Dren Black-Banner is a huge orc who seems to make every doorway narrower simply by approaching it. His skin has the matte green-gray texture of weathered slate, broken by fine pale lines at his knuckles from years of cold-weather drills. He moves with unnerving economy, never wasting a step, yet his heavy boots land with the soft certainty of a stalking animal. Within a minute of meeting him, most people notice that his eyes rarely settle on faces. They travel instead to hands, belts, exits, weapon racks, and the corners where a careless soldier might stand. His tusks are filed flat at the tips, an unexpectedly meticulous detail beneath his otherwise massive, brutal silhouette. The contradictory impression is of a siege engine practicing manners: immense, threatening, and obsessively neat.