list of discworld characters

Death, perplexed at the concept of a soul having a strong but completely vague belief, allows him to reincarnate as a woodworm. Daughter of Geicha the First, lord of the Wyrmberg, and leader of the dragonriders. His personalities 'voted' to decide whether to act as street vendors of The Ankh Morpork Times (in The Truth) and Andrews held up five fingers to indicate the outcome of his personalities' decision. Promotion is also an unlikely prospect in the firm. Dr. She is Nobby Nobbs's girlfriend for most of the book; they met when Nobby caught her eye while slipping an IOU into her garter belt. 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. Pages in category "Discworld characters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,266 total. The daughter of Cohen the Barbarian and a temple dancer. He has been in employment at the bank since he was thirteen, when he came to the city with a group of travelling accountants. He does this towards the end of Thief of Time by defeating Lobsang Ludd (then incarnated as the personification of Time) in a fair fight, in front of a crowd of higher monks. Publisher in Ankh-Morpork. Jackrum trains Polly Perks and gradually earns the respect of all the recruits. 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. 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. 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". Highly skilled at achieving results, when he treated the racehorse Dire Fortune, it did not fall over until the last furlong. Near the end, he consults with Casanunda, a 'ladies man' dwarf that had assisted in the defense of the kingdom. 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. 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. At the end of the book they are not present, and it is assumed that they have left for their marriage. 'Well, the night is young,' said Albert, sitting back in the sacks. When at one point the far-flung city of Genua, whose royal family had interbred itself into extinction (the last king having tried to continue the royal bloodline with himself), asked Ankh-Morpork for a Duke, Tacticus was promoted and sent there. When confronting the heads of the Borogravian army, Jackrum reveals (after asking the other two-thirds to depart the room) that almost a third of the commanders are women, whom he uncovered during his time in the army, something that became something of a hobby for the sergeant. Unlike Ron, who asks people for money to stop him following them, Coffin Henry makes money by not going anywhere. 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. Figurines & Replicas. It is also implied that she has an excellent figure ("other features that are considered attractive in any time"). He is generally regarded as one of the most consistently sane of the group, as at least five of his personalities are capable of holding a sensible conversation with other people. He appears in The Last Hero, where he joins the Silver Horde on their quest to 'return fire to the gods' by blowing up the mountain. 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. Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang sold green beer, location unknown but suspected to be tropical rain forest, possibly Howondaland. Reluctant to tell his master about his gaffe, Mort tries various unsuccessful methods to fix the situation. It is possible that he is the ancestor of Rincewind as his name means "rinser of winds". The Cretaceous conifer species Sulcatocladus dibbleri is named after CMOT Dibbler.[4]. Mort starts off at the bottom, learning to accept his position while mucking out the stables, and trying to ignore Ysabell, Death's adopted daughter. Whereas Leonard of Quirm makes absent-minded brilliantly inventive doodles in the margins of his notebook, B.S. They will attack anyone, anything and even themselves. Although one of the most popular philosophers of all time, Didactylos never earns the respect of his fellow philosophers, due to the fact that he thinks 'about the wrong things'. Nijel meets Rincewind in a snake pit and they escape together. The Discworld In the animated adaptation of the novel, Imp was voiced by Andy Hockley, and his final fate is changed to working as a gardener at Susan's school; their interactions are rewritten throughout the adaptation to imply a developing romantic relationship. Verence II is a very well-meaning king, who takes running a kingdom very seriously (he takes most things seriously, having learnt at a very early age that being a Fool was no laughing matter), but things seldom turn out the way he might want. This was intended to be a sort of retirement plan, but Cohen and his chums became bored and then abandoned the Empire in The Last Hero, in which Cohen decides to express his displeasure with the modern world by "returning fire to the gods, with interest". 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. 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. It is now believed that they are enjoying a relationship, as she was seen walking with him. Guards! Generally he relies on the fact that no-one notices a sweeper, a well-honed ability to talk his way out of anything, and "Rule One", which states "Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men", since such a person is almost always a highly trained martial artist due to the Disc's law of narrative causality. 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"). Samuel Vimes considered him a saint as, without Sonky, the housing problems in Ankh-Morpork, as well as its population of idiots and criminals would be even more pressing. The Patrician who came to power after Lord Winder following the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May. We are a fully-featured and well-established MUD with . He is made an Omnian bishop by Brutha, the Cenobiarch and Eighth Prophet. She tries to hide her buxom qualities, without success. Liessa is interested in Hrun, for as a strong but slow-witted warrior, she could use him to defeat her brothers and then place him as a puppet lord. Appeared in The Colour of Magic. He also appears in the Discworld computer game. In Men at Arms, he made a brief venture at selling food for trolls and later dwarfs. (12 November 2019) Contents 1 Untitled 2 Cosmopilite vs Cosmopolite 3 Adora Dearheart 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). Dibbler, or simply Dibbler, is one of the numerous bit part characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. 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. Lewton is the Disc's first and only private investigator and a former member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, having been banished from it for taking a bribe. A character in Monstrous Regiment, Jackrum is an immensely fat, hard-bitten Borogravian sergeant major with decades of military experience. Nijel the Destroyer, son of Harebut the Provision Merchant, is a would-be barbarian hero, appearing in Sourcery. 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'). 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. 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. Excessively seedy, momentously dirty, overpoweringly smelly and entirely incomprehensible, Foul Ole Ron is the best-known member of the crew. These form a discussion between him and the head printer, Thomas Cropper, about the book. He took pride in being pathologically careful about everything, running Ankh-Morpork as a police state, with his dreaded Cable Street Particulars, under the command of Captain Swing, causing dissidents to disappear. 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. Student wizard turned actor, and protagonist of Moving Pictures. Tawneee is, in fact, merely her stage name; her real name is Betty. At the end of Witches Abroad, she became the Baroness of Genua. He performed all around the world, before hanging up his clowning shoes to concentrate on writing. 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 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. That person coming down the street in Ankh-Morpork or sneaking up behind you in the dark woods isn't necessarily human. When Death feels in need of a break, Mort takes over The Duty. The background of Mr Pin is much more vague than his partner, Mr Tulip. He is a habitual speaker of Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang, the only known rhyming slang in the universe that does not actually rhyme. In Wintersmith, however, his first name is given as Callus. 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. 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. His full name is mentioned in Making Money. In the TV adaptation of Going Postal, Stanley is played by Ian Bonar. 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 was introduced to the discworld series in the book Making Money. 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