As the new owners did not really understand the clacks the way the previous management had, they worked it until it broke. Christine's father told her that a "dear little pixie" would help her career, and she thinks that Agnes might be that pixie. The fact that she is Nobby's girlfriend is somewhat shocking considering his barely human appearance and her incredibly stunning good looks. During his reign, he was considered "eccentric" rather than mad by the upper classes, but he is now known by most Morporkians, including the nobles, as the Mad Lord. But Hrun does not need to be angry for long: when Twoflower faints, his dragon, having existed only through his willpower, disappears, causing all three passengers to fall through the air. Small Gods is always the book I recommend to people as their first foray into the Discworld. A considerable testament to his skills, considering that the horse had, in fact, died coming up to the starting line. The Duck Man is regarded as the intellectual of the group, and appears to be relatively sane. This means that both he and you have exactly the same aim in mind."[10]. He often runs into danger, being certain that nothing bad will happen to him since he is not involved. 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. 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. He passed his final exam by a fluke, having already decided he was not going to kill anyone. 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". A doctor in Ankh-Morpork. On his first appearance in the series he is already an old man, but still tough enough to handle anything the world can throw at him; his opponents often underestimate him because of his age, realizing too late that a man who does for a living what Cohen does and nevertheless survives to such an age must be very good at it indeed. From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. "Hello, my name is HodgesARRRRRGH"). [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. He first appeared in Night Watch, as a backstreet "pox doctor", offering medical assistance to "seamstresses". 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. The miniseries was produced by The Mob Film Company and Sky One and it combined both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. 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. Both men can become violent, but Mr Pin's violence is more directed and instrumental. An archetypal fantasy barbarian woman (as well as an affectionate parody of the late Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series), she has red chestnut hair, is curvaceous and wears almost nothing except for a chainmail harness. During the novel several characters comment that he seems a bit "elvish" (also a reference to the same Kirsty MacColl song). In Interesting Times, it is revealed that he eventually became the commander of the Watch in an unnamed city. In The Light Fantastic, Rincewind overhears Twoflower teaching the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Death, Famine, Pestilence and War), how to play bridge. She was completely innocent about sex, and was completely unaware that her job could be considered "acting like a floozy"; in the end, Angua and Sally explain the facts of, well, everything. He chose the latter, earning the grudging respect of Vetinari for staying true to his beliefs about choice. She says she knew Cohen and that he took an interest in her educationsuch as setting a length of corridor with a variety of traps for some heroic training. First introduced in The Wee Free Men, the first novel in the Tiffany Aching series. In it, Henry goes "Cough, gack, ptui". Hobson is a large man, described as looking similar to the result of shaving a bear. This replaces, at his wife's insistence, the original: "H. King, taking the piss since 1961." Discworld MUD is a multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. He finds out about his "brother" (who is actually him, just having led a different life and born a second after him) and after touching him, they combine, and it is revealed that he is the son of Wen the Eternally Surprised and the personification of Time. Foul Ole Ron is in one verse of Sam Vimes' 'City Version' of "Where's My Cow?". The recent news that . He is described as a thin, balding man dressed in a long, old-fashioned black coat with large pockets, and supports himself on an opera cane (which is in reality a swordstick, albeit a poorly concealed one). When Carlotta Von Uberwald came into his life, Lewton's life changed forever. The main character in Monstrous Regiment. She is a beneficiary of the sad fact that star quality is a far rarer commodity than talent. Since Hrun is mentioned to have joined the Watch in Interesting Times, she and Hrun may have split up, or she herself is now part of the Watch, though the latter seems improbable. Promotion is also an unlikely prospect in the firm. 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. A former jockey, he won a lot of money by not winning races. Eric was relatively unsuccessful as a demonologist until, with some unknown assistance, he managed to summon Rincewind from the Dungeon Dimensions, originally intending to summon a demon to grant him wishes, namely mastery of the kingdoms of the world, to meet the most beautiful woman ever to have lived, to live forever, and to have a large chest of gold. Lobsang (born Newgate Ludd) was raised by the Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild, but was discovered by Soto of the History Monks when Lobsang performed the Stance of the Coyote (the effect is not fully explained, though it is presumably a reference to Wile E. Coyote's ability to pause in mid-air for comic effect) in order to save his own life after falling from a rooftop, which would have killed him. 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. 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. Discworld Standalones Younger Readers The Long Earth Short Stories Dramatisations Books Sir Terry Pratchett was the author of over fifty bestselling books. 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. 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. Seldom Bucket was a big man in cheese production in Ankh-Morpork, but who, just prior to the events in Maskerade, purchases the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. After discovering this they argued, and during this argument Carlotta kissed and bit Lewton, turning him into a werewolf (or some variant type, several of which are named/referenced in the books themselves). Discworld In Order. 1. Pages in category "Discworld characters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,266 total. 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. The place where he lived had been in the middle of a war zone. Then, 'No, it ain't.' I'M SORRY? ), see the articles for those races. Due to his nature, even before this, Death could not see him, as he lies outside of Death's influence. He is at his best selling intangibles; physical merchandise tends to hamper his patter somewhat. 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. These tend to be rather common inert items such as chalk, pickles and corned-beef sandwiches. 