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Listens-to-Wind was tricky. He is Native American and has eagle feathers in his hair as well as a bone necklace. But rather than dive into generic I tried to figure out what specific tribe he is from. Jim Butcher said in an interview he was from a Great Lakes tribe. Which helped narrow it down a little. Then McCoy calls him an Illinois medicine man. So I looked for tribes that were both near the Great Lakes and lived in Illinois before settlers forced them on reservations. Then I tried to find which ones wore both feathers in their hair and necklaces made of bone. I decided on the Pontiac because they fit all those and they have a nice website with pictures of both modern tribe members and historical ones.

So after doing all that digging I based where Listens-to-Wind has his eagle feathers in his long dark braided hair. He’s got his Senior Council robes on but you can see his bone necklace and a bead bracelet on one wrist. His build and height are both average. But his face is described as leathery and angular so I tried to push that.

Martha Liberty doesn’t have a whole lot of description to her. She’s tall and black. She has strong arms so to makes that clear under her senior council robe I gave her broad shoulders. She has a necklace with large stones on it around her neck. Her hair is pulled back into a net that is rests on her neck. And putting in all the given details I tried to fill in the rest by looking at older black woman who are judges. Because I wanted her to reflect that kind of respect you would give someone of a high office like her.