The Azhurans are short and lean, the men rarely more than 5 feet 4 inches tall and the women more delicately built with an average height of about 4 feet 11 inches. Skin colour varies from dark to light brown, and the typical Azhuran face is broad with a prominent, and often hooked, nose. Eyes are black or brown and almond-shaped.

Their hair is coarse and straight. Men usually wear it fairly short and plain, but the shamans have their own distinctive hair style and most warriors shave off their hair except for a small ponytail in the back, due to the heat. The women let their hair grow long. Normally it is allowed to hang loose, but on festive days it is braided with colourful feathers.

Hair on the face is considered unpleasant, but nature collaborated with art by endowing the men with only meagre beards. Shaving is therefore unnecessary; facial hair is plucked out with tweezers and, as a further aid towards good looks, Azhuran mothers apply hot cloths to the faces of their young sons in order to stifle the hair follicles and inhibit the growth of whiskers. Only old or distinguished men (who can afford to ignore fashion) wear beards, and these are at best thin and wispy.

Both men and women have great powers of dexterity, and from childhood the ordinary people have been used to hard physical work. Even the women are accustomed to walk great distances when needed, following the men and carrying a share of equipment as well as any newly born infant. People of importance pride themselves on their behavior, and try always to move gracefully, accompanying their conversation with dignified gestures and assuming an expression appropriate to the occasion.

Here is a Vhaluran observation:

The people of this land are well made, rather short than tall. They are swarthy as panthers, of good manners and gestures, for the greater part very skillful, robust, and tireless, and at the same time the most moderate men known. They are very warlike and face death with the greatest resolution.