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Scion of a family of football hooligans, she breaks generations of convention by falling in love with Trevor Likely, who supports an opposing team. The recent news that . One of Ankh-Morpork's most successful businessmen, Harry King appears in The Truth, Making Money, and Raising Steam, and is referred to in Going Postal and briefly in Night Watch by Lu Tze. He is a habitual speaker of Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang, the only known rhyming slang in the universe that does not actually rhyme. The moniker, "King of the Golden River," is unlikely to be a reference to the River Ankh, which is brown due to centuries of waste being dumped into it, but is more likely to be a scatological reference, as suggested by the previous sign. This force used Ginger to attempt to awaken the Holy Wood guardian, which would have put a stop to the Holy Wood magic and prevented the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions from breaking through to the Discworld. History of the World Part 2 | Trailer | Hulu. Bel-Shamharoth Betty 'Shufti" Manickle Big Yan Bilious Bill Rincewind Bjorn Hammerhock Black Zenell Blind Hugh Blind Io Bloody Stupid Johnson Boddony Ransak Boggett Bouffant Bowell Bravd Brick Broadman Brutha Buckleby Buggy Swires Bundo Prong C Canting Crew Captain "Mayonnaise" Quirke Captain John Keel (The Watch) Captain Swing Captain Tilden Category:Discworld humanoid species. The Ankh-Morpork official Hangman and executioner, possibly its Chief Executioner, although others have not been specifically mentioned. This mainly involves figuring out which deaths needed to be attended to personally, an important aspect of all reality. It has been noted that many Ankh-Morporkians tend to have a certain literal mindedness. Harry ends up betraying the Horde (as a villain, it is his job), though when the horde confronts him about his betrayal they praise him for still being a reliable Dark Lord even at the end. Her establishment is used as a place to stay by Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg in Maskerade (on the recommendation of 'Nev' Ogg, though Granny Weatherwax had stayed there previously with Eskarina Smith in Equal Rites) and by Carrot on first settling in Ankh-Morpork (in Guards! His name is an allusion to the Chinese legendary figure Lao-Tze, the sage to whom the Tao Te Ching is attributed. Where he learned his trade is not stated, perhaps trained by members of one or other of the Guilds, but the Patrician, himself trained at The Guild of Assassins is clearly impressed by Mr. Trooper's expertise. Foul Ole Ron is in one verse of Sam Vimes' 'City Version' of "Where's My Cow?". The timeline in which this happened has, however, been eradicated following Death's intervention, and he was last seen working in a fried fish stall in Quirm, a clear reference to Kirsty MacColl's song "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis". As Nobby Nobbs put it after being told of the 'Soggy Mountain Dew' claim of '150% proof', "It ain't got no proofjust circumstantial evidence.". Pteppic's half-sister and successor. When his aunts block up his bedroom door to stop him from leaving, he muses that he has only been left with a false panelled hidden door, a passage behind a tapestry and a trap door in his floor. However, Mr Slant has also been involved in more sinister affairs. Snippets of Tacticus' advice turns up in various Discworld chronicles, and it can be gathered that he was a very realistic, down-to-earth general. Ironically, despite his rather feminine manner and distinct lack of martial prowess (the expression "a big girl's blouse" is British slang for a wimp), he turns out to be one of the few characters in the novel who is genuinely male. Pronounced "de Chuffley" (which, as Pratchett says, is not his fault). When she foments this plan, Rincewind, Twoflower and Hrun the Barbarian are passing close to her mountain country. This allowed Mort to stay in the world of the living. By this time, however, Victor had left Unseen University to become an actor in Holy Wood, under the stage name Victor Maraschino, and the test paper in question was, instead, received by accident by Ponder Stibbons. Guards!. This is best described as 'the feeling you've been kicked in the head this way before'. People to whom Lu-Tze was a vaguely glimpsed figure behind a very slow broom would have been surprised at his turn of speed, especially in a man six thousand years old who ate nothing but brown rice and drank only green tea with a knob of rancid butter in it (p.317). As the new owners did not really understand the clacks the way the previous management had, they worked