Valeria is a lean, sharp-featured blue dragonborn whose deep electric-blue scales shimmer like polished enamel over iron. Faint static arcs crawl between her horns whenever her concentration shifts, and the air around her smells subtly of rain striking hot stone. Her swept-back crest-horns form precise academic ridges, though one horn is chipped near the base and repaired with a silver clamp. Exhaustion has hollowed the pale skin around her luminous indigo eyes. She moves with abrupt, economical precision, stopping so suddenly that her robes continue to sway after she has become still. Despite her intimidating, almost predatory silhouette, she has delicate hands stained with violet ink and wears tiny spectacles when reading, an unexpectedly fussy habit that makes her look more like a sleep-deprived archivist than a military arcanist.