Variel has a long coat of deep forest green, the fabric threadbare at the cuffs but stitched with silver runes along the hem. His left forearm is wrapped in faded leather strips scored with tally marks and small locked compartments. A faint, moonlit pattern like spilled ink runs from his left ear down across his jaw and neck. When he moves he favors deliberate, economical steps, as if conserving energy for a single precise action. Unexpectedly, his left hand is often idle and fluttering as if feeling phantom strings, while his right fingers drum tiny rhythms against his pact blade's haft when thinking.