Tressa is a wiry forest gnome built like a climbing hook, with narrow shoulders, quick hands, and the balanced, forward-leaning gait of someone who expects the ground to betray her. Her sun-bleached hazel hair is tied back with flexible copper wire, though loose strands constantly catch on her collar and tools. Her dark-green eyes are sharp and mistrustful, but one eye is ringed by a faint silver stain from an alchemical accident. Her fingers are permanently dirt-smudged, their knuckles crosshatched with tiny burn scars. She moves in quick, economical bursts, rarely standing still for more than a heartbeat. Despite her thorn-stained armor and frontier grime, she wears a spotless white silk glove on her left hand, an unexpectedly delicate object she refuses to explain.