it until it broke. Both men can become violent, but Mr Pin's violence is more directed and instrumental. She is descended from the High Priestess of Holy Wood, and while sleeping, she was repeatedly possessed by an unknown force, possibly the priestess. Produced as a two-part miniseries for Sky One adapting the first two Discworld novels, there is much to admire about The Color of Magic. In 2004 BBC Radio 4 adapted Mort, with the title character voiced by Carl Prekopp and Ysabell being voiced by Clare Corbett. Jackrum trains Polly Perks and gradually earns the respect of all the recruits. Quimby's reign ended when he was killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment to test the truth of the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword". This is in part a reference to Martin, the pessimist philosopher and sweeper in Voltaire's Candide. His authorship of the scroll De Chelonian Mobile, a statement of facts which contradicted Omnian dogma about the shape of the Discworld, partly motivated Vorbis's plan to invade and annex Ephebe. For example, no bard was allowed to say of a hero that "all men spoke of his prowess" on pain of death; he should instead add that some people spoke ill of the hero and that still others did not know of him at all. It's a meditation on religion, personal morality . During this time he showed several unique powers, being able to sense the direction of a time disturbance, balancing the "load" of time down to less than a second after a Time Crash (which a man with 50,000 years experience claims he could not even hope to do) and reacting to (and being reacted to by) the Mandala, a visual display of Time on the Disk. Lord Rust makes more sizeable appearances in Jingo and Night Watch, wherein he appears overly bred and arrogant; a brief subsequent appearance in Monstrous Regiment suggests he still has some of the intelligence of his earlier portrayal. He was introduced to the discworld series in the book Making Money. Unlike Ron, who asks people for money to stop him following them, Coffin Henry makes money by not going anywhere. He is apparently unaware of the fact that he has a duck on his head, and has little memory of his life previous to joining the Canting Crew, referring to it only as "when I was someone else". He has also been known to sell 'fong shooey' advice, mail-order martial arts lessons (under the alias 'Grand Master Lobsang Dibbler'), 'Dibbler's Genuine Soggy Mountain Dew', souvenir snow-globes and advertising space in the Ankh-Morpork Times. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. He appeared in Eric and is briefly mentioned in Pyramids. Reforming the Church along tolerant, humanist lines, he reigns for a hundred years before dying. Examples include the Johnson Exploding Pagoda and a chiming sundial that tends to explode every other day around noon. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 15:11. He is the muscle of the New Firm and, though an instinctive killer, recognises Mr Pin's cognitive skills and leaves the thinking to him. For some reason it is a popular location for circumspect meetings. Lobsang inherited powers directly from his parent; she, indirectly from a foster grandparent (Death). Theda claims Mrs. Cosmopilite would not mind Victor Tugelbend coming with her up to her roomassuming they would be going up for sex, but they had a different reason. She has a prominent role in The Light Fantastic and a small cameo in Eric. This means that both he and you have exactly the same aim in mind."[10]. His body is presented by Brutha to the generals of an invading anti-Omnian alliance in order to prevent a bloody war, although this is unsuccessful, with Didactylos saying that "it takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die" due to the impact they leave upon the world. Near the end, he consults with Casanunda, a 'ladies man' dwarf that had assisted in the defense of the kingdom. The Discworld equivalent of Odysseus. Swing moves and speaks in an erratic, jumpy fashion, in bursts and sputters, rather than a continuous flow of movement or sound. Ly is arguably the greatest philosopher on the Disc, although he is usually the one arguing for this. In Raising Steam, Adora and Moist are married and living in Scoone Avenue, Ankh. After the time crash he goes out into the world to stop the second Glass Clock (under the pretext of being shown the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite), which was being constructed by his then unknown temporal double, Jeremy Clockson. He became a Private Investigator. His first name is also a Latin word meaning "prison". In the Easter 2008 Sky One adaptation of The Colour of Magic, she is played