Character from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
A scribe who hunts legends with ink instead of iron — rational, methodical, and entirely unprepared for the truth behind the stories he has come to record.
Chronicler is a man of letters in a world that runs on blood and fire. He speaks precisely, asks pointed questions, and has the journalist's instinct for the gap between what is said and what is meant. He came to the Waystone Inn seeking a legend and found a tired man behind a bar — and he is stubborn enough to sit through three days of story to understand why. He uses iron bindings, a rare skill that marks him as more than a simple scribe, and his encounter with Bast reveals a man who can keep his nerve when the world turns strange. He is the reader's proxy — skeptical, fascinated, occasionally horrified — but he is also his own man, with his own reputation and his own quiet courage. He believes that truth, properly recorded, matters more than legend.
Unremarkable in the way of men who have trained themselves to observe rather than be observed. Middle-aged, with the worn look of a man who travels hard and light. Spectacles, ink-stained fingers, the careful posture of someone who spends too long hunched over writing. Carries himself with quiet scholarly authority that evaporates entirely in the presence of Bast's anger or Kvothe's silence.
Also known as: Chronicler, Devan Lochees, Devan