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. On arriving at the Great Desert he tries to use his phrenological skills to determine Death's character, only to find that Death has no characteristics he can measure. In The Fifth Elephant, Gaspode is employed by Captain Carrot to track down Angua after she flees back to her native berwald, where he explores his lupine nature. (Gollancz, 1989) However, after Death managed to sort out the alterations to the timeline with the Gods, she became Queen Kelirehenna I, Lord of Sto Lat, Protector of the Eight Protectorates and Empress of the Long Thin Debated Piece Hubwards of Sto Kerrig. He lives at 13 Midden Lane, Pseudopolis. William also appears in Monstrous Regiment, as a war correspondent in Borogravia along with Otto von Chriek, and is mentioned in Thud!, Making Money, Unseen Academicals, and Snuff. He would not for example use a candlestick to knock someone out cold or steal it for its silver content. His cosmopolitan nature clashed with the hidebound traditions of the kingdom and the even more hidebound high priest Dios, and after saving Djelibeybi from destruction and shaking up its traditions, he abdicated, leaving the throne to his half-sister Ptraci I. Pronounced "de Chuffley" (which, as Pratchett says, is not his fault). He claims his original crime was stealing a loaf of bread (a nod to the protagonist of Les Misrables), though Vimes says that Carcer's style would be to murder the baker and steal the whole bakery. Hex is a computer unlike any other the Disc has ever seen, which is not particularly exceptional because previously, all other "computers" on the Disc had consisted of druidic stone circles. "Hello, my name is HodgesARRRRRGH"). However, he introduces the concept of insurance to Ankh-Morpork (in particular to the landlord of the Broken Drum, which would prove fortunate as the city and tavern were both consumed by flame (albeit not entirely by accident)the policy allowed the Broken Drum to be rebuilt as the Mended Drum.). He attempts to avenge her by challenging the Grand Vizier Lord Hong to a duel. Publisher in Ankh-Morpork. Brutha was an Ommnian novice in Small Gods. "Child of the Djel", the Disc's version of Egypt) is the main character in Pyramids. She appears in Witches Abroad as an attractive young woman with brown skin and blonde hair. Initially cautious, she eventually relents and allows Juliet follow her dream. His nickname was inadvertently suggested to him in Night Watch by the time traveling Samuel Vimes, who instantly rued it. Liessa is never seen or mentioned after this. Jingo Men At Arms Night Watch Snuff Thud! Moist von Lipwig mistakes the dogs for pedigree Lipwigzers (probably Discworld Rottweilers, although Rottweilers are referred to as themselves in Carpe Jugulum,) a particularly savage breed of dog, but one which, as a Lipwig, he is familiar with, and is quite intrigued to find that the commands used to discipline lipwigzers still work on them (though they may have only been responding to the tone and confidence shown by Moist). His trousers and socks are confirmed as being highly explosive, as a result of the gunpowder-like solution they are treated with. Hobson is a large man, described as looking similar to the result of shaving a bear. Meaning "Two-Fingered" in Ephebian, Didactylos is a philosopher, based on Diogenes of Sinope, who comes into the stories in Small Gods. According to rumour, Hobson employs an Igor with a talent for taking body parts of different horses, and stitching them together into a "new" animal (see chop shop). This failed and he found himself personal assistant to the Dragon King in Guards! 140 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy. In Jingo, it's noted that "D'reg" is not actually their name for themselves, but a name given to them by others. Tiffany was nonplussed, and claimed she needed no apology or recompense so long as he ruled justly when he became Baron. His relationship with Mr Salzella is one of mutual distrust and Mr Bucket has no time for Salzella's dry wit and humour, especially when Salzella is making crude comments about people having been hanged. A worker at the Unseen University's candle vats, though he seldom does any work, leaving most of it to the affable goblin (actually orc) Mr. Nutt. They can, however, toy with this rule; Samuel Vimes passed one of their many cultural "tests" by refusing to eat the sheep-eye soup traditionally offered foreigners to see if they'd go for it. It means "enemy" (in this case, everybody's) and the D'regs adopted it out of pride. The Carpet People. Small Gods is always the book I recommend to people as their first foray into the Discworld. The Discworld is the fictional setting of Terry Pratchett's most iconic fantasy novel series. In Interesting Times Cohen became Emperor of the Agatean Empire, having conquered it with his allies, the Silver Horde. In Going Postal she wears a wedding ring and is assumed to be married, presumably to William de Worde, although she still refers to herself as