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Latatian Phrases

2019-10-27T16:49:03Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Other Mottos */

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumquae Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" ({{FOC}})
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less) ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes)

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo homini lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
** Interestingly, [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] is ''Noli Timore Messorum'' - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto.
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of 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 city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their [full attention] in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow" -- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks"/"I will reimburse sufficiently" (which is very close to the legend "I promise to the bearer, on demand, the sum of" written on all British paper money. It is commonly held to be the case that, should the bearer of e.g. a £5 note could exchange it for £5 worth of gold in a bank and that is true provided no-one ever actually asks. Once you've got your head around that fact, it becomes clear that paper money is in fact an illusion, but one we all believe in - we have to.) (See also; [[Paper Money]].) {{MM}}
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!]]'' - "I am an [[Ankh Morpork]] Citizen!" ({{RS}})
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the realworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss. [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Nulli Sheilae Sanguineae'' - "No bloody Sheilas (No women allowed)".
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Granny Weatherwax

2018-05-25T14:03:07Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Granny Weatherwax
|photo=grannymine.jpg|Granny Weatherwax by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= Esmerelda Weatherwax
|age= Dare you ask?
|race= Human
|occupation= Greatest [[witches magic|Witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] (Just ask her)
|appearance= Tall, thin with a wart-free complexion and good teeth, (despite her best efforts,) and perpetual scowl
|residence= Granny's Cottage, [[Bad Ass]], [[Lancre]], The [[Ramtops]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]] (mother) Mr Weatherwax (father)
|relatives= [[Lily Weatherwax]] (sister) [[Alison Weatherwax]] (grandmother) [[Galder Weatherwax]] (distant cousin)
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{ER}}, {{WS}}, {{WA}}, {{LL}}, {{M!!!}}, {{CJ}}, {{NOC}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{TSC}}
|cameos= {{M}}, {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}}, {{SOD2}}, possibly {{GP}} }}

'''Granny Weatherwax''', full name '''Esmerelda "Esme" Weatherwax''', is a [[witch]], who lives in a small cottage outside the village of [[Bad Ass]], in the kingdom of [[Lancre]], on the Sto Plains face of the [[Ramtops]].

==Names==
She is often nicknamed just "Granny", though she is never mentioned as having any children or grandchildren. She has names in multiple languages, which reflect her reputation. These include the [[Troll]] name ''Aaoograha hoa'' ("''She Who Must Be Avoided''"), [[Dwarf]] name ''K'ez'rek d'b'duz'' ("''Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain''") and [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] name ''The Hag O' Hags'' ("''The High Hag'',").

==Backhistory==
According to ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', Esme Weatherwax was born the younger of two daughters. While it hasn't been mentioned if her mother was a Witch or not, Granny mentions that her father was a hunter, who once taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" (''[[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]''). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows with her parents over Lily's behavior, as Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic, "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age, that Lily was vain and prideful, ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"), and that "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13 years.

After Granny had grown-up, she was adamant on becoming a Witch; as she reveals in ''Lords and Ladies'', 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 everything she knew. Hah. That took her a week ''and'' I had the afternoons free. ... No ''I'' chose...''"). Granny would go on to become a fully-fledged Witch, and at some point took responsibility for her own steading, the village of Bad Ass and the Kingdom of Lancre as a whole. Granny Weatherwax, as she would later come to be known as, also nursed her ailing mother until the time of her death, (what became of her father has never been mentioned). Whilest still a young woman, Granny was involved in a summer-long romance with then-aspiring Wizard, Mustrum Ridcully, but ultimately they were both committed to their respective paths of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Granny is estimated to be in her seventies during the events of {{WS}}, {{WA}}, ''Lords and Ladies'', {{M}} & {{CJ}}, the same age as Nanny Ogg, (having grown up with her). Yet, by the standards of [[Eumenides Treason|Mistress Eumenides Treason]], she is still considered a girl ({{W}}).

Granny Weatherwax passes away early in the events of {{TSC}}, now in her 80's; where, after experiencing The Call, she tidies up her cottage, prepares her own wicker casket, and sets her last will and testament down in writing (confirming instructions she had already 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 with her life, with Granny confirming that she was satisfied to have lived the way she did and kept her part of the world safe, Death in turn assuring her that her candle will continue to flicker long after her passing and that she has left the world in a better condition than it was when she entered it. Her death is felt across the Disc; Nanny Ogg and Tiffany Aching arrive first to lay her to rest in the forest at a site pre-chosen by Granny herself, and Archchancellor [[Mustrum Ridcully]] visits briefly to pay his last respects. Over the course of the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown'', Tiffany Aching, who Granny has named her successor, overstretches herself trying to oversee two steadings and live-up to Granny's reputation as the new 'Witch of Witches', but eventually comes to accept the need to do things her way rather than simply make herself do everything Granny did.

==Characterization==
She is considered (not least of all by herself) to be the best [[witches magic|witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] and is refered to by the [[Pictsies]] as the 'Hag O' Hags'. She is the resident witch of [[Bad Ass]], but she tends to regard the whole kingdom, and indeed absolutely anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain, (not unlike [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] in that respect.) Her cottage is probably the most traditional of all the witches' cottages in Lancre, complete with archaic thatch, goats, and huge thickets of '[[herbs]]' which move even when there's no breeze. She has a special fondness for bees and keeps several hives in her garden.

She prefers to use "''[[headology]]''" instead of magic as the [[wizard's magic|wizards]] practise it, believing that magic is not so much flashy lights as knowing things that other people don't know. As a witch she is, on the one hand, feared by the people of the [[Ramtops]] and, on the other hand, respected as a midwife, herbalist, and the spiritual version of a coal-mine canary. Granny likes to [[borrowing|borrow]], a special kind of magic where the user enters the mind of an animal and can see through the eyes of that animal. As this technique renders her own body totally dormant, she now wears a small cardboard sign with the words "I Aten't Dead" on it to avoid unnecessary embarrassment. [[Image:Granny_Weatherwax.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Illustrated by [[user:Puggdogg|Mick Collins]]]]

''"Granny had been introduced to [[broomstick]] flying quite late in life, and after some initial suspicion had taken to it like a bluebottle to an ancient fish-head. A problem, however, was that Granny saw every flight simply as a straight line from A to B and was unable to get alongside the idea that other users of the air might have any rights whatsoever; the flight migration patterns of an entire continent had been changed because of that simple fact. High-speed evolution among local birds had developed a generation that flew on their backs, so that they could keep a watchful eye on the skies...Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains."'' ([[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]).

Granny's opinions about other things being in the way of her broomstick has since moved with modern technology, as in {{GP}} we hear of an anonymous witch from Lancre who succeeded in bringing the [[clacks]] line down by riding her broomstick into one of the towers, damaging its sensitive mechanisms and terrifying the luckless crew.

While this witch is not identified and remains anonymous, a fairly accurate guess could be hazarded as to her name... it is noteworthy that [[Reacher Gilt]] himself must have thought twice about pursuing any claim for damages or inconvenience! {{SOD2}} confirms that she has had several such accidents, and believes the towers move into her way. Her broomstick was originally borrowed from a witch called [[Hilta Goatfounder]], and despite the best and continued efforts of the dwarfs servicing her broomstick, it won't take off without a considerable run.

Her [[Lily Weatherwax|elder sister]] left home in her youth, eventually to become a [[fairy godmother]]. Granny seems to harbour a bitter resentment of this fact, because after that she felt compelled to be the "good one" in the family; she also believes that she could have been a lot more evil than her sister. Despite this, she did stay at home and nurse her mother until she died.

Granny's personality would, to many, lend itself nicely to the "bad witch" stereotype: she's competitive, selfish and ambitious, with a quick temper and a sharp tongue. She also wields a gaze stern enough to make bears cower in humiliated shame. Her practical history, however, clearly puts her in the "good witch" camp (a sort of personification of "tough love"), if only because she's too proud to be any other kind.

Granny Weatherwax has faced [[Death]] many times, and has not backed down yet. She has also faced and defeated [[Elves]], [[vampires]] (or [[vampyres]]), and [[wizard's magic|wizards]]. (See [[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]], [[Book:Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]] and [[Book:Equal Rites|Equal Rites]])

Her companions, as far as a witch can have these, are [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]] and [[Agnes Nitt]]. She was [[Eskarina Smith]]'s first teacher in the arts of magic, until she realised that Esk's magic was of a different sort altogether. She gave [[Tiffany Aching]] her hat. She was once romantically involved with [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. Recently, via [[Tiffany Aching]], she has been acquired by a white kitten called [[You]]. This is surprising, as Granny is, by her own admission, not a cat person; [[Greebo]], who knows bad news when it blesses the house, always hides when she visits [[Nanny Ogg]].

==Character annotations==
"''Weatherwax''" was also the name of the author of an old lawbook. [http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.books.pratchett/msg/1dad94515c79f71c?hl=nl& Source]

==Trivia==
* According to ''[[Equal Rites]]'', Granny Weatherwax, amongst other things, makes her own liqour for medicinal purposes (she has her own [[wikipedia:Still|Still]]); her "triple-distilled white mountain [[wikipedia:Peach brandy|Peach brandy]]" is well-known even in the town of Ohulan Cutash (a town fifteen miles away from Bad Ass), and it's regarded as "much better than [[wikipedia:Beer|beer]]". Granny's triple-distilled peach brandy isn't mentioned again until the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown''.
*[[wikipedia:Weatherwax|Weatherwax]] is a real (but rare) surname.

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Granny Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

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Lily Weatherwax

2018-05-25T14:02:44Z

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{{Character Data
|title= Lily Weatherwax
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Lily Weatherwax, also known as Lilith de Tempscire
|age= Don't ask, but older than Esmerelda.
|race= [[Human]], [[Witch]]
|occupation= [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]
|appearance= A strong resemblance to her sister Esme.
|residence= The Duc's Palace, [[Genua]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]] (mother) Mr Weatherwax (father)
|relatives= [[Esmeralda Weatherwax]] (sister) [[Alison Weatherwax]] (grandmother) [[Galder Weatherwax]] (distant cousin)
|children=
|marital status= Self-made widow, several times over.
|books= {{WA}}
|cameos={{CJ}}
}}

Also known as '''Lilith de Tempscire'''. This is her name as the power behind the throne of Genua, and is made up of two French or indeed Genuan words (temps, meaning weather, and cire, meaning wax).

According to {{WA}}, Lily Weatherwax was born the older of two daughters; the older sister of [[Esmeralda Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Esme" (later "Granny") Weatherwax]]. As with all Weatherwaxes, she has powerful magic abilities, although, while the books do not indicate whether their mother was a witch or not, but Granny mentions that her father was a [[Wikipedia:Hunter|hunter]] (who taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" ({{LL}})). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows (and [[Wikipedia:Caning|canings]]) with her parents over Lily's behaviour. As Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic; "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age; Lily was vain and prideful ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"); and "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13-years-old.

Lily would go-out on her own into the world, causing trouble where-ever she went (à la ''[[Wikipedia:Sleeping Beauty|Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Little Red Riding Hood|Little Red Riding Hood]]'', etc.), "Feeding people to stories" (as Granny would later put it), all the while completely oblivious to the misery she left in her wake, under the delusion that she's made their lives 'better', giving them what only ''she'' thinks they should want. It's also mentioned that, over the years, she'd had at least 3 husbands (at least 2 of them she was sure were dead when she buried them).

According to family tradition (alluded to in {{WA}}); as the older sibling, Lily is supposed to be the "Good One", and Esme the "Bad One"; and because of this, Lily takes this to mean that ''every'' thing she does is there fore 'Right'; where-as, due to Lily's delusional character, Esme had to become the "Good One" in order to restore the balance between them, and all the while she has begrudged Lily for 'having all the fun' (''Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. “I’m goin’ to give you the hidin’ our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall--but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop’ly, after you went; '''I had to be the Good One'''. You had all the fun. An’ there’s no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I’m surely goin’ to give it a try...”''), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One".

She is one of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]s of [[Ella Saturday|Princess Ella]]. To increase her [[Witches magic|magical]] potential, she uses mirrors. Mirrors are also a big theme in the book ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', with the good and the bad godmother (Lily versus [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]), the old and new Genua, and the good versus the bad sister. Granny blames Lily for being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one.

