Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright and centered — a frigate captain at a war council, weathered and grim in his early fifties. Lean, wiry build of a lifelong seaman, slightly stooped shoulders. Long face with sharp cheekbones, salt-cracked tanned skin, deep crow's-feet, pale wary grey eyes narrowed in doubt. Short iron-grey hair swept back, a trimmed greying beard. He wears a dark navy-blue naval coat with tarnished brass buttons and faded gold cuff braid over a grey wool jerkin, a worn leather baldric and a slim sabre at his hip, salt-stained breeches and scuffed knee-high black sea boots. One brow raised skeptically, a gloved hand half-lifted in hesitant protest. Setting: a dim candlelit cabin over a war-map table, lantern light, shadowed timber walls.
