Character from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
A priest dragged from his monastery to serve on a slave ship — a gentle, spiritual boy forced into violence by a father who couldn't accept a son who wanted to pray instead of trade.
Wintrow wanted nothing more than to serve Sa in a monastery, creating beautiful religious art and contemplating the divine. His father Kyle ripped him from that life and forced him onto the liveship Vivacia, and everything that follows is a long, painful education in the gap between what the world should be and what it is. His bond with Vivacia is deep and complicated — she quickened with his blood, and their connection is more intimate than he wanted. His captivity under Kennit transforms him further, stripping away the last of his monastic innocence and replacing it with a survivor's pragmatism that he never stops mourning. Wintrow's faith survives, but it's a different faith — less about the beauty of devotion and more about finding grace in ugly circumstances.
Slim and fine-featured with an ascetic's build and the Vestrit dark coloring. His hands were meant for illuminating manuscripts, not hauling lines. Tattoos mark him from his time among the pirates — a visible record of everything that was taken from his monastic life.
Also known as: Wintrow, Priest