Currently on P99 the Custom Cowl of Mortality shows up as a dark tinted Velious Custom Helm. Although it technically always had this tint in the actual item data, it always showed up untinted in-era. If you run an emulated server on an older client such as the EQMac/TAKP client and give yourself the item it will not have a tint despite having modified color values in the database.
Currently on P99:
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I found this old newsgroup post from 2001 that implies that the custom version wasn't colored:
https://dbsanfte.github.io/eq-archiv...-msg-35642.txt
Quote:
Subject: Re: Cowl of Mortality - Trade in graphics
>> Check The Safehouse - same graphics as the plate helms, and I seem to
>>recall they were tradeable. One rogue complained his hat kept getting
passed
>>around by folks that didn't have a custom helm.
>
>Thanks -I'll probably keep mine as it is then. The 'pinty' black look of
>the cowl fits much better with cobalt/warlords than the absurd 'tiki'
>Ogre plate helm, which I'll get sometime anyhow.
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Edit: I think I found the original newsgroup post the above one was replying to, if you're curious:
https://dbsanfte.github.io/eq-archiv...-msg-35300.txt