by Karen David. Another example given in the text is "cup-and-plate"no definition is given, but "He's a bit cup-and-plate in the head" implies it means "not quite right.". Eventually, Trev joins the newly formed footballing league, and Juliet embarks on a new life as a WAG and fashion model. When the philosophical community came to the conclusion that distance was an illusion and all places were in fact the same place, Ly was the philosopher to make the famed conclusion that although all places were in fact the same place, that place was very big. Terry Pratchett. He is also one of the three founders of Morecombe, Slant, and Honeyplace, Ankh Morpork's leading legal practice. His architecture and other inventions remain. In the animated adaptation of the novel, Imp was voiced by Andy Hockley, and his final fate is changed to working as a gardener at Susan's school; their interactions are rewritten throughout the adaptation to imply a developing romantic relationship. Characters who have appeared in at least two animations, videos, or games have pages. "Mort", short for Mortimer, is the title character in Mort. His one recorded act (The Colour of Magic) was to direct the Assassins' Guild to 'inhume' the tourist Twoflower at the request of the Grand Vizier of the Agatean Empire, contrary to the orders of the Emperor; the attempt failed. Eric is granted these wishes during a journey across Time to the Tezumen Empire, the Tsortean War, and the beginning of the universe, albeit as forms of ironic punishment. In fact, it outclasses him, and is usually referred to in text as being almost another character entirely, who occasionally arrives ahead of Ron, opts to stick around for a while after his departure, and even goes to upper-class parties without him. By the fourth book in the series, I Shall Wear Midnight, Roland and Tiffany have realised that simply being different from those around them does not mean they are similar, and Roland decides to marry Letitia Keepsake, a good-natured if somewhat pampered aristocrat. In several Discworld books, a character is admonished to "remember what happened to Mr Hong when he tried to open the Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on the site of the old fish god temple in Dagon Street on the night of the full moon." A plump, over-breasted girl who runs the Night Kitchen in the Unseen University until the events of Unseen Academicals. His Greatness the King Teppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High-Born One, the Never-Dying King of Djelibeybi (lit. Although seemingly destined for the game of football, he refuses to play, on account of his Mum, who saw his father, the only player to score four goals in a career, die during a game. It is possible that he is the ancestor of Rincewind as his name means "rinser of winds". After murdering Pseudopolitan watchman John Keel (forcing Vimes to assume his identity and role as mentor to his younger self), Carcer climbs through the ranks of the Unmentionables, Homicidal Lord Winder's secret police, until he is brought back to the present by Vimes after pursuing him with a death squad under the orders of the new Patrician, Lord Snapcase. Hrun owns a magic talking sword, Kring, which he stole following a battle, and lived to greatly regret it due to the sword's talkativeness. Twoflower supplies them with a wedding present of a box of Agatean money, which he believes to be inconsequential but which Rincewind comments, out of earshot of Twoflower, would buy them a small kingdom. After previous experience with Nanny Ogg's writing he is anxious to avoid innuendo, but is not entirely successful. His most famous housing project, Empirical Crescent, tends to drive residents insane if they do not move out quickly or simply disappear. Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang sold green beer, location unknown but suspected to be tropical rain forest, possibly Howondaland. Carcer's full name was shown in a preview of Night Watch to be Carcer Dun, but this was never revealed in the completed book. He also gave Tiffany a box of watercolors, one of which was turquoise, allegedly very expensive on the Discworld. (2001). His final thought in the novel is, 'This is ing good wood!". Rate. She was last seen in an amorous relationship with Nijel the Destroyer. Guards!). It is not known if this is the result of Quimby's rule, or simply a natural trait that reached its peak in him. In the book Carpe Jugulum he is responsible for discovering the phoenix. Liessa abandons Rincewind and Twoflower to their fate and catches Hrun on her dragon, and the two share a passionate kiss. Castle falconer at Lancre, Hodgesaargh is not his actual name, but some