Archivist Valara Kaelis is a tall, ethereal elf whose presence makes a room feel older and quieter. Her long silver-blonde hair drifts around her shoulders as if underwater, each strand flecked with tiny crystals of fossilized amber. Her skin has the cool translucence of birch bark after rain, with faint green-gold veins visible at her wrists. She moves with a slow, gliding precision, but her hands are constantly busy, turning and cataloging jagged pieces of petrified bark. Her expression is serene to the point of being unsettling, even while spells tear through the air around her. The unexpected contradiction is that her immaculate, almost sacred appearance is accompanied by ink-stained fingertips, moss caught in her hems, and one perpetually untied bootlace that she never seems to notice.