The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) by. He would not for example use a candlestick to knock someone out cold or steal it for its silver content. The miniseries was produced by The Mob Film Company and Sky One and it combined both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. Liessa catches Hrun on her own dragon, and the couple share a passionate kiss. His core business is that of "night soil" removal, but he is also involved in general rubbish collection and recycling. In the Easter 2008 Sky One adaptation of The Colour of Magic, she is played by Karen David. Like her half-brother she is keen to get in some decent plumbing. He is exceptional at martial arts when he needs to be and is the only known master of "Dj fu", in which the hands move in time as well as space. Twoflower is the optimistic but naive tourist. From Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki. The most notable is perhaps "I wasn't born yesterday" which, as Lu Tze points out, resembles one of the key revelations of Wen the Eternally Surprised, who, in reference to the continually destroyed and renewed nature of the universe, and the constancy of revelation, said "I was not born-yesterday!". Her entire life has been controlled by her fairy godmother, Lady Lilith de Tempscire, to ensure that she marries Lady Lilith's pawn, the Duc (pronounced "Duck") (actually a frog). Mr Tulip's past is hinted at being dark and fearful, a place that even Mr Tulip is afraid to remember. The pigs galloped on. In Good Omens, after Crowley's Bentley bursts into flames over the M25 motorway a crowd gathers. He assists newly-recruited werewolf Watchwoman Angua in the Night Watch's investigation of a plot involving a 'gonne', the Discworld's only firearm, and avoids run-ins with the Dogs' Guild, a pack of feral dogs led by Big Fido. Unlike Ron, who asks people for money to stop him following them, Coffin Henry makes money by not going anywhere. First introduced in The Wee Free Men, the first novel in the Tiffany Aching series. 7. In fact, it outclasses him, and is usually referred to in text as being almost another character entirely, who occasionally arrives ahead of Ron, opts to stick around for a while after his departure, and even goes to upper-class parties without him. Mrs Palm was considered almost a witch by Granny. He first appeared in Moving Pictures. He appears in Going Postal, although the stable had previously appeared in The Truth. The place where he lived had been in the middle of a war zone. The moniker, "King of the Golden River," is unlikely to be a reference to the River Ankh, which is brown due to centuries of waste being dumped into it, but is more likely to be a scatological reference, as suggested by the previous sign. However, when the party is within sight of the citadel, Vorbis knocks out Brutha and abducts him, returning to the Citadel to be ordained as the Eighth Prophet, where he informs everyone that he led Brutha through the desert; when questioned by Brutha, Vorbis offers the "fundamentally true" reasoning that he had led Brutha through a "desert of the soul". This move was not entirely in Lobsang's best interestsdue to internal politics, it was hoped they would "break" each other. Salzella is eventually found out and proves to be just as "infected" with operatic romanticism as everyone else in the building. Also known as Homicidal Lord Winder. He simply mentally edits them out. 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. 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. In several Discworld books, a character is admonished to "remember what happened to Mr Hong when he tried to open the Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on the site of the old fish god temple in Dagon Street on the night of the full moon." But his mind begins to slowly change after an encounter with the lovely Juliet Stollop, and after the tactical substitution of the ball with a tin can, scores the winning goal in the inaugural game of the new football league. At one point, War refers to Death as "Mort" but we later learn that the only people in the room (other than Twoflower), were Death, Famine, Pestilence and War ("mort" is "death" in Quirmian/French). Discworld In Order. From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. Literally; a cart ran over his legs several years ago and he now gets around on a wheelbarrow, usually pushed by the Duck Man. 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. Partway through Monstrous Regiment, Strappi disappears, stealing a lot of the Regiments's personal possessions. His Greatness the King Teppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High-Born One, the Never-Dying King of Djelibeybi (lit. 