Brarnor Steelcask bears the unmistakable presence of a battle-hardened dwarf. Broad-shouldered and barrel-chested, he moves with the weight and purpose of stone in motion. His long beard, braided in the fashion of, is streaked with ash-grey and deep copper, bound with steel clasps engraved in Khuzdul. His brown hair is kept short.

His face is rugged, marked by a jagged scar that crosses his left brow, earned during the Battle of Dale. Deep-set eyes, the color of smoldering garnet, reflect both weariness and quiet resolve. He wears a heavy leather coat reinforced with mail. Across his back rests his trusty axe: Stâlgilrein (khuz. Stâzgilzîn), translated into the common tongue as Steel of the Lone Star. A rune-stone hangs from a chain around his neck, Rafenrune, , glowing faintly with inner light. It bears the sigil of a single star, a lone star, rising over an anvil encircled with wings of a raven.