Forbath Hawkins is a dust-silver gnome with a weathered face that looks carved more by wind and worry than by age. His beard is braided into three thin cords threaded with copper rings, dried rosemary, and the occasional blackened scale from Steele. He moves with quick, birdlike precision, always seeming half a step out of the way of danger, yet his hands are oddly gentle, as if they are constantly calming something fragile. His right eye is sharp and glittering green, while his left is a milky amber eye that gives him a faintly mismatched, unsettling stare. The strangest part of him is the immaculate white apron he wears beneath his leather harness, neatly starched and embroidered with tiny flowers, which makes him look like a respectable baker who has somehow wandered out of a dragon's kennel.