay still, always measuring angles in the air. The contradictory detail that makes people remember him is this: for all his immaculate tailoring, he wears one scuffed boot and one polished boot, claiming the mismatch helps him stay humble.