Using the name Delores De Syn, she starred in several movies with Victor Tugelbend, usually as the maiden to be rescued. 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. It is possible that Mr Pin and Mr Tulip are taken as analogues of the Marvel Comics characters, the Kingpin and the Rose, organised crime figures. Student wizard turned actor, and protagonist of Moving Pictures. He comes from the Counterweight Continent, home of Rincewind's friend Twoflower. 1 Major Discworld characters 1.1 Ankh-Morpork and The Watch 1.2 Unseen University and the Wizards 1.3 Lancre and the Witches 1.4 Death's Domain and supernatural entities 1.5 Tiffany Aching 1.6 Industrial Revolution Characters 2 Minor Discworld characters 2.1 Ankh-Morpork and The Watch 2.2 Unseen University and The Wizards 2.3 Lancre and The Witches 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. Nanny Ogg then tells everyone that the Fool is Tomjon's older half-brother. A sweeper is also referenced in The Fifth Elephant and Going Postal. This belief, which is quite firm, is based on hearing his grandmother saying, during a famine, "You will be alright if you have your potato." This force used Ginger to attempt to awaken the Holy Wood guardian, which would have put a stop to the Holy Wood magic and prevented the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions from breaking through to the Discworld. Roland personally apologised to Tiffany when his father made out that he had in fact rescued her, as would be expected in such a story. Discworld Novels 01 The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983) 02 The Light Fantastic (Colin Smythe, 1986) 03 Equal Rites ( Gollancz, Colin Smythe, 1987) 04 Mort (Gollancz, Colin Smythe, 1987) 05 Sourcery (Gollancz, Colin Smythe, 1988) 06 Wyrd Sisters (Gollancz, 1988) 07 Pyramids (Gollancz, 1989) 08 Guards! score: 876 , and 9 people voted. 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. 'Well, the night is young,' said Albert, sitting back in the sacks. 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. Due to the Discworld's rather literal adherence to the laws of narrative convention, this is not an entirely mental issue: He is killed in an extremely operatic duel with the Ghost and spends two pages on a final monologue before keeling over. In Wintersmith, however, his first name is given as Callus. He is the undisputed head of any legal action in the city and is one of the major members of the civil council. Cohen does not know how old he is exactly. Walter is an odd-job man at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. Following his successful delivery of Young Sam, Samuel Vimes gave him a large area of land in the Goosegate area of the city. Despite her profession, she is as humble as a caterpillar, and has about as much brains. Whereas Leonard of Quirm makes absent-minded brilliantly inventive doodles in the margins of his notebook, B.S. History of the World Part 2 | Trailer | Hulu. There are very few historical records of Lord Snapcase's tyranny. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). Plinge is an awkward, nervy figure in a beret, whose alter-ego is the Opera Ghost. 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. She possesses the ability to think in headlines, and has gained valuable experience as an editor, allowing her to, e.g., reduce an article's length in half merely by crossing out all the adjectives. In the TV adaption of Going Postal, Gilt is portrayed by David Suchet. Formerly a street performing animal, he was named after the 'famous' Gaspode, a dog who faithfully stayed by his master's grave and whined (as, according to Gaspode, he had his tail trapped). First introduced in The Wee Free Men, the first novel in the Tiffany Aching series. 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 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. It was broadcast on Easter Sunday and Monday 2008. It is also mentioned that he never went to Ankh-Morpork in his lifetime. Lu-Tze also appears in Night Watch, Unseen Academicals, and Raising Steam in a smallbut significantrole. The fact that she is Nobby's girlfriend is somewhat shocking considering his barely human appearance and her incredibly stunning good looks. Rincewind, of course, remains immovably convinced that Twoflower's IQ is comparable to that of a pigeon. Miss Dearheart can see through most of Lipwig's conman tricks, amazing him; he names her "Spike" out of fondness. Due to his nature, even before this, Death could not see him, as he lies outside of Death's influence. In their language, the word for "stranger" is the same as their word for "target". Publisher in Ankh-Morpork. Blouse is promoted to the rank of Major by the end of the book. This theory is borne out by the appearance of several versions of Dibbler throughout the Discworld series: Other Dibbler equivalents include Ratonasticthenes from Ephebe, mentioned in The Science of Discworld. One of the two remaining employees of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office prior to Moist von Lipwig being made Postmaster. Pratchett has stated on Twitter that she is married to William de Worde, retaining her maiden name for professional purposes.