She also has a fixation for the colour pink. Blouse is promoted to the rank of Major by the end of the book. The Carpet People. He is quiet (if a tad sarcastic) and almost unshockable. 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. "Child of the Djel", the Disc's version of Egypt) is the main character in Pyramids. Following his successful delivery of Young Sam, Samuel Vimes gave him a large area of land in the Goosegate area of the city. Mort is included in Wayne Barlowe's Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy. 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. Ninereeds nearly outruns her but vanishes when Twoflower loses consciousness, causing everyone riding him to fall. Of all the characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg are some of the most beloved by fans. In Raising Steam, he develops a childlike interest in the newly-emergent railway, wishing to spend more time aboard Iron Girder, the Discworld's first steam locomotive. He started out as a mudlark, and developed his career from there. 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! During the events of Mort it became clear that Ysabell was competent in carrying out the work of her father including The Duty and 'doing the nodes'. Her name is a play on the saying "a date with Rosie Palms," a slang term for masturbation. He is a habitual speaker of Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang, the only known rhyming slang in the universe that does not actually rhyme. His core business is that of "night soil" removal, but he is also involved in general rubbish collection and recycling. 'Wherever people are prepared to eat terrible food,' it says, 'there will be someone there to sell it to them.'. Twoflower is the optimistic but naive tourist. 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 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 wishes to be a hairdresser, but Discworld-style genetics keep getting in the way, causing her to instinctively kill people who threaten her. 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. Hodgesaargh is based on a real-life keeper of birds of prey named Dave Hodges, who lives in Northamptonshire. Death joins the crew in Soul Music where he takes the name, Mr Scrub. 1. 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. Most have double meanings, serving as both stereotypical utterances of a grouchy older working-class woman, and equally stereotypical pieces of oriental wisdom. He is also the author of The Arts of Falconrie and Hawking. Using the name Delores De Syn, she starred in several movies with Victor Tugelbend, usually as the maiden to be rescued. He became a Private Investigator. flag. He is at his best selling intangibles; physical merchandise tends to hamper his patter somewhat. A former jockey, he won a lot of money by not winning races. Rate. 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. Its reliability is questionable; according to it, Vimes has the eye of a mass murderer (Vimes says he indeed does in his other suit) while Carcer's only problem was his environment (most likely all the dead bodies wherever he went). 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. Eventually a type of fingerless glove is named for him. Gaspode assists the newly-created Ankh-Morpork Times's investigation of a plot to incriminate Lord Vetinari as an informant (going by the name "Deep Bone") and a translator for Lord Vetinari's dog Wuffles, a key witness. Stars: Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield, Annette Crosbie, Eleanor Bron. 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. 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." 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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. Characters are listed alphabetically by name. [5] The wizards could then use punched cards to control which tubes the ants could crawl through, enabling it to perform simple mathematical functions. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. 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. The sign outside his yard reads "King of the Golden River, Recycling Nature's Bounty." This is usually "bugger off" or something similar, but since the monks do not speak Morporkian, it does not matter much. He only had a sword theatrically thrust under his armpit, but, according to the witches present, failed to notice this. 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.". As Vimes arrives in the countryside, despite the silence and tranquillity, he senses crime. When Death feels in need of a break, Mort takes over The Duty. Perhaps my favourite book. In the TV adaptation of Going Postal, Groat is portrayed by Andrew Sachs. This replaces, at his wife's insistence, the original: "H. King, taking the piss since 1961." Mr Tulip has a tendency to buy and consume anything sold in little bags in an attempt to acquire drugs. Cohen is described as a skinny old man, with a long white beard hanging down below his loincloth, and wearing a patch over one eye. Actor David Bradley played Cohen in the 2008 The Colour of Magic miniseries. The first tourist ever on the Discworld, he wrote "What I Did on My Holidays" after his return to the Empire. A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. After pursuing an escaping party made up of Brutha, Om, Sergeant Simony, the philosopher Didactylos and his apprentice and nephew Urn and being caught in a storm, Vorbis is found by Brutha and Om washed up on the desert coast and in a catatonic state. The Discworld is the fictional setting of Terry Pratchett's most iconic fantasy novel series. Tiffany was nonplussed, and claimed she needed no apology or recompense so long as he ruled justly when he became Baron. From her mother, she inherited gold-tinged skin, white-blond hair, a voice that can make "Good morning" sound like an invitation to bed, and a very good figure. Andrew Rawnsley said that he "ran away from the circus to join a troupe of accountants."