Carrot Ironfoundersson is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. He starts his career in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch as a Lance Constable and later becomes a Captain. The Discworld Companion gives this description of the character:
Carrot Ironfoundersson is Captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch police force. Bulging with muscles, this two metre (six-foot-six-inch) dwarf (adopted) remains honest, good-natured, and honourable...
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Carrot Ironfoundersson is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. He starts his career in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch as a Lance Constable and later becomes a Captain. The Discworld Companion gives this description of the character:
Carrot Ironfoundersson is Captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch police force. Bulging with muscles, this two metre (six-foot-six-inch) dwarf (adopted) remains honest, good-natured, and honourable despite the city's best efforts.
His dwarfish name is Kzad-bhat, which, roughly translated, means "Head Banger", a logical nickname for a 6' 6" tall man living in a mine built by (and for) four foot tall dwarfs.
Adopted by dwarfs after the deaths of his human parents, Carrot grew up in the mines, gaining his given name because of the stature he developed from all the hard work there—"six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders". He was quite surprised the day he found out that he was human. His adoptive father thought that he ought...
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