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Compare [[Reclusive Artist]]. Sub-trope of [[The Hermit]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Old Master]] Dohko from ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
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* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Mostly Harmless|Mostly Harmless]]'', Douglas Adams describes a whole colony of Hermit Gurus- one of whom replies to most questions by running off a copy of her biography, advising that if you read it and do the exact opposite of her choices, you won't end up living alone in a cave, on a mountain, answering dumb questions.
* There are several in [[Discworld]].
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* In one short fantasy story, a rich [[Jerkass]] decides he is going to be the first to climb an extremely dangerous peak in Nepal. He runs across a "wise man" in one of the villages at the base of the mountain and makes some comment about how the stupid natives admire the dirty, lazy, almost naked old man, the natives thinking the old man is wise. When {{spoiler|the [[Jerkass]] finally, after a great deal of effort, reaches the top of the mountain, he finds the Wise Man there. When the Wise Man asks how he got there, the stunned [[Jerkass]] just waves his arm, indicating the climb. The Wise Man says, "You walked??!?"}}
* In the [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] poem ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'', the eponymous Mariner visits a hermit in order to beg forgiveness for shooting the Albatross.
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** The most stereotypical example is the ancient Hindu hermit encountered by Prince Dasa in another of the stories written by the protagonist.
== [[Live
* K'anpo Rimpoche/Cho Je from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Planet of the Spiders'' (also mentioned in ''The Time Monster'') was a hermit who the Doctor approached in his youth at what was at that point the worst day of his life.
* A female version appears in ''[[Blackadder]]'', in the form of 'The Wisewoman'.
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* ''[[Hagar the Horrible]]'' sometimes met them too.
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', adventure S4 ''The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth''. A hermit (with psionic powers yet) lives in a cave in the Yatil Mountains of the [[Greyhawk]] campaign setting. If approached politely he will give the [[PC]]'s some information and will trade a useful item.
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[[Category:Characters As Device]]
[[Category:Solitary Tropes]]
[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]
▲[[Category:Hermit Guru]]
[[Category:Introversion Tropes]]
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