Editing Order of Aecus 13th Age/Bernd the Blackfriar (section)

== Appearance ==

He is of medium height and strongly built, with calloused hands from helping those with whom he lodges in their labours. His head is shaved and his beard is dark brown and bushy. He wears the black habit of his order, whence he gets his name, tied at the waist with a simple hempen rope. When travelling, however, he wears a well-made chain shirt and carries his walking staff, a quarterstaff of oak, shod with copper and carved with small runes representing the tenets of his faith. His forehead is marked with a tattoo of the setting sun, a variation of the Sun god's holy symbol that marks him out as a follower of [[St Malchus]].