A dwarf (by adoption). His adoptive dwarf parents found him in the woods as a toddler, wandering near
the bodies of his real parents, who had been victims of a bandit attack. Also in the wreckage of the cart was a sword, and a ring that was very similar to one recorded as having once been a part of the royal jewellery of Ankh.
When first encountered in the novels he was 6′ 6″ tall (6′ 3″ in his stockinged feet) and nearly sixteen years old, with a big, honest forehead, mighty neck and impressively pink skin, due to scrubbing. He became known as Carrot not because of his red hair, kept short for reasons of hygiene, but because of his shape
– the kind of tapering shape a boy gets through clean living, healthy eating and good mountain air in huge lungfuls. His dwarfish name is Kzad-blat (Head Banger).
