Kaktik is a small, elderly goblin woman with a pear-shaped body, long knotted fingers, and a spine bent slightly to the left as if she spent half her life listening at locked doors. Her skin has the rough green texture of weathered lichen, mottled with rust-colored freckles across her cheeks. One ear is broad and fanlike, while the other has been folded into a permanent crease. She walks with a hooked staff, but her movements are unexpectedly quiet and precise, each step placed like a chess move. Her smile is nearly toothless except for one polished brass tooth that catches the light. She gives the impression of a dangerous little bird that has somehow learned everyone else's secrets. The contradictory element is her immaculate hands, which are always scrubbed clean despite her work with herbs, ash, and carrion.