Character from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
The previous White Prophet — a dark-skinned man who served his age and should be resting, but keeps getting pulled back into the fight because prophets never truly retire.
Prilkop is patient, kind, and faintly amused by the way each generation of prophets repeats the same mistakes. He served as the White Prophet before the Fool, fulfilling his own age's requirements, and should be done. But the Fool's crisis draws him back, and he accepts this with the weary grace of a retired soldier hearing the bugle call.
A tall, dark-skinned man whose coloring is the visual opposite of the Whites — the Black Prophet to the Fool's White. He is old and weathered but carries himself with the gentle dignity of someone who has seen enough futures to know that worrying about any of them is pointless.
Also known as: The Black Man, Prilkop