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- '''One Tzu Sung''' is one possible candidate for the author of the [[Art of War]]. Another contender ...tional beginning to certain songs that are '''Sung''' - '''''One Tzu''', a-one tzu three four...'' ...661 bytes (111 words) - 22:40, 25 September 2013
- *'''Rule 19''' - "Always remember Rule One and ask yourself, why was it created in the first place" ...pisode, challenged by Romana for his antics, he merely says "Remember Rule One!" ...1 KB (202 words) - 00:10, 24 September 2012
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- |title=The Ankh-Morpork Archives A Discworld Anthology: Volume One [[Category:Reference|Ankh-Morpork Archives A Discworld Anthology: Volume One, The]] ...2 KB (228 words) - 13:44, 7 March 2020
- |title= One Big River |name= One Big River ...2 KB (355 words) - 04:33, 8 May 2023
- #REDIRECT [[Million-to-one chance]] ...35 bytes (3 words) - 00:05, 24 September 2012
- ...f Discworld, and with [[the gods]] who like to play games, a '''million-to-one chance''' succeeds nine times out of ten. ...So while the list of things that people have accomplished with million to one chances is quite impressive, the list of things they have failed to accompl ...2 KB (381 words) - 04:10, 23 April 2016
- |title= One-Man-Bucket |name= One-Man-Pouring-A-Bucket-Of-Water-Over-Two-Dogs ...2 KB (374 words) - 07:35, 21 July 2016
- On Roundworld, there are the newspapers Sun and Mirror. One is right wing, the other left wing, and both are something rhyming on "cash ...558 bytes (87 words) - 00:08, 24 September 2012
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- one having the English or French suits clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds, exactly to twenty-one (an onion) or come close to this total without ...28 KB (4,994 words) - 09:38, 22 January 2021
- We now have the best part of a thousand spammer accounts arranged in one long neat unbroken list. I'm wondering if there is any way of simultaneous :::So one verifies his email, WTF! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk] ...80 KB (13,194 words) - 15:40, 20 October 2021
- ...here's a Discworld reference or two in most of the novels - including that one of Grant's senior police colleagues is a noted fan. ...ght well run down a family dynasty, the female members of which each adopt one of the three faces of the classic Greek Fate. Death, in Anthony's world, i ...70 KB (11,485 words) - 04:31, 20 October 2022
- ...mongst other things the Senior Wrangler discloses his aunt was a victim of one, a woman who literally could not get past the pineapple. ...dently of any attached body, propelled by their very own sets of wings. In one mural, young women are trying to catch them as they buzz around in a flotil ...43 KB (7,428 words) - 01:07, 28 May 2023
- ...shoremen. In fact: one of Andy Shanks' associates shares out the bounty at one point - of loose goods purloined while working a casual shift at the docks, ...ble, even dangerous, places, and involves mental and emotional anguish, at one point a near-Death experience. ...47 KB (7,988 words) - 05:21, 6 March 2024
- ...rforming arts. On [[Roundworld]], [[wikipedia:Calliope|'''Calliope''']] is one of the nine [[wikipedia:Muses|Ancient Greek muses]], and a cantaloupe is a One of the songs that The Band With Rocks In plays is Pathway to Paradise. This ...36 KB (6,252 words) - 00:03, 3 March 2021
- ...ormation was incorrect (as chicken fat is not the only one and at least in one cuisine from two mentioned not the most popular). ...like greengrocers' apostrophes). We could make it an internal convention - one never knows, do they? ...39 KB (6,449 words) - 04:58, 17 November 2022
- This book could well be about one [[Vetinari|Tyrant]]'s desire to get the railways running not only on time b ...ialogue in the best Bolton accent I can do, I realised there could only be one person being portrayed here. The great Fred Dibnah. Right down to the flat ...30 KB (4,999 words) - 00:10, 4 August 2023
- ''"Unseen University, home of the greatest wizards on the Discworld. And one or two of the worst."'' **[[Juliet Stollop]], one of Ms Sugarbean's workers ...23 KB (3,723 words) - 04:25, 15 May 2023
- ...f Discworld, and with [[the gods]] who like to play games, a '''million-to-one chance''' succeeds nine times out of ten. ...So while the list of things that people have accomplished with million to one chances is quite impressive, the list of things they have failed to accompl ...2 KB (381 words) - 04:10, 23 April 2016
- ...(staves), swords (swords), cups (cups), and coins (coins), while in Tarot, one of the suits is pentancles (octograms), and some of the cards in the major ...any value upto and including 21. The higher the group value beats a lower one. ...10 KB (1,781 words) - 09:39, 22 January 2021
- ...aken for a demon, a god, lunch, a hero, a woman, and many other things. At one point he even very briefly visited [[Roundworld]], appearing on an aeroplan ...his amazing incompetence, he has always been (and probably always will be) one of the most popular Discworld figures. ...15 KB (2,427 words) - 04:55, 6 April 2021
- .... Couldn't find it. If I find a solution, I'll implement it straight away. One plus: if it's not automatic but someone doing this by hand, at least it's c '''Fix'''? I've added a captcha to the account creation. Not just one, but [http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html reCaptcha]. According to their si ...30 KB (4,929 words) - 14:54, 7 July 2016
- ...shoulders against the improbably small door, one finds one's self turning one unseen corner after another, seemingly going on forever into further and mo ...ge other than books as it represents every library anywhere. Additionally, one can read any book ever written, any book that will be written at some point ...7 KB (1,170 words) - 04:24, 7 July 2022
- ...th, because of her prowess with cheese, four dollars a month, her own bed, one day off per week and a week's holiday at Hogswatch. The text notes that th One would suspect that a City poll tax exists, but is very carefully gradated t ...24 KB (4,068 words) - 09:44, 29 January 2018
- ...tionally." Reference to the old David Carradine TV series, ''Kung Fu''. In one of the earliest episodes the Shaolin monk-in-training was required to walk ...y from a 19th Century Prime Minister, Lord Robert Stanley, who was a great one for nepotism. If you got a good Government job it was because "Bob's your u ...13 KB (2,231 words) - 06:26, 12 November 2015
- ...ve looked through the [[special:listadmins|list of admins]] and found that one has been inactive since 2008 and another since 2006. High privilege user ac ...iki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist SpamBlacklist]</span> might be a good one. {{User:Myrtone/sig|Myr|tonos}} 14:40, 22 December 2010 (CET) ...44 KB (7,292 words) - 14:54, 7 July 2016
- ** Reference to a suspicious yellow dip at parties that no-one ever eats ({{RM}}) ...ett’s books, as the protagonist Peter Grant has read them, and the wife of one of his superior officers is also a fan. ...28 KB (4,660 words) - 01:38, 20 December 2023
- ...ple scum" worlds where no complex life exists. By the two hundred millions one finds Earths which have different levels of gravity, and it has been specul Datum Earth is one of many 'interglacial' worlds; that is, worlds that are covered in trees an ...7 KB (1,127 words) - 08:31, 4 November 2017
- * This is one of the few times someone gets away with calling the Librarian a "monkey". A ...e "pretty boy" phrase. However, parrots also feature in {{E}}, {{MP}}, and one particular parrot marooned on a jungle island takes a starring role in {{N} ...14 KB (2,428 words) - 14:35, 8 October 2016
- ...One of them is even ''called'' Jane, and she's the strange self-sufficient one who closely observes the world around her and wants to become a writer. Hmm ...layer was earnestly explaining them to him... on the surface such an easy one -- but please also bear in mind {{wp|Croquet|croquet}} ... ...20 KB (3,408 words) - 02:40, 23 July 2023
- ...pp32-33 of Leonard in a chariot pulled by swamp dragons). Godwin's book is one of the earliest published stories about space travel, and was famous enough ...sse, instead of standing around waiting while members break off and attack one or two at a time."'' Contrastingly, Evil Harry seems to follow a Code which ...18 KB (3,059 words) - 01:49, 22 December 2023
- Surname of one of the older noble families in [[Ankh-Morpork]], the most powerful city-sta He was one of the noblemen invited by [[Edward d'Eath]] to plot the restoration of the ...9 KB (1,567 words) - 04:21, 8 October 2021
- ''The 493rd Abbot... addressed Lu-Tze, one of his most senior monks.'' ...ere, the story is the Lu-Tze never graduated as a monk nor was selected as one at all. What he has learnt has come from years of sweeping up, unobtrusivel ...14 KB (2,345 words) - 19:26, 10 December 2022
- ...d way. Reading an uncountable number of books, passing hard tests, getting one (or several) of the many [[UU degrees|degrees]] available and practicing al ...into a dog, because this is simply turning one existing thing into another one. But to create things out of nothing is totally different thing and almost ...11 KB (1,798 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2022
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- ...h has thus been suppressed by generations of Popes. It's worth noting that one of the authors has since acknowledged that the content of the book was a ho ...ous scene in Monty Python's ''The Life of Brian'', when Reg (the leader of one of the innumerable rebellious groups that infest Judea) asks "What have the ...30 KB (4,890 words) - 08:10, 7 August 2023
- ...342 of the paperback of {{CJ}}, when the vampires are defeated in Escrow, one of the defeated vampyres is called ''Maladicta''. Did she decide on a caree ** ’Tonker’ Halter - “tonker” is one of many slang terms for penis (see also {{LL}}). Tonker’s aggressive atti ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 00:57, 12 April 2024
- ...ly sees to it that a reality with him as Patrician is slightly better than one without him. ...th irony than most others can with steel. He can also accomplish more with one raised eyebrow than most people can with two of them and a lifetime of prac ...17 KB (2,851 words) - 19:57, 21 December 2022
- ...e on. (A witch's spell, if powerful enough, is perhaps the equivalent of a one-shot chem?) The [[Red Army]] from {{IT}} may likewise have been powered onl Fragments of golem from that period were known to the Unseen University. One of them was in the [[Cabinet_of_Curiosity|Cabinet of Curiosities]]. It matc ...13 KB (2,154 words) - 17:42, 24 April 2017
- ...These latter were so appallingly badly designed that a year or two later, one such, the ''Herald of Free Enterprise'', sank in the Channel with considera ...t want another bloody damn war, not when we've only just paid for the last one, North Sea Oil's coming on stream, and the balance of payments is straighte ...13 KB (2,252 words) - 17:02, 26 March 2023
- ...eason to where the sequel plot begins, which would be the third season, if one is made. The second season is co-written by Gaiman and John Finnemore, best === Season One === ...12 KB (1,911 words) - 11:35, 28 September 2023
- ...ir crime was. One who disseminated slander (verbally) or libel (in print), one deemed to be a habitual liar and ''rumour-monger'', could have the letter " ...troubles in {{TFE}}. However, there are ''always'' going to be troubles of one sort or another in Uberwald, as {{T!}} and {{RS}} demonstrated. so speculat ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 11:07, 12 January 2024
- Mainly, the term "vampire" refers to an intelligent humanoid being with one or all of the following characteristics: ...e, it is one of the reasons why some people suspect [[Mavolio Bent]] to be one. ...7 KB (1,229 words) - 12:22, 15 December 2021
- * "we're doing one about going to see a wizard. Something about following a yellow sick toad" ...reference to the line in the {{wp|Blues Brothers|Blues Brothers}} , "It's one hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack ...12 KB (1,984 words) - 19:58, 10 September 2013
- ...rks that aren't Books or Short Stories, unless I'm missing something: this one's a playscript but there are other things. Discuss. --[[User:Old Dickens|O ::I have, on occasion, thought about how terrible it would be to wake up one day to the news that Sir Pterry had died, but actually waking up to the new ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2021
- ...r the end of WW2. He spent a little under two years as a junior officer in one of Scotland's most famous (some might say notorious) Army regiments. What b ...er, because there are twice as many ladies, and twice as many men for each one to dance with - but in a sixteensome the ladies dance two at a time, and ea ...11 KB (1,827 words) - 12:16, 19 June 2023
- ...'), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One". ...being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one. ...5 KB (842 words) - 14:02, 25 May 2018
- ...unction. A [[Unseen University|school for wizards]]- that works. It was no-one’s idea ''per se'', but it captures the imagination, and is good to use in ...hools'. Some of them are pre-Unseen University, too. It doesn't matter. No one is stealing from anyone. It's a shared heritage." ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 03:47, 2 January 2024
