Kershaw Turnuroth is a sapphire dragonborn with a barrel chest, narrow waist, and a distinctive, recurved nose horn somewhat resembling a stylized lightning bolt. Their scales are various shades of blue, from a deep ultramarine to cerulean, with the skin beneath being a pale yellow. Small crystalline formations have developed on his knees and elbows, and his brow crests and tail barbs are made of a slightly flexible, translucent material of deep blue. His digitigrade legs end in large, clawed feet, and like his hands, have five radially-symmetrical digits. Each of these are tipped with thick, curving claws. On his hands, the outermost of these digits are opposable to the palm, while the corresponding foot talons are pulled against the tarsal area of the foot, largely used only to clamp down when additional traction or support are required.
His head is large and wedge-shaped, with a pronounced underbite in his massive lower jaw. This jaw has rows of internal teeth, with the back teeth adapted to crushing shell and bone. The chin and 'lower lip' areas of the mandible are topped with keratinous projections that add a menacing aspect to his face. The muscular tongue is forked, ranging in color from pale pink at the tips to a darker purple color towards the back. This appendage is extremely flexible and can extend up to a foot out of his mouth. His ears are a membrane of thin skin stretched between two articulated spars of cartilage, and are located immediately behind the prominent cheekbones. His eyes are a brilliant blue, with flecks of cyan in the large irises, surrounding vertically-slitted pupils. Above the eye and traveling back along the outer edge of the top of the skull are a series of 'crystals' made of the aforementioned flexible material. These brow crests sweep away from the head straight back, curling slightly inward as they grow. Similar crests are present along the bottom edge of his lower jaw, reminiscent of mutton-chop facial hair. The head tendrils begin behind the ears on the sides of the head, darkening to nearly black at their tips.
The scales of his body vary greatly in size and texture, with the smaller, finer-scaled areas around his joints generally being of lighter shades. The larger, denser plates on less flexible regions (back, forearms, lower legs) tend to form in broad horizontal bands, with small ridged protrusions. These 'armored' areas resemble crocodilian scutes, being infused with bone.
Kershaw largely eschews the wearing of traditional clothing, partly due to the difficulty of finding tailoring for his unusual proportions, but largely from his comfort with near-nudity from his time as a gladiator. Though he finds it unneeded, he typically will wear a loincloth, with various additional harnesses and accessories of polished leather.