A young human woman with bronzed skin and long black hair that moves as though caught in a slow underwater current, even in still air. Her deep brown eyes reflect pinpricks of orange whenever she is excited or angry. She is lean and long-limbed, with a careful dancer's balance and a habit of turning her whole body before she turns her head. Her hands are unusually memorable: the fingertips are darkened like singed parchment, the nails are short and glass-smooth, and faint orange lines show beneath the skin of her palms when magic stirs. When she laughs, the left side of her jaw clicks audibly, revealing one slightly pointed canine and a row of teeth stained faintly amber by years of chewing bitter emberroot. The unexpected contradiction is that her blazing magic gives off intense heat, but her skin is cool to the touch, like stone kept beneath deep water.