As blood elves go Achates is a bit skinnier than normal, paler perhaps in a way that would suggest sickliness of the typical academic too-many-books-too-little-sun type. His hair is the usual pale blond, down midway to his back, usually kept in a loose ponytail, although it is not uncommon to see it falling out around his face. He can be seen wearing a small pair of brass oval glasses, although he takes them off every five seconds to polish them nervously. He also wears a simple necklace made of a soul shard strung on a leather cord, and fiddles with it nervously quite often.