Resonance-Nine is a tall, dense construct of dark bronze-infused basalt, each broad plate carrying faint mineral veining like frozen lightning beneath black stone. Their polished copper breastplate has been repeatedly burnished by nervous hands, leaving a warm rose sheen over the sternum. Behind a heavy chest grate, a steady golden Star-Sand core glows with the patient rhythm of a lantern seen through fog. Their jaw is built from interlocking basalt teeth, too many for a human mouth and shaped like tiny architectural buttresses. When they laugh, which is rare but startlingly sincere, the teeth click together in a descending musical scale. They move with immense deliberation until action becomes necessary, then cross a room with the abrupt certainty of a falling pillar. The contradiction is immediately memorable: their body looks built to endure siege, yet they handle fragile oath-scrolls with the delicacy of a jeweler sorting moth wings.