Guards!). Mr Bent eventually accepts his clown heritage after having a mental breakdown because (among other things) he made his first mathematical mistake. It has been noted that many Ankh-Morporkians tend to have a certain literal mindedness. It is now believed that they are enjoying a relationship, as she was seen walking with him. Also known as Homicidal Lord Winder. In this novel he seems to have keen political instincts; it is stated that the Rusts have survived by not being romantic. They have very strict ideas about women fighting: they expect them to be good at it. All Votes Add Books To This List. Hobson is a large man, described as looking similar to the result of shaving a bear. Reluctant to tell his master about his gaffe, Mort tries various unsuccessful methods to fix the situation. After the failed Omnian occupation of Ephebe and the mobilisation of the armed forces of all the other countries along the Klatchian coast against Omnia, Brutha resolves the conflict and becomes the Cenobiarch of Omnia, and the Eighth Prophet and Prophet of Prophets of Omnianism. She is an extraordinarily untalented singer, but the management favours her because of her beautiful appearance and because her father lent a good deal of money for the purchase of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. 1. 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. 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. In general Mr Pin makes the plans and decides where they are going to go and what they are going to do, but he is open to suggestions from his partner. Instead, he prefers to kick a tin can around, something at which he has gained an almost magical proficiency. Susan Death), who is also a human who inherited qualities from an anthropomorphic personification. Dr. However, following the events of Going Postal, in which the destruction of his collection coincided with the invention of the postage stamp, he redirected his obsession to stamp collecting and philately. This favourite Discworld character is depicted in a detailed 30mm scale, high quality metal cast miniature. Victor has not reappeared in any subsequent Discworld books. She also has a fixation for the colour pink. Head of the Guild of "Seamstresses" (actually prostitutes). As a boy, he "messed around in boats". However, given how well the Queen got on with the elder Fool, there is another interpretation. It is possible that he is the ancestor of Rincewind as his name means "rinser of winds". The Witches Discworld's witches, based around the rural and mostly vertical kingdom of Lancre, deliver babies, treat warts and keep an eye on troublesome kings, vampires or incursions from other worlds, which they do not hold with. Earlier in the book she is mentioned as being capable of believing the Disc is under threat from inhuman monsters, that she is a subject of derision for believing that the world is round, and that three dwarfs look in on her undressing. 140 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy. 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. 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. A character named C!Mot is briefly mentioned in The Also People, a Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel by Ben Aaronovitch, running a T-shirt stall in the marketplace of Whynot. 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. 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. An Ankh-Morpork businessman who runs Hobson's Livery Stable, a multi-storey construction which sells and hires horses, as well as stabling other people's horses. He is ridiculously brave, often simply charging while the weapons just miss him, every time. Her name says it all really, an ex-opponent of Cohen, and sometime lover. Mr Pin is the brains of the New Firm, a duo of interloping criminals in The Truth. Actor David Bradley played Cohen in the 2008 The Colour of Magic miniseries. Cohen does not know how old he is exactly. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 15:11. Partway through Monstrous Regiment, Strappi disappears, stealing a lot of the Regiments's personal possessions. Before the couple can embark onto anything intimate however, Hrun is snatched away by Rincewind and Twoflower riding Twoflower's dragon Ninereeds. THE NIGHT IS OLD. He is a habitual speaker of Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang, the only known rhyming slang in the universe that does not actually rhyme. Period. 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). A professional scribe who in The Truth has a career of writing down interesting news for various Lords and Ladies abroad, this led to him becoming the editor of the Disc's first newspaper, The Ankh-Morpork Times. 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. Liessa agrees to resort to banishing her brothers. During The Truth he was seemingly attacked by the Patricianlater revealed to be a lookalike hired to try to get Vetinari deposedand by the time of Going Postal, was responsible for relaying the orders of the Patrician in assigning tasks to other clerks. This is usually "bugger off" or something similar, but since the monks do not speak Morporkian, it does not matter much. 5. He appears in Going Postal, although the stable had previously appeared in The Truth. Swing moves and speaks in an erratic, jumpy fashion, in bursts and sputters, rather than a continuous flow of movement or sound. For the glory of Om, Vorbis intended to wage a bloody holy war against the continent of Klatch, having orchestrated the short-lived conquest and annexation of Ephebe by facilitating the death of the missionary Brother Murduck to provide a casus belli and organising a costly strategy of leaving caches of water in the desert to allow the Omnian Divine Legion to invade Ephebe from the desert. 