Habitually clad in the somber garb of Kelemvor's faithful, Lyssander Khiver ("the Pale" in Celestial) is a powerful, if often taciturn presence in any gathering.  His tall, athletic frame explains only part of the silent aura that draws eyes to him; his pale skin, though unusual in someone who gives the appearance of a traveller rather than a scholar, does not quite account for the rest.  There is something else, in the priest's stance, his gestures, his penetrating eyes - at times calming, at times unsettling, a sense of lightness and grace but also of something profoundly wrong, even predatory.  If Lyssander is aware of the effect he has on others, he does not use it to thrust himself into the center of attention, but is usually content to remain an enigmatic presence in the background.

A hooded, elbow-length half-cape frames the priest's broad shoulders in flowing, thick black folds.  Resembling the mozzetta favored among many clergy in Cormyr and the Dales, yet it is fastened with a plain silver clasp in the Waterdhavian style rather than buttoned over the breast.  Beneath the cape, a knee-length travelling robe of severe thundercloud-grey is cinched at the waist by a broad leather belt, from which an unadorned, weathered god's-mark is suspended on a tarnished silver pendant.  Below, sturdy trousers are tucked into a pair of road-worn boots.  A long steel chain is wrapped a couple of times around the cleric's well-muscled midriff, its ends folded together at his side and disappearing into some fold or pocket of his robe.  A long curved dagger-sheath at his belt is the only visible weapon Lyssander carries, but a rustling from under his robe hints at a hidden mail shirt, and something in the priest's bearing suggests he is far from defenseless.

When girded for battle, Lyssander wears his soot-bonded chainmail shirt openly, over his robe, and part-covered in turn by a tabard - either a featureless dark scarlet tabard, or, when prepared to identify himself as a Sealer, a steel-grey tabard emblazoned with a jawless skull atop a set of golden scales, an unusual amalgam of Kelemvor's emblem and Jergal's.  The ends of his battle-chain - no mere self-flagellant's toy - reveal cruelly-wrought blades, with fearsome spikes set into the links just short of the ends.  Meanwhile, the mail shirt's forearms are covered by  heavy bracers, made of a gleaming dark material that does not seem metallic in nature.  Along the outward-facing side of each bracer, a wavy line of bronze - or bronzed metal - provides some ornamental relief against the severely plain contours of the bracers themselves.  Thin bronze lines also highlight the upper and lower rims of each bracer.