[8]. 72 Sacharissa Cripslock 73 Seldom Bucket 74 Sergeant Jackrum 75 Stanley Howler 76 Tacticus 77 Tawneee 78 Theda Withel 79 Tolliver Groat 80 Traveling professionals 81 Trevor Likely 82 Twoflower 83 Verence II of Lancre 84 Victor Tugelbend 85 Vorbis 86 Wallace Sonky 87 Walter Plinge 88 William de Worde 89 Willie Hobson 90 Willikins Unfortunately, Mr Pin also steals his potato shortly before killing him, but Mr Tulip manages to retain the memory of a potato in the afterlife. A chorus singer at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, Christine is a pretty, thin blonde with a tendency to wear white and use exclamation marks at the end of every sentence. Members of the group can often be found beneath Ankh-Morpork's Misbegot Bridge and are normally accompanied by the talking dog Gaspode. 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. General Callus Tacticus was a soldier of the Ankh-Morpork Empire, and is widely proclaimed to be the greatest general of all time. 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. He maintained his monopoly by killing anyone attempting to set up another network, including Robert Dearheart's son, John, and employing the banshee Mr. Gryle to do so. He is made an Omnian bishop by Brutha, the Cenobiarch and Eighth Prophet. In Jingo, it's noted that "D'reg" is not actually their name for themselves, but a name given to them by others. Contents 1 Achmed the Mad/Achmed the 'I Just Get These Headaches' 2 Brutha 3 Dangerous Beans 4 Darktan 5 Dios 6 Doughnut Jimmy 7 D'regs 8 Drum Billet 9 Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre 10 Evadne Cake 11 Evil Harry Dread 12 Findthee Swing 13 The Gonne 14 Herrena, the Henna-haired Harridan By this time, however, Victor had left Unseen University to become an actor in Holy Wood, under the stage name Victor Maraschino, and the test paper in question was, instead, received by accident by Ponder Stibbons. (2001). Swing moves and speaks in an erratic, jumpy fashion, in bursts and sputters, rather than a continuous flow of movement or sound. [2] Somebody apparently wants him dead, as the price on his head at The Assassins' Guild is $132,000. 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. Adora's family is conned out of the Grand Trunk by Reacher Gilt, forcing Adora to be employed at the Golem Trust. Like Ron, he appears as a verse in Where's My Cow?, when Sam adapts the Book's basic structure to fit city life. This is a list of characters from the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien, which include The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. 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). Victor has not reappeared in any subsequent Discworld books. 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. In it, Henry goes "Cough, gack, ptui". 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 survives a direct elvish invasion of the Lancre castle, mainly due to one of his birds attacking the elf. 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. Swing always carries with him a large set of calipers and a steel ruler, with which he measures the facial characteristics of people he meets in order to determine their personal traits (phrenology). 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. His nephew has a similar exchange with Cropper in the pages of The Discworld Almanak. Hrun grabs her wrist and almost breaks it. In 2004 BBC Radio 4 adapted Mort, with the title character voiced by Carl Prekopp and Ysabell being voiced by Clare Corbett. 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. He was the finest military mind on the continent of Klatch. On his first appearance in the series he is already an old man, but still tough enough to handle anything the world can throw at him; his opponents often underestimate him because of his age, realizing too late that a man who does for a living what Cohen does and nevertheless survives to such an age must be very good at it indeed. Blouse seems to be a direct contrast to Jackrum the small, skinny, naive man is brilliant with numbers, and in one notable scene, thinks faster than Jackrum and uses a signaling device to misdirect enemy forces, whereas Jackrum would have simply smashed the device and moved on; a sign of warfare on the Discworld changing, with intelligence and technology beginning to take the place of bravery and fighting skill. This could also imply that Hrun eventually split up with Liessa. The name Captain Swing has long been associated with civil unrest, being the pseudonym of the (possibly mythical) leader of the Swing Riots. It will arrive unpainted, requiring preparation, assembly and painting but when it's finished you'll be itching to collect the rest! The only one mentioned by name in the novels is Conina, who appears in Sourcery. 