Character from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
Naglimund's one-eyed archivist — a gentle, stammering priest who discovers that his obsessive attention to old manuscripts may be the key to defeating an undead god.
Strangyeard stammers when nervous, which is almost always. He apologizes compulsively, defers to everyone, and radiates the energy of a man who would genuinely prefer to be back in his library. He is almost comically ill-suited to wartime — anxious, physically unimposing, easily startled. But he is also the man who pieces together the prophecy of the three swords. His lifetime of obsessive scholarship, his meticulous archival work in Naglimund's library — one of the finest in Osten Ard — gives him the intellectual tools to decode what the League of the Scroll couldn't. He's proof that quiet, unglamorous expertise matters as much as swords in a war against a sorcerer-king. He becomes a Scrollbearer during the war, the newest member of the League, and finds in that role a purpose that finally matches his gifts. His friendship with Tiamak — two scholars united by the conviction that knowledge matters — is one of the trilogy's warmest relationships.
Thin and anxious-looking with a patch over one missing eye. Ink-stained fingers. The look of someone who has spent his entire life indoors surrounded by books and can't quite believe the outdoors is happening to him.
Also known as: Strangyeard, Father Strangyeard