Colour
Copperheads were stolen away by the elves. The superstitious will dye their child’s hair green for the first few years of his or her life, to ‘ward off fay eyes’. Ravenhair, goldhair and mudhair are other varieties of hair.
- Silverlings can have their hair stained silver.
- The Witchmen exclusively have copper hair
- The Black Ziggurat is patrolled by white-haired minotaurs (18.26)
- The half-elf Ceralin found white creep into her hair by age 100 (17.05)
- Turning Lord Alevari into a zombie made his hair midnight black (see Lady Alevari).
Length
- In Gore, a woman may cut her hair short to become a man (07.18).
- The cataphracts of Elhanen (from the Golden Realm) have span-high hair.
Hair colours
- The Jester Prince has copper hair, while Lady Natala and the Duke of Thring do not, which suggests that the copperhead child of Natala is his.
- Seline has hair as dark as the night sky but it shines brighter than a thousand stars; her sister Eliana has golden hair (Seline and Eliana)
- The bartenders of The Giant and the Gnome all have white hair and claim a common ancestor.
- Olga Pignose’s hair is flowing midnight with such a sheen as to make even the elves of the Kingswood gasp with envy (17.07)
- The Ancient Gardener has grey hair entwined with vines (36.04)
- Jaustina, landlady of the Two Adders, has iron-hair (40.20)
Facial hair
- A Jahuri man’s vitality is measured by his beard and mustache. Thin-haired men may spend fortunes on various poultices and oils in hope of attaining admirable facial hair.
Use
- Tristifer Bartley found a ladder of human hair leading leading into the top floor of one of the towers of the Sleeping Vale (30.03). Other towers are entered by other means.
- A pointing bone (see Howling College for more details) can be wrapped in hair.
- The cyclopses of Monatheron (43.12) smear their hair with nutrients to attract luminescent beetles, a practice adopted by Shuttered courtesans.
- Handsome men can climb into Zaal using a rope of elven hair.
- According to Lisbet’s Lament, they bound Lisbet with cords of young maidens’ hair (20.08).
- Wild men do not use clothes, but instead wrap their braided hair around themselves.
Other
- The Hair of Angzen is the name of a parasitic vine (32.21.
- The name of the dwarven clan Ishin Kaimanu (05.06) is usually translated as “dead man’s hair” or “battle beard”
- The Lion loses its mane and the woman tears out her hair in the Chant of Morning