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). 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. Gaspode both resents canine subservience to humanity and yearns for masterly companionship, being able to shout commands at dogs as would a human, much to his disgust. Mr Tulip is, along with Mr Pin, a member of the New Firm, a duo of interloping criminals in The Truth. 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. However, one day, Ilsa left Ankh-Morpork for unexplained reasons and this drew Lewton into a depression. The granddaughter of the chief cook at the Assassin's Guild, she has inherited a large number of secret recipes from her. Similarly, the phrase "her face launched a thousand ships" could only be used to describe a beautiful woman if relevant shipyard records were produced or, failing that, evidence that the woman's face resembled a champagne bottle. He is first mentioned in The Colour of Magic. His adventures begin in The Colour of Magic, when he decides to visit the city of Ankh-Morpork, where he meets the inept wizard Rincewind whom he hires as a guide. Guards!). 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. The early books feature a different cast of University staff each time, but arounf Guards Guards (or thereabouts) he settles down on a bunch of regulars. This is usually "bugger off" or something similar, but since the monks do not speak Morporkian, it does not matter much. He is killed by Mr Pin near the end of the novel and used for a life raft as molten lead flows around the pair. An Ankh-Morpork businessman who runs Hobson's Livery Stable, a multi-storey construction which sells and hires horses, as well as stabling other people's horses. The ruined fortress city of Tacticum, located in the Klatchian desert, is encountered in Jingo. Promotion is also an unlikely prospect in the firm. Terry Pratchett. He falls in love with Conina (a barbarian heroine who wants to be a hairdresser but cannot due to her genes) at first sight, and she with him. 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. For example, no bard was allowed to say of a hero that "all men spoke of his prowess" on pain of death; he should instead add that some people spoke ill of the hero and that still others did not know of him at all. When challenged about the clacks monopoly and the lack of choice it presented, Gilt stated that customers had the choice to use the clacks or travel great distances on horseback to deliver their messages themselves. 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. She is noted as having (appropriate to her name) what would be seen as a contemporary view of the world. The Ankh-Morpork official Hangman and executioner, possibly its Chief Executioner, although others have not been specifically mentioned. They will attack anyone, anything and even themselves. His ceremonial outfit of red and gold with a big floppy hat is usually supplemented with about three sticking plasters. Secretary to Patrician Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork, following the death of Lupine Wonse. The dragon, which he calls "Ninereeds" after his unimaginative master when he was apprenticed as a clerk, is very obedient to him. However, given how well the Queen got on with the elder Fool, there is another interpretation. Swing is mainly remembered for his attempt to control crime by ordering all weapons confiscated, reasoning that this would result in a decline in crime figures, failing to acknowledge that criminals do not obey the law in the first place and would actually greatly enjoy the lack of weapons in society. It was previously thought they might all be related, but the Discworld Companion explains that this is parallel evolution. Whilst being pursued by Commander Vimes along the roof tops at Unseen University during a magical thunderstorm, both Carcer and Vimes are transported thirty years into the past, about a week before the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May. Tawneee is, in fact, merely her stage name; her real name is Betty. There is also a man selling hot dogs, possibly a reference to Dibbler. The Dark Side of the Sun. In this form it was simply a complex network of glass tubes, containing "ants as carriers of information". The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide. 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'. Meanwhile, Nobby considers letting her down gently because she did not know her way around a kitchen. Twoflower supplies them with a wedding present of a box of Agatean money, which he believes to be inconsequential but which Rincewind comments, out of earshot of Twoflower, would buy them a small kingdom. From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. But Liessa still has one more trial in store for him: she strips till she is naked, so as to see how much passion he truly has for her. She is a beneficiary of the sad fact that star quality is a far rarer commodity than talent. For further Discworld character biographies, see the table below. 