- ...to find all the episodes about a book, or find all the podcasts indexed in one place, see our cousin wiki, [https://guild.pratchatpodcast.com the Guild of ...atchett, though most only do so occasionally and are focussed on the forty-one Discworld novels, and sometimes the film and television adaptations. ...16 KB (2,232 words) - 04:31, 10 February 2024
- ...out it; I don't like the idea of trying to put everything relevant on that one page. And if someone wants to know more about the character in the show, wh ...s in order to get the awesome ones, the same way panning for gold requires one's hands to get quite mucky before the good stuff filters out." I guess that ...28 KB (4,642 words) - 16:51, 18 March 2024
- ...or unwisely curious students to find, for example, the Lost Reading Room. One such expedition headed by 'Bogeyboy' Swallatt got lost in the maze of shelv ...n. A full array of possible futures are implied by the books collected in one place. The Unseen University's Library is obviously magical in the layman' ...7 KB (1,126 words) - 02:16, 13 October 2021
- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four..." ...p>. After a while, he came to a [[Mister Safe Way|crossroads]]. Finding no one there, he took the road more travelled and came to [[Ankh-Morpork]]. ...6 KB (1,045 words) - 20:55, 3 September 2017
- * A washed pot never boils. (This one was related by way of a Yeti, so it may be garbled by a mild speech impedim ...unto you. (Koan 97) (Lu-Tze mentions uncertainty about having gotten this one right) ...6 KB (1,076 words) - 01:41, 10 June 2014
- ...arly in the book, Death seems to want to Mort and Ysabell to fall in love (one almost wonders if that's the ''real'' job Death wanted Mort for), but he se * "Twenty-one the hard way!" - probably 3 7's. In Roundworld craps, the "hard way" is whe ...6 KB (983 words) - 19:56, 10 September 2013
- ...anonymity undesirable and feels it is necessary to remind people of [[Rule One]]. While he claims the position of a sweeper, he is widely respected by man *No Kando ('You made that one up'). ...6 KB (952 words) - 00:14, 5 October 2022
- ...According to [[Lord Vetinari]], the goal of the game should be to discover one's own weaknesses. [[Mr Shine]] hopes that encouraging Dwarfs and Trolls to ...in any direction, including diagonals. The trolls, however, can only move one square in any direction. ...5 KB (831 words) - 00:49, 1 November 2022
- *[[TV and Film:Hogfather|''Hogfather'']], aired by Sky One, Christmas 2006 [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article344232.ece as T *[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|''The Colour of Magic'']], aired by Sky One, Easter 2008 as TV film. ...9 KB (1,345 words) - 01:27, 3 June 2023
- ...{wp|Anchorite|anchorite}}, best described as a hermit and one-way prophet: one-way in that whereas many prophets retreat to the desert, receive revelation St. Ungulant is not actually a saint, but someone pointed out the obvious one day, since his full name is Sevrian Thaddeus Ungulant. He resides in the de ...2 KB (413 words) - 09:50, 6 June 2018
- ...Suicide on [[Roundworld]] refers to the willful and premeditated taking of one's own life. However, the famous Morporkian literalism steps in to expand th ...rom ''sui caedere'', "''to kill oneself'',") is the intentional killing of one's self. The most common cause is an underlying psychiatric disorder, such a ...6 KB (1,012 words) - 03:45, 10 August 2015
- On revolutionaries and footwear:- one of the great leaders of the Mexican revolution was called '''''Zapata'''''[ ''Renata Flitworth'' - such a patently bleedin' obvious one I never saw it till now... the Dickens character in ''Great Expectation'' w ...6 KB (1,023 words) - 21:29, 10 September 2013
- ...Can I suggest [[Book:Guards! Guards!|Guards! Guards!]] as a candidate? for one thing, it seems to be a rare "completed" book page with no red links leadin :Since no one ever pays any attention to it anyway, should we change the heading to sugge ...18 KB (2,939 words) - 00:07, 12 July 2021
- ...r relationship, it is entirely possible that "Dog-botherer", together with one or two other indignities inflicted at school, hangs unspoken in the air bet Downey is a highly skilled poisoner, and it is apparently very unwise to try one of his almond slices. He contributed his recipe for mint humbugs to {{NOC}} ...3 KB (552 words) - 09:58, 22 May 2016
- ...ry]], went missing while taking a tooth to a criminal [[Banjo Lilywhite]] (one of Teatime's assistants). In Death's library, her biography shows she is be ...ed [[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]]. He re-seals it after two near accidents, one involving a tap marked {{wp|Old Faithful|Old Faithful}}, and a worse proble ...17 KB (2,460 words) - 05:34, 28 September 2022
- ...nd it broke under the strain, freeing Time and causing the inventor to age one thousand years, according to the legend in any case... ...of asking him in the guise of a beautiful woman, [[Myria LeJean]] who was one of them disguised as a human. ...3 KB (548 words) - 19:38, 30 August 2017
- ...mstick|broom]] could remain airborne if you pulled out the bristles one by one whilst in flight. According to the [[Quoth|raven]] she had trained to act a ...peeled with a two inch paring knife no wider than half an inch, the loved one's name will invariably be SCSSSC. ...2 KB (341 words) - 17:28, 7 April 2024
- ...f conduct and decorum that have operated in the Empire since the time of [[One Sun Mirror]]. ...h remains on his person at all times. In conditions of deepest secrecy and one item at a time, he has assembled a wardrobe of what he fondly considers to ...7 KB (1,146 words) - 00:28, 29 April 2018
- One of the more powerful [[gods]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. (On ...s|Small Gods]]'', despite having a huge empire of worshippers, he only has one true believer, [[Brutha]]. ...8 KB (1,292 words) - 04:20, 23 May 2022
- ...s also the location of the [[Quirm College for Young Ladies]], and as such one of the minor settings in ''[[Book:Soul Music|Soul Music]]''. The college ha ...} that [[Quirm]] has a full-fledged [[Quirm Zoo|City Zoo]], which makes it one step ahead of [[Ankh-Morpork]] in this respect. [[Sam Vimes]] takes [[Young ...10 KB (1,711 words) - 23:43, 29 February 2020
- ...e of improvement. The scion of some great Ankh family might come and carry one off to his mansion, but while the general peripheries of marriage might be ...strict" (formerly and rather more accurately known as 'The Whore Pits') is one of the city's great tourist attractions. ...4 KB (610 words) - 18:21, 18 December 2020
- ...city. Vimes also began a romantic relationship with [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], one of the wealthiest women in the city. ...but also his wife and his fourteen-months-old son, using flamethrowers. On one side, there is Vimes, however rough and pessimistic he may seem, defender o ...24 KB (4,167 words) - 19:55, 21 December 2022
- ...ried in the cellar of [[Ramkin Residence|One Scoone Avenue]], however, and one of its special bolts turns up mysteriously in {{SN}}. The two guards exchanged glances. 'Who the hell are they?' said one.<br/> ...4 KB (692 words) - 05:24, 23 February 2024
- ...ain, he, Nobbs, should therefore be given a crack at Acting-Sergeant. This one-and-only attempt to get a further promotion having been ignored completely, ...ople's arguments, and he believes there is always a catch in a good offer. One day he hopes to have a young lady, but he's not easily pleased. Recently th ...9 KB (1,577 words) - 16:39, 20 May 2018
- ...cover is a painting by Tim White of a robotic insect on a leaf - possibly one of the spy robots employed by [[Korodore]] and others throughout the book. **[[Class One Robots]] ...6 KB (859 words) - 09:44, 13 March 2019
- |children=One son ...inventive enough to find some excuse to get out of them. For instance, at one point in the book, the sergeant resigns his stripes so that an enemy soldi ...5 KB (829 words) - 12:00, 13 April 2024
- |title= One-Man-Bucket |name= One-Man-Pouring-A-Bucket-Of-Water-Over-Two-Dogs ...2 KB (374 words) - 07:35, 21 July 2016
- ...ppears when I submit an edit, even though the edit has gone through. Is no one else getting these? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 14:03, 24 June 2008 And as one of the closest parts of England to continental Europe, the local accents ar ...34 KB (5,706 words) - 04:03, 3 August 2016
- ...n the second of the two to be retrieved: he would have gone for the easier one at the [[Assassins' Guild]] first. As in the opening chapter of {{MM}} we s ...g notes to the chorus singers and ballet girls. Later, he seemed to be the one responsible for these strange ''accidents'', in some of which people have d ...6 KB (1,068 words) - 01:24, 25 September 2013
- ...the extreme of tunneling under [[Ankh-Morpork]] to locate one very special one... ...lost off the Turkish coast in 1917 was rediscovered eighty years later. ''One mile inland and 800 metres underground''. Unless it was moved by trolls, th ...4 KB (677 words) - 12:47, 9 November 2022
- ...s the [[Great Wizard]] caused the earth to rise and fight on the side of [[One Sun Mirror]], helping him to unite the country and become the first Emperor ...alled themselves the Red Army. As the Army needed a Great Wizard like the one in the legend, they sent for the Great Wizard who had guided Twoflower in h ...3 KB (539 words) - 03:31, 23 April 2015
- |channel=Sky One ...rld]] novels and the first of the series of adaptations by the channel Sky One. Hogfather was produced by The Mob Film Company. ...3 KB (491 words) - 02:00, 3 January 2023
- ...tion of a troll and has been ever used as one of the justifications (as if one were needed) to fight and kill trolls, as they are unwanted and unblessed b However, there is a second possible translation, one that is unpopular and many dwarves wanted it declared heresy. At the time o ...5 KB (976 words) - 01:05, 29 August 2017
- ...ies who, in theory at least, can contend to gain the [[Patrician]]ship for one of their members. The nearest thing they have to a plausible candidate, at ...imilarly, a goatee beard only looks stylishly sinister on people with only one chin: Moist thought of Cosmo's as being seriously misplaced and pitied the ...5 KB (841 words) - 05:46, 27 January 2023
- ...'Million-to-One' Chance--and all of the other chances as well''"<br>"''The One who will desert you when you need Her the most--and sometimes She might not ...The 'Million-to-One' Chance - and all of the other chances as well... The One who will desert you when you need Her the most - and sometimes She might no ...4 KB (623 words) - 02:39, 18 May 2022
- ...government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the ci ...ssessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}} ...11 KB (1,821 words) - 15:36, 1 May 2023
- *An older unit of currency is the Guinea, composed of only twenty-one shillings, (but this is falling from use) ...rthings, ninety-six Mites (the little ones with the holes in the middle)or one hundred and ninety-two Elims. ...6 KB (1,079 words) - 21:41, 1 March 2013
- ...getting not only one's ducks in a row before beginning any enterprise, but one's rocs and phoenixes as well.<sup>1</sup> ...Mr Hong, or most of him. As nearly as could be determined, he left behind one kidney and half an earhole. ...2 KB (245 words) - 02:07, 31 December 2017
- ...earch witch and former circus performer. Or actually, two witches. She had one mind but two bodies. This made the household chores a lot easier. She came ...Tiffany stayed with her and her in-house ghost [[Oswald (ghost)|Oswald]], one of her bodies was killed by the [[Hiver]]. This hasn't stopped her using th ...6 KB (1,132 words) - 17:32, 7 December 2023
- ...Arms|Men at Arms]]''). Although seen as the most fun guild, it's actually one of the worst to be a member of. The fun is always somehow forced. In public ...lap' it is common for them to borrow each other's slap but unthinkable for one fool to copy another's make-up. (Picture on right is by [[User:Knmatt|Matt ...8 KB (1,381 words) - 13:35, 23 April 2020
- ...hty river, Time does seem to have an arrow of flow in a general sense, but one subject to having its arms knotted behind its head quite a lot. ...rlooked by the [[Guild of Merchants]] “Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises”. ...10 KB (1,635 words) - 02:44, 29 December 2015
- ...of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradi ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 00:51, 8 December 2023
- ...is at least one major city and port, [[Zambingo]] and it is known there is one black kingdom there, ruled by a King [[Samuel]]. It is also, by his own account, the ancestral home of the spirit guide [[One-Man-Bucket]], who bemoans not having been born in its wide-open plains, as ...7 KB (1,055 words) - 21:43, 3 April 2021
- ...imagine falling continually into the waistband, not knowing from which leg one may emerge. So does history occur: in myriad, often unconsidered, minor dec ...ey change the style to keep up with what the times should be; now and then one leg may be let out to extra-baggy or reduced to a stocking. Random chance i ...2 KB (269 words) - 04:36, 7 February 2020
