One of the hardest aspects of our game seems to be the mandatory description, which you should have at 5th rank but often don't write until 10th or later when forced to while sitting alone in the cold and heartless Realm of the Dead. Some people have a flair for description, you look at them and you can actually see them. Others struggle with the concept of what they look like. Many hope that to explain that they wear cloaks (and thus you can't really see them) will get them out of the Realm of the Dead and back to gaining ranks. Truthfully, at this point only the Ancients can really claim that, and before they become Ancients they need to have decent descriptions. Time was when the help file on description writing was a confusing mess, but it makes more sense now. Still, sometimes sitting in the Realm of the Dead is not conducive to creative description writing.

Those characters whose descriptions caught my eye in 1998 are listed here for your perusal. To see the descriptions which caught my eye in 1999, click here.
And look here for those which caught my eye in 2000.
And look here for those which caught my eye in 2001.