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Dios
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| Name | Dios |
| Age | |
| Race | Human |
| Occupation | High Priest of Djel |
| Looks | old, bald, imposing |
| Residence | Djelibeybi |
| Death | |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | |
| Children | |
| Marital Status | |
| Books | Pyramids |
| Cameos | |
Dios is the slightly insane High Priest of Djelibeybi who never ages. He lives in a Valley which he rules over with the same laws he began with, 7000 years previously. Kings come and go, but Dios remains, and interprets everything for them so that nothing changes. His agelessness is explained by his visits to the Necropolis (see Pyramids).
Quite possibly the most dislikeable and hard-to-have-to-read-about character in the entire Discworld canon, Dios advises the kings, and then overrules them if he sees fit. He explains this away as "interpreting" what they meant. He is held in such awe by the monarchy, the priesthood and the people that he is believed capable of anything.
Thanks to his tampering with the space-time continuum by building a pyramid that flares off time, he creates a bubble wherein although people are born, age and die, and there was a yesterday and will be a tomorrow, the days are the same twenty-four hours, lived through again and again (a bit like Groundhog Day), which is why nothing has changed for 7000 years and 1398 kings.
When he seemingly dies at the end of the book, he actually reappears at the beginning of the 7000 years again. With only his tattered robes and his staff (which features an Ouroboros emblem) he is ready to make all the same mistakes again.
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In Spanish, Dios means "God", being derived from the Latin "deus" and the Greek "theos".
