| has gloss | eng: Enoch Root (Enoch the Red) is a fictional character from Neal Stephensons novels The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon. He is a religious leader by profession, but can handle himself in a fight, and is also competent in medicine, chemistry, and cryptography. He has ties to a semi-secret society known as the Societas Eruditorum. Randy Waterhouse describes him (in keeping with Randys penchant for describing people in terms of characters or races from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien) as a Wizard. |