Mirra Vask-of-the-Last-Tide is a bronze-scaled dragonborn woman with a broad, practical face and a jawline ridged like the edge of a seashell. Her scales are burnished brown-gold across the shoulders and throat, fading to greenish bronze along her arms, with tiny pale flecks that catch the light like salt crystals. A pair of short, uneven horns rises from her brow, one capped with a brass thimble after an old accident. She moves with a dockworker's careful balance, always shifting her weight as though the floor might suddenly become a rocking deck. Her hands are heavily callused, but she keeps her claws polished and painted with blue cooking dye. The unexpected gentleness of her appearance is contradicted by her eyes, which are soft and grandmotherly until someone threatens a hungry person, at which point they become cold and bright as drawn knives.