In [[Genua]] she tries to use the power of stories to make Ella marry the [[Duc]], thus fulfilling Lily's wish as a Fairy Godmother that Ella would marry a prince. This plot is interrupted when the Lancre [[witches]] show up and interfere with the story (as witches do, of course). Lily and Esme are not on good terms, although Esme does try to "save" Lily because she is family.

At the end of the book, Lily is not dead, but is in a state between life and death inside the mirror. Unlike Granny, she doesn't know which Lily is the real one and presumably will search forever for herself. This proves the danger of using mirrors combined with magic.

[[de:Lily Wetterwachs]]

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Granny Weatherwax

2018-05-25T14:01:47Z

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{{Character Data
|title= Granny Weatherwax
|photo=grannymine.jpg|Granny Weatherwax by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= Esmerelda Weatherwax
|age= Dare you ask?
|race= Human
|occupation= Greatest [[witches magic|Witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] (Just ask her)
|appearance= Tall, thin with a wart-free complexion and good teeth, (despite her best efforts,) and perpetual scowl
|residence= Granny's Cottage, [[Bad Ass]], [[Lancre]], The [[Ramtops]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]] (mother) Mr Weatherwax
|relatives= [[Lily Weatherwax]] (sister) [[Alison Weatherwax]] (grandmother) [[Galder Weatherwax]] (distant cousin)
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{ER}}, {{WS}}, {{WA}}, {{LL}}, {{M!!!}}, {{CJ}}, {{NOC}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{TSC}}
|cameos= {{M}}, {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}}, {{SOD2}}, possibly {{GP}} }}

'''Granny Weatherwax''', full name '''Esmerelda "Esme" Weatherwax''', is a [[witch]], who lives in a small cottage outside the village of [[Bad Ass]], in the kingdom of [[Lancre]], on the Sto Plains face of the [[Ramtops]].

==Names==
She is often nicknamed just "Granny", though she is never mentioned as having any children or grandchildren. She has names in multiple languages, which reflect her reputation. These include the [[Troll]] name ''Aaoograha hoa'' ("''She Who Must Be Avoided''"), [[Dwarf]] name ''K'ez'rek d'b'duz'' ("''Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain''") and [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] name ''The Hag O' Hags'' ("''The High Hag'',").

==Backhistory==
According to ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', Esme Weatherwax was born the younger of two daughters. While it hasn't been mentioned if her mother was a Witch or not, Granny mentions that her father was a hunter, who once taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" (''[[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]''). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows with her parents over Lily's behavior, as Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic, "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age, that Lily was vain and prideful, ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"), and that "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13 years.

After Granny had grown-up, she was adamant on becoming a Witch; as she reveals in ''Lords and Ladies'', 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 everything she knew. Hah. That took her a week ''and'' I had the afternoons free. ... No ''I'' chose...''"). Granny would go on to become a fully-fledged Witch, and at some point took responsibility for her own steading, the village of Bad Ass and the Kingdom of Lancre as a whole. Granny Weatherwax, as she would later come to be known as, also nursed her ailing mother until the time of her death, (what became of her father has never been mentioned). Whilest still a young woman, Granny was involved in a summer-long romance with then-aspiring Wizard, Mustrum Ridcully, but ultimately they were both committed to their respective paths of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Granny is estimated to be in her seventies during the events of {{WS}}, {{WA}}, ''Lords and Ladies'', {{M}} & {{CJ}}, the same age as Nanny Ogg, (having grown up with her). Yet, by the standards of [[Eumenides Treason|Mistress Eumenides Treason]], she is still considered a girl ({{W}}).

Granny Weatherwax passes away early in the events of {{TSC}}, now in her 80's; where, after experiencing The Call, she tidies up her cottage, prepares her own wicker casket, and sets her last will and testament down in writing (confirming instructions she had already 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 with her life, with Granny confirming that she was satisfied to have lived the way she did and kept her part of the world safe, Death in turn assuring her that her candle will continue to flicker long after her passing and that she has left the world in a better condition than it was when she entered it. Her death is felt across the Disc; Nanny Ogg and Tiffany Aching arrive first to lay her to rest in the forest at a site pre-chosen by Granny herself, and Archchancellor [[Mustrum Ridcully]] visits briefly to pay his last respects. Over the course of the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown'', Tiffany Aching, who Granny has named her successor, overstretches herself trying to oversee two steadings and live-up to Granny's reputation as the new 'Witch of Witches', but eventually comes to accept the need to do things her way rather than simply make herself do everything Granny did.

==Characterization==
She is considered (not least of all by herself) to be the best [[witches magic|witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] and is refered to by the [[Pictsies]] as the 'Hag O' Hags'. She is the resident witch of [[Bad Ass]], but she tends to regard the whole kingdom, and indeed absolutely anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain, (not unlike [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] in that respect.) Her cottage is probably the most traditional of all the witches' cottages in Lancre, complete with archaic thatch, goats, and huge thickets of '[[herbs]]' which move even when there's no breeze. She has a special fondness for bees and keeps several hives in her garden.

She prefers to use "''[[headology]]''" instead of magic as the [[wizard's magic|wizards]] practise it, believing that magic is not so much flashy lights as knowing things that other people don't know. As a witch she is, on the one hand, feared by the people of the [[Ramtops]] and, on the other hand, respected as a midwife, herbalist, and the spiritual version of a coal-mine canary. Granny likes to [[borrowing|borrow]], a special kind of magic where the user enters the mind of an animal and can see through the eyes of that animal. As this technique renders her own body totally dormant, she now wears a small cardboard sign with the words "I Aten't Dead" on it to avoid unnecessary embarrassment. [[Image:Granny_Weatherwax.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Illustrated by [[user:Puggdogg|Mick Collins]]]]

''"Granny had been introduced to [[broomstick]] flying quite late in life, and after some initial suspicion had taken to it like a bluebottle to an ancient fish-head. A problem, however, was that Granny saw every flight simply as a straight line from A to B and was unable to get alongside the idea that other users of the air might have any rights whatsoever; the flight migration patterns of an entire continent had been changed because of that simple fact. High-speed evolution among local birds had developed a generation that flew on their backs, so that they could keep a watchful eye on the skies...Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains."'' ([[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]).

Granny's opinions about other things being in the way of her broomstick has since moved with modern technology, as in {{GP}} we hear of an anonymous witch from Lancre who succeeded in bringing the [[clacks]] line down by riding her broomstick into one of the towers, damaging its sensitive mechanisms and terrifying the luckless crew.

While this witch is not identified and remains anonymous, a fairly accurate guess could be hazarded as to her name... it is noteworthy that [[Reacher Gilt]] himself must have thought twice about pursuing any claim for damages or inconvenience! {{SOD2}} confirms that she has had several such accidents, and believes the towers move into her way. Her broomstick was originally borrowed from a witch called [[Hilta Goatfounder]], and despite the best and continued efforts of the dwarfs servicing her broomstick, it won't take off without a considerable run.

Her [[Lily Weatherwax|elder sister]] left home in her youth, eventually to become a [[fairy godmother]]. Granny seems to harbour a bitter resentment of this fact, because after that she felt compelled to be the "good one" in the family; she also believes that she could have been a lot more evil than her sister. Despite this, she did stay at home and nurse her mother until she died.

Granny's personality would, to many, lend itself nicely to the "bad witch" stereotype: she's competitive, selfish and ambitious, with a quick temper and a sharp tongue. She also wields a gaze stern enough to make bears cower in humiliated shame. Her practical history, however, clearly puts her in the "good witch" camp (a sort of personification of "tough love"), if only because she's too proud to be any other kind.

Granny Weatherwax has faced [[Death]] many times, and has not backed down yet. She has also faced and defeated [[Elves]], [[vampires]] (or [[vampyres]]), and [[wizard's magic|wizards]]. (See [[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]], [[Book:Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]] and [[Book:Equal Rites|Equal Rites]])

Her companions, as far as a witch can have these, are [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]] and [[Agnes Nitt]]. She was [[Eskarina Smith]]'s first teacher in the arts of magic, until she realised that Esk's magic was of a different sort altogether. She gave [[Tiffany Aching]] her hat. She was once romantically involved with [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. Recently, via [[Tiffany Aching]], she has been acquired by a white kitten called [[You]]. This is surprising, as Granny is, by her own admission, not a cat person; [[Greebo]], who knows bad news when it blesses the house, always hides when she visits [[Nanny Ogg]].

==Character annotations==
"''Weatherwax''" was also the name of the author of an old lawbook. [http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.books.pratchett/msg/1dad94515c79f71c?hl=nl& Source]

==Trivia==
* According to ''[[Equal Rites]]'', Granny Weatherwax, amongst other things, makes her own liqour for medicinal purposes (she has her own [[wikipedia:Still|Still]]); her "triple-distilled white mountain [[wikipedia:Peach brandy|Peach brandy]]" is well-known even in the town of Ohulan Cutash (a town fifteen miles away from Bad Ass), and it's regarded as "much better than [[wikipedia:Beer|beer]]". Granny's triple-distilled peach brandy isn't mentioned again until the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown''.
*[[wikipedia:Weatherwax|Weatherwax]] is a real (but rare) surname.

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Granny Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

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[[de:Esmeralda Wetterwachs]]

Lily Weatherwax

2018-05-25T14:00:37Z

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{{Character Data
|title= Lily Weatherwax
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Lily Weatherwax, also known as Lilith de Tempscire
|age= Don't ask, but older than Esmerelda.
|race= [[Human]], [[Witch]]
|occupation= [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]
|appearance= A strong resemblance to her sister Esme.
|residence= The Duc's Palace, [[Genua]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]]
|relatives= [[Esmeralda Weatherwax]] (sister) [[Violet Weatherwax]] (mother) Mr Weatherwax (father) [[Alison Weatherwax]] (grandmother) [[Galder Weatherwax]] (distant cousin)
|children=
|marital status= Self-made widow, several times over.
|books= {{WA}}
|cameos={{CJ}}
}}

Also known as '''Lilith de Tempscire'''. This is her name as the power behind the throne of Genua, and is made up of two French or indeed Genuan words (temps, meaning weather, and cire, meaning wax).

According to {{WA}}, Lily Weatherwax was born the older of two daughters; the older sister of [[Esmeralda Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Esme" (later "Granny") Weatherwax]]. As with all Weatherwaxes, she has powerful magic abilities, although, while the books do not indicate whether their mother was a witch or not, but Granny mentions that her father was a [[Wikipedia:Hunter|hunter]] (who taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" ({{LL}})). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows (and [[Wikipedia:Caning|canings]]) with her parents over Lily's behaviour. As Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic; "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age; Lily was vain and prideful ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"); and "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13-years-old.

Lily would go-out on her own into the world, causing trouble where-ever she went (à la ''[[Wikipedia:Sleeping Beauty|Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Little Red Riding Hood|Little Red Riding Hood]]'', etc.), "Feeding people to stories" (as Granny would later put it), all the while completely oblivious to the misery she left in her wake, under the delusion that she's made their lives 'better', giving them what only ''she'' thinks they should want. It's also mentioned that, over the years, she'd had at least 3 husbands (at least 2 of them she was sure were dead when she buried them).

According to family tradition (alluded to in {{WA}}); as the older sibling, Lily is supposed to be the "Good One", and Esme the "Bad One"; and because of this, Lily takes this to mean that ''every'' thing she does is there fore 'Right'; where-as, due to Lily's delusional character, Esme had to become the "Good One" in order to restore the balance between them, and all the while she has begrudged Lily for 'having all the fun' (''Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. “I’m goin’ to give you the hidin’ our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall--but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop’ly, after you went; '''I had to be the Good One'''. You had all the fun. An’ there’s no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I’m surely goin’ to give it a try...”''), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One".

She is one of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]s of [[Ella Saturday|Princess Ella]]. To increase her [[Witches magic|magical]] potential, she uses mirrors. Mirrors are also a big theme in the book ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', with the good and the bad godmother (Lily versus [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]), the old and new Genua, and the good versus the bad sister. Granny blames Lily for being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one.

In [[Genua]] she tries to use the power of stories to make Ella marry the [[Duc]], thus fulfilling Lily's wish as a Fairy Godmother that Ella would marry a prince. This plot is interrupted when the Lancre [[witches]] show up and interfere with the story (as witches do, of course). Lily and Esme are not on good terms, although Esme does try to "save" Lily because she is family.

At the end of the book, Lily is not dead, but is in a state between life and death inside the mirror. Unlike Granny, she doesn't know which Lily is the real one and presumably will search forever for herself. This proves the danger of using mirrors combined with magic.

