Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright and centered at the arena gate — a stern registration clerk in his early fifties, lean and tall with a straight, rigid posture. Narrow angular face, sharp cheekbones, thin pressed lips, pale olive skin, close-set grey eyes behind small rectangular brass spectacles. Short slicked-back iron-grey hair with a neat side part and a trimmed pencil moustache. He wears a high-collared dark teal official's tunic with brass buttons, a stiff grey mantle over one shoulder, a leather belt holding a bound ledger and inkwell, fitted charcoal trousers, and polished black leather lace-up shoes. One gloved hand holds an open registration ledger and quill, the other rests flat against it. Humorless, disapproving expression, one eyebrow slightly raised. Behind him, a tall stone tournament gate with iron scrollwork and queue barriers.
