Cool start on the hair! For the beard I think you'll want to get rid of the stepping effect by angling the roots of the cards and by adding transition cards on top.
I'm still a student so take my advice with a grain of salt. With all the fires that are roaring in that room, shouldn't it be bright instead of dark in there? It's very hard to see and the lighting makes the fires seem more like arbitrary graphics instead of selling the room as a real place. I think the floating embers are…
Looking at the buffer visualizations would help you identify the root of the problem. You probably have different roughness on the decal from what you have on the wall.