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. It will arrive unpainted, requiring preparation, assembly and painting but when it's finished you'll be itching to collect the rest! Other characters in this series include Adora Belle Dearheart, Lipwig's acerbic, chain-smoking love interest; Gladys, a golem who develops a strange crush on Lipwig; Stanley Howler, an obsessive young man who was raised by peas and becomes the Discworld's first stamp collector; and the very old Junior Postman Groat, who never got promoted to Featuring in Unseen Academicals, Stollop is a stunningly beautiful and utterly empty-headed girl who becomes a society sensation overnight when offered the possibility to become a supermodel. He claims that, when he dies, he wants a bell left on his gravestone so he can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring. Mr Bent eventually accepts his clown heritage after having a mental breakdown because (among other things) he made his first mathematical mistake. HO HO HO. 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. It is also mentioned that he never went to Ankh-Morpork in his lifetime. He was killed in The Fifth Elephant, after having helped produce the replica of the Scone of Stone. When she foments this plan, Rincewind, Twoflower and Hrun the Barbarian are passing close to her mountain country. 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. 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. She is descended from the High Priestess of Holy Wood, and while sleeping, she was repeatedly possessed by an unknown force, possibly the priestess. Also notable is his method of dealing with unpleasant occurrences. He is the muscle of the New Firm and, though an instinctive killer, recognises Mr Pin's cognitive skills and leaves the thinking to him. We are a fully-featured and well-established MUD with . A plump, over-breasted girl who runs the Night Kitchen in the Unseen University until the events of Unseen Academicals. He appears to be an homage to the famous cynic, Diogenes, who was similarly disliked by his contemporaries for focusing on the 'wrong questions'. 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". 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. and bully, who goes so far as to leave the city and live in the countryside to avoid contact with these "lesser races". After the failed Omnian occupation of Ephebe and the mobilisation of the armed forces of all the other countries along the Klatchian coast against Omnia, Brutha resolves the conflict and becomes the Cenobiarch of Omnia, and the Eighth Prophet and Prophet of Prophets of Omnianism. 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". He ordered a book on the subject ("The one with the woodcuts,") from Ankh-Morpork, only to discover (in what would have otherwise been a horribly embarrassing scene) that he'd been mistakenly sent a book on MARTIAL Arts instead (he quickly recovers from the shock and presents the book to Shawn Ogg, the castle's only guard, as if that had been his intention all along). In a scene unusually erotic for a Discworld book, Liessa strips naked before Hrun to see if his desire for her will be strong enough for their relationship to work. 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. At the last, even their own soldiers were killing farmers, desperate to find any food. Digman | March 22nd, 2023. Using his new wolf abilities, Lewton managed to put a stop to Carlotta's cult's plans and save Ankh-Morpork from being consumed by a giant god of destruction. His current whereabouts are unknown. Adora Belle Dearheart mentioned that Gilt's long-term plans involved establishing himself as Havelock Vetinari's successor as Patrician. The Duck Man speculates that Andrews was once a mild-mannered person of a psychic disposition who was mentally overwhelmed by the other souls. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 15:11. The recent news that . Publisher in Ankh-Morpork. Guards! 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. Swing moves and speaks in an erratic, jumpy fashion, in bursts and sputters, rather than a continuous flow of movement or sound. 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 was looking for a job that was romantic, but did not involve hard work, which Holy Wood provided. Gaspode, however, does manage to become agent to both Victor Tugelbend and Laddie, successfully renegotiating their contracts with a ten per cent commission. In this form it was simply a complex network of glass tubes, containing "ants as carriers of information". He owns the world's only Thinking Brain Dog (as opposed to a "Seeing-eye dog"), Gaspode. The Colour of Magic. For biographies of noted members of the Discworld's "ethnic minorities" (dwarfs, trolls, undead, etc. Pratchett has stated on Twitter that she is married to William de Worde, retaining her maiden name for professional purposes.[8]. The background of Mr Pin is much more vague than his partner, Mr Tulip. Brutha is a faithful and dutiful lad, word perfect on Omnian religious texts on account of his eidetic memory but unable to read or write. Miss Maccalariat is receptionist in Going Postal, her voice is like the worst of schoolteachers and her family have performed her role for generations, sucking lemons until their features were pursed enough. 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.