After the rather unsuccessful attempt, he and his friends escaped on the backs of horses belonging to the Valkyries and rode into the sky, seeking to explore the outside of space. Sometimes spelt 'Coughin' Henry'. He spent countless days drinking and drinking. Their most noted member is 71-Hour Ahmed, who gained his name for violating the ancient 3-day custom by executing a criminal one hour before it expired, an act so unthinkable that other D'regs call him the most feared man in all of Klatch. He simply mentally edits them out. 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. He attempts to avenge her by challenging the Grand Vizier Lord Hong to a duel. As Patrician, he used his power to enforce laws against creative exaggeration in writing. Partway through Monstrous Regiment, Strappi disappears, stealing a lot of the Regiments's personal possessions. He was introduced to the discworld series in the book Making Money. 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"). A plump, over-breasted girl who runs the Night Kitchen in the Unseen University until the events of Unseen Academicals. The Colour of Magic. In this novel he seems to have keen political instincts; it is stated that the Rusts have survived by not being romantic. [2] Somebody apparently wants him dead, as the price on his head at The Assassins' Guild is $132,000. History of the World Part 2 | Trailer | Hulu. Lewton was once a member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (sometime before the books). Some character biographies are also listed in articles relating to the organisations they belong to. 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. Figurines & Replicas. Given a barbarian hero's attractiveness to nubile young maidens, Cohen has quite a lot of children; in The Last Hero he mentions casually that he has dozens. 1. 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. Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, and predecessor to Mad Lord Snapcase. In the Easter 2008 Sky One adaptation of The Colour of Magic, she is played by Karen David. Fortunately his liking for pins can be used to calm him down from his, as called in the books, 'Little Moments'. One of the birds he breeds is the wowhawk, or Lappet-faced Worrier, which is like a goshawk only more soit prefers to walk everywhere and faints at the sight of blood. An Ankh-Morpork tradesman, owner of Sonky's Rubber Goods, and maker of Sonky's Preventatives. As of Making Money, she seems to have become the Times' chief liaison to Moist von Lipwig, and she has developed a talent for asking devious questions that, if answered thoughtlessly, would make for interesting and embarrassing news headlines. In the TV adaptation of Going Postal, Drumknott is portrayed by Steve Pemberton. Rincewind, of course, remains immovably convinced that Twoflower's IQ is comparable to that of a pigeon. Under his management, the clacks network became more profitable, but less reliable. 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. In Unseen Academicals, he reveals that he cannot understand the fuss that is being made about football, both old and new. Castle falconer at Lancre, Hodgesaargh is not his actual name, but some misunderstanding has been caused due to his birds' habit of attacking him when people speak to him (i.e. After the time crash he goes out into the world to stop the second Glass Clock (under the pretext of being shown the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite), which was being constructed by his then unknown temporal double, Jeremy Clockson. 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. A character in Monstrous Regiment, Jackrum is an immensely fat, hard-bitten Borogravian sergeant major with decades of military experience. Near the end, he consults with Casanunda, a 'ladies man' dwarf that had assisted in the defense of the kingdom. Aaronovitch has confirmed that C!Mot is intended as a parallel Dibbler, although how similar he is to the original (since the People have an entirely non-capitalist society) is unknown. It will arrive unpainted, requiring preparation, assembly and painting but when it's finished you'll be itching to collect the rest! [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. This has likely changed since marrying a 'Miss Drapes' at the Fool's Guild Chapel of Fun by Reverend Brother "Whacko" Whopply, in a 'whitewash wedding'. How many Dibblers? Mr Pin is then reincarnated into a potato resembling his face in a look of surprise, which is chipped and deep fried. As the new owners did not really understand the clacks the way the previous management had, they worked it until it broke. In Thief of Time it turns out that this was started by Lu-Tze, who spent some time lodging with her, and has a much better understanding of the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite than the monks who followed; he wrote down many of her sayings as guides by which to live his life. 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. In Wintersmith, however, his first name is given as Callus. He is well known for his "catchphrase", "Buggrit, millennium hand an' shrimp", which was the result of Pratchett feeding a random text generating program with a Chinese takeaway menu and the lyrics to They Might Be Giants' song Particle Man.[1]. He is made an Omnian bishop by Brutha, the Cenobiarch and Eighth Prophet. He also gave free treatment to those who needed it, including those who had been tortured by the Cable Street Particulars. Cohen does mention that he has been married before, however. Rosemary Palm is similar to real-life brothel owner, Lou Graham, whose employees were officially accredited as "Seamstresses". 