- ...for various establishments in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. However, he came unstuck one night when instructed to splat six-foot Dwarf [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]], w One of the reasons behind Detritus's emerging cleverness is the special helmet ...5 KB (857 words) - 11:02, 18 December 2023
- |photo= Igor.jpg|One of the Igors, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]] ...e. In return, an Igor expects the healed patient to become an organ donor one day, when he or she passes away and has no more personal use for his/her or ...19 KB (3,240 words) - 02:02, 18 December 2021
- ...''second'' [[Opera Ghost]]. Not the evil one who kills for money, but the one who sings like an angel and composes a whole series of a new style of music He is one of the few characters in the [[Discworld]] novels to come away from an enco ...5 KB (777 words) - 16:53, 18 December 2020
- ...cluding characters, please also add them to a relevant category, or create one for the book if necessary (should only be needed for non-Discworld books). ...d [[Supernatural Entities]] for gods and other entities who appear in only one or two books. ...15 KB (1,833 words) - 21:52, 9 February 2024
- ...punch that [[Trolls|trolls]] would respect. Known to have killed at least one person, [[Glossy Ron]]. ...in a special appearance at the [[Tower of Teeth]] which explicitly drew on one's worst fears to terrorise intruders. For both Lilywhite boys this was most ...4 KB (715 words) - 16:04, 16 October 2013
- ...ed with excessive amounts of garlic. [[Vlad de Magpyr]] quite happily eats one, then announces ''"Any more of those garlic things? They're rather piquant! ...ed the trend, and George MacDonald Fraser also describes the phenomenon in one of the Flashman books. ...14 KB (2,415 words) - 16:00, 17 May 2020
- ...ath Young Sam's cot every day and even sleeps under there time-to-time (no-one knows why exactly). The whistling noises that Dribble makes in his sleep do ..."with a child's unerring instinct for this sort of thing", tried to repeat one of the "sounds" ("[[Foul Ole Ron|Bugrit]]") made in the "Vimes street versi ...7 KB (1,148 words) - 00:17, 6 October 2022
- ...y Monk, involved making sure one of them choked on a fishbone.) Muntab was one of the nations to send representatives to the coronation of the [[Low King] The word Pasha was one form of a title of high rank in the Ottoman empire. ...4 KB (602 words) - 20:51, 18 October 2017
- ...nce. In fact, they used to be called ''Splatters''. After entering the pub one has to walk down some stairs into a dimly lit room filled with cheap furnit ...nded-Drum/143609672423334?fref=ts The Mended Drum], based on the Discworld one. Hopefully [[Discworld Ales|some of these beers]] are served there. ...8 KB (1,325 words) - 22:34, 24 January 2022
- ...having the crass and inconvenient bad taste to let herself die after only one stab! Vimes recollects this investigation in {{SN}}, while pondering the t ...c. The resultant closed-rank silence of the British nobility in protecting one of their own was not edifying and said a lot about their sense of ingrained ...4 KB (610 words) - 08:45, 6 June 2023
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- ...some reason, they have one ''horn''. They are magical creatures. The only one we've come across was a refugee from the Land of the Faeries, the [[Queen o ...hich Granny does so, leading it to [[Jason Ogg]]'s smithy tethered by just one of her silver ''hairs''. A unicorn hunter was among the heroes who visited ...1 KB (247 words) - 00:15, 24 September 2012
- ...ves, you see, starts with an ''n'', tip of my tongue, not ''nice''. No, no one ever said elves are nice. Elves are ''nasty''. ...exactly, where he is. The presence of iron disrupts this sense for an elf. One elf once described being locked up in iron chains and so on as being buried ...7 KB (1,276 words) - 03:40, 7 January 2016
- ...ery''; his first clue that they had strayed into a danger zone was that no one had tried to sell them anything for five minutes. Al-Khali has a University, albeit a more mundane one, with a School of Medicine where [[John Lawn]] learnt the goal of medicine ...3 KB (533 words) - 20:16, 29 August 2023
- ...ived disability) of the Patrician, a council of guild leaders elects a new one immediately, without any sort of campaign or overt search for candidates. T ...n't want to share their power. They believed in the principle of "one man, one vote" (as in, "I am the Man, I have the Vote"). Such a figure would have po ...8 KB (1,421 words) - 07:59, 1 April 2021
- The interview contains this interesting snippet concerning the next-but-one-or-two Discworld novel:- ...an old-fashioned football and a group of hands, one of which is skeletal, one pair of which is orangutan. ...5 KB (757 words) - 18:28, 20 January 2016
- ...l thousand year old set of principles for living one's life and organising one's home and artefacts in the most harmonious manner possible. ...d to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive ''qi''. The original designation for the ...3 KB (546 words) - 21:36, 7 December 2016
- This is one of the [[7a]] Virtues whose statues adorn the [[Library]] at [[Unseen Unive ...esn't matter that seven-and-one Virtues outnumber the Seven Deadly Sins by one. In Ankh-Morpork, which gang do ''you'' think is going to win? ...3 KB (554 words) - 04:55, 17 October 2023
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- ...a|the big carousing hall in the sky]]. Valkyries are often mezzo-sopranos. One Valkyrie hit the big time (the analogy is the nurse who ends up married to ...blandish Vasung and Bergund tribes lay a lot of the slain, but the soul of one [[Volf Volfssonssonssonsson]] was left tied to his body until Susan worked ...2 KB (279 words) - 08:54, 10 October 2016
- ...is the man who does it. (This can be not only a filthy job but a dangerous one: in the high summer of 1785, the Prefect of Paris ordered that some of the ...off duty, smell only of soap and obsessive cleanliness. (Halitosis is the one that not even your best friends can bear to tell you about, so he is probab ...4 KB (598 words) - 02:48, 4 January 2017
- ...he had the best of intentions when he devised it, but it turned out to be one of the most dangerous weapons ever conceived in the history of the Disc. The tool that Leonard had built for this purpose was a screw-cutting lathe, one of the cornerstones in the progression from craftsmanship to serial product ...7 KB (1,158 words) - 07:39, 30 October 2023
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- |appearance= One-eared, much-scarred, bandaged, trickling blood. Always has a vicious-lookin ...e [[Lancre]] in ''Lords and Ladies'', one of them tries to take control of one of Hodgesaargh's eagles to attack him (a wholly unnecessary action), only t ...3 KB (482 words) - 16:28, 5 October 2019
- A '''Kelda''' is the leader of a [[Nac Mac Feegle|Feegle]] clan. She is the one with "the knowing of the reading". She keeps her Clan in order, makes decis ...o consist of all males. This is because a Kelda "might be blessed wi' only one daughter in her life, but she'll have hundreds and hundreds o' sons". Each ...2 KB (279 words) - 00:51, 8 December 2023
- ...th sides ambushed each other simultaneously, you have to consider that (i) one or both sides were mistaken, or have selectively interpreted historical eve ...gnificant fraction of this intelligence called itself Terry Pratchett, and one day he came accross an old myth about a flat world, borne through space on ...2 KB (386 words) - 00:10, 24 September 2012
- ...''a'' discworld, rather than ''the'' [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. This one runs on good old-fashioned tech rather than magic. [[The Broken Drum]] even Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top o ...6 KB (989 words) - 00:05, 1 August 2021
- ...int he remarked that he'd broken a string, but this meant only that he was one-sixth less incompetent, as he could play five strings equally as ineptly as ...where they are responsible for two riots - one at the [[Cavern Club]] and one at the free festival organised specifically to promote [[The Band With Rock ...1 KB (183 words) - 02:43, 8 December 2013
- ...}}, magic didn't choose her, she chose it: “''I never stood in front of no-one... I camped on old Nanny Gripes’ garden until she promised to tell me ev ...ready confided to Nanny Ogg), before laying herself to rest in her own bed one last time. When [[Death]] comes for her, he asks her if she was content wit ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 01:21, 20 December 2023
- A one-horse town out in the cabbage-growing [[Sto Plains]], about a day's travell ...boasts two inns capable of providing overnight accomodation to travellers; one is the [[Jolly Cabbage]], which in previous times was inhospitable to [[The ...3 KB (511 words) - 20:12, 21 July 2018
- ...awn to science and technology as if to compensate for their lack of magic. One such, Jorum, becomes first the possible destruction of his world - he slips * "Dr Rjinswand, 33, a bachelor" - one of the few indications that Rincewind is fairly young, despite [[Josh Kirby ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 21:11, 26 July 2021
- ...ious Revolution]] and worn by Terry Pratchett in his hat on BBC One's "The One Show" ...d]], there is also a ufologist called {{wp|John_Keel|John Keel}}, known as one of ufology's most original and controversial researchers. However, it's not ...5 KB (862 words) - 18:05, 23 April 2018
- ...of Gamblers, says “in a few years it’ll be the [[Century of the Rat]].” No-one objects to this, but subsequent Discworld novels that mention the century r ...d Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weathe ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 08:55, 1 February 2024
- ...ernative presents itself. This is considered to perhaps at least be partly one of the reasons for said [[Vetinari|Assassin]] embarking on the [[Grand Snee ...is now their Guildhall. Their history goes back centuries, and may include one other previous Patrician: "Psychoneurotic Lord Snapcase" is mentioned by Ca ...7 KB (1,168 words) - 00:49, 2 March 2022
- ...hing, all they've got is [[Erzulie Gogol|Mrs. Gogol]]'s voodoo, a [[Greebo|one-eyed cat]] and a second-hand magic wand that can only do pumpkins. And they ...With Wand and Broomstick Across the Great Nef Desert]], chapter heading of one of [[Desiderata Hollow]]'s books ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 04:49, 2 March 2022
- ...tsteps approach invisibly, a voice taps the mike, and then says "ONE, TWO, ONE, TWO" and then recedes again... and then there is the Power Chord that star ...2 KB (385 words) - 03:39, 11 October 2021
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- ...anna Ramkin-Vimes, The Duchess of Ankh'''. Lady Sybil is the last scion of one of the oldest clans of the Ankh nobility, the [[Ramkin]]s (while there are ...ng for sick swamp dragons, although she may look a bit too tidy. Sybil is one of the notable breeders of [[swamp dragon]]s, along with such contemporarie ...10 KB (1,655 words) - 02:22, 10 May 2022
- One of [[Biography|Terry Pratchett’s]] most popular Discworld Novels, adapted ...[[Ankh-Morpork]]. No one knows who, no one knows why and, worst of all, no one knows how - he just gets weaker and weaker. But it's not just Vetinari - ac ...3 KB (470 words) - 23:03, 29 October 2017
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- One of the smaller Guilds in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Their clock is the first to stri ...it]] (a woman capable of effortlessly outnumbering the kids by a factor of one to thirty), and both of these must have needed to be Guild members in order ...3 KB (505 words) - 19:04, 21 July 2018
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- ...at going incognito is far more difficult, and that he may very well become one of Ankh-Morpork's most recognizable citizens, much to his chagrin. ...sciousness of the collective letters of the Post office after he delivered one of them and was officially made the Postmaster by the post guild. The consc ...10 KB (1,679 words) - 22:08, 3 April 2022
- ...describes what is possibly a collection of three burial mounds, the middle one oblong and the ones to the sides round, quite frankly, in a suggestive arra ...aspect of masculinity - territorial aggression, marking out and defending one's turf. A similar conceit may still be seen today at the Boa Island cemete ...4 KB (792 words) - 00:14, 24 September 2012
- ...ct between Nanny Ogg and Maisie Nobbs is perhaps one of those million-and-one stories from the Big City of [[Ankh-Morpork]] which is yet to be told. ...on which there are a row of framed iconographs. To her immediate right is one of a person recognisable as [[Sconner Nobbs]]. To her immediate left is the ...3 KB (460 words) - 03:54, 5 August 2015
- ...of [[dwarfs]], [[wizard's magic|wizards]], [[trolls]], Morris Dancers and one [[Librarian|orang-utan]]. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over th * [[Shawn Ogg]], a man of many jobs (mostly the ones no one else wants...) ...10 KB (1,302 words) - 04:51, 2 March 2022
