Master Engineer Brakus Cleth-Aurix is a broad-shouldered gold dragonborn whose brilliant scales gleam like hammered coins beneath the geothermal works. Pale, jagged heat scars cross his chest, throat, and left cheek, while permanent soot shadows gather around his nostrils and between the plates of his armor. His thick crest-horns are blunt and subtly warped, like heated iron left to cool in a crooked mold. Bright amber-gold eyes flick constantly from person to pressure gauge, measuring everything. His reinforced artifice armor is bulky, asymmetrical, and alive with pneumatic valves, copper tubing, glowing thermal conduits, and leather harnesses swollen dark with oil. He walks with a heavy, deliberate stomp that makes loose tools tremble, yet his hands move with astonishing delicacy when adjusting a valve. The unexpected contradiction is his immaculate silk neck scarf, pale blue and embroidered with tiny moths, which he refuses to remove even while crawling through ash, steam, and molten runoff.