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Rufus Drumknott is a faithful servant to Lord Vetinari. Drumknott has been Vetinari's chief clerk since the previous incumbent had the book thrown at him, by (then Constable) Carrot Ironfoundersson.)

A quiet, studious man, Drumknott is ever adept at performing whatever task Vetinari requires. He is an excellent clerk, and cannot abide such malpractices as deliberate misfiling.

He has a nephew, who collects stamps.

Prone to losing his pencils in the presence of Moist von Lipwig, despite his best efforts to prevent this.

Drumknott is also seriously inconvenienced in the footwear department in Making Money, when his best pair of boots mysteriously go missing. This in turn inconveniences Vetinari, who muses that there is a pattern emerging from assorted seemingly random thefts around the city. As Vetinari is good at solving puzzles - one of Drumknott's lesser tasks is to ensure the evening copy of the Times is laid open, just so, at the puzzle page for his master's convenience - it is possible the Patrician has worked it out, and is quietly awaiting, with interest, the outcome of the latest assault on his life and position. However, whilst waiting to see, out of intellectual interest, how the latest attempt to depose him fails, he remarks mildly on the squeaking of Drumknott's new footwear...

Generally, however, moves with all the rattle and clanking of a feather falling in a cathedral at midnight. Has proved himself adept at knowing his master's mind, and often hovers with exactly the correct file ready for when Vetinari requests it. Depite having no discernible personality, he is often taken into Vetinari's confidence and asked his opinion on various matters pertaining to all sorts of vexed questions, to which he answers in a measured way. Not as between equals, but in a spirit of being taken seriously. It may well be that of all Vetinari's acquaintances, Drumknott is the most valuable to him.

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