Miss Cripslock. This may be because of Snapcase's mental disorder, which caused him to be very secretive while trying to spy on everyone else. List of Discworld locations. Her unusual middle names are the result of a Lancre tradition that whatever the priest says at the naming ceremony is your name (thus, Lancre once had a king called My-God-He's-Heavy the First, as well as a current farmer named James What the Hell's That Cow Doing in Here Poorchick, usually called 'Moocow'). The Dark Side of the Sun. Victor, however, decided that being a student wizard was greatly preferable to being a wizard, because as a student he could live a relatively safe and comfortable lifestyle while as a wizard he would face the risk of assassinations by students wishing to advance. One of the birds he breeds is the wowhawk, or Lappet-faced Worrier, which is like a goshawk only more soit prefers to walk everywhere and faints at the sight of blood. Plinge is an awkward, nervy figure in a beret, whose alter-ego is the Opera Ghost. He is also one of the three founders of Morecombe, Slant, and Honeyplace, Ankh Morpork's leading legal practice. He is something of a contradiction: a remorseless killer with the refined soul of a true fine-art connoisseur. He is also the author of The Arts of Falconrie and Hawking. Earlier in the aforementioned book it is stated by Cohen that Harry began with "two lads and his Shed Of Doom". Against all expectations, he acquitted himself admirably. Unlike Ron, who asks people for money to stop him following them, Coffin Henry makes money by not going anywhere. However, Pratchett has denied any conscious reference in this case.[7]. This is in part a reference to Martin, the pessimist philosopher and sweeper in Voltaire's Candide. From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. flag. His obsession with his own security left him no time to govern or affect history. Twoflower is a native of the Agatean Empire, on the Counterweight Continent, living in the major sea port of Bes Pelargic where he works as an "inn-sewer-ants" clerk. In addition to the standard loincloth, Nijel wears woolen long underwearhis mother insisted. 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. Sto Lat still had a queen by the time of Going Postal, though she is not mentioned by name. According to Moist von Lipwig he is roughly the same age as Moist, who is 26 in Going Postal. Roland personally apologised to Tiffany when his father made out that he had in fact rescued her, as would be expected in such a story. In The Light Fantastic, Cohen helps the other two protagonists, Rincewind and Twoflower, save a seventeen-year-old girl named Bethan, who was to be offered as a sacrifice. Verence had gone through much of the story subtly trying to deal with a major problem, namely that he was not quite sure how to actually consummate the marriage. After having an iconograph taken of him by Otto Chriek using dark light (light on the opposite side of darkness), Mr Pin experiences guilt and extreme paranoia for the various crimes committed by the New Firm. His name originates from his catchphrase ' and at that price, I'm cutting me own throat.' For biographies of noted members of the Discworld's "ethnic minorities" (dwarfs, trolls, undead, etc. Eric inherited most of his demonology books and paraphernalia (as well as a talking parrot) from his grandfather; his parents, apparently convinced that their son was destined to become a gifted demonologist, allowed him free rein over his grandfather's workshop. This list consists of human characters. [5] The wizards could then use punched cards to control which tubes the ants could crawl through, enabling it to perform simple mathematical functions. His debut novel, A Man With One of Those Face s - a comic crime novel - was published in 2016 and spawned The Dublin Trilogy books and the spin-off McGarry Stateside series. Appears in The Truth, Going Postal and Making Money. Because she helps lay the fires, the palace cook nicknamed her "Embers" (she is, of course, the Discworld version of Cinderella, although the full nickname "Emberella" is referred to as sounding "like something you'd put up in the rain"). He reveals that when he was a puppy, he was placed into a sack with a brick (which he thought was his mother) and thrown into the River Ankh (which, due to its unwater-like qualities allowed him to chew through the sack and escape). In Feet of Clay, he has become Foul Ole Rons Thinking Brain Dog and part of the Canting Crew. Bergholdt Stuttley 'Bloody Stupid' Johnson is an inept engineer and landscape artist, famous the Disc over for a single-minded approach to his crafts that can best be described as 'demented'. In the TV adaption of Going Postal, Gilt is portrayed by David Suchet. He has also been a moving pictures (movie) producer/director where his lack of scruples was entirely reminiscent of the pioneers of modern motion pictures, similarly, the agent of a 'Music with Rocks In' group and the editor of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer (a loss-making, tabloid newspaper run by the Guild of Engravers) where he fabricated stories. He is played by Sean Astin (alongside David Jason as Rincewind) in the two-part television adaptation. At the last, even their own soldiers were killing farmers, desperate to find any food. At the end of the book, Polly has left the army, but rejoins as a sergeant when Borogravia is invaded again. By the end of Sourcery, she had fallen in love with Nijel the Destroyer, who could be considered her polar opposite in that he wants to be a barbarian hero but is very bad at it. Throughout the first two novels, he is followed by the Luggage, a homicidally vicious travel chest which moves on hundreds of little legs, carrying his belongings. When Vimes got a copy of Tacticus' autobiography from the Librarian, he formulated a characteristically cynical opinion as to why Tacticus, although respected, was not much liked by history: Tacticus did not get a huge number of his men killed by his own arrogance and incompetence. First introduced in The Wee Free Men, the first novel in the Tiffany Aching series. Considering that Mr Slant is a zombie and both Mr Morecombe and Honeyplace are vampires, they are old enough to have been around when many laws were first written up. The book relating his journey across the Discworld is considered a revolutionary pamphlet in his native land as it is traditionally believed (and officially decreed) that the world outside of the Empire is a hellish wasteland populated by "bloodsucking vampire ghosts", resulting in him being imprisoned in the Forbidden City. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. Having meant to have been a wonder dog, his being a diseased mongrel leads to said role being given to Laddie, a talented but thoroughly stupid pure-bred Ramtop hunting dog. Their most noted member is 71-Hour Ahmed, who gained his name for violating the ancient 3-day custom by executing a criminal one hour before it expired, an act so unthinkable that other D'regs call him the most feared man in all of Klatch. There are very few historical records of Lord Snapcase's tyranny. It is possible that he is the ancestor of Rincewind as his name means "rinser of winds". He also suffers a mild speech impediment, causing him to insert "ing" mid-sentence (the suffix of an action verb without the verb itself). Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler, usually known as Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, C.M.O.T. His son, Gravid, was an entrepreneur involved in a scheme in which goblins were captured in the Shires (a border region between Ankh-Morpork and Quirm) and enslaved on Howondaland tobacco plantations with the resultant cigars and snuff (as well as assorted troll narcotics) being smuggled into Ankh-Morpork; after this was discovered, Gravid was disinherited and exiled to Fourecks. A very old man in a cheap wig, Groat had spent most of his career in the Post Office as a Junior Postman, since until von Lipwig's arrival none of the other Postmasters appointed by Lord Vetinari had survived long enough to promote him. The villain of Night Watch, described by Vimes as "a stone-cold killer. Following a confrontation with the City Watch, he was killed by a metaphor, or possibly the ground, after then-Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson literally "threw the book at him" and sent him stumbling past a missing wall on an upper floor of the Patrician's palace and down to the floor below. A doctor in Ankh-Morpork. In fact, he uses the same trick (that no-one notices a sweeper) in the monastery as he does when out in the world, and has learnt as much about the nature of time as some of the higher monks simply by tidying up the classrooms. He (and a number of other animals) gain sapience and the ability to speak as a result of the escaped Holy Wood Dream, and is compelled to travel to Holy Wood to break into the Discworld's newly-established film industry. As of Making Money, she seems to have become the Times' chief liaison to Moist von Lipwig, and she has developed a talent for asking devious questions that, if answered thoughtlessly, would make for interesting and embarrassing news headlines. Daughter of Geicha the First, lord of the Wyrmberg, and leader of the dragonriders. The greatest problems now facing Cohen come from outliving the heroic age and finding himself in a civilized modern world where great battles and astonishing rescues happen rarely except in storieswhich is ironic given that the Discworld runs on narrative. Commonly seen entering and leaving the presence of the Patrician bearing either paperwork or verbal information on the activities of other denizens of the city, or the Discworld in general, Drumknott seems not to think much about the political implications of the information he works with, believing in filing for its own sake. Discworld Standalones Younger Readers The Long Earth Short Stories Dramatisations Younger Readers Featuring trainee witches, educated rodents, a charismatic tosher and a race of tiny people from another world called Nomes, these books were written with younger readers in mind but can be read by anyone with a love of the fantastical. Having kidnapped Hrun and Twoflower (for whom she expresses no interest and has locked away), she tests Hrun by trying to stab him in his sleep. Lu-Tze also appears in Night Watch, Unseen Academicals, and Raising Steam in a smallbut significantrole. 