list of discworld characters

He is differentiated from a common criminal by his habit of removing works of art from houses before committing arson, the ability to distinguish between priceless works of art and common forgeries, an encyclopaedic knowledge of hundreds of years of great artists, artisans and their works, and a refusal to use any artworks as blunt weapons or to profit from their ultimate destruction. All Votes Add Books To This List. It has been suggested that by Going Postal he may have married his friend and editor, Sacharissa Cripslock. He believed that he was destined to become the Cenobiarch and Eighth Prophet of Omnianism, as the Great God Om had told him. A bard from the decidedly Cymric country of Llamedos. It means "enemy" (in this case, everybody's) and the D'regs adopted it out of pride. Tolliver also had a very small part in Wintersmith. At the end of Thief of Time he shares an unspecified "perfect moment" with Susan Sto Helit (a.k.a. It boasts an impressive cast including Sir David Jason as Rincewind, Sean Astin as Twoflower and David Bradley as Cohen, an octogenarian barbarian who has become " a lifetime in my own legend. In Snuff, it is revealed that Harry King has since been given a Knighthood. Death, perplexed at the concept of a soul having a strong but completely vague belief, allows him to reincarnate as a woodworm. The Discworld equivalent of Odysseus. [2] Somebody apparently wants him dead, as the price on his head at The Assassins' Guild is $132,000. Pteppic's half-sister and successor. 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. 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. Hex is a computer unlike any other the Disc has ever seen, which is not particularly exceptional because previously, all other "computers" on the Disc had consisted of druidic stone circles. In this form it was simply a complex network of glass tubes, containing "ants as carriers of information". This may be because of Snapcase's mental disorder, which caused him to be very secretive while trying to spy on everyone else. 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. This is best described as 'the feeling you've been kicked in the head this way before'. Terry Pratchett. She appears in Witches Abroad as an attractive young woman with brown skin and blonde hair. 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. At the end of the book Verence I's hidden heir, Tomjon, rejects the throne. The Patrician who came to power after Lord Winder following the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May. Walter is an odd-job man at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. 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. Victor is also notable for being actively lazy; he kept himself fit because it was less effort to do things with decent muscles, and put a lot of work into avoiding work (as his University career illustrates). Death joins the crew in Soul Music where he takes the name, Mr Scrub. Explanation reveals that in Dimwell slang, "syrup of prunes" means wig. How many Dibblers? Harry ends up betraying the Horde (as a villain, it is his job), though when the horde confronts him about his betrayal they praise him for still being a reliable Dark Lord even at the end. In Lords and Ladies Verence and Magrat finally marry. Characters - Discworld.com Characters 1 2 3 4 5 >> Back in Stock Death and Albert Hogswatch Sweatshirt Hoodie 28.00 - 30.00 Death & Albert Hogswatch Seasonal Sweatshirt. He is also the author of The Arts of Falconrie and Hawking. After having an iconograph taken of him by Otto Chriek using dark light (light on the opposite side of darkness), Mr Pin experiences guilt and extreme paranoia for the various crimes committed by the New Firm. Meanwhile, Nobby considers letting her down gently because she did not know her way around a kitchen. She tries to hide her buxom qualities, without success. Classic Edd Matt Bendee Ku Klux Klan Dr. Decapi Ringo Tom Tord Santa Claus Kim and Katya Paul Zombehs Ash Williams . Highly skilled at achieving results, when he treated the racehorse Dire Fortune, it did not fall over until the last furlong. 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. This allowed Mort to stay in the world of the living. He appears in the books The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic and Interesting Times and in the computer game NetHack as the quest leader for the tourist class. Jump to navigation Jump to search. In fact, on the Discworld the word 'tactics' was derived from his name. He is the head of a consortium of financiers who had been embezzling from the clacks network since it was set up, and who, when it reached the point of collapse, bought the original owners out with their own money. As a member of the Cheesemongers, Private 'Ozzer' Perks serves with the colourful Sgt Jackrum, a reformed vampire named Maladict, a troll called Carborundum, an Igor, and a few even stranger people, who are, in fact, all women in disguise. Perhaps my favourite book. The 'Canting Crew' is an informal name for a group of Ankh-Morpork beggars who are too anarchic for the Beggars' Guild, which has a tendency to constrain them with rules. Small Gods is always the book I recommend to people as their first foray into the Discworld. The Carpet People. 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. 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]". He claims his original crime was stealing a loaf of bread (a nod to the protagonist of Les Misrables), though Vimes says that Carcer's style would be to murder the baker and steal the whole bakery. The Duck Man appears in several of Pratchett's books, including Hogfather, Soul Music , The Truth, and Feet of Clay. She rarely pays attention to anyone but herself. The other seven personalities are very careful to keep him buried. 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. Liessa's kingdom is not likely to have survived, for by the later books, the barbarian way of life has all but vanished from the Discworld. There are very few historical records of Lord Snapcase's tyranny. He meets Rincewind in Bel Shamharoth's lair, and aids his escape. Small Gods. Characters are listed alphabetically by name. He appears to be an homage to the famous cynic, Diogenes, who was similarly disliked by his contemporaries for focusing on the 'wrong questions'. Actor David Bradley played Cohen in the 2008 The Colour of Magic miniseries. At the end of the book, Polly has left the army, but rejoins as a sergeant when Borogravia is invaded again. 