[[de:Lily Wetterwachs]]

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Letitia Keepsake

2018-05-25T13:57:42Z

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{{Character Data
|title= The New Baroness
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Letitia Keepsake
|age= nearly 16
|race=Human
|occupation= aristocrat (and Witch)
|appearance= blonde, blue-eyed, slender, very pretty in a pale way
|residence= Baron's castle, The Chalk
|death=
|parents= Duke & [[Deirdre Parsley|Duchess]] of Keepsake
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= m. ([[Roland]])
|books={{ISWM}} {{TSC}}
|cameos=
}}

'''Letitia''', Baroness of The Chalk (née Keepsake) is the daughter and only child of the late Duke and [[Deirdre Parsley|dowager Duchess]] of [[Keepsake Hall|Keepsake]] (a duchy located [[Hubwards]] within the [[Octarine Grass Country]]/[[The Shires]] area, neighbouring The Chalk), and a most unlikely [[Witch]]. True, [[Magrat Garlick]] was, at least, young-ish and blonde-ish and no black and midnight hag, but she didn't resemble the storybook princess either. Letitia does, to the extent that [[Perspicacia Tick]] might not have suspected her had they met, and [[Tiffany Aching|Tiffany]] is amazed when the fact is thrust upon her. Born and raised in a stone manor house, however, it is not-so-surprising that Lady Letitia had the knack for witchcraft.

As the much-sheltered daughter of a Duke, she has had no training or even exposure to real witchcraft; what she thinks it involves is largely [[Boffo (Concept)|Boffo]], which is very useful resource to real Witches, but they can't get to believing it themselves. (Then comes cackling and then it's all over.) She does have the natural talent and magical magnetism to (inadvertently) create a dangerous hex that serves to attract the attention of the more dangerous [[Cunning Man]].

Letitia is described as resembling a fresh watercolor: pretty, pale, washed-out and damp. When she is overcome by emotion (frequently), the dampness may approach a flood of tears and mucus so it's probably well that her witchcraft is likely to remain a hobby. It will be useful as a grounding influence on Baron [[Roland]], in the manner of Queen Magrat and [[Verence II|Verence]] of Lancre.

In {{TSC}}, she's described as taking to going around the tenants houses, talking to the people (the witches 'rounds'), and then later helps against the Elves invasion.

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Deirdre Parsley

2018-05-25T13:53:21Z

Mare-Silverus:

Her Grace, Lady Keepsake, Dowager Duchess of Keepsake, near [[The Chalk]], is another ferocious and overbearing harridan in the list of Pratchett characters that includes [[Daphne's Grandmother]] and the plebeian but hardly humble [[Iodine Maccalariat|Miss Maccalariat]]. She is snobbish, demanding and arrogant and browbeats everyone around her below the rank of King, including her daughter [[Letitia Keepsake|Letitia]]. Letitia is about to marry the young [[Roland|Baron]] of the Chalk, whom she also tries to browbeat, with less success than usual. Her attempts to subject [[Tiffany Aching]] to her will have strong echoes of [[Lady Felmet]] trying to break the witches of [[Lancre]], with much the same result.

There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though; [[Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]], named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at [[Keepsake Hall]], have disappeared, she claims, to her rooms, so she can study them more conveniently.

On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired, or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood.

in {{SN}}, we learn she is known to Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], who, on 'behalf' of the [[Sam Vimes|Duke of Ankh]] (without his knowledge), has accepted a dinner-and-ball invitation to Keepsake Hall at which the Duke will be expected to dress appropriately to his station and office. No doubt, Sybil knows the secret of ''Deirdre Parsely'', but can be expected to be discreetly charitable and behave appropriately to a fellow Duchess. Like Tiffany, the Duke may also be reliably counted on to make telling comment about the way she treats the hired help. Maybe as Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|AMCW]], with the collective memory of the Watch to draw on, he also knows the secret of Deirdre's origins.

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Deirdre Parsley

2018-05-25T13:52:54Z

Mare-Silverus:

Her Grace, Lady Keepsake, Dowager Duchess of Keepsake, near [[The Chalk]], is another ferocious and overbearing harridan in the list of Pratchett characters that includes [[Daphne's Grandmother]] and the plebeian but hardly humble [[Iodine Maccalariat|Miss Maccalariat]]. She is snobbish, demanding and arrogant and browbeats everyone around her below the rank of King, including her daughter [[Letitia Keepsake|Letitia]]. Letitia is about to marry the young [[Roland|Baron]] of the Chalk, whom she also tries to browbeat, with less success than usual. Her attempts to subject [[Tiffany Aching]] to her will have strong echoes of [[Lady Felmet]] trying to break the witches of [[Lancre]], with much the same result.

There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though; [[Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]], named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at [[Keepsake Hall]], have disappeared, she claims, to her rooms, so she can study them more conveniently.

On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired, or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood.

in {{SN}} we learn she is known to Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], who, on 'behalf' of the [[Sam Vimes|Duke of Ankh]] (without his knowledge), has accepted a dinner-and-ball invitation to Keepsake Hall at which the Duke will be expected to dress appropriately to his station and office. No doubt, Sybil knows the secret of ''Deirdre Parsely'', but can be expected to be discreetly charitable and behave appropriately to a fellow Duchess. Like Tiffany, the Duke may also be reliably counted on to make telling comment about the way she treats the hired help. Maybe as Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|AMCW]], with the collective memory of the Watch to draw on, he also knows the secret of Deirdre's origins.

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Deirdre Parsley

2018-05-25T13:51:53Z

Mare-Silverus:

Her Grace, Lady Keepsake, Dowager Duchess of Keepsake, near [[The Chalk]], is another ferocious and overbearing harridan in the list of Pratchett characters that includes [[Daphne's Grandmother]] and the plebeian but hardly humble [[Iodine Maccalariat|Miss Maccalariat]]. She is snobbish, demanding and arrogant and browbeats everyone around her below the rank of King, including her daughter [[Letitia Keepsake|Letitia]]. Letitia is about to marry the young [[Roland|Baron]] of the Chalk, whom she also tries to browbeat, with less success than usual. Her attempts to subject [[Tiffany Aching]] to her will have strong echoes of [[Lady Felmet]] trying to break the witches of [[Lancre]], with much the same result.

There is a chink in her aristocratic armor, though; [[Mrs Proust]], the city witch, recalls her from the days when she was a music-hall dancer in [[Ankh-Morpork]], named '''Deirdre Parsley''', noted for high kicks and kicks in general. The Duchess's manner changes abruptly when Mrs Proust arrives as the prospect of being exposed as a not-at-all respectable showgirl improves her personality markedly. She has told everyone around the hubward plains that her family perished in a terrible fire long ago. This could have been the Great Fire started by [[Broadman]], but we don't really know what became of the Ankh-Morpork Parsleys. This also explains why all the books on heraldry, genealogy and Keepsake family history, that ''should'' by rights have been in the library at [[Keepsake Hall]], have disappeared, she claims to her rooms so she can study them more conveniently.

On the other hand, Letitia points out that the reason there are two hundred and fifty servants at Keepsake Hall is that most of them are old and retired, or looking after their elderly predecessors. However severe the Duchess's discipline may have been during their employment, no faithful servant has ever been cast off due to old age or disability. ''Noblesse oblige'' may be pronounced "nobless obligay" in Ankh-Morpork's entertainment district, but it's sometimes understood.

in {{SN}} we learn she is known to Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], who, on 'behalf' of the [[Sam Vimes|Duke of Ankh]] (without his knowledge), has accepted a dinner-and-ball invitation to Keepsake Hall at which the Duke will be expected to dress appropriately to his station and office. No doubt, Sybil knows the secret of ''Deirdre Parsely'', but can be expected to be discreetly charitable and behave appropriately to a fellow Duchess. Like Tiffany, the Duke may also be reliably counted on to make telling comment about the way she treats the hired help. Maybe as Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|AMCW]], with the collective memory of the Watch to draw on, he also knows the secret of Deirdre's origins.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Parsley,Deirdre]]
[[Category:Human characters|Parsley,Deirdre]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Parsley,Deirdre]]

Letitia Keepsake

2018-05-25T13:45:28Z

Mare-Silverus:

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|occupation= aristocrat (and Witch)
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'''Letitia''', Baroness of The Chalk (née Keepsake) is the daughter and only child of the late Duke and [[Deirdre Parsley|dowager Duchess]] of [[Keepsake Hall|Keepsake]] (a duchy located [[Hubwards]] within the [[Octarine Grass Country]]/[[The Shires]] area, neighbouring The Chalk), and a most unlikely [[Witch]]. True, [[Magrat Garlick]] was, at least, young-ish and blonde-ish and no black and midnight hag, but she didn't resemble the storybook princess either. Letitia does, to the extent that [[Perspicacia Tick]] might not have suspected her had they met, and [[Tiffany Aching|Tiffany]] is amazed when the fact is thrust upon her. Born and raised in a stone manor house, however, it is not-so-surprising that Lady Letitia had the knack for witchcraft.

As the sheltered daughter of a Duke, she has had no training or even exposure to real witchcraft; what she thinks it involves is largely [[Boffo (Concept)|Boffo]], which is very useful to real Witches but they can't get to believing it themselves. (Then comes cackling and then it's all over.) She does have the natural talent and magical magnetism to create a dangerous hex and attract the attention of the more dangerous [[Cunning Man]].

Letitia is described as resembling a fresh watercolor: pretty, pale, washed-out and damp. When she is overcome by emotion (frequently), the dampness may approach a flood of tears and mucus so it's probably well that her witchcraft is likely to remain a hobby. It will be useful as a grounding influence on Baron [[Roland]], in the manner of Queen Magrat and [[Verence II|Verence]] of Lancre.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Human characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Witches|Keepsake,Letitia]]

Letitia Keepsake

2018-05-25T13:43:51Z

Mare-Silverus:

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'''Letitia''', Baroness of The Chalk (née Keepsake) is the daughter and only child of the Duke and Duchess of [[Keepsake Hall|Keepsake]] (a duchy located [[Hubwards]] within the [[Octarine Grass Country]]/[[The Shires]] area, neighbouring The Chalk), and a most unlikely [[Witch]]. True, [[Magrat Garlick]] was, at least, young-ish and blonde-ish and no black and midnight hag, but she didn't resemble the storybook princess either. Letitia does, to the extent that [[Perspicacia Tick]] might not have suspected her had they met, and [[Tiffany Aching|Tiffany]] is amazed when the fact is thrust upon her. Born and raised in a stone manor house, however, it is not-so-surprising that Lady Letitia had the knack for witchcraft.

As the sheltered daughter of a Duke, she has had no training or even exposure to real witchcraft; what she thinks it involves is largely [[Boffo (Concept)|Boffo]], which is very useful to real Witches but they can't get to believing it themselves. (Then comes cackling and then it's all over.) She does have the natural talent and magical magnetism to create a dangerous hex and attract the attention of the more dangerous [[Cunning Man]].

Letitia is described as resembling a fresh watercolor: pretty, pale, washed-out and damp. When she is overcome by emotion (frequently), the dampness may approach a flood of tears and mucus so it's probably well that her witchcraft is likely to remain a hobby. It will be useful as a grounding influence on Baron [[Roland]], in the manner of Queen Magrat and [[Verence II|Verence]] of Lancre.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Human characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Witches|Keepsake,Letitia]]

Letitia Keepsake

2018-05-25T13:23:26Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
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|age= nearly 16
|race=Human
|occupation= aristocrat (and Witch)
|appearance= blonde, blue-eyed, slender, very pretty in a pale way
|residence= Baron's castle, The Chalk
|death=
|parents= Duke & [[Deirdre Parsley|Duchess]] of Keepsake
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= m. ([[Roland]])
|books={{ISWM}} {{TSC}}
|cameos=
}}

'''Letitia''', Baroness of The Chalk (née Keepsake) is the daughter and only child of the Duke and Duchess of [[Keepsake Hall|Keepsake]] ([[Octarine Grass Country]]/[[The Shires]]), and a most unlikely [[Witch]]. True, [[Magrat Garlick]] was, at least, young-ish and blonde-ish and no black and midnight hag, but she didn't resemble the storybook princess either. Letitia does, to the extent that [[Perspicacia Tick]] might not have suspected her had they met, and [[Tiffany Aching|Tiffany]] is amazed when the fact is thrust upon her. Born and raised in a stone manor house, however, it is not-so-surprising that Lady Letitia had the knack for witchcraft.