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. Everyone knows Lu-Tze's name as one of the best monks on the field, but few realise who he actually is. Instead, he prefers to kick a tin can around, something at which he has gained an almost magical proficiency. After his dealings were uncovered, Lord Vetinari offered him the "choice" of becoming head of the Royal Mint, or walking out a door, without a floor behind it. He fled the show, and he happened upon a group of travelling accountants, and discovered his talent for numbers. He is a devout follower of The Way of Mrs.Cosmopilite, a way of life of his own devising which he created after lodging with Marietta Cosmopilite in Ankh-Morpork, some of which is explained in more detail in Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment. 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). Contents 1 Achmed the Mad/Achmed the 'I Just Get These Headaches' 2 Brutha 3 Dangerous Beans 4 Darktan 5 Dios 6 Doughnut Jimmy 7 D'regs 8 Drum Billet 9 Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre 10 Evadne Cake 11 Evil Harry Dread 12 Findthee Swing 13 The Gonne 14 Herrena, the Henna-haired Harridan In Snuff, it is revealed that Harry King has since been given a Knighthood. The 'Canting Crew' is an informal name for a group of Ankh-Morpork beggars who are too anarchic for the Beggars' Guild, which has a tendency to constrain them with rules. 1 The Discworld. Bruth carries Vorbis through the desert back to Omnia so that everyone can learn about what he did, despite Om saying that he is a burden or that he does not deserve being saved. In Going Postal this is the Lady Sybil Free Hospital. Perhaps my favourite book. Digman | March 22nd, 2023. He believed that he was destined to become the Cenobiarch and Eighth Prophet of Omnianism, as the Great God Om had told him. Lord Rust's most defining characteristic, along with his arrogance, is his unsurpassed military and strategic incompetence (or, at least, his ability to achieve goals only by simultaneously sustaining devastating losses; he is described as operating on the theory that a battle was a glorious victory if enemy casualties outnumber friendly casualties, coupled with the inexplicable ability to be repeatedly chosen to command large armies and similar organizations, hence his description as "The god's gift to the enemy, any enemy, and a walking advertisement for desertion." This list consists of human characters. Dibbler, or simply Dibbler, is one of the numerous bit part characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Swing always carries with him a large set of calipers and a steel ruler, with which he measures the facial characteristics of people he meets in order to determine their personal traits (phrenology). Liessa's plan was to use Hrun to wrest the rulership of the Wyrmberg from her rival brothers and then become queen, Hrun's payment being her hand in marriage. These tend to be rather common inert items such as chalk, pickles and corned-beef sandwiches. In his memory, it was amended to read: "The pen is mightier than the sword only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp". The main character in Monstrous Regiment. Stanley Howler is another example of parallel Discworld-Terrestrial history: on Earth, Stanley Gibbons is a company which publishes catalogues of stamps for collectors; the howler is a type of monkey, and the gibbon, like Unseen University's Librarian, is an ape. Small Gods. A bard from the decidedly Cymric country of Llamedos. Ninereeds nearly outruns her but vanishes when Twoflower loses consciousness, causing everyone riding him to fall. A character called 'Clap-Me-In-Irons Daoibleagh' appears in the webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan. It seems at that point that Liessa is developing genuine feelings for her husband-to-be. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 15:11. Raised by peas (no further explanation is given), Stanley has a tendency towards obsessive behaviour, coupled with violent incidents (his 'little moments') when under stress. He first appeared in Night Watch, as a backstreet "pox doctor", offering medical assistance to "seamstresses". Universally known as Doughnut Jimmy, Dr James Folsom is a highly proficient horse doctor who was brought in, under threat of blackmail from Samuel Vimes, to treat Vetinari in Feet of Clay; this rather odd choice being the result of Vimes' knowledge that any human doctor would be contracted to guilds (who all resent Vetinari to varying degrees) and that horse doctors, treating animals worth considerable amounts of