Cafal was a hulking White Face Barghast, first son of Humbrall Taur and brother of Hetan and Netok. In Dust of Dreams, Setoc described him as not yet thirty. He was also a healer and shaman. Cafal's face was smeared with white paint, giving it a skull-like appearance. His shoulder length hair was braided, stained red with ochre, and knotted with bone fetishes. He had heavy brows and filed teeth. He wore a hauberk and gauntlets threaded with holed copper and silver coins of unfamiliar mintage. He and his brother and sister carried a mix of weapons, including lances, throwing axes, fighting axes, hook-bladed swords, and assorted knives and daggers. Gruntle found him and Netok miserable, taciturn creatures who seemed singularly thick.