A compact, stooped gnome who moves with a brisk, nervous energy. His skin is creased from decades in lecture halls and stone tunnels. He carries a battered leather satchel overflowing with maps, ink-stained notes, and tiny labeled vials. His spectacles are magnifying lenses layered in a peculiar rack that juts from his forehead when he peers at specimens. He favors a tailored waistcoat patched with faint scorch marks and little pockets exactly the size of kobold trinkets. Unexpectedly, he wears a child's knitted mitt on his left hand decorated with tiny embroidered kobold faces, a gift and a humiliation he refuses to set aside.