Waist-up fantasy character portrait, three-quarter view, subject turned slightly left with head level to camera. An earth genasi man in his early forties, powerfully built — broad through the shoulders and chest, thick-necked, heavy trapezius, the dense functional muscle of a laborer rather than a bodybuilder. Dark olive skin with a fine granular texture like weathered sandstone, and faint pale mineral seams running along his temples, down the side of his throat, and across his forearms, catching the light like mica. Short black curls cropped close to the scalp with soft natural volume, receding slightly at the temples where the hair has gone iron-gray. Short salt-and-pepper beard, heavier gray at the chin, edges untrimmed. Heavy brow ridge shadowing deep-set eyes; irises a piercing golden-yellow, warm amber near the pupil, calm and unblinking. Broad flattened nose with an old break at the bridge. Wide square jaw, high flat cheekbones, deep vertical lines from nose to mouth, crow's feet, a mouth held in a neutral line — not stern, just quiet. A pale ropey scar splits his left eyebrow and runs down toward the cheekbone. A puckered burn scar across the outside of his right forearm. Thick knuckles, scarred and calloused, wrapped in a cord of small gray river stones on waxed thread. Bare chest and shoulders; loose slate-gray monk's wrap draped over the left shoulder and across the torso, coarse undyed cloth, worn and travel-stained. Standing still, hands open and lowered, weight Ver más