Vaelith appears as a tall high elf general cut from moonlit marble and war steel, with deep sapphire blue eyes that seem to hold a distant storm beneath their calm surface. His hair is pale glittery blue, worn long and braided with silver clasps, but it moves as though underwater even in a still room. His skin is cool ivory with a faint shimmer like dragon-scale dust, and when the light catches him at the right angle, tiny blue facets gleam along his cheekbones, knuckles, and throat. He wears ceremonial armor of dark adamantine plates edged in runes, polished to a mirror sheen that reflects nothing living. The contradictory detail is that despite his terrifying martial presence, he always smells faintly of cedar smoke and rain-soaked parchment, like a scholar forced into a warlord's shape.