As the sheltered daughter of a Duke, she has had no training or even exposure to real witchcraft; what she thinks it involves is largely [[Boffo (Concept)|Boffo]], which is very useful to real Witches but they can't get to believing it themselves. (Then comes cackling and then it's all over.) She does have the natural talent and magical magnetism to create a dangerous hex and attract the attention of the more dangerous [[Cunning Man]].

Letitia is described as resembling a fresh watercolor: pretty, pale, washed-out and damp. When she is overcome by emotion (frequently), the dampness may approach a flood of tears and mucus so it's probably well that her witchcraft is likely to remain a hobby. It will be useful as a grounding influence on Baron [[Roland]], in the manner of Queen Magrat and [[Verence II|Verence]] of Lancre.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Human characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Keepsake,Letitia]]
[[Category:Witches|Keepsake,Letitia]]

Cunning Man

2018-05-25T13:17:12Z

Mare-Silverus:

The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo|witch-finder, who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young]] [[Witches|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia Keepsake|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

==Annotation==
The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp|Heinrich_Kramer|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp|Cunning_folk|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters]]

Cunning Man

2018-05-25T13:14:11Z

Mare-Silverus:

The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo|witch-finder, who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young]] [[Witches|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée, the [[Letitia|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

==Annotation==
The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp|Heinrich_Kramer|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp|Cunning_folk|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters]]

Cunning Man

2018-05-25T13:12:28Z

Mare-Silverus:

The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo|witch-finder, who had fallen in infatuated with (and 'fascinated by') a powerful, young]] [[Witches|witch]] (as revealed by [[Eskarina Smith]]), a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience, like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]], he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his own rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his 'smell' (simply for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer, [[Macintosh]], from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]]; like the young Witch he had fallen infatuated with a millennia ago, Tiffany is the leading witch of her generation, and the Cunning Man is motivated by, both, his desire to be united with the object of his infatuation (needing a powerful witch to fill the role), and by his own desire to possess a witch's power (by taking a witch as a host), something that Eskarina Smith describes that, should it ever happen, would be, to the Cunning Man's mind, something akin to a wedding.

Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing (which is probably why the witch that the Cunning Man had fallen infatuated with didn't use her magic to try to escape at the risk of hurting innocents), and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son, [[Roland]], and Roland’s new fiancée [[Letitia|Lady Letitia Keepsake]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]] (who would have had to kill her if the Cunning Man succeeded in possessing her).

Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before (also once was a young witch, but now still a powerful one), Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

==Annotation==
The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp|Heinrich_Kramer|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp|Cunning_folk|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.

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[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters]]

Matrix Sagarum

2018-05-25T13:02:44Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Witches */

''Formula Incantatricarum et Catalogus Praecantricarum''

'''Being a Directory of All the Witches of the Discworld'''

...of whatever manner or Tradition, be they Great or humble, as record is made of them in any Book. 
If Anyone knows another Sister of their Calling, let him append here her Name and Place, in their proper order.

''Salé Gadula! ...Miché Gabula! ...Bibi Te! ...Bobi Te! ...Bu!''

===Witches===
* [[Sarah Aching|Sarah "Granny" Aching]] (Tiffany Aching's grandmother, witch of [[The Chalk]])
* [[Nanny Annaple]] (distant neighbor of Granny Weatherwax with no teeth and great warts)
* [[Gwinifer Blackcap|Gwinifer "Old Mother" Blackcap]] (Witch mentioned in {{HFOS}})
* [[Gammer Brevis]] (Witch appearing in {{WA}})
* Mistress [[Breathless]] (the witch in [[Two Falls]], referenced in {{W}})
* Miss [[Sally Cambric]] (Better known as "Long Tall Short Fat Sally", lives in [[Ankh-Morpork]]; mentioned in {{ISWM}}})
* Mrs. [[Evadne Cake]] (A small medium in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Described in {{RM}} as being, to all practical intents and purposes, a witch)
* [[Aliss Demurrage|"Black Aliss" Demurrage]] (from [[Skund]]; the most powerful Witch of recent history)
* [[Old Mother Dismass]] (Witch appearing in {{WA}})
* Mrs. [[Letice Earwig]] (Witch appearing in {{HFOS}} and [[Short Story:The Sea and the Little Fishes|The Sea and Little Fishes]])
* Goodie Filter (a typically disapproving senior Witch in Granny Weatherwax's youth)
* Minnie Forthwright (an "old" witch in Nanny Ogg's youth)
* [[Magrat Garlick]] (former Witch of [[Mad Stoat]], now the Queen of [[Lancre]])
* [[Hilta Goatfounder]] (Witch in [[Ohulan Cutash]])
* Mrs. [[Erzulie Gogol]] (Voodoo woman appearing in {{WA}})
* Nanny Gripes (Esme Weatherwax's teacher; put the cat on the stove and the kettle out for the night at the end)
* Sister Grodley (Witch of [[Skund]]; tends to "put on airs")
* Ammeline "Goodie" Hamstring (collected by [[Mort]] when he was Death's apprentice)
* Mrs. [[Happenstance]] (A blind witch in [[Ankh-Morpork]], appears in {{ISWM}})
* [[Desiderata Hollow]] ([[Fairy godmother]], appearing in {{WA}})
* [[Granny Hopliss]] (Former Witch of [[Creel Springs]])
* [[Millie Hopgood]] (Witch in [[Slice]], mentioned for her unprofessional appearance)
* Miss [[Level]] (two-piece Witch appearing in {{HFOS}})
* [[Agnes Nitt]] (new witch in [[Mad Stoat]])
* [[Nanny Ogg|Gytha "Nanny" Ogg]] (famous Witch of [[Lancre Town]])
* [[Mabel Peavey‎|Gammer Peavey]] (Witch mentioned in WA)
* Granny Postalute (who [[Borrowing|"borrowed"]] a bluetit and never returned)
* [[Mrs Proust]] (Matriarch of the "Boffo" family and its one-woman research and development department, a city witch)
* Mistress [[Pullunder]] (referenced in {{W}})
* [[Gertie Simmons]] (Witch mentioned in {{WA}})
* Mrs. Singe (Witch mentioned in {{WA}})
* Deliria Skibbly (a senior Witch in Nanny Ogg's youth)
* [[Eskarina Smith]] (the Disc's first witch AND female [[Wizard]])
* Biddy Spective (Nanny Ogg's original mentor)
* [[Miss Tick|Miss Perspicacia Tick]] (itinerant Witch in the lowlands, [[:Category:Tiffany Series|Tiffany series]])
* [[Lucy Tockley]] (aka Diamanda, seventeen-year-old Lancre witch until run out of the business by Granny)
* Miss [[Eumenides Treason]] (111-year-old judicial Witch in {{W}})
* Gammer Tumult (another of Esmerelda Weatherwax's mentors)
* [[Alison Weatherwax]] (Granny Weatherwax's grandmother, vampire slayer)
* [[Granny Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax]] (the Great Witch of [[Bad Ass]])
* [[Lily Weatherwax]] (Granny Weatherwax's elder sister, a Fairy Godmother to be avoided)
* [[Goodie Whemper]] (Magrat's teacher, the scholarly Research Witch of [[Mad Stoat]])
* Granny Whitlow (former resident of the gingerbread cottage found in [[Skund]] by [[Rincewind]] and [[Twoflower]])

===Aspiring Witches, apprentices, uncommitted:===

* [[Tiffany Aching]] (of the [[:Category:Tiffany Series|Tiffany Series]]) 1
* [[Harrieta Bilk]] (one of the 7 + 1 coven who was mocked by Annagramma for not being unable to do anything about her squint)
* [[Lulu Darling]] (another of Petulia's friends mocked by Annagramma Hawkin for not being able to do anything about her name)
* [[Petulia Gristle]] (apprenticed to Old Mother Blackcap. A veterinary witch) 1
* [[Annagramma Hawkin]] (junior Witch appearing in {{HFOS}})
* [[Dimity Hubbub]] (apprentice in the [[:Category:Tiffany Series|Tiffany Series]]) 1
* [[Letitia Keepsake]] (self-taught Witch more employed as Baroness of [[The Chalk]])
* Becky Pardon (with Nancy Upright, a recent recruit by Miss Tick)
* [[Eskarina Smith]] (from Bad Ass - really a female [[Wizard's magic|wizard]], apprentice of Granny Weatherwax before going to Unseen University in [[Equal Rites]])
* Mrs [[Snapperly]] (a woman mistaken for a witch who died for the sins of having no teeth and cackling)
* [[Geoffrey Swivel]] ( a ''male'' trainee, inverting the [[Book:Equal Rites|first story]] of the Witches in the [[Book:The Shepherd's Crown|last]]: the word ''Warlock'' is not mentioned)
* [[Gertruder Tiring]] (got nervous around Annagramma. It's amazing how many people become nervous around Annagramma)
* Nancy Upright (a likely lass likely to be "trained up" by Tiffany Aching)
* [[Lucy Warbeck]] (apprentice in the [[:Category:Tiffany Series|Tiffany Series]], trainee Witch-finder) 1

1 As of {{ISWM}} the apprentice Witches of the Tiffany series are grown and mistresses of their own precincts, but most of their stories are of their childhood.

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Cunning Man

2018-05-25T12:46:17Z

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The '''Cunning Man''' was, a thousand years ago, an [[Omnia|Omnian]] [[Wikipedia:Claude Frollo|witch-finder, who had fallen in love with a]] [[Witches|witch]], a situation of opposites that he could not reconcile together. That witch, however, knew how evil the Cunning Man was. She was eventually burnt to death - not coincidentally by his co-religionists, but as she was being burned she reached through her bars and held him to her, trapping the Cunning Man in the fire as well. He survived, but his mind snapped. After his death, years later, The Cunning Man became a demonic spirit of pure hatred, able to corrupt other minds with suspicion and hate.

This spirit seems to do a perpetual tour of the Multiverse, appearing at random intervals of a few human generations to spread fear and loathing, hatred and mob violence against targets of convenience like [[Witches]]. On [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] he appears as a man (or humanoid shape) dressed in black clothing with a wide-brimmed black hat. There are no eyes in the featureless black face, only holes that lead all the way through to the back of the head, and the black-clad black body casts no shadow in direct sunlight. When he encounters the objects of his aggression, he attacks them with fulminating vituperation, otherwise, he operates in the subliminal domain, persuading the general population toward suspicion, hatred and violence against the objects of his rage: Witches. The Cunning Man functions as a demonic spirit of pure rage, specifically against witches. He hates them simply for existing, and infests others with his hatred. His presence in the vicinity can be detected by those with knowledge of magic by his smell (for lack of a better description). His hatred is so intense that it surrounds him like an aura and the minds of others, not knowing how to classify it, catalogue it as a foul stench of rot, powerful enough to turn the stomach.

Rather like the [[Hiver]], the spirit of the Cunning Man is capable of occupying a human body to carry out his agenda. It searches out the malicious as, in the words of [[Mrs Proust]], "poison will go where poison's welcome". In {{ISWM}}, he takes the body of the depraved killer [[Macintosh]] from the [[Tanty]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]] and drives it to [[the Chalk]] in search of [[Tiffany Aching]].

Poisoning people against witches is quite easy to accomplish as they, by their nature, focus on doing the right rather than the popular thing, and are thus always at risk of a backlash. The Cunning Man’s poison complicates Tiffany’s dealings with the dying Baron of the Chalk, his son [[Roland]] and Roland’s new [[Letitia|fiancée]], and many other people whose respect she has come to take for granted. Despite the fact that the vitriol stirred up against her leads to her imprisonment (in the dungeon of the castle, with the goats) she manages, with (or perhaps despite) the help of the [[Nac Mac Feegle]], to face the Cunning Man, without requiring the help of veteran witches [[Granny Weatherwax]] and [[Nanny Ogg]].

Tiffany, fortunately, knows why the hare runs into the fire; the Cunning Man's cunning does not go that far. As [[Granny Weatherwax]] did many years before, Tiffany destroys the latest manifestation of the Cunning Man; he will, sadly, be back.