misunderstanding has been caused due to his birds' habit of attacking him when people speak to him (i.e. This theory is borne out by the appearance of several versions of Dibbler throughout the Discworld series: Other Dibbler equivalents include Ratonasticthenes from Ephebe, mentioned in The Science of Discworld. Discworld In Order. When Carlotta Von Uberwald came into his life, Lewton's life changed forever. The couple are given the title of Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit, and later also become the parents of Susan Sto Helit. William de Worde described him as someone with "no discernible personality." Lewton appears in the third Discworld computer game, Discworld Noir. When he starts to hear about the strange murders being committed by the "Opera Ghost", his first concern is how expensive the murder might prove to be, though he does acknowledge the seriousness of the event as well. Figurines & Replicas. In Carpe Jugulum they have a daughter; Princess Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre. Blouse seems to be a direct contrast to Jackrum the small, skinny, naive man is brilliant with numbers, and in one notable scene, thinks faster than Jackrum and uses a signaling device to misdirect enemy forces, whereas Jackrum would have simply smashed the device and moved on; a sign of warfare on the Discworld changing, with intelligence and technology beginning to take the place of bravery and fighting skill. Celyn is Welsh for Holly). Ironically, Jackrum turns out to be a woman as well, having joined the army in her youth along with her lover, who died in battle, leaving the young Jackrum pregnant, something that she covered up by taking her considerable accumulated leave. In Snuff, it is revealed that Harry King has since been given a Knighthood. Susan Death), who is also a human who inherited qualities from an anthropomorphic personification. He is quiet (if a tad sarcastic) and almost unshockable. In total, there are 41 Discworld novels published over 32 years. In this novel he seems to have keen political instincts; it is stated that the Rusts have survived by not being romantic. Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000. These tend to be rather common inert items such as chalk, pickles and corned-beef sandwiches. Discworld MUD is a multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. The most noticeable results of his attempts at modernising the kingdom have been a Parliament that no-one attends and an invasion of vampires due to a diplomatic gaffe. As a member of the Cheesemongers, Private 'Ozzer' Perks serves with the colourful Sgt Jackrum, a reformed vampire named Maladict, a troll called Carborundum, an Igor, and a few even stranger people, who are, in fact, all women in disguise. He has no understanding of the Agatean/Ankh-Morpork exchange rate and often overpays, primarily because even the smallest denomination of Agatean coin is made of pure gold, and, thus, often pays for small items and minor services with enough wealth to buy a sizable fraction of the city. Before the couple can embark onto anything intimate however, Hrun is snatched away by Rincewind and Twoflower riding Twoflower's dragon Ninereeds. She spends much of her time in the palace kitchens, apparently because she enjoys being helpful, rather than because she is mistreated. He appears to be an homage to the famous cynic, Diogenes, who was similarly disliked by his contemporaries for focusing on the 'wrong questions'. (In Cockney rhyming slang, the expected derivation would be "syrup of figs.") He ordered a book on the subject ("The one with the woodcuts,") from Ankh-Morpork, only to discover (in what would have otherwise been a horribly embarrassing scene) that he'd been mistakenly sent a book on MARTIAL Arts instead (he quickly recovers from the shock and presents the book to Shawn Ogg, the castle's only guard, as if that had been his intention all along). It is generally said that if a D'reg is one's friend he is one's friend for the rest of one's life, and if he is not one's friend the rest of one's life will be about five seconds; to still be alive five minutes after meeting a D'reg tribe is a clear indication that they really like one. His basic philosophy is that there is nothing that someone will pay to have removed that someone else will not pay to acquire. THE NIGHT IS OLD. Stars: Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield, Annette Crosbie, Eleanor Bron. When Duke Felmet murders King Verence and takes over the small country of Lancre on the Discworld, three witches are involuntarily tasked with protecting the king's baby son. Small Gods. He sold strange green liquid made by monks living on a