Kharz is a compact, powerfully built goblin with a torso like a keg and arms corded from hauling shields, corpses, and siege chains. He moves with a rolling, deliberate gait, favoring neither side, but he never quite stops moving his left thumb across the rim of his buckler as if checking that it is still there. His ears are broad and folded at the tips, with tiny copper rings threaded through them. His teeth have been filed flat rather than sharpened, giving his grin an unsettlingly human neatness. He smells faintly of iron filings, sour milk, and pine resin. The contradictory impression he leaves is that of something both brutally maintained and visibly neglected: his armor is polished, but his nails are always packed with black soil.