- ...ght and a half, that fight. Between thingy, not the one with the limp, the one with red hair..." ...cycle, thrown in with everything else, like Copolymer's reference to 'the one with the limp' (which might be Philoctetes; 'Oedipus' also means lame, but ...2 KB (263 words) - 14:57, 6 August 2019
- *'''Rule 19''' - "Always remember Rule One and ask yourself, why was it created in the first place" ...pisode, challenged by Romana for his antics, he merely says "Remember Rule One!" ...1 KB (202 words) - 00:10, 24 September 2012
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- Glod Gloddson is one of those unconventional [[Dwarfs]], who with [[Giamo Casanunda]], [[Hwel]] ...roceeds, the band's coach goes off a cliff very much as [[Mort]]'s did. In one reality, the players seem to have been killed in the fiery crash. In anothe ...3 KB (503 words) - 17:47, 16 April 2018
- ...unbroken grassland with some glacial anomalies on rippling hills rising on one side to the [[Ramtops|mountains]]. This area is also known as The Wold. ...in those days the creator made animals out of stone; sometimes they find one. Buried randomly in the chalk are lumps of flint, only fist to football- si ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:31, 19 August 2021
- ...Guild generally considered to be in a class of his own, if only because no one will share it with him. A certain amount of leeway would be given to, say, ...nd Exponents of Exotic Dance|Strippers' Guild]] & the Washerwomen's Guild. One wonders at Vetinari's youth to attract such support... ...5 KB (942 words) - 22:54, 15 December 2023
- ...Barbarian]] and his [[Silver Horde]] are feeling old and want to go out in one last epic endeavour. This obviously requires an epic poem, or saga, in comm "No one remembers the singer. The song remains." ''T.D.J. Pratchett, et al.'' ...4 KB (642 words) - 19:20, 14 August 2018
- ...n with a malevolent red star, the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept an ...ut eyes]] -- sometimes seen by hallucinogen-enhanced shaman. However, this one is for real... ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 00:34, 2 June 2022
- ...where they are responsible for two riots - one at the [[Cavern Club]] and one at the free festival organised specifically to promote [[The Band With Rock ...have encountered [[Death]] and actually got away with it. Death was off on one of his 'fancies' and was wandering about with the [[Canting Crew]], moonlig ...2 KB (262 words) - 21:55, 23 September 2012
- ...where they are responsible for two riots - one at the [[Cavern Club]] and one at the free festival organised specifically to promote [[The Band With Rock ...encountered [[Death]] and actually offered him something. Death was off on one of his 'fancies' and was wandering about with the [[Canting Crew]], moonlig ...1 KB (227 words) - 22:00, 3 November 2013
- ...ehives.' [...] It's actually amazing how much information you can store on one honeycomb." - assuming [[Granny Weatherwax]]'s theory is correct (that all ...th/the Hogfather for Rincewind's safe return (it's less surprising that no one else remembers Rincewind -- in {{TLC}}, Ridcully repeatedly has to be remin ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 16:00, 26 March 2023
- It is one-way traffic. They do not respond to his plea that being only a boy he was n ...are to be found in the Cave of the Grandfathers. They were joined there by one or two exceptional warriors in every fifty years, whose dead bodies were mu ...2 KB (332 words) - 03:34, 12 June 2019
- The Desert is what each mortal soul must traverse after death. No-one knows what's at the end - and [[Death]] isn't saying, if he indeed knows. A The one tantalising clue that is left in a few of the books is that you get what yo ...5 KB (783 words) - 01:04, 11 April 2022
- ...[[Ramkin Residence|Ramkin residence]] on [[Scoone Avenue]], and it is this one that Willikins seemed to have obtained. ...e a walk in the park. The reason Wilikins has escaped this fate? Well, for one thing, even his already deemed unkillable master, Samuel Vimes, is afraid o ...6 KB (940 words) - 03:50, 28 December 2023
- ...e in the [[Ramtops]]. He had relatives near [[Bad Ass]], where he was the one-time romantic interest of [[Granny Weatherwax| Esme Weatherwax]]. ...nning round the octangle a few hundred times. The wizards do not like this one bit, but they seem to be able to avoid it. The only wizard who manages to g ...7 KB (1,187 words) - 15:36, 5 November 2015
- ...re - just an enjoyable thieving romp where Elric and Moonglum have to stay one step ahead of the massed beggars. In the second case, the eternal city of T ...ibly these orgasms were the result of a drunken (or paid-for) encounter on one-such night. ...8 KB (1,362 words) - 00:53, 25 November 2013
- '''de Worde''' is the surname of one of the older noble families in [[Ankh-Morpork]], the most powerful city-sta ...ith shiny steel swords in their hands; this belief proved fatal. Rupert is one of the very few casualties in the war that technically, and diplomatically ...4 KB (637 words) - 14:54, 1 November 2017
- ...to justify his title, we just don't know. The Senior Wrangler is, however, one of the senior faculty and an academic who ''looks'' like a horse. A long-fa ...h his staff as much as the next man. Unless the next man is the Dean. ''No-one'' likes it as much as the Dean. ...3 KB (513 words) - 03:03, 17 October 2017
- ...nations advanced to explain them can often be less than convincing, is the one described as the ''Phantom Fishmonger of Cromer''. One day in 1897, the good folk of Cromer, Norfolk, were awoken by the steady pa ...7 KB (1,167 words) - 09:54, 20 April 2023
- ...ic options) a cheap pair of leather shoes or boots can probably be had for one day's pay. When a dollar a day was a common rate in North America, cheap sh ...uties or restrictions on shoes to support gouging by one guild (especially one whose [[Tuttle Scrope|leader]] proposed to usurp his position as he lay inj ...2 KB (282 words) - 02:37, 22 March 2014
- "Tonker" Halter is one of the recruits from [[Monstrous Regiment]] who joined up with [[Polly Perk ...s being big with red hair, which she wears cut very short. She is the last one Polly can identify as a girl and only after a tip from [[Maladict]]. ...2 KB (378 words) - 11:32, 25 April 2019
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- ...he thinks she ought probably to be smoking a cigarette, and to be showing one breast. "There should be an urn, too. If there's an urn it's not porn – t <blockquote>The goddess is one of Pratchett's own invention: Narrativia, the deity of narrative who smiles ...2 KB (401 words) - 11:45, 26 January 2017
- ...o ''primus inter pares'' among Ankh-Morpork's society ladies - but mainly, one suspects, to ensure the top rank in the city's nobility is firmly filled, w ...ly one of which leads to freedom (the other to death), guarded by two men, one of whom will lie and the other will tell truth... ...8 KB (1,384 words) - 21:21, 13 March 2015
- ...en University. Since the Archchancellor wishes the involvement of at least one wizard in the matter (so that people don't question their usefulness), [[Ri ...h the [[Patrician]] over the existence of dragons, summoning the very same one back to Discworld. An annoyed Patrician tasks Rincewind to deal with it. ...7 KB (1,120 words) - 03:32, 24 January 2022
- ...h the centre should contain a live ingredient (e.g. an egg or a beetle. On one desperate occasion, a [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] has been employed as the ...er make one before. If Granny Weatherwax is to be believed, she never made one at all. Couldn't get the hang of them. They got in the way. ...3 KB (464 words) - 09:39, 23 July 2018
- ...o start all over again. He must get a new name and a job, and there's only one job he's good at: cop in the Watch. He must track down a brutal murderer. H ...n. He knows how it's going to end; after all, he was there. His name is on one of those headstones. But that's just a minor detail... ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 00:40, 26 April 2023
- ...|Sensibility Bustle]], sometime Professor of Magic, who set out to capture one. His work provides a good resume of what was known about them to that point Tiffany may have been the first person on record to have communicated with one. In helping the Hiver, she gave it a story by which it could understand liv ...10 KB (1,719 words) - 23:34, 30 November 2020
- One of two political heavyweights adjoining [[Djelibeybi]] and the historical e ...yed if the eight spells of the [[Octavo]] weren't said on [[Hogswatch]] of one year in the [[Century of the Fruitbat]]. Tsort's written language is compr ...3 KB (440 words) - 04:38, 4 January 2018
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- ...only win when outnumbered, and things which have a [[Million-to-one chance|one-in-a-million chance]] of succeeding often do so. The application of this ph ..., and maintained by stories. A story can be a rule for living according to one's culture, a useful survival trick, a clue to the grandeur of the universe, ...6 KB (967 words) - 00:07, 24 September 2012
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- ...head up until he is inconveniently assassinated (by being sucked through a one micron hole) on the day of his ascension to the role of Chairman. ...go on a mission into the galaxy to discover the secrets of the [[Jokers]], one of the Galaxy's older and now extinct races... ...2 KB (327 words) - 00:00, 2 November 2017
- ...maths. Known only as Skazz and described as though, if he had no nose, no-one would know which way he was facing. Aside from working with Hex, Skazz has also read at least one work by "Numbers" [[Riktor]], which he mentions while discussing the myster ...1 KB (161 words) - 05:04, 31 March 2018
- ...r away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of [[Ankh-Morpork]] City Watch is going to see t ...a and Sally discover four recently killed dwarfs in a disused mine tunnel. One of them scrawled a minesign symbol in blood on the back of a locked door. W ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 00:45, 26 April 2023
- ...a reference to the [[Roundworld]] legend of the Chinese sage who requested one piece of rice on the first, two on the second &c.) ...to "as much gold as he could carry", whereupon Hugen agreed and merely had one of his arms broken. "For," he said, "all should know that while Hnaflbaflsn ...4 KB (753 words) - 17:31, 13 July 2018
- ...esn't matter that seven-and-one Virtues outnumber the Seven Deadly Sins by one. In Ankh-Morpork, which gang do ''you'' think is going to win? ..., nor how to be properly Tubsonian ''or'' Bissonomic) that there is now no-one in Ankh-Morpork, not even from the [[Guild of Historians]] who can explain ...863 bytes (147 words) - 02:16, 31 May 2015
- ...n exam that happened to contain only the question "''What is your name?''" One wonders if he's ever thanked Victor for the record test score of 100%. Oth ...d. He seems to combine a number of [[Roundworld]] historical characters in one insightful and investigative persona. He complains, to the [[Librarian]] an ...6 KB (1,037 words) - 06:22, 3 April 2024
- ...is the phenomenally successful ''Sandman'' series (see below). He is also one of those British writers who Terry had in mind when he coined the phrase '' Neil is one of the co-authors of the novel '''Good Omens''' with [[Terry Pratchett]] an ...6 KB (977 words) - 21:25, 24 August 2021
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- ...choed out forlornly over the rooftops for the rest of the evening. This is one of the greatest moments of true pathos in the entire canon. Sniff! ...trusted Downspout to guard the Patrician's bedroom window, and he was also one of the first to hear the cry of [[Meshugah]] as the demented [[golem]] walk ...2 KB (268 words) - 03:03, 4 August 2021
- ...o verify this claim. She takes lessons while peeling potatoes, or plucking one of the geese from her growing collection. ...made mortals. Half-finished folk, or so I hear. It's only a blessing this one had something to be jolly about." ...3 KB (457 words) - 04:17, 10 September 2016
- ...y Ogg would know all the words and verses. [[Maddy Prior|Steeleye Span]], one of Terry's favourite bands, do a very good version. Listen to it '''''[http ...se Ankh-Morpork kids are talking to what is apparently a sentient snowman. One hopefully asks ''Is there any chance you can take us flying?'' But no walki ...2 KB (379 words) - 00:09, 16 June 2023
- ...success (and his silence as to the ''real'' identity of "John Keel") with "one-hundred thousand dollars and the freehold of a large corner site in Goose G ...d of dealing with the nursing staff is to throw a handful of chocolates in one direction and run in the other as fast as possible. It is also noteworthy t ...4 KB (637 words) - 20:54, 14 May 2019
- One of the four newer all-female houses at the [[Assassins' Guild]] school. The ...in. Symbolic of the fall of dynasties, the collapse of the mighty, and how one little push, let's say of the sort an Assassin is uniquely qualified to giv ...3 KB (438 words) - 14:39, 31 July 2014
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- ...rst seeing [[Cheery Littlebottom]] in unambiguously female clothing. Given one meaning of "ha'ak" below, it appears that he is expressing conservative dis ...od day for someone else to die!" A battle cry, and apparently the worst or one of the worst it is possible to utter in Dwarfish, as (according to [[Carrot ...5 KB (790 words) - 21:54, 29 February 2020
