Character from The Black Company by Glen Cook
Company wizard, cheat, drunk, and the oldest man who refuses to die — been running the same cons for longer than most Company brothers have been alive.
One-Eye is the Company's wizard in the way that a stiletto is a weapon — small, dirty, and more dangerous than it looks. His sorcery is minor by Taken standards but effective at the grunt level: illusions, hexes, small combat spells, and the ability to cheat at cards in ways that technically aren't magical but probably are. He's been with the Company longer than anyone can verify, which means either the Annals are wrong about his age or he's too mean to die. His feud with Goblin is the Company's longest-running entertainment. They hex each other's food, sabotage each other's spells, fight like cats in a sack, and would die for each other without hesitation. The bickering is how they say they're family. One-Eye would never admit this. Neither would Goblin. Everyone else knows. He runs every racket in camp — brewing bad liquor, rigging dice, selling questionable charms to gullible soldiers. The Captain allows it because One-Eye's petty criminality is a morale tool.
Small, black, ancient, wearing a ratty black felt hat that's older than some civilizations. One eye — the other's gone and has been gone so long nobody remembers how he lost it. Looks like he should've died of old age decades ago. Smells like he did.
Also known as: One-Eye