Seoman Snowlock

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Seoman Snowlock is a fictional character in Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. He is variously known as Simon Mooncalf, Snowlock, and Seoman. His birth name, given to him by his mother, is Seoman, meaning 'waiting' in Erkynlandish. 'Simon' is the Westerling version of that name.

[edit] Background

Seoman was the only child of Susanna, a maid in the Hayholt, and of Eahlferend, who both died, Susanna while giving birth to him, and Eahlferth during the pregnancy. Simon was taken in by Rachel the Dragon, a strict but kindly maid in the castle.

Soon after Simon's fourteenth birthday, events take place which affect both Simon and the realm of Osten Ard, and the boy is soon flung into a series of misfortunes as enemies both mortal and immortal conspire to destroy both Simon and the world as he knows it.

In The Dragonbone Chair, idle Simon becomes Doctor Morgenes' apprentice. The old man's sudden death at the hands of the red-robed priest Pryrates, however, causes Simon to flee the castle into a secret passageway leading into the labyrinthine halls of Asu'a.