- ...that people given over to affairs of the heart had to give up wizardry. No-one wants a return to those days of tower-building and vast magical warfare. Th ...brick in a sock is not a magical artifact, therefore we are back to square one, where somebody who in fact failed his degree is pretending to be a wizard. ...5 KB (850 words) - 17:10, 21 July 2020
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- ...thropomorphic personifications can assume any form they desire (witness no-one recognising [[Death]] unless he wishes them to), it is unwise to assume tha ...the greatest midwife the Disc has ever known, on three separate occasions, one in her early witchhood, once in her middle years and once when she was the ...4 KB (767 words) - 06:04, 7 February 2014
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- ...overrun return deadlines. Although the senior wizards looked very hard for one, there are no rules in the university constitution forbidding an orang-utan ...It is rumoured that the Librarian was once Dr [[Horace Worblehat]], but no one utters this out loud. We do know however that he was born in [[Moon Pond La ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 07:27, 1 April 2021
- Apart from being the title of [[Book:Wintersmith|one of the books]] in the [[Tiffany Aching]] series, the Wintersmith is exactly ...just as they do when the Morris is danced at the beginning of summer. But one year the 111-year-old witch Miss [[Eumenides Treason]] took Tiffany up ther ...2 KB (375 words) - 00:17, 24 September 2012
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- ...name well-represented in the rolls of the [[Assassins' Guild]]. In {{P}}, one of [[Teppic]]'s contemporaries is [[Arthur Ludorum]], at first a shy, awkwa ...], we encounter a senior pupil and prefect, then in his late teens, who is one of the coterie gathered around [[Downey]], the then School Bully. There is ...3 KB (427 words) - 23:33, 19 April 2016
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- She has an amicable working relationship with her [[spirit guide]], [[One-Man-Bucket]], and knows how to get his full co-operation: setting fire to a ...il it is sewn back on. By the time of {{MM}} she is even letting a room to one [[Mavolio Bent]], and that ''really is'' broad-minded. ...4 KB (738 words) - 22:52, 15 December 2023
- ...ave an inexhaustible passion for all kinds of general knowledge trivia. As one of only five people in Ankh-Morpork who could confidently and correctly ans ...at Grace Speaker and "Puzzler" of the [[Ankh-Morpork Times|Times]] are now one and the same person. At least, [[Vetinari]] appears to have deduced so. ...2 KB (309 words) - 02:51, 30 July 2021
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- ...tions of wizards that attempted to reach the last continent centuries ago, one of which was reputed to have been led by a [[Sourcerer]]. ...eigners at one location becomes a reality some miles away; for example, on one ranch, the [[Drop bear|drop-bears]] were stories to scare foreigners, but s ...7 KB (1,144 words) - 04:34, 4 January 2018
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- ...ridding the world of those awful witches. Actually, it's mostly that last one. So much so, actually that he checked the number of nipples [[Newton Pulsif ...Welsh poet called Siadwell (pronounced ''Shadwell''). Siadwell lived in a one-room bedsit and condensed milk featured in his diet... ...2 KB (296 words) - 00:11, 24 September 2012
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- .... The moon is slightly closer to the Disc than the sun, and is covered, on one half, with silvery glowing plants, which feed the [[Moon dragon|lunar drago ...proper, are plains known to accommodate a red-skinned people not unlike [[One-Man-Bucket|North American Indians]], and rimward of them are jungles and sa ...5 KB (886 words) - 23:12, 1 June 2017
- ...the god [[Anu-anu]], found in the [[Temple of Small Gods]]. In fact he is one of the [[Followers of Anu-anu]], a group which, with the help of the god An Death: {{death|About one to one, I'd say}}. ...1 KB (198 words) - 19:59, 7 May 2020
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- ...e of "the 4 elements", not a periodic table element) instead. Through him, one can discern tidal patterns, and several different species of fish. In fact, Tethys, a slave of the [[Krull|Krullians]], is one of a large number of such slaves who perform the mammoth task of collecting ...3 KB (559 words) - 06:04, 6 September 2017
- '''C1 House''' is one of the houses at the [[Assassins' Guild]] school. The current head of house ...the architects's design plans. There was been talk of changing the name to one more in keeping with the more modern houses, but this has been overruled by ...626 bytes (110 words) - 10:31, 6 March 2020
- '''The "Great Leveller" Cart-Mounted Ten-Bank 500-Pound Crossbow''' is one of [[Burleigh and Stronginthearm|Burleigh and Stronginthearm's]] finest pie ...her. If this is the case, a 500-pound draw rapid-fire siege weapon must be one hell of a sight to see in the hands of your enemy, even if you are a D'reg. ...1,013 bytes (156 words) - 07:40, 30 October 2023
- ...ent president of the [[Butchers' Guild]] and one time owner of [[Dorfl]]. One of the nouveau-riche who cannot resist celebrating their new prosperity by ...when he sold Dorfl to Captain [[Carrot]] during the events in {{FOC}} for one Dollar ...863 bytes (131 words) - 17:57, 11 June 2022
- ...redients, without all the magical rubbish like skulls and dribbly candles. One of the major tasks, however, is the splitting of the [[Thaum]], the matter ...ep away from being magic (it achieved the old alchemists' dream of turning one metal into another, after all) with the consequent risk of generating so mu ...2 KB (381 words) - 16:27, 13 December 2015
- ...ustomer anywhere within the city limits on demand: in {{MM}}, we note that one such cab took [[Moist von Lipwig]] and Miss [[Drapes]] from the Royal Bank ...ir is rather like the sedan chair on Roundworld, except that in this case, one troll is licenced to carry up to four humans in fairly comfortable enclosed ...3 KB (531 words) - 15:34, 13 February 2014
- ...ed by common sense), and that the continents of the Disc were all formerly one landmass, which he named [[Pangola]]. He was also responsible for naming th ...puts him firmly in the [[Ponder Stibbons]] category of genius (a pragmatic one who theorises what others cannot, as opposed to the [[Leonard of Quirm]] ca ...3 KB (460 words) - 04:46, 24 April 2021
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- ...question of whether the name or the nickname came first. It could well be one of those strange coincidences that are not unknown on Roundworld, and pract ...ved in dissident activities against [[Lord Winder]], carrying messages for one of the revolutionary groups; in both versions of history, he also participa ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 01:10, 16 August 2021
- ...er in Recent Runes''' is one of the [[Faculty]] of [[Unseen University]] - one of the highest level mages on the disc. As such he is a rotund, elderly gen "Well, I for one have never believed all that business about dead animals turning into stone ...3 KB (433 words) - 04:59, 5 September 2017
- ...swarm in boiling clouds, pleading and whining for the first believer, just one! ...of the same name, {{SG}}, in which the great god [[Om]] is driven down to one believer and nearly obliterated, but emerges a wiser and better tortoise. ...1 KB (226 words) - 00:29, 24 September 2013
- ...always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one" - reference to the {{wp|Intel_80486|33 MHz Intel 80486 chip}}. * "Bees were her one failure" - In {{ER}}, Granny merely spoke to the bees and asked them to loo ...3 KB (495 words) - 14:19, 5 April 2016
- ...the night before their wedding, due to his insistence that he needed to do one more trip across the mountains (smuggling) to pay for her. Her house is rep ...ioned in almost all the Discworld novels), nobody (except for [[Sal Lifton|one child]]) in the isolated farming community recognised that the seven-foot s ...3 KB (480 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- ...[[Roundworld]], the same mountain, such as Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon, might on one side present nothing more than an agreeable stroll to the summit, but on th ...t Moist would not be covered by membership of the Assassins' Guild (ie, as one with a bona fide reason for scrambling about on my roof all night), and the ...4 KB (662 words) - 19:40, 13 December 2012
- ...ry-Jane is flagship of the Fleet, which might in its day (presumed that of one of the last Kings) have been prefixed H.A.M.M.S. One possibly Naval officer who appears in {{NW}} was the hapless Sub-Lieutenant ...3 KB (476 words) - 21:42, 8 March 2015
- ...s into something useful, rather than for instance harbouring thoughts that one day, a wizard of the Stibbons inclination might become Archchancellor... ...the shaver and the advertising line will be "shaves faster and closer than one!" ...2 KB (399 words) - 05:13, 9 March 2014
- ...sed enough can strip all the flesh off your bones in seconds, was probably one of the little slopes on their particular learning curve. ...better known than it otherwise might have been were it not near the end of one of the several lines of the London Underground. ...1 KB (235 words) - 05:51, 29 August 2018
- '''Brenda Rodley''', Her Grace the Dowager Duchess of [[Quirm]], one of the important city-states on the [[Sto Plains]]. ...nor is she arrogant. She introduces herself simply as "Brenda Rodley", and one can figure out her position only by looking at the address on her card. ...2 KB (241 words) - 02:58, 5 November 2023
- ...[[Uba Yellow]], one of the most deadly poisonous oil paints known to Man. One general observation is that the very existence of such paints - as [[Moist During the Disc's one and only successful space flight (as opposed to missions directed from [[Kr ...2 KB (240 words) - 13:26, 22 December 2012
- ...ts]]. Some get to go round again and are reincarnated, or choose to become one with nature. *[[One-Man-Bucket]] - Spirit guide ...2 KB (365 words) - 03:36, 22 September 2021
- ...ion is that [[Witches]] must not go out that night. Like other rules, this one is observed at the discretion of the Witch. The festival features most prom ...pity and threw a bag of sausages at them (knocking out one of them, but no-one cares). ...2 KB (321 words) - 19:03, 26 February 2021
- ...A damn slam is when the debris floating on a river tangles up until it is one mass, and when the river builds up sufficiently to overcome the strength of ...2 KB (323 words) - 15:25, 24 July 2016
- ...ies and, as she'd turned sixteen, the nature of things decided she was the one to fill the vacuum. Which was stupid and illogical, and [[Eulalie Butts|Mis ''Vasung'' suggests ''Vasa'', the name of one of the royal dynasties of the kingdom of Sweden. (1523 - 1624) ''Bergund'' ...1 KB (188 words) - 21:31, 1 August 2016
- ...cks were left bare. This also became the noun for the act of demonstrating one's sloshi scars - '''''müning'''''. A similar basic thought process is thou ...lowns, that when this was first demonstrated on the field of combat, forty-one other mercaneries were incapacitated by laughter and overpowered by the res ...3 KB (530 words) - 07:46, 8 September 2022
- ...''' is the official public executioner for [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Or, at least, one of them. In {{NW}} we learn that there are two ways to hang a man - the lon ...the [[Tanty]] with "Good morning, Mr Spangler. (..) It’s me, sir, Daniel “One Drop” Trooper. I am your executioner for today, sir. Don’t you worry, s ...3 KB (573 words) - 15:43, 18 May 2020
- One of the best works of fanfiction I've seen. It sketches out how Ankh-Morpork A very adorable, if a bit silly one-shot. The synopsis at ff.net (Hex and a mysterious woman) are rather mislea ...5 KB (737 words) - 14:09, 15 August 2015
- ...come king of Ankh, recalling the part axes played in the death of the last one. ...even centuries after their death. The [[Clacks]] operators have taken this one step further with the policy of 'sending home' and putting the name of dead ...2 KB (290 words) - 03:25, 1 March 2020
- Here's another interesting one. We have two separated people (Pteppic and Ptraci) who get together in diff Corgi PB (1990 first edition) p265:- ''Teppic sank on one knee and, out of desperation, raised the knife in both hands.'' This echoes ...9 KB (1,521 words) - 23:01, 4 November 2018
- * [[Jasper]], a troll (perhaps the one from {{TLF}}?) ...is mountain—”...“—and there are stars around it, you know, in the sky, but one of them comes down and it’s not a star at all, it’s a woman holding a t ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 04:45, 16 March 2023
- ...sonomy]] took it as read that the [[7a]] Virtues outnumbered seven sins by one... ...esn't matter that seven-and-one Virtues outnumber the Seven Deadly Sins by one. In Ankh-Morpork, which gang do you think is going to win?" ...2 KB (369 words) - 02:36, 30 April 2015