==Annotation==

The Cunning Man is possibly based on the [[Roundworld]] historical figure {{wp|Heinrich_Kramer|Heinrich Kramer}}, a German Inquisitor, although there has been a long tradition of the phrase "{{wp|Cunning_folk|Cunning folk}}" in parts of England and Wales. Certain Christian theologians and Church authorities believed that the cunning folk, being practitioners of "low magic", were in league with the Devil and as such were akin to the more overtly Satanic and malevolent witches. Partly due to this, laws were enacted across England, Scotland and Wales that often condemned cunning folk and their magical practices, but there was no widespread persecution of them akin to the Witch Hunt, largely because most common people firmly distinguished between the two: witches were seen as being harmful and cunning folk as useful.

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters]]

Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre

2018-05-25T12:16:34Z

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{{Character Data
|title= Esmerelda
|photo= Blank.jpg|
|name= Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre
|age= Newborn at the time of {{CJ}}
|race= [[Humans|Human]]
|occupation= Heir to the throne of [[Lancre]], presumably
|appearance=
|residence= [[Lancre Castle]]
|death=
|parents= [[Verence II]] (father) [[Magrat Garlick]] (mother)
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}
|cameos=
}}

Firstborn Daughter of King [[Verence II|Verence]] of [[Lancre]] and Queen [[Magrat]], and heir to the throne. "Note Spelling" was included as [[Mightily Oats]], the priest officiating over the naming ceremony, was unfamiliar with local practices, because her mother Magrat didn't want a repeat of her own name, and due to the fact that [[Nanny Ogg]] was standing behind him, with bad intentions on her mind. The last point, in retrospect, would make it seem that adding "Note Spelling" was understandable due to the circumstances. Her first name, Esmerelda, is often shortened to "Esme" as she was named such in tribute to [[Esmerelda Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax]], whom Magrat asked to be her godmother. Her naming took place in [[Carpe Jugulum]], and she was involved with many scenes of the novel - because [[Granny Weatherwax]] could not hurt a child, no harm fell upon her from either her or the [[Count de Magpyr]].

In {{TSC}}, it mentioned that the King and Queen have since had a couple more children, making Princess Esmerelda a big sister.

[[de:Esmerelda Margaret Auf Die Richtige Schreibweise Achten von Lancre]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Lancre, Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of]]
[[Category:Human characters|Lancre, Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of]]

Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre

2018-05-25T12:15:34Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Esmerelda
|photo= Blank.jpg|
|name= Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre
|age= Newborn at the time of {{CJ}}
|race= [[Humans|Human]]
|occupation= Heir to the throne of [[Lancre]], presumably
|appearance=
|residence= [[Lancre Castle]]
|death=
|parents= [[Verence II]] (father) [[Magrat Garlick]] (mother)
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{CJ}}
|cameos=
}}

Firstborn Daughter of King [[Verence II|Verence]] of [[Lancre]] and Queen [[Magrat]], and heir to the throne. "Note Spelling" was included as [[Mightily Oats]], the priest officiating over the naming ceremony, was unfamiliar with local practices, because her mother Magrat didn't want a repeat of her own name, and due to the fact that [[Nanny Ogg]] was standing behind him, with bad intentions on her mind. The last point, in retrospect, would make it seem that adding "Note Spelling" was understandable due to the circumstances. Her first name, Esmerelda, is often shortened to "Esme" as she was named such in tribute to [[Esmerelda Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax]], whom Magrat asked to be her godmother. Her naming took place in [[Carpe Jugulum]], and she was involved with many scenes of the novel - because [[Granny Weatherwax]] could not hurt a child, no harm fell upon her from either her or the [[Count de Magpyr]].

In {{TC}}, it mentioned that the King and Queen have since had a couple more children, making Princess Esmerelda a big sister.

[[de:Esmerelda Margaret Auf Die Richtige Schreibweise Achten von Lancre]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Lancre, Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of]]
[[Category:Human characters|Lancre, Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of]]

Verence II

2018-05-25T12:14:20Z

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{{Character Data|
|title= King Verence II
|photo=
|name= Verence
|age=
|race= Human
|occupation= King of [[Lancre]]
|appearance= Bandy-legged, runny nose, watery eyes
|residence= [[Lancre]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives= [[Tomjon]], half-brother
|children= Princess [[Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre]]
|marital status= Married to [[Magrat Garlick]]
|books= {{WS}}, {{WA}}, {{LL}}, {{CJ}}, {{TSC}}
|cameos= mentioned {{TT}}, {{ISWM}}
}}

'''When''' first encountered, Verence was a [[Fools Guild|Fool]] at [[Lancre Castle]] working for [[Leonal Felmet|Lord]] and [[Lady Felmet]]. He is actually quite tall, but bandied his legs and pranced in a half crouch so that he appeared to be a small man. He has a runny nose, a strong dislike of custard and absolutely no sense of humour. This is because he was educated in the Fools' Guild, to which his abusive grandfather sent him as a child. Verence's father ran away from Lancre long ago; Nanny Ogg refers to his mother, one of the Beldame family from Blackglass, in the past tense, implying she is deceased.

He befriended [[Magrat Garlick]] one day, and this was the start of a rather unusual relationship, even for a Fool, in which both people were too embarrassed to discuss their situation. However, when Verence was elevated from a Fool to King of [[Lancre]] by [[Granny Weatherwax]] in response to Felmet's reign of oppression, their relationship continued to escalate into true love, although due to the large amount of embarrassment, nothing ever happened to advance this. However, a letter from Granny Weatherwax whilst abroad with Magrat and [[Nanny Ogg]] caused Verence to arrange a wedding. The wedding was scheduled for Midsummer's Eve, and on this particular occasion the [[Elves]] broke through, capturing him.

Soon freed by the trio of [[Witches magic|witches]], [[Mustrum Ridcully|Archchancellor Ridcully]], and most of Lancre's population, Verence married Magrat. By the time of {{CJ}} they had produced an heir, Princess [[Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre]] (later, in {{TSC}}, it mentioned that they've since had a couple more children, making Princess Esmerelda a big sister).

After inviting a group of [[vampyres]] to his castle he was bitten, but thanks to some nourishing [[Brose|brose]] from the [[Nac Mac Feegle]] [[Kelda]] [[Big Aggie]] he was soon up and about again.

[[William de Worde]] was his correspondent in Ankh Morpork.

[[category:Discworld characters|Verence II, King]]
[[category:Serial characters|Verence II, King]]
[[category:Human characters|Verence II, King]]
[[de:Verence II von Lancre]]

Verence II

2018-05-25T12:13:37Z

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{{Character Data|
|title= King Verence II
|photo=
|name= Verence
|age=
|race= Human
|occupation= King of [[Lancre]]
|appearance= Bandy-legged, runny nose, watery eyes
|residence= [[Lancre]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives= [[Tomjon]], half-brother
|children= Princess [[Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre]]
|marital status= Married to [[Magrat Garlick]]
|books= {{WS}}, {{WA}}, {{LL}}, {{CJ}}, {{SC}}
|cameos= mentioned {{TT}}, {{ISWM}}
}}

'''When''' first encountered, Verence was a [[Fools Guild|Fool]] at [[Lancre Castle]] working for [[Leonal Felmet|Lord]] and [[Lady Felmet]]. He is actually quite tall, but bandied his legs and pranced in a half crouch so that he appeared to be a small man. He has a runny nose, a strong dislike of custard and absolutely no sense of humour. This is because he was educated in the Fools' Guild, to which his abusive grandfather sent him as a child. Verence's father ran away from Lancre long ago; Nanny Ogg refers to his mother, one of the Beldame family from Blackglass, in the past tense, implying she is deceased.

He befriended [[Magrat Garlick]] one day, and this was the start of a rather unusual relationship, even for a Fool, in which both people were too embarrassed to discuss their situation. However, when Verence was elevated from a Fool to King of [[Lancre]] by [[Granny Weatherwax]] in response to Felmet's reign of oppression, their relationship continued to escalate into true love, although due to the large amount of embarrassment, nothing ever happened to advance this. However, a letter from Granny Weatherwax whilst abroad with Magrat and [[Nanny Ogg]] caused Verence to arrange a wedding. The wedding was scheduled for Midsummer's Eve, and on this particular occasion the [[Elves]] broke through, capturing him.

Soon freed by the trio of [[Witches magic|witches]], [[Mustrum Ridcully|Archchancellor Ridcully]], and most of Lancre's population, Verence married Magrat. By the time of {{CJ}} they had produced an heir, Princess [[Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre]] (later, in {{SC}}, it mentioned that they've since had a couple more children, making Princess Esmerelda a big sister).

After inviting a group of [[vampyres]] to his castle he was bitten, but thanks to some nourishing [[Brose|brose]] from the [[Nac Mac Feegle]] [[Kelda]] [[Big Aggie]] he was soon up and about again.

[[William de Worde]] was his correspondent in Ankh Morpork.

[[category:Discworld characters|Verence II, King]]
[[category:Serial characters|Verence II, King]]
[[category:Human characters|Verence II, King]]
[[de:Verence II von Lancre]]

Book:Wyrd Sisters

2018-05-25T12:08:04Z

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{{Book Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters
|cover=[[File:Cover Wyrd Sisters.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=November 1988
|publisher=Victor Gollancz
|isbn=0552134600
|pages=251
|rrp=
|series=Witches Series
|characters=[[Esme Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]]
|annotations=yes
|notes= Book #06
}}
==Blurb==
[[Witches magic|Witches]] are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.

[[Granny Weatherwax]] was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ...

==Characters==
===Main characters===
* [[Esme Weatherwax]]
* [[Nanny Ogg]]
* [[Magrat Garlick]]
* King [[Verence I|Verence]]
* [[Leonal Felmet]] and [[Lady Felmet]]
* The [[Verence II|Fool]]
* [[Tomjon|Tomjon Vitoller]]
* [[Olwyn Vitoller]]
* [[Hwel]]

===Minor characters===
* [[Death]]

===Cameos and Mentions===
* [[Goodie Whemper]], now dead witch who tutored Magrat
* Former Lancre Kings and Queens
** [[Champot]]
** Queen [[Grimnir]], the Impaler (1514*1553, 1553*1557, 1557*1562, 1562*1567 and 1568*1573) [note the [[57]] reference in her 2nd reign], a vampire queen
* [[Bentzen]], ruthlessly efficient killer
*[[Havelock Vetinari ]]

==Locations==
* [[Ramtops]]
**[[Lancre]]
***[[Lancre Castle]]
**** [[Long Gallery]], gallery of regal portraits
*** [[The Standing Stone]]
** [[Mad Wolf]] (mentioned)
** [[Razorback]] (mentioned)
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
* [[Klatch]] (mentioned)
* [[Thespia]] (mentioned)
* [[Howondaland]] (mentioned)
* [[Hergen]] (mentioned)
* [[Sto Plains]] (mentioned)

==Sentient Species==
*[[Dwarfs]]
*[[Humans]]

==Supernatural Entities==
* [[Death]]
* [[Ghosts]]
* [[The gods|The Gods]] (mentioned)
* [[Demons]]

==Things/etc Referenced==
* [[Cripple Mister Onion]]
* [[Zen]], sub-sect of the philosophical system of [[Sumtin]] ("something"?)
* [[Hedgehog_song|The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All]], a drinking song w/ anal undertones
* [[A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End]], a drinking song w/ phallic overtones

==[[Roundworld]] References==
* {{wp|Hamlet|Hamlet}} and {{wp|Macbeth|Macbeth}}, plays by {{wp|William_Shakespeare|William Shakespeare}} (both in the main storyline and the play Hwel writes for Felmet)
* {{wp|Snakes_and_ladders|Snakes and Ladders}}, a child's game (aka "Chutes and Ladders")
* {{wp|Gormenghast_%28castle%29|Gormenghast}}, a foreboding fictional castle (also mentioned in {{ER}})
* {{wp|Zen|Zen}}, a philosophical system
* The Marx Brothers (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Charlie Chaplin (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Laurel and Hardy (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

==Adaptations==
{{TV Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
|cover=[[File:WyrdSistersDVDCover.jpg|200px]]
|asin=B00004CV82
|imdb=0159931
|date=18 May 1997
|channel=Channel 4
|director=Jean Flynn
|producer=
|cast=Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield
|duration=147 minutes
|episodes=6
|series=Witches Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[Welcome to the Discworld]]
|next=[[TV and Film:Soul Music|Soul Music]]
}}
===[[TV and Film:Wyrd Sisters|Television]]===
Wyrd Sisters became a six-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 18 May 1997. It was the second film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the ''[[Welcome to the Discworld]]'' short, which was based on a fragment of the novel Reaper Man, and the Soul Music series). The VHS release spanned three tapes.

