Hilda Jot'Nar
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| Her appearance was one such matter. For someone who actively flaunted social norms, she still went to great extent to appeal to them. She was a taller woman, and her flair for tall heels (not high heels mind you, she liked her neck unbroken) on her boots made her stand even with most of her crew, but that wasnt on purpose. Her years of sailing and climbing ruins and fighting for her life made her lean and spry. She was aging gracefully too. Long flowing hair was difficult to keep well on the open sea. Her chestnut-honey locks had to be secretly treated with an oil to resist the effects of the salty wind. The style worked well, her face was a short one with a rounder profile and her hair helped it appear more lengthened. A couple of braids kept key strands out of her eyes. Her features werent delicate, but they were well formed, and she seemed to smile naturally and had prominent dimples. She bothered with enough perfume and cosmetics to make it seem like she didnt use any. Jadar never saw her apply them, but hed been in her cabin enough to know she hand ample supply. But what got attention were her eyes and her apparel. As for her eyes, the singular is more appropriate for she only had the right one (from a viewer's perspective, to Hilda it was her left eye), and it was a deep blood red, with the sclera having a slightly yellow tint to it. If you got close, it wasnt a perfect red, more like red with small chips of another, dark color mixed into it. Most observers thought her Spellcursed because of that eye. Her apparel was scandalous. Right now, she wore a Captains jacket with its epaulets and cuffs which mocked a masculine style, but this one had been custom made to fit her. Its buttons were carved from obsidian, and she favored colors which looked, but werent quite, black. This particular garment was a deep purple, the darkest hue she could find. The white silk blouse she wore underneath it was a much more feminine garment. Her leggings were the color of a red deers hide, though a shade or two darker. That was one of her tricks, her leggings were often neutral colors. She accessorized it with a tricorne that matched the jacket, but had a white lace fringe on its brim, and an eyepatch in a deep ocre color with a small silver divot in its center over where her left eye should be. Hilda favored an eyepatch design that had three straps, and had a way of running them through her hair to hide said straps. She had a case full of them, in different colors and materials. She didnt wear a ring on every finger but she wore enough, and a simple pendant and a few bracelets rounded it out. She was never gaudy with her jewelry, she liked to wear things that were very expensive but only people who knew what they were looking at would understand that, and she liked to coordinate her stones. Her bracelets however were wooden, and some of them were far more valuable looking than they appeared. Purple heartwood and petrified ironoak where not common substances, but it took a keen eye to spot them. |