The Kingkiller Chronicle · Character

Caudicus

• Minor
• First seen · Book 2 · Ch. 55

A thin scholarly man with curling black hair framing a narrow face dominated by a strikingly long hawkish nose moves with deliberate precision. His slender build and pale complexion come from a life spent in dim laboratories and libraries rather than in sunlight while he wears a long dark garment reminiscent of a master's robe with sleeves rolled up during his alchemical work. A leather cord bearing a lead piece resembling an Arcanum guilder hangs around his neck beneath the robes completing the portrait of a cautious intelligent court arcanist whose keen features suggest a mind always calculating the next move.