Cast:
* [[Granny Weatherwax]] - [[Wikipedia:Annette Crosbie|Annette Crosbie]] (''One Foot in the Grave, Edward the Seventh'')
* [[Nanny Ogg]] - [[Wikipedia:June Whitfield|June Whitfield]] (''Terry and June, Last of the Summer Wine'')
* [[Magrat Garlick]] - [[Wikipedia:Jane Horrocks|Jane Horrocks]] (''Little Voice, Chicken Run'')
* [[Death]] - [[Wikipedia:Christopher Lee|Christopher Lee]] (''The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings'' trilogy)
* [[Leonal Felmet|Duke Felmet]]/[[WxrtHltl-jwlpklz]] - Rob Rackstraw
* [[Lady Felmet]] - [[Wikipedia:Eleanor Bron|Eleanor Bron]] (''Help!'', the voice of ''BT'')
* [[Verence II|The Fool]]/[[Tomjon]] - [[Wikipedia:Les Dennis|Les Dennis]] (''Family Fortunes'')
* Additional Voices - [[Wikipedia:Jimmy Hibbert|Jimmy Hibbert]]

===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
In 1996 '''Wyrd Sisters''' was the first ever Discworld Novel to be adapted into a stage-play by [[Stephen Briggs]].

===[[Radio Adaptations|Radio]]===
A 4-part dramatisation was performed for BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Adapted by Vince Foxall, directed by Claire Grove.

Cast:
*Sheila Hancock: [[Esmerelda Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax]]
*Lynda Baron: [[Gytha Ogg|Nanny Ogg]]
*Deborah Berlin: [[Magrat Garlick]]
*Ian Masters: [[Leonal Felmet|Duke Felmet]]
*Kristin Milward: [[Lady Felmet]]
*John Hartley: [[Verence I|King Verence]]
*Andrew Branch: [[Verence II|Fool]]
*Gavin Muir: [[Olwyn Vitoller]], Demon
*Natasha Pine: Mrs Vitoller
*Brian Hibbard: [[Hwel]]
*Roger May: [[Tomjon]]
*Brian Hibbard: [[Shawn Ogg]]
*[[Death]]: [[Death]]

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS First.jpg|110px|thumb|First Edition Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Proof.jpg|thumb|110px|Book Proof]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Letterbox.jpg|thumb|120px|'Letterbox' Hardback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Kidd.jpg|thumb|110px|New American Library, Cover by Thomas Kidd]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CD.jpg|thumb|130px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Roc.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback ROC Publishing]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Zoom.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2012]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Unseen.jpg|thumb|110px|Unseen Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
|}

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/wyrd-sisters.html ''Wyrd Sisters'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=Sourcery|series=Discworld|after=Pyramids}}
{{series|series=Witches|before=Equal Rites|after=Witches Abroad}}

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[[Category:Discworld Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[Category:Witches Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[de:Buch:MacBest]]

Leonal Felmet

2018-05-25T11:59:58Z

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{{Character Data
|title= Duke Leonal Felmet
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Leonal Felmet
|age=
|race= [[Humans|Human]]
|occupation=
|appearance= insect-like, thin. Wears lots of rings. Right hand is barely a hand.
|residence= [[Lancre Castle]], [[Lancre]]
|death= dropped to death in [[Lancre Gorge]], [[1984 UC]]
|parents=
|relatives= cousin of [[Verence I]]
|children=
|marital status= [[Lady Felmet]]
|books= [[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]
|cameos=
}}

Duke Leonal ruled the kingdom of [[Lancre]] for a while after murdering King [[Verence I]]. He had a mind like a clock, and like that clock it regularly went "cuckoo". He married [[Lady Felmet]] for the power, but found that she kept it anyway. Murdering his cousin to become king drove him insane, leading to his death. Believing he was a ghost, he slipped on the battlements of [[Lancre Castle]] and dropped to his death in the river.

Duke Felmet's story resonates around the multiverse like so many others. We are familiar with a version known as ''the Scottish Play'', which is associated with bad luck in the theater whenever it is performed. Our popular version relegates the Witches to the chorus; in Lancre they are always featured players.

Like the [[Roundworld]] version, Felmet's wife is infinitely more ambitious and she inspires his murder of the rightful king. However, in a characteristically neat twist, it is Felmet who loses his marbles with regard to the blood that won't wash away. In Shakespeare's play, it is Lady Macbeth who repeatedly washes her hand to rid herself of the stain: ''Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red''. Duke Felmet washes his hand with increasing vigour and increasingly rough tools until it begins no longer to actually resemble a hand.

He bemuses [[Death]] by acting like a [[Ghosts|ghost]] when not yet dead. Asked why he's still here, Death calmly replies, {{Death|Waiting}}. At that point, in a deeply-satisfactory-to-the-reader fashion, Felmet falls from the battlements. His venom is still not entirely abated however: he vows to stay around and 'make basket chairs creak alarmingly at nights'.

[[Category:Undead characters|Felmet, Leonal]]
[[Category:Discworld characters|Felmet, Leonal]]
[[Category:Human characters|Felmet, Leonal]]
[[de:Leonal Felmet]]

Book:Wyrd Sisters

2018-05-25T11:54:19Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Television */

{{Book Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters
|cover=[[File:Cover Wyrd Sisters.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=November 1988
|publisher=Victor Gollancz
|isbn=0552134600
|pages=251
|rrp=
|series=Witches Series
|characters=[[Esme Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]]
|annotations=yes
|notes= Book #06
}}
==Blurb==
[[Witches magic|Witches]] are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.

[[Granny Weatherwax]] was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ...

==Characters==
===Main characters===
* [[Esme Weatherwax]]
* [[Nanny Ogg]]
* [[Magrat Garlick]]
* King [[Verence I|Verence]]
* [[Leonal Felmet]] and [[Lady Felmet]]
* The [[Verence II|Fool]]
* [[Tomjon|Tomjon Vitoller]]
* [[Olwyn Vitoller]]
* [[Hwel]]

===Minor characters===
* [[Death]]

===Cameos and Mentions===
* [[Goodie Whemper]], now dead witch who tutored Magrat
* Former Lancre Kings and Queens
** [[Champot]]
** Queen [[Grimnir]], the Impaler (1514*1553, 1553*1557, 1557*1562, 1562*1567 and 1568*1573) [note the [[57]] reference in her 2nd reign], a vampire queen
* [[Bentzen]], ruthlessly efficient killer
*[[Havelock Vetinari ]]

==Locations==
* [[Ramtops]]
**[[Lancre]]
***[[Lancre Castle]]
**** [[Long Gallery]], gallery of regal portraits
*** [[The Standing Stone]]
** [[Mad Wolf]] (mentioned)
** [[Razorback]] (mentioned)
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
* [[Klatch]] (mentioned)
* [[Thespia]] (mentioned)
* [[Howondaland]] (mentioned)
* [[Hergen]] (mentioned)
* [[Sto Plains]] (mentioned)

==Sentient Species==
*[[Dwarfs]]
*[[Humans]]

==Supernatural Entities==
*[[Death]]
*[[Ghosts]]
*[[The gods|The Gods]] (mentioned)

==Things/etc Referenced==
* [[Cripple Mister Onion]]
* [[Zen]], sub-sect of the philosophical system of [[Sumtin]] ("something"?)
* [[Hedgehog_song|The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All]], a drinking song w/ anal undertones
* [[A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End]], a drinking song w/ phallic overtones

==[[Roundworld]] References==
* {{wp|Hamlet|Hamlet}} and {{wp|Macbeth|Macbeth}}, plays by {{wp|William_Shakespeare|William Shakespeare}} (both in the main storyline and the play Hwel writes for Felmet)
* {{wp|Snakes_and_ladders|Snakes and Ladders}}, a child's game (aka "Chutes and Ladders")
* {{wp|Gormenghast_%28castle%29|Gormenghast}}, a foreboding fictional castle (also mentioned in {{ER}})
* {{wp|Zen|Zen}}, a philosophical system
* The Marx Brothers (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Charlie Chaplin (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Laurel and Hardy (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

==Adaptations==
{{TV Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
|cover=[[File:WyrdSistersDVDCover.jpg|200px]]
|asin=B00004CV82
|imdb=0159931
|date=18 May 1997
|channel=Channel 4
|director=Jean Flynn
|producer=
|cast=Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield
|duration=147 minutes
|episodes=6
|series=Witches Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[Welcome to the Discworld]]
|next=[[TV and Film:Soul Music|Soul Music]]
}}
===[[TV and Film:Wyrd Sisters|Television]]===
Wyrd Sisters became a six-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 18 May 1997. It was the second film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the ''[[Welcome to the Discworld]]'' short, which was based on a fragment of the novel Reaper Man, and the Soul Music series). The VHS release spanned three tapes.

Cast:
* [[Granny Weatherwax]] - [[Wikipedia:Annette Crosbie|Annette Crosbie]] (''One Foot in the Grave, Edward the Seventh'')
* [[Nanny Ogg]] - [[Wikipedia:June Whitfield|June Whitfield]] (''Terry and June, Last of the Summer Wine'')
* [[Magrat Garlick]] - [[Wikipedia:Jane Horrocks|Jane Horrocks]] (''Little Voice, Chicken Run'')
* [[Death]] - [[Wikipedia:Christopher Lee|Christopher Lee]] (''The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings'' trilogy)
* [[Leonal Felmet|Duke Felmet]]/[[WxrtHltl-jwlpklz]] - Rob Rackstraw
* [[Lady Felmet]] - [[Wikipedia:Eleanor Bron|Eleanor Bron]] (''Help!'', the voice of ''BT'')
* [[Verence II|The Fool]]/[[Tomjon]] - [[Wikipedia:Les Dennis|Les Dennis]] (''Family Fortunes'')
* Additional Voices - [[Wikipedia:Jimmy Hibbert|Jimmy Hibbert]]

===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
In 1996 '''Wyrd Sisters''' was the first ever Discworld Novel to be adapted into a stage-play by [[Stephen Briggs]].

===[[Radio Adaptations|Radio]]===
A 4-part dramatisation was performed for BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Adapted by Vince Foxall, directed by Claire Grove.

Cast:
*Sheila Hancock: [[Esmerelda Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax]]
*Lynda Baron: [[Gytha Ogg|Nanny Ogg]]
*Deborah Berlin: [[Magrat Garlick]]
*Ian Masters: [[Leonal Felmet|Duke Felmet]]
*Kristin Milward: [[Lady Felmet]]
*John Hartley: [[Verence I|King Verence]]
*Andrew Branch: [[Verence II|Fool]]
*Gavin Muir: [[Olwyn Vitoller]], Demon
*Natasha Pine: Mrs Vitoller
*Brian Hibbard: [[Hwel]]
*Roger May: [[Tomjon]]
*Brian Hibbard: [[Shawn Ogg]]
*[[Death]]: [[Death]]

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS First.jpg|110px|thumb|First Edition Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Proof.jpg|thumb|110px|Book Proof]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Letterbox.jpg|thumb|120px|'Letterbox' Hardback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Kidd.jpg|thumb|110px|New American Library, Cover by Thomas Kidd]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CD.jpg|thumb|130px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Roc.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback ROC Publishing]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Zoom.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2012]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Unseen.jpg|thumb|110px|Unseen Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
|}

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/wyrd-sisters.html ''Wyrd Sisters'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=Sourcery|series=Discworld|after=Pyramids}}
{{series|series=Witches|before=Equal Rites|after=Witches Abroad}}

:
[[Category:Discworld Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[Category:Witches Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[de:Buch:MacBest]]

Book:Wyrd Sisters

2018-05-25T11:53:18Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Television */

{{Book Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters
|cover=[[File:Cover Wyrd Sisters.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=November 1988
|publisher=Victor Gollancz
|isbn=0552134600
|pages=251
|rrp=
|series=Witches Series
|characters=[[Esme Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]]
|annotations=yes
|notes= Book #06
}}
==Blurb==
[[Witches magic|Witches]] are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.

[[Granny Weatherwax]] was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ...

