Race: Halfling (Mwangi tribesman)
Age: Mid 30’s though he appears a decade younger.
Height: 2’10” (0.86 m)
Weight: 27 lbs. (14 kg)
Hair: Black (Mid-back length and dreadlocked, small animal bones and wooden beads woven into their length.)
Eyes: Dark brown
Skin: Ebony and fresh with the glow of youth. Glossy burn scars wind vine-like from the palm of his right hand up his arm and eventually across the side of his face and into his hair.

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When someone says the word "halfling" most people have a fairly clear image in mind of their appearance and demeanor. Easygoing and cheerful, cherubically plump people of almost child-like stature, blending easily into other cultures and existing alongside them. If that image is correct, Nalong'ela is a halfling only in height, for his features are broad and flattened by his Mwangi birthright: smoothly ebon skin marred by an intricate vine-like pattern of glossy burn scars that spread upward from his palm across his right side until they vanish into his hairline, deep brown eyes the color of soil, thick lips and a sinewy build that verges on emaciation. He carries himself with a quiet seriousness that combined with his nimble, economical movements feel at first feral, bordering on predatory. His night-black hair is long, tangled by exposure and lack of attention into dreadlocks woven with carved bones and wooden beads. Garbed in the hides and leathers he wears almost exclusively, there is little that appears to tie him to civilization at all.

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It is only on the closer inspection that most forego that the fine details show his ties to humanity. The bones and beads woven through his hair are carved with runes in druidic, the distillation of a lifetime's lessons in ecology condensed into single words. The predatory stillness soon reveals itself as calm stoicism, a patience tempered by moving at the pace of the world around him. Nal's voice when he speaks is deep and mellifluous, a rich baritone and while he sometimes struggles for the right word in common, it is a rare event that he speaks rashly or without consideration. Nalong'ela is a man who walks in two worlds; the world of men and the world of nature, and he is dedicated to balancing the two to his very core.

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Until very recently walking in the world of men was complicated by the marks of a past very different from the one he strives to embody. Sharpened fangs and blasphemous ritual scars marked the druid as a cannibal and worshiper of Zura the Vampire Queen. He bore the marks with a resigned dedication, a permanent reminder of what cost fanaticism and evil bore. The favor of a nature spirit has burned those away, and while the change has not left the druid unmarked, the brand of that favor is a mark of pride rather than regret.