Eventually he was apprenticed to Lu-Tze after his teachers were unable to teach him. Death is successful at taking coin and enhancing the group's earning power where he also becomes known as the Grateful Death. Magratwho owed her own name to a combination of this tradition and her mother's inability to spell "Margaret"was determined it would not happen again, hence the "Note Spelling". Nijel the Destroyer, son of Harebut the Provision Merchant, is a would-be barbarian hero, appearing in Sourcery. In Going Postal this is the Lady Sybil Free Hospital. After fighting and losing to Death, Mort was given an extra lease of life when the Grim Reaper chose to turn over his Lifetimer. He also has a sort of appearance in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, in the form of a series of memos drawn to appear pinned to some of the pages. He is described as having "four eyes" by a beggar at the docks early in the events in The Colour of Magic, who "found himself looking up into a face with four eyes," implying he actually wears glasses, although Josh Kirby's dust jacket illustrations for The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic shows him with four eyes. How many Dibblers? Sometimes spelt 'Coughin' Henry'. A thirteen-year-old demonologist and title character in Eric. In Snuff, it is revealed that Harry King has since been given a Knighthood. In Jingo, it's noted that "D'reg" is not actually their name for themselves, but a name given to them by others. Rincewind, of course, remains immovably convinced that Twoflower's IQ is comparable to that of a pigeon. 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." William de Worde described him as someone with "no discernible personality." 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 granddaughter of the chief cook at the Assassin's Guild, she has inherited a large number of secret recipes from her. Promotion is also an unlikely prospect in the firm. He also gave free treatment to those who needed it, including those who had been tortured by the Cable Street Particulars. 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. There are signs that his feelings for Tiffany extend somewhat beyond gratitude. The Cretaceous conifer species Sulcatocladus dibbleri is named after CMOT Dibbler.[4]. He is possibly inspired in part by John Major who was born the son of a music hall performer, but left to join a bank, eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK 1990-1997. 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. 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. Ninereeds nearly outruns her but vanishes when Twoflower loses consciousness, causing everyone riding him to fall. The dragon, which he calls "Ninereeds" after his unimaginative master when he was apprenticed as a clerk, is very obedient to him. 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. and bully, who goes so far as to leave the city and live in the countryside to avoid contact with these "lesser races". Appears in The Truth, Going Postal and Making Money. The Patrician who came to power after Lord Winder following the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May. Eric was relatively unsuccessful as a demonologist until, with some unknown assistance, he managed to summon Rincewind from the Dungeon Dimensions, originally intending to summon a demon to grant him wishes, namely mastery of the kingdoms of the world, to meet the most beautiful woman ever to have lived, to live forever, and to have a large chest of gold. Roland fought back as far as he could, in the process learning a great deal about surviving sieges and the art of insurgency. This collection follows their antics and adventures. (2001). When Carlotta Von Uberwald came into his life, Lewton's life changed forever. Trooper is a specialist in the field of Death by Hanging, and it is his skill with a noose which allows him to simulate an actual execution but leave the victim alive which resulted in Moist von Lipwig's survival at the behest of Lord Vetinari. He is quiet (if a tad sarcastic) and almost unshockable. They turned out to be very wrong. After fusing with Jeremy, Lobsang inherited all of Time's powers (though due to his inexperience he needs "time" to recharge them initially) and eventually takes over her role. His cough is described as sounding 'almost solid'. History of the World Part 2 | Trailer | Hulu. As Patrician, he used his power to enforce laws against creative exaggeration in writing. (In Cockney rhyming slang, the expected derivation would be "syrup of figs.") When the novel ends, Jackrum has reunited with her long-lost son on the advice of Polly, although she has apparently introduced herself as his father rather than his mother, on the grounds that a fat old woman showing up claiming to be his mother would just be an inconvenience, but a distinguished sergeant-major claiming to be his father would be something to be proud of. However, following the events of Going Postal, in which the destruction of his collection coincided with the invention of the postage stamp, he redirected his obsession to stamp collecting and philately. 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. Earlier in the aforementioned book it is stated by Cohen that Harry began with "two lads and his Shed Of Doom". ), see the articles for those races. It is also mentioned that he never went to Ankh-Morpork in his lifetime. From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. Originally the universe insisted that she should be dead, which meant that most people simply refused to acknowledge her existence unless she made her presence clear. 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." Snippets of Tacticus' advice turns up in various Discworld chronicles, and it can be gathered that he was a very realistic, down-to-earth general. Unlike Ron, who asks people for money to stop him following them, Coffin Henry makes money by not going anywhere. A rather effeminate aristocrat, he previously worked in the Quartermaster-General's Blanket, Bedding and Horse Fodder Department as an administrator, and had no previous experience of field command, his transfer being the result of Borogravia's ever decreasing supply of combat-ready men. It is revealed after time stops that he can make his own time, and pairs up with Susan Sto Helit to stop the Clock. Ysabell first appeared in The Light Fantastic, where she met Rincewind, and was surprised to learn that he was not actually dead. 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. When Death feels in need of a break, Mort takes over The Duty. Evil Harry Dread always makes an effort to adhere to the 'rules': he intentionally hires stupid henchmen, invests in helmets that cover the whole face (thus making it easy for a Hero to disguise himself) and places Heroes in overly contrived, easily escapable deathtraps. In fact, he uses the same trick (that no-one notices a sweeper) in the monastery as he does when out in the world, and has learnt as much about the nature of time as some of the higher monks simply by tidying up the classrooms. Hrun grabs her wrist and almost breaks it. Liessa catches Hrun on her own dragon, and the couple share a passionate kiss. Theda claims Mrs. Cosmopilite would not mind Victor Tugelbend coming with her up to her roomassuming they would be going up for sex, but they had a different reason. It has been suggested that by Going Postal he may have married his friend and editor, Sacharissa Cripslock. Indeed, he once said he was best at 'selling ideas.' 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. He has also been known to sell 'fong shooey' advice, mail-order martial arts lessons (under the alias 'Grand Master Lobsang Dibbler'), 'Dibbler's Genuine Soggy Mountain Dew', souvenir snow-globes and advertising space in the Ankh-Morpork Times. In Snuff, he is portrayed as an elderly man in a wheelchair, with a sunken look. 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. Verence was voiced by Andrew Branch in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Wyrd Sisters, and by Les Dennis in the Cosgrove Hall animation. There were quite a lot, and rincwind keeps running into them. However, this was merely the echoes of his own voice bouncing inside his own head, the Great God Om having become so weak from a lack of belief (in no small part because of the efforts of the Quisition) that only the truly faithful novice Brutha could hear him. 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. Adora's family is conned out of the Grand Trunk by Reacher Gilt, forcing Adora to be employed at the Golem Trust. He comes to a rather sticky end when he is impaled by the desk spike of William de Worde in the offices of The Ankh-Morpork Times after being trapped in a cellar with molten lead raining from the ceiling as the building burned, killing Mr Tulip to use his body as a raft and to steal his potato (which he believed granted its possessor a path to reincarnation). 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.". After the events of Mort, Mort leaves Death's service and marries Ysabell. 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. His first name is also a Latin word meaning "prison". Lawn is based on an actual retired GP of the same name based in West Yorkshire. 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