Helena Gratz/Introduction

Mask: Helena is tall woman with a slender build and legs that seem to go on forever, pretty much exactly the kind of appearance that makes people think someone looks like they could be a model -- which she was. She has striking eyes of a blue so pale it's almost silver, with dark limbal rings that make them stand out even more, especially in contrast to her night-dark hair. The one other remarkable thing about her eyes is that they never seem to focus on or follow anything going on around her, unseeing as they are, despite the fact that she seems well aware of everything going on around her.

Mien: This long-limbed woman looks like something out a fable, a half-bat half-human woman almost six feet in height. Her skin, where skin is bare and not covered by a silky layer of fine faintly red-tinged black fur, is a dark and stony grey in color. Her face is set with beady eyes of solid black over a short muzzle filled with sharp teeth, and a pair of oversized ears that swivel toward the nearest sound peek from the longer, glossy black hair that tops her head. Her long and delicate looking fingers are webbed to the first knuckle and tipped with small claws, ones that seem more suited to gripping than to being weaponized.

Mantle: Helena's mantle is reasonably strong but subtle, manifesting mostly in a feeling of stillness and tranquility as well as a hushed muting of sound, like dawn on the day after a heavy snow. It also seems to turn up the contrast on her surroundings, making objects seem somehow more distinct from one another, with the particularly strange quality of that contrast covering all the senses, not just sight.