Among the race called Dajina, Lathan O-ama is a fine example of ideal masculine beauty. Attractively short with skin an icy white-blue shade, narrow lavender eyes, and long white hair deepening into violet as it cascades past his shoulders, Lathan is desirable to most of the females of his kind. Two orchid-colored horns grow upright on his head, curving slightly, and it is these horns that mark him as a middle-caste member of Dajina society. A silver cord drapes between his horns, held in place by silver rings, and from this cord hang short strings of beads. He stands on digitigrade, four-toed feet that are lightly furred with white feathering and bear a fifth toe at the heel. His tail is slim, ending in a pure white tassel.

His clothes are simple in form but well decorated in patterns, richly-colored and matched to his bead-strings.

To compare Lathan to an absent-minded professor is to have him practically down pat. Though this young off-worlder is a highly intelligent man of books and history, possessed of an endlessly cheerful demeanor and yearning for learning, he easily forgets minor things and can overlook all else in the pursuit of knowledge. Being able to learn some new bit of history or, Ru-Urven forbid, to be able to record some happenstance of history as it occurs can work the cheery fellow into a tizzy of frantic exhilaration. He always carries a notebook with him, both to record those important little things he tends to forget, and to always be ready in case some new historical event unfolds before him.