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'''Leavenworth "Grandpa" Smedry''' is an [[Oculator]] and the head of [[House Smedry]].{{book ref|a1|2}}
 
 
Grandpa Smedry has a very energetic and optimistic personality. He is vigorous and fit, despite his old age.
 
== Attributes and Abilities ==
He has the [[Smedry Talent|Talent]] for always arriving late, which he has great control over. It is a time talent very close to the center of the [[Smedry Talent#The Incarnate Wheel|Incarnate Wheel]], for it is very unspecific. He is known to use this Talent to avoid being shot and to survive torture by arriving late to the pain.{{book ref|a1|16}} He is even able to slow down groups of pursuers by switching sides and arriving late to his new target.{{book ref|a4|3}}
 
Alcatraz figures out that he can use his grandfather's Talent to actually arrive early. He asks him to arrive with [[Crystallia|Crystin Knights]] to Mokia much sooner than it would be possible. As a result, Leavenworth was late in reference to the time Alcatraz had given him, but still arrived earlier than he normally would.{{book ref|a4|15}}{{book ref|a4|19}}
 
Leavenworth Smedry is also a very skilled and powerful [[Oculator]]. He owns a rich collection of various lenses and has deep knowledge about them. He values knowledge-granting lens much more than combat ones.
 
== History ==
He helped protect [[Brig Dartmoor|the High King]] from the Librarians when he returned to [[Nalhalla]] and sent knights to help the Mokians during the siege of [[Mokia]].
 
During the infiltration of the [[Highbrary]], he played an instrumental role in keeping [[Himalaya]] and her team of Librarians alive by engaging all the Highbrary's fans at top speed, thereby disorganizing a large quantity of books and distracting their assailants. He arrived late to Attica's confrontation with Shasta and Alcatraz, at which point [[Biblioden]] revealed his true identity by shooting him in the head. However, his Talent returned just in time, and he began using it to arrive late to his own death.{{book ref|a5|part=Bastille's Letter}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
He has the [[Smedry Talent|Talent]] for always arriving late, which he has great control over. It is a time talent very close to the center of the [[Smedry Talent#The Incarnate Wheel|Incarnate Wheel]], for it is very unspecific. He is known to use this Talent to avoid being shot and to survive torture by arriving late to the pain.{{book ref|a1|16}} He is even able to slow down groups of pursuers by switching sides and arriving late to his new target.{{book ref|a4|3}}
 
Alcatraz figures out that he can use his grandfather's Talent to actually arrive early. He asks him to arrive with [[Crystallia|Crystin Knights]] to Mokia much sooner than it would be possible. As a result, Leavenworth was late in reference to the time Alcatraz had given him, but still arrived earlier than he normally would.{{book ref|a4|15}}{{book ref|a4|19}}
 
Leavenworth Smedry is also a very skilled and powerful [[Oculator]]. He owns a rich collection of various lenses and has deep knowledge about them. He values knowledge-granting lens much more than combat ones.
 
== Trivia ==
* Grandpa Smedry has a tendency to curse using the names of Brandon's favorite writers. For example, "Rumbling Rawns!" refers to [[wikipedia:Melanie Rawn|Melanie Rawn]].{{bwswob ref|annotation-alcatraz-chapter-two|''Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians'' annotation for chapter 2|date=2012-02-2813668}}
* His name is a reference to [[wikipedia:Fort_Leavenworth|Fort Leavenworth]], which is the location of the Military Corrections Complex.{{wob ref|13678}}
 
== Notes ==
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