Tongueless

Description

A human Obsidian man, barely six and a half feet tall and very thin, past fifty, with a deeply receding hairline and a half-completed scalping that indents the front of his head. He has a filthy beard, extensive tattoos including spirit eyes and runic blue designs, and black Obsidian crescents embedded in the backs of his hands. In chapter 28 he wears an ill-fitting Gray uniform; in chapter 30 he is barefoot in the snow. Tongueless is thin and barely six and a half feet tall, a man past fifty with pale skin and a deeply receding hairline. A filthy beard frames his face, while a half-completed scalping leaves the front of his head indented like the bottom of an egg. Runic blue tattoos cover him in remarkable profusion, including spirit eyes that seem to blink with his own; black crescents are embedded in the backs of his knotted hands. His ill-fitting guard's uniform hangs awkwardly, its short trousers leaving his tattooed lower legs exposed, and his silence gives him a stark, watchful presence. Towering even while seated cross-legged, his old Obsidian frame is a hulking mass of pale, frost-bitten skin stretched over corded muscles and ancient scars. Deep-set eyes peer from beneath bushy white brows, his face a craggy landscape of deep wrinkles, a wild tangle of long white hair and beard framing a lipless mouth that gives him his name. He wears a patchwork homemade exoskeleton of dented metal plates and reinforced joints, a prominent hole gashing through the chest armor, with a heavy ripWing cannon strapped to his shoulder via thick cables. His presence looms like an unyielding monolith, gnarled hands folded patiently, evoking the silent menace of deep-space ice.