- ...mation on [[Holy Wood]], and judging by its name it presumably also allows one to contact the dead. And the cat books? One of Terry's first books was called [[Book:The Unadulterated Cat|The Unadulte ...5 KB (772 words) - 00:03, 16 February 2021
- ...t is incredibly valuable, but that doesn't stop one being carried about by one of the [[Faculty]] at times of crisis. It measures the amounts of [[Thaum|t ...566 bytes (90 words) - 00:13, 24 September 2012
- ...e month to go before his third birthday, Brutha's birth month would be the one that follows Grune in the Discworld calendar (August). ...1 KB (202 words) - 00:19, 17 January 2018
- |channel=Sky One ...nd final [[TV and film adaptations|live action adaptation]] created by Sky One based that was off of [[Biography|Terry Pratchett's]] [[Discworld]] novels. ...3 KB (430 words) - 23:27, 6 November 2023
- ...og, but his religion still existed in [[Überwald]] amongst werewolf clans. One of the proponents of the religion of Anu-anu was [[Ulrich von Überwald]] w ...hile the entire group is in charge of planning the murders, Anu-anu is the one who actually commits them. Later they summon Nylonathatep in an underground ...2 KB (246 words) - 03:05, 16 February 2022
- ...] considers this to be '''''their''''' professional area of expertise, and one of '''''those''''' [[demarcation]] disputes could be going on) We learn of its existence in {{T!}}, where [[Nobby Nobbs]]' one-time girlfriend [[Tawneee]] is revealed to have been not only Miss May, but ...5 KB (906 words) - 22:45, 23 June 2017
- We learn in {{TLH}} from an aside to one his underlings that, unlike his brother Mustrum, Hughnon is married. (Faced Therefore as typical representatives of the upper classes, ''one'' of the Ridcully brothers must have been taxed with producing heirs who ma ...4 KB (680 words) - 15:14, 17 April 2018
- ...which, if one was to transcribe alphabetical values to the numbers of Pi, one could hypothetically find the contents of every book ever written). One of the first books to come through as a complete entity was [[How to Dynami ...3 KB (531 words) - 19:03, 13 March 2021
- This is one of the two strategic gaps in the city wall of [[Ankh-Morpork]], where the c ...lie]] in this way, we know the Watch guard is not a particularly efficient one. ...2 KB (396 words) - 03:12, 1 September 2013
- ** ''[[Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises]]'', a book published by the Ankh-Morpork [[Guild of Mer ...d he can have fun with characters like Nijel the Destroyer. In the end Sky One did not adapt this. ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 04:42, 28 September 2022
- A '''Dark Clerk''' is one of a small, select and discreet group of [[Patrician's Palace|Palace]] empl ...be relied upon to discreetly ''execute'' a directive from above. Indeed, one example, Clerk Harold, who we meet in {{GP}}, is actually a [[Gargoyles|gar ...4 KB (621 words) - 00:56, 1 March 2020
- A noted Discworld explorer, with a name which is a coy reference to one of [[Roundworld]]'s most celebrated (if fictional) explorers, also a Jones ...asoning goes, then let's not muck around, let's go for a ''seriously'' big one that makes the whole of the island holy! ...2 KB (415 words) - 02:03, 14 December 2013
- ...ll sorts of curiously shaped magical creatures like centaurs and fauns. In one of the caves, he discovered a set of scrolls which he named the Scrolls of ...o [[Hiver|Hivers]] and followed its instructions to build a device to trap one. ...1 KB (209 words) - 08:37, 2 November 2020
- ...upsidedown mountain filled with dragons. Twoflower thinks of a dragon and one pops up in front of him while Hrun is offered to become a King by [[Liessa] * [[Black Oroogu]], a language with no nouns and only one adjective (which is obscene) ...22 KB (3,395 words) - 00:28, 2 June 2022
- .../g/alt.fan.pratchett/c/U-a7q1_w_Lg/m/weW00XBPvlwJ replied] "Oh, yes...that one's in \Pit. But it's an obvious _Rincewind_ plot." On 25th August 2017 Rob Wilkins fulfilled one of Terry's last wishes and destroyed the hard drive of his computer under a ...2 KB (329 words) - 09:51, 30 March 2023
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- ...orpork. Also by this time Dibbler was back to selling sausage-in-a-bun, so one assumes that the elephants could not be paid for. ...or an inspiration speech to motivate his wranglers, [[Holy Wood]] provides one for him - He almost manages a quote from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ ...2 KB (260 words) - 17:28, 22 October 2017
- ...r indoors. The MONIAC[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer] - note one significant letter away from being a MANIAC - was also, with superb Discwor ...century which TP may also have encountered. It's a word which sticks with one, even though the story it appears in and the author who wrote it may well n ...3 KB (521 words) - 21:27, 20 August 2018
- ...!}}, we see both the Beast and the Inner Watchman take shape inside Vimes: one is the dread entity the [[Dwarfs]] refer to, when they have to, as the [[Su ''Ah...one mind, split in half. There were more Agneses in the world than Agnes dreame ...5 KB (880 words) - 21:47, 9 January 2022
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- ...r garments, toys and ''things'', (making him a patron of the shop owned by one Mr. [[Tuttle Scrope]].) It appeared that, well into the autumn of his life, ...'s true nature, knowing his son could be trusted with the information, and one day may need a lever to ensure the Bank remains in safe - or, at least, Lav ...4 KB (711 words) - 04:44, 3 November 2022
- ...to a military leader and ran the squad like a special ops team. He is also one of the only rats to wear any kind of clothes in the form of tool belts he k ...This incident also led to a considerable increase in his prestige, as the one who faced down the Bone Rat. He now wears the scars of that trap round his ...1 KB (197 words) - 18:50, 24 May 2014
- ...ntiful power. Envy and greed soon caused the powerful entities to turn on one another, forming alliances and then betraying them while using the Wild Mag ...are in one in the {{COM}} when he flips seven coins; four land on edge and one turns into a caterpillar. The residual [[Magic]] in such areas causes the ...3 KB (550 words) - 23:37, 5 September 2021
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- ...m the [[Unseen University]], while Maurice became intelligent after eating one of them. They inflict a plague of rats on every town they visit which only The gang agree to carry out the scam one last time in the town of [[Bad Blintz]], [[Überwald]]. The townspeople hav ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 13:44, 23 April 2023
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- ...ard against the Octavo escaping. The chain is locked with eight padlocks, one lock for every head of the eight orders of wizardry. It is very unsafe to s ...which is reading the reader. [[Rincewind]] somehow caught the interest of one of the eight spells, which then decided to live in Rincewind's head for som ...3 KB (579 words) - 16:54, 17 January 2016
- ...t (12) and the tallest, Ginger was the one with red hair and Henry was the one who wasn't Douglas or Ginger. That's about it really, can anyone else remem ...boy [[Pepper]] are each more memorable than William's gang, even with only one book to their names. ...3 KB (496 words) - 11:19, 12 March 2022
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- ...one to becoming. While there is no record of the marriage, or at least not one available to us, {{W}} names the young man who has indeed noted her ability ...ivial things of parochial importance until its eyes close and it slumps to one side, having by then given up the will to live. ...3 KB (486 words) - 22:52, 15 December 2023
- ...roze solid and drifted in deep space for untold thousands of years. Until one day, the lump of ice which was Tethys was drawn into the gravitational fiel ...1 KB (222 words) - 21:52, 23 September 2012
- ...efrained from smiting out of sympathy for his believers, only to find that one of the most contrary aspects of humanity was that they promptly went off an ...sequel to [[On Religion]]). Although it is true that in acquiring at least one believer - [[Ponder Stibbons]] - his strength grows appreciably. ...5 KB (821 words) - 15:31, 30 May 2018
- The practice of exorcism is known in one variant or another, to all religions both on the [[Disc]] and on [[Roundwor ...hat she is riding in another creature's mind purely as a passenger, albeit one who might from time to time make a suggestion to the driver as to speed and ...7 KB (1,158 words) - 23:34, 11 October 2017
- ...[[Roundworld|spherical world]], and the sinister nature of {{wp|Yggdrasil|one encircled by a self-devouring serpent with a tree growing through its hub}} Riktor was the author of at least one book, positing the theory that the universe began with a musical chord that ...4 KB (658 words) - 18:10, 12 July 2015
- ...l beliefs. They represent time in a series of Chay's, each represented by one of the above elements showing how the next period will be seen; such as the ...ng varnish. They travel in groups of seven, twenty-one or fourty-nine (no one knows what happens to the extras) and are led by a master. They offer varni ...1 KB (253 words) - 20:06, 9 September 2017
- '''A.E. Pessimal''' is one of the [[Havelock Vetinari|Patrician's]] inspectors sent to investigate the ...sible that he is making some sort of obscure point to Vetinari by poaching one of his civilian clerks, quite possibly turning the poacher into a gamekeepe ...4 KB (632 words) - 00:39, 5 November 2022
- ...room that exists solely for the purpose of housing them. The look of each one seems to be personalised, and they keep on writing themselves or pouring sa ...t to metaphorically turn the lights out in the universe when he sees a new one germinating. Eventually, he thinks, there will be life. And therefore death ...8 KB (1,365 words) - 02:58, 20 February 2022
- ...dbare area that has worn right through: fortunately the carpet is a sturdy one. ...t, and travellers from outside looking to buy such a thing are directed to one of many carpet-herders. Who, with their usual brace of [[Kh'olli]] dogs whi ...2 KB (389 words) - 05:30, 5 December 2017
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- ...and common sense. The world is flat and [[million-to-one chance|million-to-one chances]] happen nine times out of ten. Our world seems different – i ...hness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip on what was going on... ...3 KB (501 words) - 02:54, 15 August 2020
- ...ll Gods' Cemetery to honor the casualties with lilacs and, affectionately, one hard-boiled egg (from Madam Roberta Meserole). The seven killed were mostly ...pened, with many new Watchmen uncertain of its relevance to the point that one new recruit tried wearing lilac only to be sharply criticised by Fred Colon ...5 KB (779 words) - 03:40, 26 May 2023
- ...Uberwald]] when she was three and was raised by them. They embraced her as one of their own – teaching her the language, giving her a mushroom farm plot ...ot working, as the goblins didn't know what one was before she had brought one in. It should be noted, however, that she is not teaching them to be miniat ...3 KB (593 words) - 17:29, 16 April 2018
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- ...of the week, it's not very big.) It boasts what in the time of {{ER}} was one of the gloomiest and most miserable [[Pubs|pubs]] in the known Multiverse, ...way line, the [[Altiplano Express Line]] out of [[Ankh-Morpork]]. While ''one'' very special train made it past here into [[Uberwald]] and most of the pe ...3 KB (565 words) - 05:48, 29 August 2018
- ...could still be over sixty years old. This dwarf is encountered in {{TT}}, one of the company of dwarves to come with [[Gunilla Goodmountain]] and [[Boddo ...taying where he was for the time being'. Welcome to Ankh-Morpok, City of One Thousand Surprises... ...787 bytes (125 words) - 19:13, 7 September 2017
- ...bines several [[Rincewind]] stories: {{TCOM}}, {{TLF}} and {{S}} to create one long epic. It was also included in the collection [[Book:All The Discworld' ...[[Stephen Briggs]]. The Rince Cycle mashes the best moments of Rincewind, one of Pratchett's most popular and enduring characters, into a two hour stage ...2 KB (245 words) - 21:48, 6 November 2016
- ...t. Needless to say, the neighbors panic when they hear her drawing a bath. One of her favorite songs is [[Hedgehog song|The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered ...ked her out (see ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad'']]). She also has one single tooth left - Nanny eating a pickled onion with gusto is a sight not ...6 KB (1,080 words) - 02:09, 20 December 2023
- ...reacle Mine Road Watch House]], when [[Sam Vimes]] was a recruit, the tall one was [[Horace Nancyball]], the short guy was '''Billy Wiglet'''. Billy was a ...1 KB (199 words) - 04:44, 22 February 2014
- ...nd dripping green hair like waterweed. Tiffany knows her from a picture in one of the few books in the house, [[The Goode Childe's Booke of Faerie Tales]] [[Perspicacia Tick|Miss Tick]] describes Jenny Green-Teeth as "only a Grade One Prohibitory Monster". This refers to a schema which appears to be of Miss ...3 KB (442 words) - 23:40, 14 May 2014
