Ruddily

Many a hand's on a richer hilt, / But none on a steel more ruddily gilt; [...]

I notice that each of the myriad towel carts on the Dreamward’s Deck 12 is manned by its very own Towel Guy, and that their Towel Guys are ruddily Nordic and nonspectral and have nothing resembling withering neutrality or boredom about their mien.