Is there a proper description of Sir Arhinus val'Holryn anywhere? In Dry Rain he is only described as a clear eyed val wearing andrean plate and wielding a longsword and shield. However, later in the module his eyes were described as 'blazing.' The module is also unclear whether his eyes are clear because they look dead or clear because he is an awakened Psionic Val.
It made me wonder if he is close enough to looking 'normal' to pass for living or not? That also made it occur to me that I don't recall any official description of how a generic Chosen of Neroth looks - aside from Sir Arhinus, all the undead I recall from modules and books are other specific kinds of undead (vampires, liches, etc). I do remember that in Spear of the Lohgin (which I unfortunately don't have access to anymore) there was an illustration of an undead knight (it may have been Sir Arhinus, or it may have been a different Knight-Protector of Ashvan whom suffered a similar fate - I don't know and can't look it up) whom looked almost normal except that he appeared gaunt (malnourished gaunt, not necessarily dead gaunt) but had glowing eyes. However, the in the descriptions in Dry Rain Sir Arhinus had glowing eyes in one scene but not in another.
So that begs the question: Do Chosen of Neroth undead, specifically (as opposed to other types of undead such as liches), not decay and instead look like they did in life, but gaunt, and have eyes that only glow in intense situations such as combat? That would explain and reconcile all the descriptions I've seen of Sir Arhinus (including Spear of the Lohgin, but again, I don't have that book anymore to double check that it is the same Knight Protector of Ashvan), but I can also see it being possible that the module just lacked a proper description out of an oversight.
I ask for these specifics because I have will soon have a PC in the 5e campaign (posted this question in this subforum, because Sir Arhinus only appears in a Legends event, not any 5e event to my knowledge) whom is being brought forward from the d20 campaign and is by pure coincidence extremely similar to Sir Arhinus (Chosen of Neroth, Milandisian Knight, follower of Hurrian, etc), and I'd like as much info as possible on exactly how she should look (I would like that to be as true to the lore as possible rather than just making something up) before I purchase and paint a new miniature (it never mattered in the D20 campaign because she had a hat-of-disguise first and glamoured / greater scintillating armor later, so her appearance was largely moot, so my gaming group and I never looked into it any further and I just kept using the same mini and description I had used when she was alive - now its going to matter a great deal). (BTW, while I attended the LARP Sir Arhinus first appeared in during the d20 campaign, I was NPCing, so I never got to interact with him or get a proper description back then either)
EDIT: for clarity, I mispoke above - she is a former Milandisian Knight, current Almerican Knight - same point though.
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5e character: Ser Heidi val'Tensen, AKA Ser Adelheidis Sigrid val'Tensen of Moratavia
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