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Llamedos
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Llamedos is a hilly and permanently rainy country on the main continent. It is the home of druidism and druidical music and lots and lots of cold, exceptionally wet rain. Famous inhabitants include: Imp y Celyn, a.k.a. Buddy, lead singer and guitarist of The Band With Rocks In, during the Music With Rocks In fever in Ankh-Morpork (see Soul Music), and Sgt. Dai Dickins, a stalwart in the Glorious Revolution (see Night Watch.) Evangelist and explorer Llamedos Jones, reputed to have discovered the Brown Islands, was also a native.
The odd tendency of local placenames to spell strange things backwards in Morporkian does not arise from any jocular attitude on the part of the Llamedosians. They are known as a rather dour and humorless group.
The Prince of Llamedos is, historically, the courtesy title given to the eldest son and heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork and may derive from a time when Llamedos was part of the Ankhian Empire. The current (undeclared) Prince is Carrot Ironfoundersson.
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Llamedos and its inhabitants closely resemble Wales and the Welsh.
The name Llamedos is a reference to Llareggub, the town in Under Milk Wood, the poem by Roundworld's Dylan Thomas. The trick is to read them backwards:
