He is wearing a gold ring bearing the seal of Shard, a loose robe of black velvet fastened at the throat with a lotus medallion, a high-collared white silk shirt, a bronze-fringed grey sash, a leather sheath reinforced with bronze cap and cross-strips, some fitted grey trousers trimmed with black braid, a pair of knee-high black leather boots and a leather dispatch case embossed with the seal of Shard.