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Annagovia
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| Duchess Annagovia | |
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| Occupation | Duchess of Borogravia and semi-deity |
| Looks | fish-faced and old. |
| Residence | Borogravia |
| Death | recent, but not announced to population |
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| Cameos | {{{cameos}}} |
Template:Spoiler This article contains information that may act as a spoiler to Monstrous Regiment. If you are really sure you don't mind key elements of the plot being given away, read on...
The long-dead leader of Borogravia.
It is thought that the news of her death was withheld from the people of Borogravia as deliberate policy. Faced with an ongoing debilitating war, famine and starvation, with the only alternative being the insane god Nuggan, it is no accident that the fervent wish for change for the better expressed by the people has found a catalyst in the form of the fervent believer Wazzer Goom.
Through Wazzer the Duchess lives again as an anthropomorphic personification and is able to communicate her wishes to her generals.
It is interesting that the idea of a dead leader still being hailed as alive, or even a leader who never actually had any objective physical existence, was mooted on Roundworld, by George Orwell, in 1984 where it is suggested, by the highly placed Party member O'Brien, that "Big Brother" was an invention designed to fool the people into making every effort to win the never-ending war with the neighbouring totalitarian powers. (Note that there is a school of thought that suggests Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev died during a Red Army review and only his lifeless corpse, propped up by other Politburo members, took the salute from the military)
On the Discworld, that degree of belief would very soon bring "Big Brother" to life....
The Duchess expressed a wish to truly die after establishing her true wishes to Borogravia's generals. But since the belief of the people, acting through Wazzer, created her, will this wish be honoured? Or has the Grand Duchess arrived in Dunmanifestin to replace the failing Nuggan, and to fill the space his passing has left?