mountain according to an ancient recipe (Lance-Constable Carrot disputes this, but it turns out that it is actually true; however, the monks making the liquid for him have no idea what he does with it). Omnia is an autocratic theocracy that believes in one God named Om. Johnson is well remembered, but has long been deceased. Mr Hong never appears in any of the books, having (apparently) died before the start of any of the stories, but appears to form an important part of Ankh-Morpork's collective memory. He is at his best selling intangibles; physical merchandise tends to hamper his patter somewhat. A former handmaiden, she was originally condemned to death for not voluntarily dying in order to serve the previous king in the afterlife (effectively on Dios's orders as Teppic wished to grant her clemency). 'Wherever people are prepared to eat terrible food,' it says, 'there will be someone there to sell it to them.'. They fall in love, mainly owing to Bethan's patience and skill at curing Cohen's back problems, and decide to get married, despite Rincewind's apprehensions about their age difference. Hobson is a large man, described as looking similar to the result of shaving a bear. One of the two remaining employees of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office prior to Moist von Lipwig being made Postmaster. [3] Considering the fragile sanity of the Canting Crew, there's a chance he might have put that contract on himself before becoming a beggar. I for sure remember there was an Arabic sounding Dibbler in Omnia in Small Gods, there was Disembowl Myself Honorably from Agatea in Interesting TimesI swore there was a Djelibeybian Dibbler from Pyramids but I may be mistaken. In Jingo, it's noted that "D'reg" is not actually their name for themselves, but a name given to them by others. He is the undisputed head of any legal action in the city and is one of the major members of the civil council. Mr Pin and Mr Tulip are very similar in many respects to Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, a violent duo in Neverwhere, written by Neil Gaiman. This incident was reported in The Ankh Morpork Times, and a widow approached him, swayed by 'a man who knows his hygiene.' When Tiffany went to Lancre to study witchcraft in A Hat Full of Sky, Roland gave her a silver necklace in the image of the giant white horse that is carved into the Chalk; Tiffany uses the necklace as a symbol to draw on the power of her homeland in times of crisis. In the miniseries, rather than vanishing, Bethan and Cohen show up at the docks, already married, to bid Twoflower goodbye as he heads back home. Similarly, the phrase "her face launched a thousand ships" could only be used to describe a beautiful woman if relevant shipyard records were produced or, failing that, evidence that the woman's face resembled a champagne bottle. Her name is a reference to Theda Bara. Given a barbarian hero's attractiveness to nubile young maidens, Cohen has quite a lot of children; in The Last Hero he mentions casually that he has dozens. Therefore, Victor studied extremely hard and, when finals came around each year, carefully and competently scored an 84; four points above the minimum to continue receiving the legacy, but four points below the passing grade of 88 (On one occasion he actually passed by accident, but appealed against it on the grounds that he felt he'd failed to pay adequate attention to some details and he would not feel right to pass over the more eligible candidates; he subsequently only received an 82 and an 83 in the later exams as he was trying to be careful). In a scene unusually erotic for a Discworld book, Liessa strips naked before Hrun to see if his desire for her will be strong enough for their relationship to work. Blouse is promoted to the rank of Major by the end of the book. For biographies of noted members of the Discworld's "ethnic minorities" (dwarfs, trolls, undead, etc. The Compleat Discworld Atlas. Altogether Andrews is a mass of multiple personalities (none of them named Andrews) in one mind, many of which are of considerably higher social status than him; these include Jossi, Lady Hermione, Little Sidney, Mr Viddle, Curly, the Judge, and Tinker; the eighth personality is simply known as Burke, who was only seen once by the canting crew (though not in any narrative), and they had no desire to ever see him again. Former childhood friend to Samuel Vimes and later secretary to Lord Vetinari. Walter is helped by Agnes Nitt into combining both aspects of his personality together so that he can become the director of music. For example, the section of his autobiography entitled "What to Do When One Army Occupies a Well-Fortified