Character from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The stone-faced guardian of the Archives — a man who has made himself into a wall between the world and dangerous knowledge, expressionless as a locked door.
Lorren does not raise his voice. He does not need to. He speaks in measured sentences that carry the weight of absolute authority within the Archives, and his disapproval is expressed through silences that could crush stone. He banned Kvothe from the Archives for bringing a candle inside — not out of malice but out of a devotion to the preservation of knowledge that borders on the religious. Every book, every scroll, every scrap of paper in the Archives is his responsibility, and he bears that responsibility with the gravity of a man guarding a sleeping god. He may know more about the Amyr, the Chandrian, and the secret history of the world than any living person, and he has carefully ensured that much of this knowledge is inaccessible. Whether this is protection or suppression depends on who is asking.
Tall and thin, with a long face that shows precisely nothing. His features are arranged in permanent neutrality, as if emotion were a book he had read once and returned to the shelf. He moves through the Archives with the quiet authority of a man in his own cathedral. His robes are immaculate, his hands careful, his eyes the only part of him that reveals the intelligence burning behind the mask.
Also known as: Lorren, Master Lorren