http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Wen_the_Eternally_Surprised&feed=atom&action=historyWen the Eternally Surprised - Revision history2024-03-28T15:41:23ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Wen_the_Eternally_Surprised&diff=19055&oldid=prevThnidu: /* Annotation */ mark rising tone on ''wén'' and add the character, cites for translations2014-02-07T06:04:05Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Annotation: </span> mark rising tone on ''wén'' and add the character, cites for translations</span></p>
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</table>Thniduhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Wen_the_Eternally_Surprised&diff=9054&oldid=prevAnonymous at 20:47, 17 December 20122012-12-17T20:47:57Z<p></p>
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</table>Anonymoushttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Wen_the_Eternally_Surprised&diff=7480&oldid=prevOsiris: 1 revision: Discworld import 22012-09-24T00:17:51Z<p>1 revision: Discworld import 2</p>
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|title= Wen<br />
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|name= Wen the Eternally Surprised<br />
|age= Difficult to tell, but born thousands of years ago<br />
|race= [[Human]]<br />
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|occupation= Founder of the [[History Monks|Order of Wen]]<br />
|appearance= Bald young man<br />
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|residence= [[Glass House|Glass Palace]]<br />
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|death= Practically immortal as he is not affected by time<br />
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|children= [[Lobsang Ludd]] and [[Jeremy Clockson]]<br />
|marital status= married to the (previous - and female) personification of [[Time]]<br />
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|books= ''[[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''<br />
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Founder of the Order of Wen, also known as the [[History Monks]], and married to the original [[anthropomorphic personification]] of [[Time]]. Their son [[Lobsang Ludd|Lobsang]] is the current (if such a word can be used in this context) Time.<br />
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Wen has the appearance of a bald and fairly surprised young man, who looks as if he has been around a very long time. He is the author of the Scrolls of Wen, where he recounts his discovery of the nature of Time and how he manipulates time. And a love poem.<br />
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As a youngish man who had devoted his life to understanding time (somewhat like an early astrophysicist), he actually met the avatistic incarnation of time, who looked - to him - like a young, dark-haired woman. However, as these anthropomorphic personifications can assume any form they desire (witness no-one recognising [[Death]] unless he wishes them to), it is unwise to assume that his lover was female - or in fact human-shaped.<br />
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For lovers they became, and Time took Wen from his newly-founded monastery wherein the secrets of the manipulation of time (and, incidentally, how to kick people so hard their kidneys came out of their noses) had started to be distilled and passed on to novices, and away to her [[Glass House|Glass Palace]] beyond space and time.<br />
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His first novice was [[Clodpool]], a particularly lack-witted apprentice, but a fortunate creature indeed, to whom fell the task of running after his Master and who was blessed by being the first to receive the wisdom of Wen.<br />
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For all his great age (living outside time, Wen may have existed for trillennia), he was still quantifiably human (and male) when the time came for his child to be born. He approached [[Nanny Ogg]], who is probably 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 comfortable old baggage Discworld fans adore. On each occasion he pleaded with her that they didn't have much time, which was ridiculous because if he could manipulate his own appearances ''to'' her so easily, surely he could have returned ''with'' her to the Glass Palace before he'd even left, should he have so desired.<br />
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Be that as it may, Time was no great shakes herself on the calmness continuinuumum...um. She was so scared (all right - if she's giving birth perhaps we ''can'' assume she was female, for some value of "female") that she couldn't maintain a temporal position, and Wen had to sing little songs to her and babble in his outlandish tongue to soothe her. But the birth troubled her sorely. She had the child, then stuttered a little, time got messed up, and she gave birth again. One child - born twice. Not twins. As [[Nanny Ogg]] remarked later, "Twins is two souls born once each. Not one born twice."<br />
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As so often on the Disc it was left to a witch to sort it out. (Or more likely, the witch bullied and argued until she got her way.) The two children were left on the doorsteps of different guilds, and it is upon this premise that {{TOT}} builds its story.<br />
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As a reward for her services, Wen gave Nanny a fancy egg-timer (a miniature [[life-timer]] such as Death cares for in his great library) with the words '''Tempus Redux''' carven upon it. In the Ancient Latatian tongue (as in Roundworld's Latin), this means ''Time Returned'' - a recompense for the few hours she helped. Vital to anybody, these hours may very well prove pivotal to another, as-yet-untold, Discworld plot - probably when [[Granny Weatherwax]] wants them used, as opposed to Nanny Ogg...<br />
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''Wen'' in Mandarin Chinese (a [[Roundworld]] tongue) means "Cultured", but it is much more likely that his name is a [[pune]], or play on words, on the English word "When", meaning a fixed point in time.<br />
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