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). His one recorded act (The Colour of Magic) was to direct the Assassins' Guild to 'inhume' the tourist Twoflower at the request of the Grand Vizier of the Agatean Empire, contrary to the orders of the Emperor; the attempt failed. However, Mr Slant has also been involved in more sinister affairs. People send him small sums so that he will not turn up at their parties and ask them to look at his interesting collection of skin diseases. This mainly involves figuring out which deaths needed to be attended to personally, an important aspect of all reality. He also believes in the fundamental goodness of human nature and that all problems can be resolved, if all parties show good will and cooperate. In the TV adaptation of Going Postal, Drumknott is portrayed by Steve Pemberton. Before the couple can embark onto anything intimate however, Hrun is snatched away by Rincewind and Twoflower riding Twoflower's dragon Ninereeds. Although seemingly destined for the game of football, he refuses to play, on account of his Mum, who saw his father, the only player to score four goals in a career, die during a game. He was a hero of the Tsortean Wars, which he ended by bribing a cleaner to show him a secret passage into the citadel of Tsort. She has a prominent role in The Light Fantastic and a small cameo in Eric. He was born as a clown (Charlie Benito), but his first time performing was severely affected by the audience laughing at him. He has a habitual cough, hence his name, the result of his continuous smoking habit, again, hence his name. 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". His name is an allusion to the Chinese legendary figure Lao-Tze, the sage to whom the Tao Te Ching is attributed. Brutha was an Ommnian novice in Small Gods. One of Ankh-Morpork's most successful businessmen, Harry King appears in The Truth, Making Money, and Raising Steam, and is referred to in Going Postal and briefly in Night Watch by Lu Tze. These form a discussion between him and the head printer, Thomas Cropper, about the book. He supplements his official stipend, and plans for his retirement, by selling of short lengths of the hanging ropes used in particularly interesting casessuch as the "Albert Spangler" executionoften signed by the victims themselves. During this time he showed several unique powers, being able to sense the direction of a time disturbance, balancing the "load" of time down to less than a second after a Time Crash (which a man with 50,000 years experience claims he could not even hope to do) and reacting to (and being reacted to by) the Mandala, a visual display of Time on the Disk. Her establishment is used as a place to stay by Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg in Maskerade (on the recommendation of 'Nev' Ogg, though Granny Weatherwax had stayed there previously with Eskarina Smith in Equal Rites) and by Carrot on first settling in Ankh-Morpork (in Guards! Contents. He has a remarkable talent for mathematics and technology, suggesting to William de Worde several ways of improving the clacks system, despite never having encountered it before and the system being an 'Abomination Unto Nuggan'. Small Gods. 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. 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 Instead, he prefers to kick a tin can around, something at which he has gained an almost magical proficiency. The Patrician who came to power after Lord Winder following the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May. 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.". 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. She appears in Witches Abroad as an attractive young woman with brown skin and blonde hair. The Duck Man speculates that Andrews was once a mild-mannered person of a psychic disposition who was mentally overwhelmed by the other souls. Books published by his company include The Joye of Snacks by A Lancre Witch and the Ankh-Morpork Almanack. He reveals that when he was a puppy, he was placed into a sack with a brick (which he thought was his mother) and thrown into the River Ankh (which, due to its unwater-like qualities allowed him to chew through the sack and escape). Commonly seen entering and leaving the presence of the Patrician bearing either paperwork or verbal information on the activities of other denizens of the city, or the Discworld in general, Drumknott seems not to think much about the political implications of the information he works with, believing in filing for its own sake. Before he can accept the "proposal", Rincewind and Twoflower riding upon Twoflower's conjured dragon Ninereeds, snatch up Hrun in a rescue attempt and fly away with him. Literally; a cart ran over his legs several