<i>His was a figure alien and incongruous, his red mane contrasting with the black locks around him no less than his dusty gray mail contrasted with the plumed burnished headpieces and silvered hauberks of the slayers. He was tall and powerful with a wolfish hardness of limbs and frame that his mail could not conceal. his dark scarred face was moody, his blue eyes cold and hard as the blue steel whereof Rhineland gnomes forge swords for heroes in northern forests.