An ashen husk appears as a bone dry animated corpse. Its flesh is so dessicated that it appears nearly skeletal. The air around it wavers with a dry, sucking heat. as if the corpse brings with it the soul of the waterless desert.
Ashen husks lost their lives to unquenchable thirst. The evidence of their dry death is obvious as a supernatural deliquescent aura. Many ashen husks died of exposure in the open desert when they became lost without water. Sometimes entire caravans go lost, and many of these unfortunate creatures might be seen years later as stumbling corpses with a thirst born in hellish heat.