==Characters==
===Main characters===
* [[Esme Weatherwax]]
* [[Nanny Ogg]]
* [[Magrat Garlick]]
* King [[Verence I|Verence]]
* [[Leonal Felmet]] and [[Lady Felmet]]
* The [[Verence II|Fool]]
* [[Tomjon|Tomjon Vitoller]]
* [[Olwyn Vitoller]]
* [[Hwel]]

===Minor characters===
* [[Death]]

===Cameos and Mentions===
* [[Goodie Whemper]], now dead witch who tutored Magrat
* Former Lancre Kings and Queens
** [[Champot]]
** Queen [[Grimnir]], the Impaler (1514*1553, 1553*1557, 1557*1562, 1562*1567 and 1568*1573) [note the [[57]] reference in her 2nd reign], a vampire queen
* [[Bentzen]], ruthlessly efficient killer
*[[Havelock Vetinari ]]

==Locations==
* [[Ramtops]]
**[[Lancre]]
***[[Lancre Castle]]
**** [[Long Gallery]], gallery of regal portraits
*** [[The Standing Stone]]
** [[Mad Wolf]] (mentioned)
** [[Razorback]] (mentioned)
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
* [[Klatch]] (mentioned)
* [[Thespia]] (mentioned)
* [[Howondaland]] (mentioned)
* [[Hergen]] (mentioned)
* [[Sto Plains]] (mentioned)

==Sentient Species==
*[[Dwarfs]]
*[[Humans]]

==Supernatural Entities==
*[[Death]]
*[[Ghosts]]
*[[The gods|The Gods]] (mentioned)

==Things/etc Referenced==
* [[Cripple Mister Onion]]
* [[Zen]], sub-sect of the philosophical system of [[Sumtin]] ("something"?)
* [[Hedgehog_song|The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All]], a drinking song w/ anal undertones
* [[A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End]], a drinking song w/ phallic overtones

==[[Roundworld]] References==
* {{wp|Hamlet|Hamlet}} and {{wp|Macbeth|Macbeth}}, plays by {{wp|William_Shakespeare|William Shakespeare}} (both in the main storyline and the play Hwel writes for Felmet)
* {{wp|Snakes_and_ladders|Snakes and Ladders}}, a child's game (aka "Chutes and Ladders")
* {{wp|Gormenghast_%28castle%29|Gormenghast}}, a foreboding fictional castle (also mentioned in {{ER}})
* {{wp|Zen|Zen}}, a philosophical system
* The Marx Brothers (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Charlie Chaplin (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Laurel and Hardy (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

==Adaptations==
{{TV Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
|cover=[[File:WyrdSistersDVDCover.jpg|200px]]
|asin=B00004CV82
|imdb=0159931
|date=18 May 1997
|channel=Channel 4
|director=Jean Flynn
|producer=
|cast=Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield
|duration=147 minutes
|episodes=6
|series=Witches Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[Welcome to the Discworld]]
|next=[[TV and Film:Soul Music|Soul Music]]
}}
===[[TV and Film:Wyrd Sisters|Television]]===
Wyrd Sisters became a six-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 18 May 1997. It was the second film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the ''[[Welcome to the Discworld]]'' short, which was based on a fragment of the novel Reaper Man, and the Soul Music series). The VHS release spanned three tapes.

Cast:
* [[Granny Weatherwax]] - [[Wikipedia:Annette Crosbie|Annette Crosbie]] (''One Foot in the Grave, Edward the Seventh'')
* [[Nanny Ogg]] - [[Wikipedia:June Whitfield|June Whitfield]] (''Terry and June, Last of the Summer Wine'')
* [[Magrat Garlick]] - [[Wikipedia:Jane Horrocks|Jane Horrocks]] (''Little Voice, Chicken Run'')
* [[Death]] - [[Wikipedia:Christopher Lee|Christopher Lee]] (''The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings'' trilogy)
* [[Duke Felmet]]/[[WxrtHltl-jwlpklz]] - Rob Rackstraw
* [[Lady Felmet]] - [[Wikipedia:Eleanor Bron|Eleanor Bron]] (''Help!'', the voice of ''BT'')
* [[Verence II|The Fool]]/[[Tomjon]] - [[Wikipedia:Les Dennis|Les Dennis]] (''Family Fortunes'')
* Additional Voices - [[Wikipedia:Jimmy Hibbert|Jimmy Hibbert]]

===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
In 1996 '''Wyrd Sisters''' was the first ever Discworld Novel to be adapted into a stage-play by [[Stephen Briggs]].

===[[Radio Adaptations|Radio]]===
A 4-part dramatisation was performed for BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Adapted by Vince Foxall, directed by Claire Grove.

Cast:
*Sheila Hancock: [[Esmerelda Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax]]
*Lynda Baron: [[Gytha Ogg|Nanny Ogg]]
*Deborah Berlin: [[Magrat Garlick]]
*Ian Masters: [[Leonal Felmet|Duke Felmet]]
*Kristin Milward: [[Lady Felmet]]
*John Hartley: [[Verence I|King Verence]]
*Andrew Branch: [[Verence II|Fool]]
*Gavin Muir: [[Olwyn Vitoller]], Demon
*Natasha Pine: Mrs Vitoller
*Brian Hibbard: [[Hwel]]
*Roger May: [[Tomjon]]
*Brian Hibbard: [[Shawn Ogg]]
*[[Death]]: [[Death]]

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS First.jpg|110px|thumb|First Edition Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Proof.jpg|thumb|110px|Book Proof]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Letterbox.jpg|thumb|120px|'Letterbox' Hardback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Kidd.jpg|thumb|110px|New American Library, Cover by Thomas Kidd]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CD.jpg|thumb|130px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Roc.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback ROC Publishing]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Zoom.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2012]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Unseen.jpg|thumb|110px|Unseen Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
|}

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/wyrd-sisters.html ''Wyrd Sisters'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=Sourcery|series=Discworld|after=Pyramids}}
{{series|series=Witches|before=Equal Rites|after=Witches Abroad}}

:
[[Category:Discworld Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[Category:Witches Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[de:Buch:MacBest]]

Book:Wyrd Sisters

2018-05-25T11:52:24Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Television */

{{Book Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters
|cover=[[File:Cover Wyrd Sisters.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=November 1988
|publisher=Victor Gollancz
|isbn=0552134600
|pages=251
|rrp=
|series=Witches Series
|characters=[[Esme Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]]
|annotations=yes
|notes= Book #06
}}
==Blurb==
[[Witches magic|Witches]] are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.

[[Granny Weatherwax]] was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ...

==Characters==
===Main characters===
* [[Esme Weatherwax]]
* [[Nanny Ogg]]
* [[Magrat Garlick]]
* King [[Verence I|Verence]]
* [[Leonal Felmet]] and [[Lady Felmet]]
* The [[Verence II|Fool]]
* [[Tomjon|Tomjon Vitoller]]
* [[Olwyn Vitoller]]
* [[Hwel]]

===Minor characters===
* [[Death]]

===Cameos and Mentions===
* [[Goodie Whemper]], now dead witch who tutored Magrat
* Former Lancre Kings and Queens
** [[Champot]]
** Queen [[Grimnir]], the Impaler (1514*1553, 1553*1557, 1557*1562, 1562*1567 and 1568*1573) [note the [[57]] reference in her 2nd reign], a vampire queen
* [[Bentzen]], ruthlessly efficient killer
*[[Havelock Vetinari ]]

==Locations==
* [[Ramtops]]
**[[Lancre]]
***[[Lancre Castle]]
**** [[Long Gallery]], gallery of regal portraits
*** [[The Standing Stone]]
** [[Mad Wolf]] (mentioned)
** [[Razorback]] (mentioned)
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
* [[Klatch]] (mentioned)
* [[Thespia]] (mentioned)
* [[Howondaland]] (mentioned)
* [[Hergen]] (mentioned)
* [[Sto Plains]] (mentioned)

==Sentient Species==
*[[Dwarfs]]
*[[Humans]]

==Supernatural Entities==
*[[Death]]
*[[Ghosts]]
*[[The gods|The Gods]] (mentioned)

==Things/etc Referenced==
* [[Cripple Mister Onion]]
* [[Zen]], sub-sect of the philosophical system of [[Sumtin]] ("something"?)
* [[Hedgehog_song|The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All]], a drinking song w/ anal undertones
* [[A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End]], a drinking song w/ phallic overtones

==[[Roundworld]] References==
* {{wp|Hamlet|Hamlet}} and {{wp|Macbeth|Macbeth}}, plays by {{wp|William_Shakespeare|William Shakespeare}} (both in the main storyline and the play Hwel writes for Felmet)
* {{wp|Snakes_and_ladders|Snakes and Ladders}}, a child's game (aka "Chutes and Ladders")
* {{wp|Gormenghast_%28castle%29|Gormenghast}}, a foreboding fictional castle (also mentioned in {{ER}})
* {{wp|Zen|Zen}}, a philosophical system
* The Marx Brothers (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Charlie Chaplin (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Laurel and Hardy (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

==Adaptations==
{{TV Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
|cover=[[File:WyrdSistersDVDCover.jpg|200px]]
|asin=B00004CV82
|imdb=0159931
|date=18 May 1997
|channel=Channel 4
|director=Jean Flynn
|producer=
|cast=Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield
|duration=147 minutes
|episodes=6
|series=Witches Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[Welcome to the Discworld]]
|next=[[TV and Film:Soul Music|Soul Music]]
}}
===[[TV and Film:Wyrd Sisters|Television]]===
Wyrd Sisters became a six-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 18 May 1997. It was the second film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the ''[[Welcome to the Discworld]]'' short, which was based on a fragment of the novel Reaper Man, and the Soul Music series). The VHS release spanned three tapes.

Cast:
* [[Granny Weatherwax]] - [[Wikipedia:Annette Crosbie|Annette Crosbie]] (''One Foot in the Grave, Edward the Seventh'')
* [[Nanny Ogg]] - [[Wikipedia:June Whitfield|June Whitfield]] (''Terry and June, Last of the Summer Wine'')
* [[Magrat Garlick]] - [[Wikipedia:Jane Horrocks|Jane Horrocks]] (''Little Voice, Chicken Run'')
* [[Death]] - [[Wikipedia:Christopher Lee|Christopher Lee]] (''The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings'' trilogy)
* [[Rob Rackstraw]] - Duke Felmet/WxrtHltl-jwlpklz
* [[Lady Felmet]] - [[Wikipedia:Eleanor Bron|Eleanor Bron]] (''Help!'', the voice of ''BT'')
* [[Verence II|The Fool]]/[[Tomjon]] - [[Wikipedia:Les Dennis|Les Dennis]] (''Family Fortunes'')
* Additional Voices - [[Wikipedia:Jimmy Hibbert|Jimmy Hibbert]]

===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
In 1996 '''Wyrd Sisters''' was the first ever Discworld Novel to be adapted into a stage-play by [[Stephen Briggs]].

===[[Radio Adaptations|Radio]]===
A 4-part dramatisation was performed for BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Adapted by Vince Foxall, directed by Claire Grove.

Cast:
*Sheila Hancock: [[Esmerelda Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax]]
*Lynda Baron: [[Gytha Ogg|Nanny Ogg]]
*Deborah Berlin: [[Magrat Garlick]]
*Ian Masters: [[Leonal Felmet|Duke Felmet]]
*Kristin Milward: [[Lady Felmet]]
*John Hartley: [[Verence I|King Verence]]
*Andrew Branch: [[Verence II|Fool]]
*Gavin Muir: [[Olwyn Vitoller]], Demon
*Natasha Pine: Mrs Vitoller
*Brian Hibbard: [[Hwel]]
*Roger May: [[Tomjon]]
*Brian Hibbard: [[Shawn Ogg]]
*[[Death]]: [[Death]]

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS First.jpg|110px|thumb|First Edition Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Proof.jpg|thumb|110px|Book Proof]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Letterbox.jpg|thumb|120px|'Letterbox' Hardback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Kidd.jpg|thumb|110px|New American Library, Cover by Thomas Kidd]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CD.jpg|thumb|130px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Roc.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback ROC Publishing]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Zoom.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2012]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Unseen.jpg|thumb|110px|Unseen Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
|}

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/wyrd-sisters.html ''Wyrd Sisters'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=Sourcery|series=Discworld|after=Pyramids}}
{{series|series=Witches|before=Equal Rites|after=Witches Abroad}}

:
[[Category:Discworld Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[Category:Witches Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[de:Buch:MacBest]]

Book:Wyrd Sisters

2018-05-25T11:40:26Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Main characters */

{{Book Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters
|cover=[[File:Cover Wyrd Sisters.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date=November 1988
|publisher=Victor Gollancz
|isbn=0552134600
|pages=251
|rrp=
|series=Witches Series
|characters=[[Esme Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]]
|annotations=yes
|notes= Book #06
}}
==Blurb==
[[Witches magic|Witches]] are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.

