Soray is a compact, spring-quick forest gnome who looks as if he was assembled from rainwater, copper wire, and stubbornness. His skin has the warm sheen of polished chestnut bark, lightly freckled and perpetually dusted with soot at the knuckles and collar. He wears his hair in a wild cloud of white-gold curls that never quite stays pinned beneath his soot-stained cap, and one side of his face is usually smudged with charcoal as if he fell asleep over a blueprint again. His left eye is a bright hazel green, while the right eye is a pale blue glass replacement fitted with a tiny rotating lens, an odd, delicate contradiction that makes him look both whimsical and unsettling. He moves with nervous precision, always half a step too fast, but his smile is slow and unexpectedly gentle. Though his coat is patched with brass buttons and tool loops, he also wears a silk ribbon at his throat, immaculate and expensive, as if he could not decide whether to dress like an artisan or a noble and chose both.