A note on appearances.
Much of Blodwen's current seeming is illusion of a sort, but it's not the standard kind of illusion that someone with powers, etc., could immediately see through or reveal by breaking a spell. However, there are some clues to her deeper nature and the source of her new power that might be observed by someone with the power/ability to break through the top level of illusion, as follows:
Dress, obvious: The dress she wears is long-sleeved and floor length, in cut and fit much like a simple shift dress with a high cowl neck and a loose sash belted at her hips. The shade is a deep, rusty red, very similar to the color of dried blood.
Dress, hidden: It's made from funeral cerements.
Veil, obvious: The gray gauze veil she wears is light and airy, almost translucent. It covers her hair and the lower half of her face, but hides neither - if anything, it merely softens and blurs what's veiled. (Her eyes are not covered.)
Veil, hidden: The thicker woven strands of its weaving are cobwebs, and the material itself is dust blown onto their sticky strands.
Form, obvious: Blodwen looks very much in face and body as she did when last seen in the bar. (This does in fact mean that she can be recognized by those who know her.) Her hair is the same medium brown, her eyes are still blue, etc.
Form, hidden: Her true shape is the gaunt, wasted figure that she was left with after her long imprisonment in the clay statue, and her hair is bleached straw. (Her eyes, however, are the same.) N.B.: This deception can only be broken by touch after the top level of spell has been pierced, as she has crafted dust (and possibly other things) into an actual physical semblance.
Scent, obvious: Blodwen now wears a distinctive but subtle perfume. It's hard to identify all the elements, but there are hints of spice and sweet fruit mixed with a touch of earth. It's a complex and lovely scent...
Scent, hidden: ... until one manages to discern that the spices are things like myrrh and cloves, used to preserve decaying corpses, the fruit is too-ripe and rotten in its sweetness, and the earth is the dust and dry ash of tombs.
Dress, obvious: The dress she wears is long-sleeved and floor length, in cut and fit much like a simple shift dress with a high cowl neck and a loose sash belted at her hips. The shade is a deep, rusty red, very similar to the color of dried blood.
Dress, hidden: It's made from funeral cerements.
Veil, obvious: The gray gauze veil she wears is light and airy, almost translucent. It covers her hair and the lower half of her face, but hides neither - if anything, it merely softens and blurs what's veiled. (Her eyes are not covered.)
Veil, hidden: The thicker woven strands of its weaving are cobwebs, and the material itself is dust blown onto their sticky strands.
Form, obvious: Blodwen looks very much in face and body as she did when last seen in the bar. (This does in fact mean that she can be recognized by those who know her.) Her hair is the same medium brown, her eyes are still blue, etc.
Form, hidden: Her true shape is the gaunt, wasted figure that she was left with after her long imprisonment in the clay statue, and her hair is bleached straw. (Her eyes, however, are the same.) N.B.: This deception can only be broken by touch after the top level of spell has been pierced, as she has crafted dust (and possibly other things) into an actual physical semblance.
Scent, obvious: Blodwen now wears a distinctive but subtle perfume. It's hard to identify all the elements, but there are hints of spice and sweet fruit mixed with a touch of earth. It's a complex and lovely scent...
Scent, hidden: ... until one manages to discern that the spices are things like myrrh and cloves, used to preserve decaying corpses, the fruit is too-ripe and rotten in its sweetness, and the earth is the dust and dry ash of tombs.