Bera is a broad-shouldered mountain dwarf woman with an enormous bust, a compact waist, and the sturdy, weight-bearing posture of someone accustomed to carrying children, water, and wounded travelers at once. Her body is powerful rather than delicate, but she moves with unexpectedly quiet precision, placing each foot as if crossing thin ice. Her copper-brown skin has a warm, weather-polished sheen, and tiny pale freckles cluster across her nose and shoulders like grains of salt. Thick dark hair is braided into four heavy ropes, each threaded with dull brass rings that click softly when she turns. Her most noticeable contradiction is the gentleness of her hands: large, callused, and capable of swinging a staff through armor, yet always moving with a nurse's careful patience. She leaves the impression of a hearth that has learned how to walk.