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. He is obsessed with making money from the Opera and is horrified to learn how expensive seemingly trivial items (such as ballet shoes and musical instruments) can be. Jackrum has, over the years, been the sergeant in command of (or under) a number of young soldiers who then rose up to the Army's high command, and thus wields considerable influence. A past Patrician of Ankh-Morpork referred to in The Light Fantastic, Olaf Quimby was noted for his interest in honest and accurate descriptions as well as proper standards for everything, particularly metaphor. 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. 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. Indeed, he once said he was best at 'selling ideas.' 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. Celyn is Welsh for Holly). 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". Son of the Baron of the Chalkland. The dragon, which he calls "Ninereeds" after his unimaginative master when he was apprenticed as a clerk, is very obedient to him. Harry prefers it when burglars break in, so that he does not have to feed the dogs. and bully, who goes so far as to leave the city and live in the countryside to avoid contact with these "lesser races". 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. In 2004 BBC Radio 4 adapted Mort, with the title character voiced by Carl Prekopp and Ysabell being voiced by Clare Corbett. Most have double meanings, serving as both stereotypical utterances of a grouchy older working-class woman, and equally stereotypical pieces of oriental wisdom. (12 November 2019) Contents 1 Untitled 2 Cosmopilite vs Cosmopolite 3 Adora Dearheart As Patrician, he used his power to enforce laws against creative exaggeration in writing. 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. 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. These rumours are rarely uttered in the presence of Hobson, who is a large man with a direct sense of humour when it comes to putting people with smart mouths on unbroken horses. The background of Mr Pin is much more vague than his partner, Mr Tulip. Dr Lawn's preferred method of dealing with the nursing staff is to throw a handful of chocolates in one direction and run in the other as fast as possible. She is a beneficiary of the sad fact that star quality is a far rarer commodity than talent. [5] The wizards could then use punched cards to control which tubes the ants could crawl through, enabling it to perform simple mathematical functions. He finds a tortoise in his melon patch which is actually the great God Om afflicted with temporary amnesia which rescinds in the presence of Brutha. Explanation reveals that in Dimwell slang, "syrup of prunes" means wig. His genius consisted of realising that, if there has to be a war, the aim should be to defeat the enemy as quickly and with as little bloodshed as possiblea concept so breathtaking in its originality that few other military minds have been able to grasp it, and it shows what happens when one takes the conduct of a war away from skilled soldiers. 1 Major Discworld characters 1.1 Ankh-Morpork and The Watch 1.2 Unseen University and the Wizards 1.3 Lancre and the Witches 1.4 Death's Domain and supernatural entities 1.5 Tiffany Aching 1.6 Industrial Revolution Characters 2 Minor Discworld characters 2.1 Ankh-Morpork and The Watch 2.2 Unseen University and The Wizards 2.3 Lancre and The Witches They subsequently meet their end after a freak accident sends their carriage plunging into a ravine, as revealed in Soul Music. He also deliberately changes the course of history because he did not like the way things "should" go, replacing a horrific war with a century of peace. Johnson achieves the same effect through unforeseen side effects of devices invented for other purposes, and in the process creates some of the Disc's most impressive, dangerous, and unusual works of architecture, art, and engineering. Explore our exclusive range of sculpted Discworld characters and creations for your bookshelves, designed in our studios and created by the finest fantasy artists and craftsfolk . From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. He is described in the books as resembling a rodent, and wears a long poacher's coat covered in pockets. With the assistance of Ignius Cutwell, a local wizard, she attempted to be crowned Queen in a fast-tracked coronation before the reality enveloping Sto Lat collapsed. The pigs galloped on. 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. It may also be a reference to the classic fairy tale of the same name written in 1842 by John Ruskin, particularly considering that the Ruskin work is written for Euphemia "Effie" Gray (compare Harry King's wife), and also possibly a play on the mystical "King of the Silver River" character who appears in the Tolkien-derived fantasy Shannara series by American writer Terry Brooks. The Carpet People. This is in part a reference to Martin, the pessimist philosopher and sweeper in Voltaire's Candide. His name is most likely a mistranslation by Rincewind; his real name is Billy (Bi-Lily = two flower). 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. Miss Maccalariat is receptionist in Going Postal, her voice is like the worst of schoolteachers and her family have performed her role for generations, sucking lemons until their features were pursed enough. At the end of the book Verence I's hidden heir, Tomjon, rejects the throne. Salzella is eventually found out and proves to be just as "infected" with operatic romanticism as everyone else in the building. 72 Sacharissa Cripslock 73 Seldom Bucket 74 Sergeant Jackrum 75 Stanley Howler 76 Tacticus 77 Tawneee 78 Theda Withel 79 Tolliver Groat 80 Traveling professionals 81 Trevor Likely 82 Twoflower 83 Verence II of Lancre 84 Victor Tugelbend 85 Vorbis 86 Wallace Sonky 87 Walter Plinge 88 William de Worde 89 Willie Hobson 90 Willikins This is best described as 'the feeling you've been kicked in the head this way before'. Queen Keli still ruled at the time of Soul Music, when she ejected the Band with Rocks In from the city by royal proclamation. 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