Description from original post (created 2012-07-13 15:26):
Carrot is a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.He first appeared in the book Guards! Guards!
Adopted by dwarves after the deaths of his human parents, Carrot grew up in the mines. He is "six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders". His dwarfish name is Kzad-bhat, which, roughly translated, means "Head Banger", a logical nickname for a 6-foot-6-inch-tall (1.98 m) man living in a mine built by 4-foot-tall (1.2 m) dwarfs. He was quite surprised the day he found out that he was human. His adoptive father thought that he ought to go and live amongst humans, and found him a job with the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch under the misapprehension that they were respected and respectable.
Paragraph from Ankh-Morpork City Watch wiki page.