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. He has a shock of bright red hair, and walks as if he is made entirely of knees. He was deposed as a result of the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May, during which he was very nearly assassinated by the future Lord Vetinari, but died out of sheer terror instead when Vetinari, dressed all in black, walked up to him in a room full of people, none of them noticing anything. 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.". 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It is also implied that she has an excellent figure ("other features that are considered attractive in any time"). Most have double meanings, serving as both stereotypical utterances of a grouchy older working-class woman, and equally stereotypical pieces of oriental wisdom. Roland's father eventually fell very ill, and his two scheming aunts used their new position as his guardians to rob his family blind. Walter is helped by Agnes Nitt into combining both aspects of his personality together so that he can become the director of music. 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. 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. 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. Hex has its origins in a device that briefly appeared in Soul Music, created by Ponder Stibbons[5] and some student Wizards in the High Energy Magic building. However, it does mean a lot of men are happy to tell her things. Rate. This means that both he and you have exactly the same aim in mind."[10]. Reacher Gilt appears in the novel Going Postal. Tawneee is, in fact, merely her stage name; her real name is Betty. It is also mentioned that he never went to Ankh-Morpork in his lifetime. This state of affairs might not have continued long if the Luggage had not intervened. The Discworld Pteppic's half-sister and successor. After murdering Pseudopolitan watchman John Keel (forcing Vimes to assume his identity and role as mentor to his younger self), Carcer climbs through the ranks of the Unmentionables, Homicidal Lord Winder's secret police, until he is brought back to the present by Vimes after pursuing him with a death squad under the orders of the new Patrician, Lord Snapcase. There is not much mention of Didactylos' life before the events of Small Gods, apart from the facts that he traveled a lot and advised some very important people in his life. Head of the Guild of "Seamstresses" (actually prostitutes). In his memory, it was amended to read: "The pen is mightier than the sword only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp". He is one of the History Monks and spends much of the novel in the background, disguised as a simple sweeper. To save Brutha, Om kills Vorbis by dropping from an eagle's claws onto his head (a reference to the apocryphal death of the Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus). She is briefly mentioned in Witches Abroad as being venerated by some younger Ramtops monks who, on the basis that wisdom seems wiser if it comes from further away, trek down to Ankh-Morpork to hear her wisdom. His name is most likely a mistranslation by Rincewind; his real name is Billy (Bi-Lily = two flower). Spencer was played by Michael Crawford, who was also the original performer of the eponymous character in Phantom of the Opera. He appears to have been rich and well educated at some time in the past, and even as a beggar, his clothes are the tattered remnants of an expensive suit. The fact that she is Nobby's girlfriend is somewhat shocking considering his barely human appearance and her incredibly stunning good looks. A bard from the decidedly Cymric country of Llamedos. By the end of Sourcery, she had fallen in love with Nijel the Destroyer, who could be considered her polar opposite in that he wants to be a barbarian hero but is very bad at it. 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". In Snuff, it is revealed that Harry King has since been given a Knighthood. 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. Stars: Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield, Annette Crosbie, Eleanor Bron. Appears in Pyramids; by the end of the novel she is enthusiastically embracing many of the stranger regimens, such as bathing in ass's milk, favoured by Cleopatra. A few years later, Lewton decided to pick himself up, forget about Ilsa and the rest of his past and start a new life. It is generally said that if a D'reg is one's friend he is one's friend for the rest of one's life, and if he is not one's friend the rest of one's life will be about five seconds; to still be alive five minutes after meeting a D'reg tribe is a clear indication that they really like one. His full name is mentioned in Making Money. Secretary to Patrician Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork, following the death of Lupine Wonse. Lewton appears in the third Discworld computer game, Discworld Noir. It has been suggested that by Going Postal he may have married his friend and editor, Sacharissa Cripslock. He only had a sword theatrically thrust under his armpit, but, according to the witches present, failed to notice this. . She wishes to be a hairdresser, but Discworld-style genetics keep getting in the way, causing her to instinctively kill people who threaten her. In Going Postal, Groat tells Moist von Liping about his hair that, "It's all mine, you know, not a prunes". The books can be read in any order but for ease we have . The Duck Man is regarded as the intellectual of the group, and appears to be relatively sane. Lucky Hank | March 19th, 2023. 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. 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