The Kingkiller Chronicle · Character
Skoivan Schiemmelpfenneg
Also known as Schiem
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 73
Skoivan cuts a wiry figure against the road, his scraggling beard framing a face squint-hardened by endless suns. There's a grim rhythm to his step, bell tinkling like a warning, knife gleaming with practical menace. He feels like hardship personified, unyielding and etched with survival.
- Gender
- male
- Age
- middle-aged
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 73
- Books
- 1
Skoivan Schiemmelpfenneg appears as a lean, leathery tinker with his bell-stick and pig-dressing knife, trading and carving meat at a branding. His nose reddens from the hot iron as he works methodically. A minor roadside encounter for Kvothe, he represents the gritty wanderers populating the Commonwealth's edges.
Description
Skoivan is a lean, wiry middle-aged man with leathery skin weathered by the sun, his grim face perpetually squinting under a shapeless hat. A scraggling beard clings to his sharp jawline. He carries a long stick topped with a crude bronze bell and a long dressing knife at his belt, with a tattered bag slung over one shoulder. His presence is stark and unadorned, clothes ragged from travel.
Story so far
BOOK 1The Name of the Wind
Appearances
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