Adso of Melk

Adso of Melk is the young son of Baron de Melk and a novice of the Benedictine order.

Description and Personality
The younger Adso is very curious and inquisitive. He loves reading and studying and is fascinated by the mysteries of the abbey’s library. He consistently questions authority and ponders the impossibility of arriving at definitive solutions to any of the many mysteries and arguments that unfold around him, since it seems everything can be interpreted in many different ways.

The older Adso, by contrast, is more comfortable accepting the limitations of his ability to comprehend the ways of God and the mysterious order of the universe.