Fortress on Superior Ground and the Other Does Not" begins with the sentence "Endeavour to be the one inside. Commander Vimes is persuaded by his wife Sybil and Lord Vetinari to take a family holiday at the Ramkins' countryside estate; Willikins, Vimes's thug-turned-butler, accompanies them. Verence II is a very well-meaning king, who takes running a kingdom very seriously (he takes most things seriously, having learnt at a very early age that being a Fool was no laughing matter), but things seldom turn out the way he might want. Lu-Tze first appeared in the novel Small Gods as a minor character described as follows. Eventually he was apprenticed to Lu-Tze after his teachers were unable to teach him. He appears in Maskerade, where he makes a great deal of money out of Nanny's book, and is surprised she wants some of it. He fled the show, and he happened upon a group of travelling accountants, and discovered his talent for numbers. Reacher Gilt appears in the novel Going Postal. Official figurines, models & collectable figures from Terry Pratchett's Discworld! Jump to navigation Jump to search. The first tourist ever on the Discworld, he wrote "What I Did on My Holidays" after his return to the Empire. 1. During these hard times, Lewton took a bribe which ended in him being permanently excluded from the Watch. During the last years of his reign, he was extremely paranoid, albeit with good reason. Other characters in this series include Adora Belle Dearheart, Lipwig's acerbic, chain-smoking love interest; Gladys, a golem who develops a strange crush on Lipwig; Stanley Howler, an obsessive young man who was raised by peas and becomes the Discworld's first stamp collector; and the very old Junior Postman Groat, who never got promoted to In the TV adaptation of Going Postal, Stanley is played by Ian Bonar. Mr Pin is the brains of the New Firm, a duo of interloping criminals in The Truth. She gave him the Mundy Case and although Lewton did not know it, she used him as a puppet in order to find Mundy (of whom she said was her lover but he was really an informant for her cult). However, when the party is within sight of the citadel, Vorbis knocks out Brutha and abducts him, returning to the Citadel to be ordained as the Eighth Prophet, where he informs everyone that he led Brutha through the desert; when questioned by Brutha, Vorbis offers the "fundamentally true" reasoning that he had led Brutha through a "desert of the soul". Appears in Pyramids; by the end of the novel she is enthusiastically embracing many of the stranger regimens, such as bathing in ass's milk, favoured by Cleopatra. Eventually a type of fingerless glove is named for him. He was looking for a job that was romantic, but did not involve hard work, which Holy Wood provided. Votes: 1,021. He and Laddie blow up the Odium picture-throwing pit during the disrupted premiere of Blown Away to kill a creature from the Dungeon Dimensions and the destroy the portal created by the "click"; being left for dead, he climbs out of the wreckage and reverts to being a normal dog when the Holy Wood Dream ends. In the TV adaptation of Going Postal, Drumknott is portrayed by Steve Pemberton. Sto Lat still had a queen by the time of Going Postal, though she is not mentioned by name. He was the finest military mind on the continent of Klatch. His incarnation of Jeremy had romantic inclinations to Myria LeJean, the first embodied Auditor, who shared the feeling but was not able to express it, due firstly to Jeremy's nullification and secondly due to her committing suicide via 10,000-gallon vat of chocolate at the end of Thief of Time. He was killed in The Fifth Elephant, after having helped produce the replica of the Scone of Stone. However, unlike Susan, who is mostly human, Lobsang is "mostly not" humanhe has the mindset and "infuriating smile" of a God, and thinks in 18 dimensionshe claims that even seeing in only 4 is hard, making it difficult to maintain corporeal form. 'Well, the night is young,' said Albert, sitting back in the sacks. In the Cosgrove Hall animation of Soul Music, Mort is voiced by Neil Morrissey. Liessa catches Hrun on her own dragon, and the couple share a passionate kiss. When at one point the far-flung city of Genua, whose royal family had interbred itself into extinction (the last king having tried to continue the royal bloodline with himself), asked Ankh-Morpork for a Duke, Tacticus was promoted and sent there. Carcer is said to have a talent for unnerving people, an annoying laugh (written as 'haha' in the book) and a perpetual conviction of his own innocence despite his many crimes, which include at least two murders. 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