Watch on. Terry's books are humorous fantasy and the game retains the comical, fun feel of the books. Tacticus conquered a large area of the Discworld, both around the city of Ankh-Morpork and well into the rimward continent of Klatch. He used to be one of the more obsessive of Ankh-Morpork's large number of pin collectors (called 'pinheads'), to the point that all the other collectors thought he was "a bit weird about pins". 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. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 15:11. His most famous housing project, Empirical Crescent, tends to drive residents insane if they do not move out quickly or simply disappear. Earlier in the aforementioned book it is stated by Cohen that Harry began with "two lads and his Shed Of Doom". 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." Ron's smell has become strong enough to not only melt earwax but to acquire a separate existence. Hrun is an archetypal fantasy barbarian: hulking and musclebound yet slow-witted, with very little dress sense, battle-prone, alcoholic and fond of virgins. A ruthless businessman with a piratical appearance, including an eyepatch and a cockatoo that, instead of saying "pieces of eight", said "twelve and a half percent" (that is, one eighth), he was a shameless con-artist and fraudster whose business style was described as playing "find the lady with entire banks". When first encountered she is a sixteen-year-old girl with silver hair and silver eyes who, it transpires, has been sixteen for thirty-five Discworld 'years' (no time passes in Death's Domain). A significant character in Monstrous Regiment, he is Polly Perks' platoon commander. Of note is the fact that Harry King employs most of the gnolls in the city (a race that spends all their time picking up trash,) never forgets a debtor and needs to take two baths just to elevate himself to the rank of dirty. Described as Discworld's most enterprisingly unsuccessful entrepreneur, a 'merchant venturer' in Ankh-Morpork, he is most famous for selling meat by-products to unsuspecting souls. 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). 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. She is noted as having (appropriate to her name) what would be seen as a contemporary view of the world. In the Cosgrove Hall animation of Soul Music, Mort is voiced by Neil Morrissey. 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. Eric was last seen escaping from Hell with Rincewind, and it is unknown what happened to him afterwards. Due to his lack of experience with human patients, much of his advice was flawed ("walk him round a bit on loose reinand no oats"). 140 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy. Captain Swing is the head of the Unmentionables in the Ankh-Morpork of the past in Night Watch. Following his successful delivery of Young Sam, Samuel Vimes gave him a large area of land in the Goosegate area of the city. As the Grand Master of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, he summoned a dragon intending it to be killed by a king, whom he would then control. 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. One of his little fingers is missing. With brains". It was previously thought they might all be related, but the Discworld Companion explains that this is parallel evolution. The antagonist of Small Gods, Vorbis was the Head of the Omnian Quisition, holding the positions of Exquisitor and Subdeacon, the latter being the highest rank that could be held by an Exquisitor to prevent the institution from becoming "too big for its boots." His first name is also a Latin word meaning "prison". However, one day, Ilsa left Ankh-Morpork for unexplained reasons and this drew Lewton into a depression. 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. These are the various bipedal sentient species and differently-animated races of Discworld. Brutha was an Ommnian novice in Small Gods. Hrun agrees to the plan and successfully defeats Liessa's brothers with his bare hands, but he refuses to kill them as they are unconscious. Using the name Delores De Syn, she starred in several movies with Victor Tugelbend, usually as the maiden to be rescued. The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide. Pronounced "de Chuffley" (which, as Pratchett says, is not his fault). 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". Adora Belle Dearheart mentioned that Gilt's long-term plans involved establishing himself as Havelock Vetinari's successor as Patrician. A character in Monstrous Regiment, Corporal Strappi is a thin, shouty soldier who loves to terrorize new recruits. 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. Tawneee (pronounced with each "e" as a separate syllable) is an exotic dancer, introduced in Thud! 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. Examples include the Johnson Exploding Pagoda and a chiming sundial that tends to explode every other day around noon. 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. After fighting and losing to Death, Mort was given an extra lease of life when the Grim Reaper chose to turn over his Lifetimer. Small Gods. 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. 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. Fortunately his liking for pins can be used to calm him down from his, as called in the books, 'Little Moments'. 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. Blouse is promoted to the rank of Major by the end of the book. 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. Before he can accept the "proposal", Rincewind and Twoflower riding upon Twoflower's conjured dragon Ninereeds, snatch up Hrun in a rescue attempt and fly away with him. While Tiffany is at first bitter about this, she eventually comes to terms with the situation and ultimately marries the couple herself. In Good Omens, after Crowley's Bentley bursts into flames over the M25 motorway a crowd gathers. 'Wherever people are prepared to eat terrible food,' it says, 'there will be someone there to sell it to them.'. All Votes Add Books To This List. (previous page) () 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. How many Dibblers? 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. Mrs Palm was considered almost a witch by Granny. This is a list of characters from the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien, which include The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. 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. Since his campaigns were as expensive as they were effective, the rulers of Ankh-Morpork tried to get rid of Tacticus in a respectful and appropriate way. This incident was reported in The Ankh Morpork Times, and a widow approached him, swayed by 'a man who knows his hygiene.' Hobson is a large man, described as looking similar to the result of shaving a bear. Roland's father eventually fell very ill, and his two scheming aunts used their new position as his guardians to rob his family blind. 