Character from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
A Wrannaman scholar who doesn't fit his swamp or the wider world — the League of the Scroll's youngest member, caught between two cultures and useful to both.
Tiamak is a man between worlds. Too scholarly for the Wran, too Wrannaman for the scholars. He studied in Ansis Pellippe under Morgenes' recommendation and returned home to find he no longer quite belonged. This alienation makes him observant, careful, and quietly brilliant — the person in the room who notices what everyone else misses because he's always watching from the margins. He's skeptical of religion, analytical by nature, and possessed of a dry humor that surfaces when he's comfortable. His knowledge of herbs, tinctures, and medicines makes him invaluable in the field. He keeps messenger pigeons — including one named Ink-daub — as a link to the wider world. After the war, he becomes Councilor to King Simon and Queen Miriamele, finally finding the place where his dual nature is an asset rather than an obstacle.
Short and brown-skinned with the compact build of someone raised in the marshlands. Dresses in a blend of Wrannaman practical clothing and the scholar's garb he adopted in Nabban. Carries himself with the careful posture of someone perpetually aware he's the smallest person in the room and the most educated.
Also known as: Tiamak