Wendell Trepan is a fictional character who appears in Philip José Farmer's short story "The Freshman". He is an upperclassman at Miskatonic University and chairperson of the rushing committee for the Lam Kha Alif fraternity,
Farmer provides a description of Trepan:
| “ | an enormous youth. He was a head taller than Desmond’s six feet and so fat he looked like a smaller version of the Santa Claus balloon in Macy’s Christmas-day parade. He wore a dingy sweatshirt on the front of which was the ubiquitous M.U., unpressed pants, and torn tennis shoes. | „ |
Trepan has minor magical abilities--for example, the ability to temporarily relax magical protections on books. He claims to be the descendant of "the Cornish witch, Rachel Trepan". She is said to be from "Tredannick Wollas near Poldhu Bay"; the body of water is real, the village is a fictional one that appears in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".[1]
References[]
- ↑ Baker Street Wiki, "Tredannick Wollas"