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Mort
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Published	May 1987
Publisher	Victor Gollancz
ISBN	[1]
Pages
Series	Death Series
Main characters	Death, Mort, Ysabell, Binky, Albert, Keli
Annotations	Annotations for Mort
Notes	Book #04
All data relates to the UK hardback edition.

[edit] Blurb

Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.

After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice ....

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

• Death
• Mort
• Ysabell
• Binky
• Albert
• Keli

[edit] Minor characters

• Lezek, Mort's father
• Duke of Sto Helit
• Igneous Cutwell, a wizard
• Terpsic Mims, an angler (fisherman) saved by Death ("for later") and his wife, Gwladys (largely the reason that Terpsic is an angler)
• Lord Rodley of Quirm
• Cripple Wa, who runs a floating crap game
• Liona Keeble, Ankh-Morpork's first job broker
• Sun Emperor, boy emperor who nominally runs the Agatean Empire, though the Grand Vizier, Nine Turning Mirrors, is really in charge (until his attempt to assassinate the boy emperor backfires)
• Rincewind

[edit] Mentioned (incl very minor speaking parts)

• Hamesh, Mort's uncle
• King Olerve the Bastard, Keli's father
• Pilgarlic, leader of a group of thieves who unwisely try to rob Mort
• Ammeline Hamstring, a witch who's scheduled to die, and Granny Beedle and Gammer Nutley, her colleagues
• Abbot Lobsang, a monk (member of the Listeners) who's scheduled to die.. again
• Offler
• Mrs. Nugent
• Artorollo, once King of Ankh-Morpork

• Lesser nobles of Sto Lat:
  • Lord of the Privy Closet
  • Lady of the Small Hexagonal Room in the North Turret

• Staff of Sto Lat castle:
  • Chamberlain of Sto Lat
  • Yeoman of the Pantry
  • Moghedron, the wine butler
  • Royal Astrologer

• The Patrician

• Queen Ezeriel, a Klatchian queen who bathed in asses' milk, had many lovers, and killed herself by sitting on a snake, parodying Roundworld's Cleopatra

• Hummok M'guk
• Ug and Zog, names for several proto-humans

• Catroaster, a philosopher with a negative (albeit short-lived) opinion of Ankh-Morpork

• Blind Io and his somewhat more blind High Priest (in Sto Lat)

• Heavenly Guard, who patrol the Great Wall

• Ly Tin Wheedle (mentioned)

• King Zetesphut of Tsort (mentioned)

• Fate (mentioned)

• Destiny (mentioned)

• Sek (mentioned)

• Hoki (mentioned)

• Steikhegel, God of isolated cow byres (mentioned)

[edit] Locations

• Death's Domain
  • Death's Library
    • Stack for biographies more than 500 years old

• Ramtops
  • Octarine Grass Country
    • Sheepridge

• Ankh-Morpork
  • Curry Gardens
  • The Shades
    • Ham Alley
    • Pork Passage
    • Honey Lane
  • River Ankh (mentioned)
  • Mended Drum in Filigree Street
  • Harga's House of Ribs, owned by Harga

• Bay of Mante (mentioned)

• Klatch (mentioned)

• Klatchistan (mentioned), there's a promising war there

• Sto Lat
  • Wall Street, where Cutwell lives (until he's transferred to the castle)
  • Quene's Hed aka Duke's Head (depending on which reality you're in; presumably the King's Head before King Olerve died)
  • Sto Lat Castle
    • Throne Room

• Cori Celesti (mentioned)

• Great Nef (mentioned), Ysabell's parents died there
  • The Light Dams

• Pseudopolis (mentioned)

• Krull (mentioned)
  • The Edge (mentioned)
  • Hakrull River

• Carrick Mountains (mentioned)

• Ell-Kinte (mentioned)

• Dungeon Dimensions (mentioned)

• Agatean Empire (mentioned)
  • Bes Pelargic (mentioned)

• Tsort (mentioned)
  • River Tsort (mentioned)
  • Pyramids of Tsort (mentioned)

[edit] Things and Concepts

• reannual plants
• Hogswatch, time frame at start of book
• Granny Weatherwax's Ramrub Invigoratore and Passion's Philtre, a potion accidentally consumed by Cutwell
• Aurora Coriolis
• Shield of Passion ointment, a form of birth control
• Maidens' Longstop, a potion
• pizza
• Caroc Cards
• Ching Aling
• stardrip, a kind of drink
• scumble
• Brass Gongs of Leshp
• Book of the Magick of Alberto Malich the Mage, a book by Albert that first alerts Mort that Death's butler is more than he appears to be
• Rag Week, a time when Albert's statue is traditionally (albeit unceremoniously) defiled
• Rite of AshkEnte (when Albert says this backwards many years ago, he summons himself to Death, instead of keeping Death away from himself; he later uses it to summon Mort)
• Ankh-Morpork Chamber of Commerce/Guild of Merchants (mentioned)
• Serpent Dance, Discworld equivalent of the conga.
• Peach Corniche, a type of drink
• Drinks sampled by Death
  • Melon Brandy
  • Spring Cordial (contains wasps)
  • Old Overcoat
  • Amanita Liquor
• Klatchian migratory bog truffle: it's pale, brown, and warty, but it's food
• Monster Fun Grimoire, which contains instructions (not very good ones) on how to make fireworks
• deepwater puff eel, whose bladder and spleen may only eaten by those beloved of the gods (though it suspiciously sounds like bloat could come from this animal as well)
• Smoking Mirror of Grism

[edit] External links

Mort Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File