years ago and he now gets around on a wheelbarrow, usually pushed by the Duck Man. Small Gods is always the book I recommend to people as their first foray into the Discworld. Before Mort arrived she shared her home with Albert, Death's manservant. When she foments this plan, Rincewind, Twoflower and Hrun the Barbarian are passing close to her mountain country. (previous page) () 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. His trousers and socks are confirmed as being highly explosive, as a result of the gunpowder-like solution they are treated with. There were quite a lot, and rincwind keeps running into them. He performed all around the world, before hanging up his clowning shoes to concentrate on writing. Liessa abandons Rincewind and Twoflower to their fate and catches Hrun on her dragon, and the two share a passionate kiss. The Director of Music at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House in Maskerade, most notable for an absolute hatred of opera. His primary skill in the New Firm is the application of his apparently unlimited supply of unspecific anger; Tulip has turned mindless violence into an art form. A Borogravian girl of 16 who joined the army under the name Oliver Perks to rescue her brother Paul and save her family's inn. In self-imposed exile from his background of wealthy nobility, especially his father Lord de Worde, William works hard (and with varying degrees of success) to cast off the influence of his father, Lord de Worde, an arrogant speciesist,[11] 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. Death, perplexed at the concept of a soul having a strong but completely vague belief, allows him to reincarnate as a woodworm. When Brutha, Eighth Prophet and Prophet of Prophets, dies after a hundred years in power, he encounters a catatonic Vorbis in the ethereal desert; taking pity on him, he guides him through the desert to face judgement. After previous experience with Nanny Ogg's writing he is anxious to avoid innuendo, but is not entirely successful. Another notable fact is that his catchphrase (minus "buggrit") is also used by Mrs Tachyon, a character in the Johnny Maxwell series, also by Pratchett. He is described in the books as resembling a rodent, and wears a long poacher's coat covered in pockets. It is stated on several occasions that Jackrum should have actually retired long ago, with his official resignation papers constantly following him around by mail, but he always finds some excuse to get out of them; at one point in the book, he resigns his commission so that he can brutally assault an enemy soldier without dealing with military protocol and is subsequently re-enlisted afterwards. 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. Liessa catches Hrun on her own dragon, and the couple share a passionate kiss. After discovering this they argued, and during this argument Carlotta kissed and bit Lewton, turning him into a werewolf (or some variant type, several of which are named/referenced in the books themselves). Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler, usually known as Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, C.M.O.T. 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. Vorbis justifies his actions as being guided by "fundamental truth", i.e., that Brother Murduck had been killed by the Ephebeans because of their unwillingness to convert to Omnianism, and is unmovably certain of Omnian dogma, such as the belief that the Discworld is a perfect sphere and that steam-powered machines cannot exist as they do not possess minds or muscles. They subsequently meet their end after a freak accident sends their carriage plunging into a ravine, as revealed in Soul Music. Its reliability is questionable; according to it, Vimes has the eye of a mass murderer (Vimes says he indeed does in his other suit) while Carcer's only problem was his environment (most likely all the dead bodies wherever he went). It seems at that point that Liessa is developing genuine feelings for her husband-to-be. William de Worde described him as someone with "no discernible personality." In "Moving Pictures", a summary given about him is a reference to Fred Astaire. 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. Of all the characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg are some of the most beloved by fans. The Duck Man is regarded as the intellectual of the group, and appears to be relatively sane. Victor, however, decided that being a student wizard was greatly preferable to being a wizard, because as a student he could live a relatively safe and comfortable lifestyle while as a wizard he would face the risk of assassinations by students wishing to advance. The main mentions are of his journeys to Omnia (where he saw a person being stoned) and to Tsort (where his attempts to educate the ruler through subliminal learning resulted in his assassination). 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