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.". Near the end, he consults with Casanunda, a 'ladies man' dwarf that had assisted in the defense of the kingdom. He was looking for a job that was romantic, but did not involve hard work, which Holy Wood provided. Because their code demands it, assassins have to tell their victim their name and who sent themVetinari answered "think of me as your future" and "the city" respectively (indicating that Vetinari already planned to become Patrician some day). Mr Tulip's past is hinted at being dark and fearful, a place that even Mr Tulip is afraid to remember. In The Light Fantastic, Rincewind overhears Twoflower teaching the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Death, Famine, Pestilence and War), how to play bridge. Lobsang inherited powers directly from his parent; she, indirectly from a foster grandparent (Death). 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. (In Cockney rhyming slang, the expected derivation would be "syrup of figs.") On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. The recent news that . 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. Of all the characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg are some of the most beloved by fans. He has been dead for nearly 2000 years by the start of the Discworld series. 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. There is also a man selling hot dogs, possibly a reference to Dibbler. Christine's father told her that a "dear little pixie" would help her career, and she thinks that Agnes might be that pixie. His current whereabouts are unknown. Walter is helped by Agnes Nitt into combining both aspects of his personality together so that he can become the director of music. Mr Bent resided in Mrs. Cake's Boarding House. This mainly involves figuring out which deaths needed to be attended to personally, an important aspect of all reality. She appears in The Colour of Magic. 1. 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. Reforming the Church along tolerant, humanist lines, he reigns for a hundred years before dying. Promotion is also an unlikely prospect in the firm. It is assumed that this means he is the son of the elder Fool's wife and Verence I, and he is duly crowned Verence II. He maintained his monopoly by killing anyone attempting to set up another network, including Robert Dearheart's son, John, and employing the banshee Mr. Gryle to do so. One of the rare Discworld short stories, "Troll Bridge", tells of Cohen setting out to slay a troll, only to end up reminiscing with it about the good old days when things were black and white and everyone respected the traditions. After the events of Mort, Mort leaves Death's service and marries Ysabell. Liessa catches Hrun on her own dragon, and the couple share a passionate kiss. She spends much of her time in the palace kitchens, apparently because she enjoys being helpful, rather than because she is mistreated. There were quite a lot, and rincwind keeps running into them. 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. This move was not entirely in Lobsang's best interestsdue to internal politics, it was hoped they would "break" each other. He has attempted to aid in deposing Lord Vetinari from power several times, but only through serving other clients and not from an actual desire of his own to depose of Vetinari. He often runs into danger, being certain that nothing bad will happen to him since he is not involved. At the end of the novel Interesting Times he was promoted to the rank of Grand Vizier of the Empire, under Emperor Cohen. He is, however, a skilled swordsman, as he does not resort to flashy swashbuckling, but instead actually attacks his opponent. Lewton was once a member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (sometime before the books). It is possible that Mr Pin and Mr Tulip are taken as analogues of the Marvel Comics characters, the Kingpin and the Rose, organised crime figures. This list consists of human characters. From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. He would not 'buy posh foreign dogs when he can buy the crossbreeds'. These form a discussion between him and the head printer, Thomas Cropper, about the book. Hrun's separation from Liessa and his enrolment in a Watch unit are not altogether surprising: late on in the Discworld timeline, barbarians and mythical creatures are dying out due to the modernisation of the world, leading them to either fade from existence or have to enroll into society. A plump, over-breasted girl who runs the Night Kitchen in the Unseen University until the events of Unseen Academicals. [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. Walter is an odd-job man at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. Stanley's surname was not revealed in the book, but is given in various peripheral material relating to Discworld stamps. The D'regs are a nomadic and warlike people who inhabit the desert regions of hubward Klatch, in particular the lawless borderlands between Klatch proper and Hersheba. The main mentions are of his journeys to Omnia (where he saw a person being stoned) and to Tsort (where his attempts to educate the ruler through subliminal learning resulted in his assassination). Victor's uncle left a legacy to pay for Victor's tuition at Unseen University, provided that Victor never scored below an 80 on an exam. 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. Highly skilled at achieving results, when he treated the racehorse Dire Fortune, it did not fall over until the last furlong. Verence was voiced by Andrew Branch in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Wyrd Sisters, and by Les Dennis in the Cosgrove Hall animation. In Raising Steam, swayed by the new steam engine by Dick Simnel (who becomes romantically involved with Harry King's favorite niece, Emily King), Harry provides the capital to build the "Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway", and at the end of the book is given a peerage. The first king to leave the kingdom, he was trained at the Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild. Young Sam enjoyed it, but Lady Sybil Vimes disapproved of this version. 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. He only had a sword theatrically thrust under his armpit, but, according to the witches present, failed to notice this. Celyn is Welsh for Holly). Feet of Clay The Fifth Elephant Guards! Meanwhile, Nobby considers letting her down gently because she did not know her way around a kitchen. In Soul Music he is possessed by "Music with Rocks in" and becomes the Disc's greatest musician under the name Buddy in the Band with Rocks In along with Cliff and Glod, before dying in a cart crash (a reference to Buddy HollyImp's name translates as "bud of the holly". Lord Snapcase was succeeded by Lord Havelock Vetinari. Discworld In Order. He is also known for having undergone a long and perilous journey home after the war, much like his Roundworld equivalent. 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. Mr Mavolio Bent is the Head Cashier and all but in charge of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork. His name is a reference to the real stable-owner Thomas Hobson, best known as the name behind the expression Hobson's choice. Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, and predecessor to Mad Lord Snapcase. 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