money, faced considerable amounts of trouble should their patients die. He chose the latter, earning the grudging respect of Vetinari for staying true to his beliefs about choice. Lobsang inherited powers directly from his parent; she, indirectly from a foster grandparent (Death). He survives a direct elvish invasion of the Lancre castle, mainly due to one of his birds attacking the elf. A thirteen-year-old demonologist and title character in Eric. Mr Slant is the president of the Guild of Lawyers, a position that he has held for a long time due to being a zombie. There is also a man selling hot dogs, possibly a reference to Dibbler. General Callus Tacticus was a soldier of the Ankh-Morpork Empire, and is widely proclaimed to be the greatest general of all time. THE NIGHT IS OLD. 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 As Vimes arrives in the countryside, despite the silence and tranquillity, he senses crime. Somewhat eclectically attractive, she possesses at least two features that would have made various artists from various times in history bite their easels in twoalthough, it must be said, that having a nose that would appeal to Rembrandt and a neck that would inspire Pablo Picasso does not, in and of itself, guarantee that the whole succeeds as a work of art. 1. Hex has its origins in a device that briefly appeared in Soul Music, created by Ponder Stibbons[5] and some student Wizards in the High Energy Magic building. From Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki. Before the couple can embark onto anything intimate however, Hrun is snatched away by Rincewind and Twoflower riding Twoflower's dragon Ninereeds. Nonetheless, in a tradition echoing the Afghan law of milmastia or the ancient Greek law of xenia, they will show a guest perfect hospitality for exactly 72 hours, whereupon killing him becomes an option. The "Phantom" in the story accidentally tutors Agnes instead of Christine when Christine runs away from the ghostly voice coming from her mirror. Roland fought back as far as he could, in the process learning a great deal about surviving sieges and the art of insurgency. Commander Sam Vimes had a particular unexplained grudge against him. King Verence II of Lancre first appears in the sixth novel of the series, Wyrd Sisters, as the court jester of the monarch of Lancre, Duke Felmet. Period. (12 November 2019) Contents 1 Untitled 2 Cosmopilite vs Cosmopolite 3 Adora Dearheart "The Bursar" is one of these; I'm not sure if he's ever given a name. 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. Miss Dearheart can see through most of Lipwig's conman tricks, amazing him; he names her "Spike" out of fondness. The daughter of Baron Saturday of Genua and Mrs Erzulie Gogol. Part of Cohen's danger to normal people is that as a barbarian hero he has extreme problems interpreting such things as empty bravadoas a man of his word, he naturally assumes that anyone else saying something like 'I would rather die than betray the Emperor' fully means it. This has likely changed since marrying a 'Miss Drapes' at the Fool's Guild Chapel of Fun by Reverend Brother "Whacko" Whopply, in a 'whitewash wedding'. She rarely pays attention to anyone but herself. He would not 'buy posh foreign dogs when he can buy the crossbreeds'. He appears to be an homage to the famous cynic, Diogenes, who was similarly disliked by his contemporaries for focusing on the 'wrong questions'. He also gave Tiffany a box of watercolors, one of which was turquoise, allegedly very expensive on the Discworld. The other seven personalities are very careful to keep him buried. He claims that, when he dies, he wants a bell left on his gravestone so he can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring. Celyn is Welsh for Holly). In addition to social philosophy, Ly is also a proponent of natural philosophy. She is descended from the High Priestess of Holy Wood, and while sleeping, she was repeatedly possessed by an unknown force, possibly the priestess. Ly is arguably the greatest philosopher on the Disc, although he is usually the one arguing for this. Her name says it all really, an ex-opponent of Cohen, and sometime lover. It will arrive unpainted, requiring preparation, assembly and painting but when it's finished you'll be itching to collect the rest! She tries to hide her buxom qualities, without success. In Unseen Academicals, he reveals that he cannot understand the fuss that is being made about football, both old and new. His most distinguishing feature, however, is his smilehis unique dentures are made out of troll teeth, which consist of pure diamond and were inspired when Twoflower showed him his own (more typical) set. Liessa agrees to banishing them instead and tells Hrun tenderly (calling him by name for the first time) that she did not expect such mercy from him. She chose her false name, Oliver, because it corresponded with the folksong "Sweet Polly Oliver", which is about a girl running off to join the army. 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