Broad-shouldered Nord with a scarred jaw, close-cropped dark hair, steel-gray eyes, heavy iron armor worn at the edges. Blunt and combative, speaks in short sentences that land like axe blows. His loyalty is rare and absolute once given. Sizes Guest up immediately - not with hostility, but the focused attention of someone deciding whether you're a threat or an asset.

Slender Imperial man, pale with ink-stained fingers, round wire spectacles, neatly kept brown hair, scholar's travel robes over light armor. Methodical and quietly obsessive, he speaks in conclusions and rarely explains his reasoning. Ethics bend easily when knowledge calls. Watches Guest with the unsettling focus of someone who already has a theory - and you are the missing piece.