- A privileged young man and son of one of [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s most socially prominent [[Lord Selachii|families]]. H ...an arrest, no doubt to reinforce the new rule of law to slow learners, the one that says ''nobody'' is above the law and ''nobody'' is privileged. A point ...1 KB (196 words) - 00:10, 24 September 2012
- ...of the only weapon close at hand – an ice knife. He manages to keep one alive and hang him on a meat hook by the collar, only to discover that his ...a cigar in half from across a room, cut undead soldiers to pieces and, at one point, rip a piercing out of a mans lip. Later in the sieres he even uses h ...9 KB (1,464 words) - 00:36, 31 January 2018
- ...years, young [[William de Worde]] had been writing a one-sheet newsletter, one edition per month, which he sent to foreign dignitaries who wanted to keep One night, William met Mr. Goodmountain & Co. who were bringing into Ankh-Morpo ...8 KB (1,175 words) - 03:36, 5 December 2022
- ...s, and a note excusing them from gym classes. Madame Deux-Epeés was such a one, whose Guild membership was retrospectively approved so as to avoid embarra ...youngish woman, athletic in build, who appears indeed to wear two swords: one conventionally scabbarded at the waist, and the other in a scabbard at her ...3 KB (571 words) - 00:26, 22 May 2016
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- ...d, the profession does have a week's holiday every year, on the basis that one cannot live on snails and herbs of the riverbank alone. It seems, however, ...of two pounds of potatoes, three pints of beer, three loaves of bread and one pound of pork dripping per week, as well as the aforementioned snails and h ...2 KB (268 words) - 01:50, 23 February 2014
- ...e Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's up to Masklin, one of the last Nomes to come into the Store, to mastermind an unbelievable pla ...s who live by a motorway and own a mysterious device called [[The Thing]]. One day, Masklin persuades them to ride away on a lorry which takes them to the ...6 KB (937 words) - 22:34, 13 March 2020
- ...'if not like a boy, then like a girl who wouldn't mind being mistaken for one. Joining the Watch as a lance- constable, she is initially teamed with Sgt ...ers party she accompanies him and reports back to the Low King on at least one occasion, giving the latter enough time to have [[Mr Shine]] brought in at ...6 KB (916 words) - 19:38, 12 June 2023
- ...Sam Vimes]]) and he have a set-to, Swing with his swordstick and Keel with one of Swing's own steel rulers for measuring people up. Keel manages to hit hi ...morable characters is the deranged secret policeman Luitenant Verkramp. As one of his duties is enforcing the apartheid laws, Verkramp agonises about prec ...6 KB (979 words) - 00:32, 30 June 2014
- One of the few mentioned human members of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]. Visi ...pears to be "Washpot". He is referred to by Pratchett as follows: "There's one in every station, and Constable Visit was enough for two". ...3 KB (441 words) - 02:50, 17 October 2017
- ...assins' Guild Diary 2000|Assassin's Diary]] '''Graumunchen''' is listed as one of the current tutors for the guild. He is unique among them as he is the o ...no assassin should ever be without an edge. He is extremely proud of being one of the first dwarfs born in [[Ankh-Morpork]] and prouder still of having ne ...1 KB (204 words) - 02:19, 9 March 2017
- ...and build boats - and ''airships'' - to explore the Riverworld from above. One such airship on the Riverworld is actually called the ''Mark Twain''! ...5 KB (732 words) - 04:05, 6 August 2022
- ...grapher and writer. With [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Stephen Briggs]] she is one of the co-authors of {{NOC}} and was responsible for the creation of most o At least one other [[Discworld]]-inspired recipe by Tina was published in the ''Discworl ...2 KB (333 words) - 02:50, 7 June 2023
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- A rash of them happened one summer in Lancre. In the Royal bean crop and flowerbeds, in [[Pewsey Ogg]]' ...rsity]] was also affected: [[Mustrum Ridcully]] got a particularly visible one on his scalp, leading to much hilarity among [[Faculty]] members, Ridcully' ...684 bytes (105 words) - 03:27, 6 April 2019
- ...ad with a toy cow by [[Sacharissa Cripslock]]. One day she hit him so hard one of the legs fell off. This sort of early experience has coloured their adul ...507 bytes (79 words) - 00:10, 24 September 2012
- ...s escaped by building himself a set of wings and flying away. This is only one example. Another is the legend is that Růže's eyes were put out after he ...3 KB (498 words) - 03:36, 17 January 2020
- ...ot have dinner with her, as it is generally believed that the jewellery of one hand alone contains enough poison to inhume a small town. See here: [http:/ ...1 KB (193 words) - 00:26, 28 March 2019
- ...gates - eleven if you count the two water gates - have been clearly named. One, the gate diagonally opposite the [[Deosil Gate]], remained un-named. Now w ...1 KB (204 words) - 00:19, 10 December 2012
- ...''extispicy''. Evidently Jeremy is the sort of thoughtful pork butcher who one day may have had a revelation of some sort whilst butchering a porcine corp ...ated and named - "The pillars of mordant mercies", "Exemplum Gratis", etc. One area, running along the spine, is called ''The Rings of [[Bissonomy]]''. Hm ...1 KB (230 words) - 01:13, 11 April 2014
- ...emphasises that the Souk of Downsized Abbey is to be visited expressly at one's own risk. The smell of [[Klatch]]ian tobacco of various sorts predominat ...3 KB (476 words) - 02:52, 25 November 2022
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- ...y obstructions of all kinds - this happens to [[Sam Vimes]] at five to six one night. ...2 KB (266 words) - 01:27, 13 April 2014
- ...can imagine a smaller, off-Broad Way theatre in the round with revues and one-person shows, even [[Fools' Guild|joculators]]. ...427 bytes (65 words) - 21:52, 23 September 2012
- You would not want to pick a fight with one as the macho fighting instinct kicks in and ''every'' Phnobe in the vicini ...ed into the more rounded, developed, race of the [[Marco Farfarer|Kung]], one of whom takes a central role in [[Book:Strata|Strata]] ...2 KB (390 words) - 00:08, 24 September 2012
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- ...s two signals to speakers of Morporkian: one resonating with "Shatter" and one less salubrious and a bit more scatological... ...532 bytes (77 words) - 01:58, 1 October 2020
- ...d's training programme. Another prominent Guild member is [[Tawneee]], the one-time adoring girlfriend of [[Nobby Nobbs]]. '''Ecdysiasts''' are, literally, strippers. This term for "one who performs a striptease" was coined by {{wp|Mencken|H. L. Mencken}} in 19 ...4 KB (717 words) - 13:34, 29 December 2015
- ...etween two realities, the shrinking one inhabited by Keli, and the larger one where the Duke rules, remorselessly wiping it out as reality re-asserts its ...920 bytes (153 words) - 18:06, 13 December 2016
- ...t style and presentation are important matters to consider when presenting one's thoughts to the world. ...851 bytes (132 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
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- ...significant amounts into [[Ankh-Morpork]], is on record as estimating that one Red Python can flavour five hundred pots of black-footed beans, or twice th ...ll. And apparently the "naga" part means "snake" or "serpent" in more than one language in the Indian subcontinent. There is an Indian comic-book superher ...1 KB (169 words) - 17:00, 27 July 2016
- ...the authors of the first edition of [[Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises]]? ...1 KB (162 words) - 06:18, 6 March 2023
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- ...nsortium of [[Skillet, Wang, Yrxle!yt, Bunglestiff, Cwmlad and Patel]] has one of those jolly little advertising notices on the door advertising its statu ...tself to make this possible. And thus we have Wandering Shops, or at least one... ...1 KB (247 words) - 00:07, 24 September 2012
- ...work and send more money home. The Campaign had a fallout over the case of one Mr. [[Thomas Stronginthearm]] (''[[Book:Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]''), but ...1 KB (201 words) - 03:04, 19 June 2014
- ...ella-like roof. This style is popular for explosives factories as well. At one point ({{T!}}) Lady Sybil had 26 dragons in the pens. Spare capacity in the ...s:''' The Ramkins /Vimes hold the deeds to numerous other properties. For one example, young [[Sybil Ramkin|Lady Sybil]] occasionally stayed at a seconda ...3 KB (509 words) - 04:37, 8 May 2019
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- ...ach cake eaten frees a soul from Purgatory - and therefore it is certainly one's Christian duty to consume as many as possible. There is an association he ...2 KB (294 words) - 21:11, 29 July 2016
- ...e. His eyes were almost entirely black, thanks to his being descended from one of the deep desert tribes. ...at were appallingly evil, he never seemed to do evil for the sake of evil; one might describe him as being functionally amoral, while ''believing'' himsel ...3 KB (451 words) - 04:47, 11 November 2020
- ...wear, complete with cape. He rather resembles the actor Christopher Lee in one of his many roles as Dracula. Count Salic is a vampire of the 'old school' ...954 bytes (155 words) - 00:55, 29 September 2014
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- ...and...) becomes a single discrete Demon. Hastur is given pride of place as one of the dreaded Ten (Dukes of Hell), who may be summoned by Satanists at the ...2 KB (309 words) - 20:55, 9 September 2017
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- ...etal. In {{HFOS}} the wizard [[Sensibility Bustle]] used instruction from one of the Loko scrolls to build a device to attract and trap a [[Hiver]]. The ...tions of isotopes to behave as a natural nuclear fission reactor, the only one of its type ever discovered. Self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions are th ...3 KB (457 words) - 03:24, 24 November 2018
- ...although the popular conception is of orcs as we understand them, the only one we've met so far in the entire canon is [[Nutt|Mr Nutt]], who is the protag ...whips driving them on. It is not necessarily an inherent evil but a forced one. ...5 KB (879 words) - 18:42, 16 March 2021
- ...loyee is a put-opon cashier and clerk called Miss Harding, who was on duty one fateful day just before Hogswatch. ...e Discworld manifestation of [[Arnold Bros (est. 1905)]]? Although if this one has [[Nomes]] living in the walls and floorspaces, Discworld [[Pictsies|gno ...1 KB (203 words) - 01:45, 8 July 2020
- ...s, events, phrases, locations, norms, periods &c. The name "Roundworld" is one coined by the [[Wizards]] and is used in this wiki to show when Terry Pratc ...ed as "a lobster-like civilisation". So. Atlantis existed. But not a human one.... ...3 KB (531 words) - 22:33, 7 June 2015
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- ...officers and even General [[Froc]] have been in the Tenth with Jackrum at one time, but who remains and who has moved on to the general staff is unclear. ...olk Song, and thus has a "Humourous" content rather than a directly sexual one. The basic storyline of the song is that a young dairy maid is walking to ...2 KB (319 words) - 20:23, 4 December 2014
- 1. On the Discworld '''Widdershins''' is one of the four basic directions , and the opposite of [[turnwise]]. By going { ...or the fantastically rich [[Sabalos family]] in {{TDSOTS}} It has at least one moon and orbits the purple star of [[See-Why]]. ...2 KB (294 words) - 18:24, 28 June 2015
- Sergeant-Major Charles "Blossom" Florabundi was a senior military man with one of ''those'' embarrassing ailments forensically listed, or at least embalme "No one minds being called a "[[-ing]] -er of a [[-ing]] ------, but that sounded l ...2 KB (280 words) - 23:17, 18 March 2014
- ...k act perpetrated on the innocent, one of whom lies under rare flowers and one under catnip. ...1 KB (252 words) - 04:28, 29 November 2022
- ...lids on. The song itself is from the classic opera ''The Student Horse'', one of those [[Opera|operas]] where the action is largely set in bierkellers an * The joys of [[quaffing]]. (This is why one of Überwald's gifts to Discworld culture is the invention of a hinged lid ...2 KB (283 words) - 07:09, 8 July 2014
- ...its capacity to understand the creation of Roundworld on the basis that ''one day'' it would be able to. Hex is even beginning to ask about electricity. ...e a oblique reference to Academy of Lagodo in ''Gulliver's Travels'' where one of their plans was to capture the sunlight in cucumbers. ...10 KB (1,671 words) - 06:43, 30 November 2023
- ...and clams. A huge bearded man, he was said to be able to open oysters with one hand. Years of pulling limpets off rocks and wrestling the giant cockles in He got into an argument with one of the newly-empowered [[Wizards]] about the destruction of his stall follo ...1,017 bytes (171 words) - 00:05, 24 September 2012
- ...back out but she fixed it with some secret Druidic massage techniques, and one thing led to another and he ended up marrying her. Obviously it didn't last ...1 KB (171 words) - 21:37, 23 October 2017
