Marduk is not conventionally attractive but does have a rough handsomeness to him, but it is mostly his wit and whimsical charm that wins him admiration.
He is of average height with golden brown hair, made to look darker by his almost unnaturally pale skin. His amethyst eyes, though kind, are nearly hidden by his sunken eye sockets, beneath his overhanging brow.
Marduk is an outlander who has trouble making sense of local customs.
He is an acolyte of the Red pantheon, a group of gods whose religion is secretive in nature, but not clandestine or malign; embodying the ideals of freedom at all costs.
(In particular he is a disciple of Xocherotes Besdion, goddess of love, fertility and motherhood).
Their followers are averse to any force or body who would impose their views at the cost of liberty, no matter how 'good' or well meant those views would appear to be.
His inability to understand the marriage or mating customs of other has lead put him in a number of fairly dangerous love triangles and has a had to flee a number of angry lovers or, in some cases, their wives or husbands.