Carrot Ironfoundersson

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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. Carrot may be the true heir to Ankh-Morpork's throne (a subject filed under "I wouldn't ask if I were you").

His dwarfish name is Kzad-bhat, which, roughly translated, means "Head Banger".

Adopted by dwarfs after the deaths of his human parents, Carrot grew up in the mines, and was quite surprised the day he found out that he indeed was human. He set off to Ankh-Morpork in search of work and it was given, albeit quite hesitantly, by Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch.

Carrot joined the Night Watch while it was still only a small group of miscreants running from evildoers rather than trying to subdue them (see Guards! Guards!). He has some difficulty with this attitude, as his "old-fashioned" view of justice led him to arrest the leader of the entirely legal Thieves' Guild on his first day.

Captain Carrot has made quite a name for himself, making sure he knows everything and everyone in the city by name and tax papers. He is big on paperwork and organisation and always (often to the dismay of his "lady-friend", Corporal (later Sergeant) Angua Von Uberwald) sees all sides of a story before plowing into it wholeheartedly.

Carrot is often thought of as simple and nonthreatening, which is a very dangerous conclusion to come to if you are the unlucky person who disappoints this boy's honest nature. Truly, Carrot's simplicity is his cunning. He is not quick to jump to conclusions and doesn't like to disappoint those that he cares for.

When Sam Vimes planned to retire after his marriage to Lady Sybil Ramkin, Carrot was made his successor to the position of Captain of the City Watch. He is not particularly skilled in comma placement and has a bit of trouble with the whole concept of "i before e." In the novels, he is considered "the Disc's most linear thinker".

While it is in fact relatively common knowledge that Carrot is the true heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork he doesn't acknowledge it, and thus it isn't brought up often. The Patrician, Havelock Vetinari, considers him useful for this reason as well as others, as it means that a revolution under the claim of being true heir is impossible, and that if anyone complains that only a king has the authority to do something he does, he can simply gesture or refer (obliquely) to Carrot.

In The Art of Discworld Pratchett says that Carrot has a bright future ahead of him "should Lord Vetinari not survive the next assassination attempt".

Carrot is also famous enough in the town of Ankh-Morpork that there are Carrot Ironfoundersson action figures in production, sought after by children. (Hogfather)

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