'Wherever people are prepared to eat terrible food,' it says, 'there will be someone there to sell it to them.'. Victor has not reappeared in any subsequent Discworld books. Mr Pin is then reincarnated into a potato resembling his face in a look of surprise, which is chipped and deep fried. 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). 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". Captain Swing is the head of the Unmentionables in the Ankh-Morpork of the past in Night Watch. She is correct about the inhuman monsters and the dwarfs (although she is never told about the first one and the second is "only by coincidence"). There are signs that his feelings for Tiffany extend somewhat beyond gratitude. As Patrician, he used his power to enforce laws against creative exaggeration in writing. From Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki. It is stated on several occasions that Jackrum should have actually retired long ago, with his official resignation papers constantly following him around by mail, but he always finds some excuse to get out of them; at one point in the book, he resigns his commission so that he can brutally assault an enemy soldier without dealing with military protocol and is subsequently re-enlisted afterwards. His obsession with his own security left him no time to govern or affect history. He also has a sort of appearance in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, in the form of a series of memos drawn to appear pinned to some of the pages. The Discworld Mort is described as being very tall and skinny, with muscles like knots in string. He films several movies with Ginger Withel (aka Delores De Syn), and eventually uses the magic of Holy Wood to defeat the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions with Ginger's help. 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. Whereas Leonard of Quirm makes absent-minded brilliantly inventive doodles in the margins of his notebook, B.S. He probably thought sorry for me."). He is also one of the three founders of Morecombe, Slant, and Honeyplace, Ankh Morpork's leading legal practice. With the help of Ninereeds he rescues Rincewind and escapes the Wyrmberg. Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler, usually known as Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, C.M.O.T. He is something of a contradiction: a remorseless killer with the refined soul of a true fine-art connoisseur. 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. Indeed, he once said he was best at 'selling ideas.' Hrun accepts and succeeds in carrying out her orders, but refuses to definitely kill her siblings. Brutha is the only true believer of Om, as all other "believers" only go along with the state religion either out of fear of torture and death by the Quisition, or out of habit. At the end of Witches Abroad, she became the Baroness of Genua. 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 page is where the animated counterparts of real people and various characters found in Edd Gould's creations, collabs, and characters in Eddsworld: Legacy and Eddsworld Beyond can be found. The name Captain Swing has long been associated with civil unrest, being the pseudonym of the (possibly mythical) leader of the Swing Riots. Liessa agrees to resort to banishing her brothers. 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. Agnes realizes what is happening and, in order to continue her training for a second night, she slips some herbs into Christine's hot milk to make her sleepy. He survives a direct elvish invasion of the Lancre castle, mainly due to one of his birds attacking the elf. In Wintersmith, Roland was reluctantly recruited by the Nac Mac Feegle to perform the role of the mythic Hero in the Dance of the Seasons, to put right the damage Tiffany had caused by interfering in the dance and the proper roles of the Wintersmith and the Summer Lady. 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. 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. Actor David Bradley played Cohen in the 2008 The Colour of Magic miniseries. 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 now believed that they are enjoying a relationship, as she was seen walking with him. He is a clerk who wants to be a Barbarian Hero and is currently half-way through a book on the subject, which includes a table of wandering monsters and tends to resemble a Dungeons & Dragons manual. How many Dibblers? List of Discworld characters - Wikipedia Create account Contents hide (Top) 71-Hour Ahmed Adora Belle Dearheart Bloody Stupid Johnson Brutha Canting Crew Carcer Christine Cohen the Barbarian Conina Corporal Strappi Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler Daniel "One Drop" Trooper Didactylos Doctor Cruces Doughnut Jimmy D'regs Drum Billet Edward d'Eath 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. This is in part a reference to Martin, the pessimist philosopher and sweeper in Voltaire's Candide. This Bureau is maintained by the current Patrician, Lord Havelock Vetinari, on the grounds that the sort of people whose minds work like this ought to be kept busy, or they might do anything. The daughter of an engraver (who possibly appeared in Maskerade, working for Goatberger) she became a reporter for the Ankh-Morpork Times, having originally arrived at the print works to complain about the invention of moveable type. He would not 'buy posh foreign dogs when he can buy the crossbreeds'. She is very respectable, meaning there is a lot of unrespectability waiting to come out. really liked it 4.00 avg rating 363,846 ratings. Using his new wolf abilities, Lewton managed to put a stop to Carlotta's cult's plans and save Ankh-Morpork from being consumed by a giant god of destruction. 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. Head of the Guild of "Seamstresses" (actually prostitutes). In Snuff, he is portrayed as an elderly man in a wheelchair, with a sunken look. 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. 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). 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. THE NIGHT IS ALWAYS OLD. For further Discworld character biographies, see the table below. Daughter of King Olerve the Bastard of the Sto Plains kingdom of Sto Lat, and the last person between the Duke of Sto Helit and the throne, she was saved from assassination by Mort, who found himself unable to allow her would-be assassin to kill her. Examples include the Johnson Exploding Pagoda and a chiming sundial that tends to explode every other day around noon. Lu-Tze first appeared in the novel Small Gods as a minor character described as follows. Evil Harry Dread always makes an effort to adhere to the 'rules': he intentionally hires stupid henchmen, invests in helmets that cover the whole face (thus making it easy for a Hero to disguise himself) and places Heroes in overly contrived, easily escapable deathtraps. Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000. It seems at that point that Liessa is developing genuine feelings for her husband-to-be. He is known to have had a brother in berwald. 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