Beard

Beard is a member of the Wall Guard in Kholinar.
He tells Kaladin that he used to do secret missions for Amaram back in his operative days. He says that it's a good story and that he'll tell it sometime.
He claims that the barracks recipe for flatbread is his own. That he is a chef who learned it from a Horneater mystic at the top of a mountain.
With regard to Kaladin joining the Wall Guard, Beard says that if he knows how to kill people, it's good enough for them.
With regard to Highmarshal Azure, he tells Kaladin that they don't talk about the marshal's secret (i.e., that she is not a he).
Beard claims that he met the Blackthorn. That the man complimented him on his uniform, and that he gave him his own knife for valor.
Upon seeing Adolin wearing a false face and a yellow suit after the new fashionable style, Beard tells of an experience he had in Steen. When he was done there, he still wasn't as colorful as the preening cremling.
He tells Kaladin that he can't go around trusting middlers (such as men like what he saw of Adolin), unless they're good officers like the highmarshal.
Seriousness aside, he says that one day he'll have to infiltrate the Cult of Moments, maybe marry their high priestess. He admits though that he's terrible in a harem.
When Kaladin asks him whether he'd known anyone in the Palace Guard ranks, Beard tells him that he got close to the palace a little while back. That he heard voices whispering to him to join them. He tells Kaladin that the highmarshal said they have to close their ears to those. That unless they listen, they can't be taken.
After Kaladin kills one of the Fused during their attack upon the wall, Beard exclaims that he actually did so.
When Beard asks Kaladin if he knows the Blackthorn, Kal tells him better than most. When Beard then asks Kaladin whether he knows that Beard and the Blackthorn never actually swam in the Purelake together, Kal tells him yes, and that he suspects the rest of the squad guessed that already.
==Appearance==
Beard is a short man with hair on the backs of his hands. He does not, in fact, have a beard.
He wears the traditional white armband that one would tie a glyphward around, but his is blank. He says this is because he knows a lot about telling which stories have been made up ... and that nobody is watching over them.
==References==
Category:Alethkar (people)
Category:Military (people)