Sella is a lean, sharp-eyed gnome with the weathered look of someone who has spent a lifetime kneeling in wet soil and standing up too quickly. Her skin is sun-browned under a permanent film of peat and spring mud, especially from the knees down where her trousers are forever stained dark. She wears a narrow copper nose ring, a twig pin through one ear, and a shawl of stitched herb-pockets that rattles softly when she walks. Her hair is silver-brown, cropped in a practical halo of curls that never quite stays tucked under her hood, and her left boot is polished immaculate while the right is caked in mud and threaded with reeds, an oddly formal contradiction she insists is "for funerals and fieldwork both." She moves in quick, side-stepping bursts, like a sparrow that has learned to dodge rain.