[6]. Lucky Hank | March 19th, 2023. 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. 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. Fortunately his liking for pins can be used to calm him down from his, as called in the books, 'Little Moments'. Tolliver also had a very small part in Wintersmith. 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. In Lords and Ladies Verence and Magrat finally marry. He owns the world's only Thinking Brain Dog (as opposed to a "Seeing-eye dog"), Gaspode. It's a meditation on religion, personal morality . Despite this, he respects and admires the women when he learns the truth, citing historic examples of female warriors throughout the Klatchian continent, and informing their captors that "[he] would not trade them for any six men [they] offered [him]". The Compleat Discworld Atlas. Lu-Tze first appeared in the novel Small Gods as a minor character described as follows. Distrust is generally encouraged among the D'regs, with Ahmed once telling Vimes that his mother would be greatly offended if he trusted her on the grounds that she would feel she did not bring him up right. He is also one of the three founders of Morecombe, Slant, and Honeyplace, Ankh Morpork's leading legal practice. A plump, over-breasted girl who runs the Night Kitchen in the Unseen University until the events of Unseen Academicals. There is however a loophole: by marrying a man who would then become lord of the Wyrmberg through allegiance, she could act as the real power behind the throne. The Duck Man appears in several of Pratchett's books, including Hogfather, Soul Music , The Truth, and Feet of Clay. 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. It was previously thought they might all be related, but the Discworld Companion explains that this is parallel evolution. 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'. The management has her lip-synch on stage to the voice of Agnes Nitt, otherwise known as Perdita X. Nitt. In Men at Arms, Gaspode has regained his sapience and ability to speak after spending too much time sleeping near the High Energy Magic Building at Unseen University. In the TV adaption of Going Postal, Gilt is portrayed by David Suchet. 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 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. She possesses the ability to think in headlines, and has gained valuable experience as an editor, allowing her to, e.g., reduce an article's length in half merely by crossing out all the adjectives. He was previously the Fool to King Verence I, as his father and grandfather were before him. However, it does mean a lot of men are happy to tell her things. When she foments this plan, Rincewind, Twoflower and Hrun the Barbarian are passing close to her mountain country. Student wizard turned actor, and protagonist of Moving Pictures. 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. In "Moving Pictures", a summary given about him is a reference to Fred Astaire. The lack of a formal title, in fact, gives him fewer restrictions than his contemporaries. From her father, she inherited sinews as strong as a mooring line, muscles as solid as a plank, and reflexes like a snake on a hot tin roof (from relevant pieces of description in Sourcery). The few times he's actually acquired real narcotics, they have been suitable only for trolls. 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. Ghenghiz Cohen, known as Cohen the Barbarian, is a hero in the classical sense, i.e., a professional thief, brawler, and ravisher of women. 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. During her encounter with Rincewind (see below), her behaviour is sufficiently flamboyant as to cause him to believe she is "bonkers". 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. Liessa's ambitions are high: having poisoned her father, the traditional means of succession in her family, she is hindered by the fact that as a woman, she cannot become lord of the Wyrmberg and faces intense rivalry from her two brothers. 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). Former childhood friend to Samuel Vimes and later secretary to Lord Vetinari. 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. In Snuff, it is revealed that Harry King has since been given a Knighthood. During the novel several characters comment that he seems a bit "elvish" (also a reference to the same Kirsty MacColl song). Dibbler appeared in the Cosgrove Hall animations of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, in which his appearance seemed to be modelled on Private Joe Walker, the spiv in Dad's Army. 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. 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