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- ...signed to establish, beyond all possible doubt, the right to the throne of one [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]. Here, he finds sudden reasons not to want to u ...2 KB (265 words) - 00:44, 25 November 2013
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- ...of the Ebon Night]] with himself as Supreme Grand Master, and commissioned one of the Brethren, [[Brother Fingers]] (whose day job was apparently as a "ca ...and Morpork]]. It is now presumably hidden within the [[Library]] where no one will be able to find it. ...1 KB (234 words) - 01:55, 4 July 2014
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- ...ne not sure of the purpose or intention of the group, a founder member and one highly placed on its committee is Miss [[Iodine Maccalariat]]. ...he Festival of Light, a British pressure group set up along similar lines, one of whose leading lights was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse| ...1 KB (183 words) - 22:46, 6 August 2016
- ...into plays and performed. [[Stephen Briggs]] was the first person to adapt one of Terry Pratchett's books for stage and performed them along with his Stud ...gic as a “workshop” production - without full sets and costumes - in a few one-off performances between 2017 and 2019. Unfortunately the musical has been ...8 KB (1,175 words) - 07:54, 17 March 2023
- ...in love with her when he first sees her, party because Keli appears to be one of those rare mortals who can see ''him''. This may be a natural talent in ...mong Klatchians. The freckles and complexion may have been inherited from one of her ancestors, a marauding tribal leader, who from his description seems ...4 KB (657 words) - 04:58, 12 March 2021
- ...e in Stockport[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merseyway_Shopping_Centre] was one of the first attempts to build an American-style shopping mall in England i ...the recently refurbished and far smaller covered section of the mall. The one that wasn't shows happy smiling primary school children, and reveals nothin ...2 KB (323 words) - 00:07, 24 September 2012
- ...to who or what created the known Universe. The Celestial Cow is quoted as one possible Creator Goddess, along with her consort the Sky God. ...nsort (or vice-versa) are seen as earthly manifestations of the gods. And one of the ceremonial titles for the Queen is indeed [[The Great Cow of the Arc ...487 bytes (80 words) - 22:27, 28 April 2013
- ...of this choice cut. Perhaps the luxury food association was a deterrent to one planning a recipe book of largely plain and simple fare... ...e prisoners via intermediaries (so as not to lose face). After liberation, one of the principal characters finds a diet of chicken and pork and beef is al ...4 KB (706 words) - 05:26, 3 March 2022
- Some time after the 1840's, a British lawnmower company called one of its products the '''''Speedicut'''''. Which leads us back to Fliemoe... See also the Monty Python spin-off, '''Ripping Yarns'', where one episode, ''Tomkinson's Schooldays[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqBDv_9ar ...2 KB (289 words) - 22:08, 7 September 2014
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- ...there. In fact, he taught three years of tutorials ''post-mortem'' with no one noticing. The students merely remarked that he was a "bit quiet". ...800 bytes (118 words) - 00:16, 24 September 2012
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- The Gorgon officially enters the Discworld canon in an aside in {{UA}}. Also one of the dragon hunters in {{G!G!}} recounted a gorgon he knew with a terribl ...ted that nothing can be done for them (save make a nice rockery out of the one who smashed) it is clear that being turned to stone is fatal and not revers ...4 KB (672 words) - 00:57, 21 August 2022
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- ...ilosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: "you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a k ...atter was recounting with great delight an alcohol-fuelled conversation in one of the bars at a science fiction convention around that time, at which TP w ...3 KB (533 words) - 03:35, 10 January 2022
- ...magical Lore to the extent that a lot of it had rubbed off on him. He was one of the few wizards to oppose the [[Sourcerer]] [[Coin]] when he came to the ...is, Hakardy refused to be afraid of Coin and his staff and claimed that no one but a wizard of the eight level, chosen by senior wizards, could become Arc ...1 KB (206 words) - 23:05, 17 August 2021
- ..., that was swallowed up by the expansion of the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]] - one of Terry's "layers of the onion" when seen from the air. It stands where [ ...g since collapsed) remaining. The building in the background might well be one of those ''experimental'' modernistic concepts the [[Guild of Architects]] ...2 KB (329 words) - 01:10, 25 November 2021
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- '''Grabpot Thundergust''' is a dwarf who wears fearsome "[[Clang]]" (one of the best-ever Pratchett p***-takes of [[Roundworld]]: whereas our icons He is one of the much-maligned (by [[Sam Vimes]]) 'Community Leaders' to whom the [[C ...1 KB (180 words) - 21:01, 3 September 2017
- ...ad turned into sheep - or, at least, such was vouchsafed to Mr [[Nutt]] by one of the scullery boys. ...ypersurface of the tesseract consists of 8 cubical cells. The tesseract is one of the six convex regular 4-polytopes. ...2 KB (271 words) - 03:18, 13 December 2021
- ...gods. New ones may be created at any time, and old ones fade away when no one believes any longer. Here is a (necessarily incomplete) list of some better *[[What]], sky goddess who eats the sun in the evening and plants one of its seeds to grow a new sun in the morning. ...9 KB (1,444 words) - 16:01, 20 October 2021
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- ...ne. it originates in the driving need expressed in {{RS}} for a very fast, one-use-only, express line from Ankh-Morpork into [[Uberwald]]. Whilst the line ...2 KB (362 words) - 05:42, 6 September 2017
- One of [[Nanny Ogg]]'s vastly extended family (it extends, in fact, right acros ...rst possible taste, but it "proves" that she is loved by her family, as no-one who goes more than half a day's journey from Lancre would ''dream'' of comi ...1 KB (197 words) - 05:55, 4 December 2022
- ...hich announces his guests and leers at young women), he is in fact a level one Wizard and although he might have a fire spell to light a candle he can sti ...s a "force behind the throne", implying that he's courting Queen [[Keli]]. One of the titles graciously bestowed on him by Queen Keli is [[Royal Astrologe ...2 KB (308 words) - 15:55, 17 April 2018
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- ..." He does not respond well to that kind of talk, but so far only [[Bursar|one person]] has been foolish enough to have done this. ...look tough, a troll could take on an big tough organic-sounding name, like one of dem big tings wit' der horns dat go "moo". This is pretty advanced think ...1 KB (240 words) - 04:57, 20 January 2013
- ...f I had three red, two blue, and five green marbles in a bag, and I pulled one out randomly without looking, what is the probability that the sun will swi ...bility maths on the [[Discworld]] largely revolves around the [[Million-to-one chance]]. ...1 KB (180 words) - 13:20, 2 August 2016
- ...e descendent of two characters based on Haitian mythology, Ella represents one of the several prominent humans of color in the Discworld series. Upon meeting Ella, [[Magrat Garlick]] observes that Ella is one of the most attractive young people that she has ever seen. Ella lives in ...2 KB (221 words) - 04:44, 9 August 2021
- ...where legendary Neasden striker "Baldy" Pevsner manages to knock at least one through his own net. a typical result might be:- ...el Palin's immortal series of period spoofs '''''Ripping Yarns''''', where one episode, set in the 1930's, deals with the failing Yorkshire Premier League ...1 KB (206 words) - 14:53, 1 September 2013
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- ...ctivity!'' Dunno if this should be an annotation (maybe it's mentioned in one of the Science of Discworld books), but Roundworld superconductivity does n ...ape, Vetinari picks up Leonard's cartoons and comment that "This is a good one of the little boy with his kite stuck in a tree" ... Possibly a reference t ...4 KB (608 words) - 11:49, 29 October 2018
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- ...hat time a sergeant. Currently the most senior member of the Watch, he is "one of nature's sergeants": good at organizing small tasks, rotas of various de ...ch Liaison Officer; chosen by Vimes because they are jobs so vague that no one is entirely sure what they entail, least of all Colon himself. They serve t ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 03:22, 6 April 2022
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- '''Herbert "Leggy" Gaskin''' was one of the members of the old [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Night Watch]]. His fune In Night Watch, he was one of the [[Treacle Mine Road]] Watchmen to cross Keel's Line, and agree to ta ...900 bytes (138 words) - 14:54, 17 April 2018
- ...that marks the early part of this book (sorry: no spoilers. But it's a big one. We can rewrite this bit after the book has circulated a bit and people hav ...p. 68''''' "the times they is a-changing" The Times They Are A-Changin' is one of Bob Dylan's most famous songs ...6 KB (915 words) - 01:55, 12 August 2023
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- Like the [[Librarian]], the Death of Rats can communicate everything in a one-syllable sound: {{death|squeak}}, with the occasional emphasis of an {{deat ...is Duty of taking away life when it was finished with, when anything died. One consequence was the build-up of life-force like water behind a dam, which ...5 KB (803 words) - 18:58, 31 January 2016
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- ...rd "grass" or "informer") gives Carrot a useful lead to the whereabouts of one [[Daceyville Slopes|"Snowy" Slopes]], who may be able to help the Watch wit ...1 KB (169 words) - 14:23, 11 October 2013
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- ...become Thieves; these youths called ''Ludd's Lads and Lasses'' (Ludd being one of the founders of the Guild) are often foundlings, babies left in a basket ...iums, ask to see licenses, and carry their receipts, the Thieves' Guild is one of the more powerful guilds in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Current leader: a Mr. Josi ...6 KB (1,039 words) - 01:27, 14 January 2017
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- '''Azrael''', one of the Eight [[Old High Ones]], is none other than the 'Death of Universes' While not a [[god]], Azrael is an 'Old High One', existing nonetheless despite not being worshiped. Azrael is ''the Ultimat ...3 KB (460 words) - 19:44, 12 December 2022
- ...lways a small telltale or flaw, however, such as a line of stitches around one wrist or a decorative scar. One Igorina masqueraded as an [[Igor]] to join the army of [[Borogravia]], do ...2 KB (321 words) - 21:57, 21 December 2021
- Though she may not be considered one of the more powerful witches, she is an expert with a [[shamble]]. She may ...ave got to go away. I... I've got to learn proper witching, and there's no one here now to teach me, you see. I've got to... to look after the hills like ...5 KB (956 words) - 01:26, 20 December 2023
- The m-word is not one you use anywhere near the Librarian, who has fixed ideas about its use and In {{TLC}}, one of the wizards accidentally calls the Librarian a monkey and escapes withou ...3 KB (553 words) - 13:17, 9 July 2015
- One of the four all-female houses at the [[Assassins' Guild]] school. The House The Black Widow is one of the deadliest poisonous spiders to be found on Roundworld. It must evide ...1 KB (208 words) - 15:22, 22 July 2019
- ...an uncontrolled meltdown can do - regard what happened to [[Shoblang]] - one is reminded that a previous job of Terry Pratchett's involved working in th ...887 bytes (146 words) - 02:05, 2 December 2013
- One of the many secret brotherhoods in [[Ankh-Morpork]], led by the Supreme Gra ...olicemen look down on Special Constables. However, as the [[Librarian]] is one of the [[Specials]] in the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]], the derogatory ter ...3 KB (421 words) - 02:58, 2 October 2019
- ...rbarian heroes tend to get rich quickly and then run out of money quickly. One day, Cohen decided to gather a few old Barbarian heroes to invade [[Hunghun ...at the Golden Horde received its name. While this legend is persistent, no one is positive of the origin of the term. In most contemporary sources, the Go ...6 KB (931 words) - 05:10, 7 February 2014
- ...erred to as themselves in {{CJ}}), a particularly savage breed of dog, but one which, as a Lipwig, he is familiar with, and is quite intrigued to find tha ...him. He is rich now and can get most of the things that money can buy, but one thing that is hard for him to get is class. Anyone who repays Harry a big f ...7 KB (1,199 words) - 00:06, 16 October 2017