Gearwarden Pimble Trench-Cog is a slender rock gnome with narrow shoulders, long clever fingers, and the slightly stooped posture of someone who has spent decades bent over maps. His skin is the muted gray-brown of weathered slate, textured with fine creases around the mouth and eyes. Permanent black and violet ink stains climb from his fingertips toward his knuckles, as though his hands have been dipped in shadow. His pale eyes constantly shift from wall to wall, measuring angles, distances, and possible exits even during ordinary conversation. He moves with near-silent precision, placing each foot as if testing a bridge. The unexpected contradiction is that his careful, almost ghostly manner is accompanied by a bright crimson scarf that flutters dramatically whenever he turns, making him look like a tiny, solemn flag of warning. His oversized leather satchel bulges with red-wax-sealed vellum maps, brass calipers, folded lanterns, and objects that occasionally tick from within.