Brukztla is a compact goblin woman with slate-green skin roughened by soot, rain, and years of hauling barricades through muddy streets. Her ears are long and sharply folded from sleeping beneath helmets, while her broad mouth is crowded with tiny square teeth filed smooth from habit. She moves with startling economy, never quite walking in a straight line, always angling toward cover, a doorway, or the nearest person who might need help. Her most noticeable contradiction is that she looks perpetually grim and battle-ready, yet she wears a tiny knitted blue sock over the end of her spear haft, changing it whenever the old one becomes dirty. The sock was made by her younger brother, and she insists it helps the weapon 'remember not to be rude.'