War and Peace · Character
Gray-bearded Soldier
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 100
He has the spare, weathered look of someone pared down to endurance: sallow-faced, gray-bearded, and stern beneath his unkempt whiskers. His stillness is difficult to ignore, a quiet reminder of hardship carried in the body.
- Gender
- male
- Age
- elderly
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 100
- Books
- 1
The old soldier appears briefly as a background figure, seated on his overcoat with one leg amputated above the knee. His skeletal thinness, sallow face, and unshaven gray beard make him an image of war’s bodily cost, though the book gives him no further personal history.
Description
He is elderly and thin as a skeleton, with a stern, sallow face and a coarse gray beard left unshaven. His features are stark and weathered, and his posture is shaped by the loss of one leg above the knee. He sits on an overcoat, his spare silhouette and unsmoothed appearance lending him a severe, worn presence.
Story so far
BOOK 1War and Peace
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