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. 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. Mort is described as being very tall and skinny, with muscles like knots in string. A doctor in Ankh-Morpork. Mr Tulip is, along with Mr Pin, a member of the New Firm, a duo of interloping criminals in The Truth. The recent news that . 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. Hrun is an archetypal fantasy barbarian: hulking and musclebound yet slow-witted, with very little dress sense, battle-prone, alcoholic and fond of virgins. His wife's name is Euphemia "Effie" King (his petname for her is "Duchess"), and their daughters are Daphne and Herminone (through whom Harry King is also a grandfather). The Discworld is the fictional setting of Terry Pratchett's most iconic fantasy novel series. His name is a play on Johann Gutenberg, with his first initials apparently derived from a phrase referring to Jesus Christ. 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'. Twoflower is the optimistic but naive tourist. The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) by. He appears in Going Postal, although the stable had previously appeared in The Truth. He started out as a mudlark, and developed his career from there. 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. The few times he's actually acquired real narcotics, they have been suitable only for trolls. 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 was killed in The Fifth Elephant, after having helped produce the replica of the Scone of Stone. He is also known for having undergone a long and perilous journey home after the war, much like his Roundworld equivalent. He passed his final exam by a fluke, having already decided he was not going to kill anyone. Members of the group can often be found beneath Ankh-Morpork's Misbegot Bridge and are normally accompanied by the talking dog Gaspode. He was looking for a job that was romantic, but did not involve hard work, which Holy Wood provided. 5. He carries an old boot on a stick, so muggers desperate enough to try to rob the beggars often find themselves being kicked on the top of the head by a man 3 feet tall. 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. 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. That person coming down the street in Ankh-Morpork or sneaking up behind you in the dark woods isn't necessarily human. When the philosophical community came to the conclusion that distance was an illusion and all places were in fact the same place, Ly was the philosopher to make the famed conclusion that although all places were in fact the same place, that place was very big. It appears that he remains at the bank though, in an attempt to honour his clown heritage, he returns to work wearing a red nose. She is descended from the High Priestess of Holy Wood, and while sleeping, she was repeatedly possessed by an unknown force, possibly the priestess. Period. This is in part a reference to Martin, the pessimist philosopher and sweeper in Voltaire's Candide. 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. The sign outside his yard reads "King of the Golden River, Recycling Nature's Bounty." They will attack anyone, anything and even themselves. It seems at that point that Liessa is developing genuine feelings for her husband-to-be. Unfortunately for Mort, his feelings for a teenage princess of Sto Lat get in the way of his job and he starts off a chain reaction of events by impulsively preventing her assassination. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. Ron's smell has become strong enough to not only melt earwax but to acquire a separate existence. His name and character are an obvious echo of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian and Genghis Khan, and of the common Jewish surname Cohen. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 15:11. 1. His name is a reference to the real stable-owner Thomas Hobson, best known as the name behind the expression Hobson's choice. Head of the Guild of "Seamstresses" (actually prostitutes). 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. From Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki. Part of Cohen's danger to normal people is that as a barbarian hero he has extreme problems interpreting such things as empty bravadoas a man of his word, he naturally assumes that anyone else saying something like 'I would rather die than betray the Emperor' fully means it. She gave him the Mundy Case and although Lewton did not know it, she used him as a puppet in order to find Mundy (of whom she said was her lover but he was really an informant for her cult). 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. Eric was last seen escaping from Hell with Rincewind, and it is unknown what happened to him afterwards. Lu-Tze also appears in Night Watch, Unseen Academicals, and Raising Steam in a smallbut significantrole. 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. Over the course of the book, the Fool meets and falls in love with Magrat Garlick and stands up to the Duke, admitting he saw the murder of Verence I. The man who introduced the world to the concept of "wholesale" destruction, Cohen is the Discworld's greatest warrior hero, renowned across the Disc for his exploits rescuing maidens, destroying the mad high priests of dark cults, looting ancient ruins, and so on. Stanley Howler is another example of parallel Discworld-Terrestrial history: on Earth, Stanley Gibbons is a company which publishes catalogues of stamps for collectors; the howler is a type of monkey, and the gibbon, like Unseen University's Librarian, is an ape. Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang sold green beer, location unknown but suspected to be tropical rain forest, possibly Howondaland. Son of the Baron of the Chalkland. 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. This list consists of human characters. 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