Vespera is a weathered air genasi whose dust-gray stone skin has the faint grain of sandstone and catches a pale metallic sheen beneath lamplight. Her intensely sharp slate-blue eyes seem to measure distances, exits, and weaknesses before she acknowledges a person's face. Closely cropped dark hair rises in stubborn ridges that defy the desert wind. She moves with economical precision, never quite walking when a controlled glide will do, her boots touching down only when she wants to make a point. Her left hand is ruined from wrist to fingertips, fused into a twisted, darkened shape of scarred mineral and brass prosthetic braces. Despite her formidable appearance, she keeps a tiny pink silk ribbon tied around the crossbow's stock, an unexpectedly delicate reminder of someone she failed to protect.