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Also known as Pteppic or Teppic.

Son of King Pteppicymon XXVII and 1398th monarch of Djelibeybi.

His father shocked the country's priesthood by sending his son away to be trained at the Assassins' school in Ankh-Morpork, since he had heard that it gave a very good education; the priesthood were very much against any kind of secular education for someone who would one day be a god. The practical education certainly saved Djelibeybi in its hour of need: Pteppic's aptitude for being an Assassin, which stopped short of actually killing people, was first-class in every other respect, especially in his talent for edificeering.

The night that he passed his final Assassin's Exam (the practical) was also the night his father died. As a god in the minds of his people, Pteppic briefly became omniscient and semi-divine, and then raced back to Djelibeybi where he found that time hadn't moved on (in fact, it had stood still for almost 7000 years) and his modern ideas and ideals (such as plumbing and feather beds) were unacceptable to Dios, the High Priest who had presided over each of the 1397 previous kings.

Much went wrong, but when a pretty handmaiden (Ptraci) was sentenced to death, he used his Assasin's skills, rescued her and fled Djelibeybi to Ephebe, following a trans-dimensional disaster that wiped the entire valley of the Djel from time and space and encapsulated it in its own dimension. Using the greatest mathematician on the Disc (a camel named You Bastard), Pteppic managed to return to Djelibeybi and restore it to reality.

Following the seeming death of Dios, Pteppic acceded to the throne, then later abdicated in favour of Ptraci, who had turned out to be his half-sister.