[[Granny Weatherwax]] was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ...

==Characters==
===Main characters===
* [[Esme Weatherwax]]
* [[Nanny Ogg]]
* [[Magrat Garlick]]
* King [[Verence I|Verence]]
* [[Leonal Felmet]] and [[Lady Felmet]]
* The [[Verence II|Fool]]
* [[Tomjon|Tomjon Vitoller]]
* [[Olwyn Vitoller]]
* [[Hwel]]

===Minor characters===
* [[Death]]

===Cameos and Mentions===
* [[Goodie Whemper]], now dead witch who tutored Magrat
* Former Lancre Kings and Queens
** [[Champot]]
** Queen [[Grimnir]], the Impaler (1514*1553, 1553*1557, 1557*1562, 1562*1567 and 1568*1573) [note the [[57]] reference in her 2nd reign], a vampire queen
* [[Bentzen]], ruthlessly efficient killer
*[[Havelock Vetinari ]]

==Locations==
* [[Ramtops]]
**[[Lancre]]
***[[Lancre Castle]]
**** [[Long Gallery]], gallery of regal portraits
*** [[The Standing Stone]]
** [[Mad Wolf]] (mentioned)
** [[Razorback]] (mentioned)
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
* [[Klatch]] (mentioned)
* [[Thespia]] (mentioned)
* [[Howondaland]] (mentioned)
* [[Hergen]] (mentioned)
* [[Sto Plains]] (mentioned)

==Sentient Species==
*[[Dwarfs]]
*[[Humans]]

==Supernatural Entities==
*[[Death]]
*[[Ghosts]]
*[[The gods|The Gods]] (mentioned)

==Things/etc Referenced==
* [[Cripple Mister Onion]]
* [[Zen]], sub-sect of the philosophical system of [[Sumtin]] ("something"?)
* [[Hedgehog_song|The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All]], a drinking song w/ anal undertones
* [[A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End]], a drinking song w/ phallic overtones

==[[Roundworld]] References==
* {{wp|Hamlet|Hamlet}} and {{wp|Macbeth|Macbeth}}, plays by {{wp|William_Shakespeare|William Shakespeare}} (both in the main storyline and the play Hwel writes for Felmet)
* {{wp|Snakes_and_ladders|Snakes and Ladders}}, a child's game (aka "Chutes and Ladders")
* {{wp|Gormenghast_%28castle%29|Gormenghast}}, a foreboding fictional castle (also mentioned in {{ER}})
* {{wp|Zen|Zen}}, a philosophical system
* The Marx Brothers (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Charlie Chaplin (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)
* Laurel and Hardy (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

==Adaptations==
{{TV Data
|title=Wyrd Sisters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
|cover=[[File:WyrdSistersDVDCover.jpg|200px]]
|asin=B00004CV82
|imdb=0159931
|date=18 May 1997
|channel=Channel 4
|director=Jean Flynn
|producer=
|cast=Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield
|duration=147 minutes
|episodes=6
|series=Witches Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[Welcome to the Discworld]]
|next=[[TV and Film:Soul Music|Soul Music]]
}}
===[[TV and Film:Wyrd Sisters|Television]]===
Wyrd Sisters became a six-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall, and first broadcast on 18 May 1997. It was the second film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the ''[[Welcome to the Discworld]]'' short, which was based on a fragment of the novel Reaper Man, and the Soul Music series). The VHS release spanned three tapes.

Cast:
* [[Granny Weatherwax]] - [[Wikipedia:Annette Crosbie|Annette Crosbie]] (''One Foot in the Grave, Edward the Seventh'')
* [[Nanny Ogg]] - [[Wikipedia:June Whitfield|June Whitfield]] (''Terry and June, Last of the Summer Wine'')
* [[Magrat Garlick]] - [[Wikipedia:Jane Horrocks|Jane Horrocks]] (''Little Voice, Chicken Run'')
* [[Death]] - [[Wikipedia:Christopher Lee|Christopher Lee]] (''The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings'' trilogy)
* [[Lady Felmet]] - [[Wikipedia:Eleanor Bron|Eleanor Bron]] (''Help!'', the voice of ''BT'')
* [[Verence II|The Fool]]/[[Tomjon]] - [[Wikipedia:Les Dennis|Les Dennis]] (''Family Fortunes'')
* Additional Voices - [[Wikipedia:Jimmy Hibbert|Jimmy Hibbert]]

===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===
In 1996 '''Wyrd Sisters''' was the first ever Discworld Novel to be adapted into a stage-play by [[Stephen Briggs]].

===[[Radio Adaptations|Radio]]===
A 4-part dramatisation was performed for BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Adapted by Vince Foxall, directed by Claire Grove.

Cast:
*Sheila Hancock: [[Esmerelda Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax]]
*Lynda Baron: [[Gytha Ogg|Nanny Ogg]]
*Deborah Berlin: [[Magrat Garlick]]
*Ian Masters: [[Leonal Felmet|Duke Felmet]]
*Kristin Milward: [[Lady Felmet]]
*John Hartley: [[Verence I|King Verence]]
*Andrew Branch: [[Verence II|Fool]]
*Gavin Muir: [[Olwyn Vitoller]], Demon
*Natasha Pine: Mrs Vitoller
*Brian Hibbard: [[Hwel]]
*Roger May: [[Tomjon]]
*Brian Hibbard: [[Shawn Ogg]]
*[[Death]]: [[Death]]

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS First.jpg|110px|thumb|First Edition Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Proof.jpg|thumb|110px|Book Proof]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Letterbox.jpg|thumb|120px|'Letterbox' Hardback]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Kidd.jpg|thumb|110px|New American Library, Cover by Thomas Kidd]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CD.jpg|thumb|130px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Roc.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback ROC Publishing]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Zoom.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2012]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS Unseen.jpg|thumb|110px|Unseen Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:WS CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
|}

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/wyrd-sisters.html ''Wyrd Sisters'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=Sourcery|series=Discworld|after=Pyramids}}
{{series|series=Witches|before=Equal Rites|after=Witches Abroad}}

:
[[Category:Discworld Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[Category:Witches Series|Wyrd Sisters]]
[[de:Buch:MacBest]]

Lily Weatherwax

2018-05-25T11:29:38Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Lily Weatherwax
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Lily Weatherwax, also known as Lilith de Tempscire
|age= Don't ask, but older than Esmerelda.
|race= [[Human]], [[Witch]]
|occupation= [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]
|appearance= A strong resemblance to her sister Esme.
|residence= The Duc's Palace, [[Genua]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]]
|relatives= [[Esmeralda Weatherwax]], sister; [[Galder Weatherwax]]
|children=
|marital status= Self-made widow, several times over.
|books= {{WA}}
|cameos={{CJ}}
}}

Also known as '''Lilith de Tempscire'''. This is her name as the power behind the throne of Genua, and is made up of two French or indeed Genuan words (temps, meaning weather, and cire, meaning wax).

According to {{WA}}, Lily Weatherwax was born the older of two daughters; the older sister of [[Esmeralda Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Esme" (later "Granny") Weatherwax]]. As with all Weatherwaxes, she has powerful magic abilities, although, while the books do not indicate whether their mother was a witch or not, but Granny mentions that her father was a [[Wikipedia:Hunter|hunter]] (who taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" ({{LL}})). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows (and [[Wikipedia:Caning|canings]]) with her parents over Lily's behaviour. As Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic; "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age; Lily was vain and prideful ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"); and "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13-years-old.

Lily would go-out on her own into the world, causing trouble where-ever she went (à la ''[[Wikipedia:Sleeping Beauty|Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Little Red Riding Hood|Little Red Riding Hood]]'', etc.), "Feeding people to stories" (as Granny would later put it), all the while completely oblivious to the misery she left in her wake, under the delusion that she's made their lives 'better', giving them what only ''she'' thinks they should want. It's also mentioned that, over the years, she'd had at least 3 husbands (at least 2 of them she was sure were dead when she buried them).

According to family tradition (alluded to in {{WA}}); as the older sibling, Lily is supposed to be the "Good One", and Esme the "Bad One"; and because of this, Lily takes this to mean that ''every'' thing she does is there fore 'Right'; where-as, due to Lily's delusional character, Esme had to become the "Good One" in order to restore the balance between them, and all the while she has begrudged Lily for 'having all the fun' (''Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. “I’m goin’ to give you the hidin’ our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall--but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop’ly, after you went; '''I had to be the Good One'''. You had all the fun. An’ there’s no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I’m surely goin’ to give it a try...”''), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One".

She is one of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]s of [[Ella Saturday|Princess Ella]]. To increase her [[Witches magic|magical]] potential, she uses mirrors. Mirrors are also a big theme in the book ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', with the good and the bad godmother (Lily versus [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]), the old and new Genua, and the good versus the bad sister. Granny blames Lily for being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one.

In [[Genua]] she tries to use the power of stories to make Ella marry the [[Duc]], thus fulfilling Lily's wish as a Fairy Godmother that Ella would marry a prince. This plot is interrupted when the Lancre [[witches]] show up and interfere with the story (as witches do, of course). Lily and Esme are not on good terms, although Esme does try to "save" Lily because she is family.

At the end of the book, Lily is not dead, but is in a state between life and death inside the mirror. Unlike Granny, she doesn't know which Lily is the real one and presumably will search forever for herself. This proves the danger of using mirrors combined with magic.

[[de:Lily Wetterwachs]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Human characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Witches|Weatherwax, Lily]]

Lily Weatherwax

2018-05-25T11:27:11Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Lily Weatherwax
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Lily Weatherwax, also known as Lilith de Tempscire
|age= Don't ask, but older than Esmerelda.
|race= [[Human]], [[Witch]]
|occupation= [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]
|appearance= A strong resemblance to her sister Esme.
|residence= The Duc's Palace, [[Genua]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]]
|relatives= [[Esmeralda Weatherwax]], sister; [[Galder Weatherwax]]
|children=
|marital status= Self-made widow, several times over.
|books= {{WA}}
|cameos={{CJ}}
}}

Also known as '''Lilith de Tempscire'''. This is her name as the power behind the throne of Genua, and is made up of two French or indeed Genuan words (temps, meaning weather, and cire, meaning wax).

According to {{WA}}, Lily Weatherwax was born the older of two daughters; the older sister of [[Esmeralda Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Esme" (later "Granny") Weatherwax]]. As with all Weatherwaxes, she has powerful magic abilities, although, while the books do not indicate whether their mother was a witch or not, but Granny mentions that her father was a [[Wikipedia:Hunter|hunter]] (who taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" ({{LL}})). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows (and [[Wikipedia:Caning|canings]]) with her parents over Lily's behaviour. As Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic; "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age; Lily was vain and prideful ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"); and "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13-years-old.

Lily would go-out on her own into the world, causing trouble where-ever she went (à la ''[[Wikipedia:Sleeping Beauty|Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Little Red Riding Hood|Little Red Riding Hood]]'', etc.), "Feeding people to stories" (as Granny would later put it), all the while completely oblivious to the misery she left in her wake, under the delusion that she's made their lives 'better', giving them what only ''she'' thinks they should want. It's also mentioned that, over the years, she'd had at least 3 husbands (at least 2 of them she was sure were dead when she buried them).

According to family tradition (alluded to in {{WA}}), as the older sibling, Lily is supposed to be the "Good One", and Esme the "Bad One"; and because of this, Lily takes this to mean that ''every'' thing she does is there fore 'Right'; where-as, due to Lily's delusional character, Esme had to become the "Good One" in order to restore the balance between them, and all the while she has begrudge Lily for 'having all the fun' (''Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. “I’m goin’ to give you the hidin’ our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall--but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop’ly, after you went; '''I had to be the Good One'''. You had all the fun. An’ there’s no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I’m surely goin’ to give it a try...”''), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One".

She is one of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]s of [[Ella Saturday|Princess Ella]]. To increase her [[Witches magic|magical]] potential, she uses mirrors. Mirrors are also a big theme in the book ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', with the good and the bad godmother (Lily versus [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]), the old and new Genua, and the good versus the bad sister. Granny blames Lily for being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one.

In [[Genua]] she tries to use the power of stories to make Ella marry the [[Duc]], thus fulfilling Lily's wish as a Fairy Godmother that Ella would marry a prince. This plot is interrupted when the Lancre [[witches]] show up and interfere with the story (as witches do, of course). Lily and Esme are not on good terms, although Esme does try to "save" Lily because she is family.

At the end of the book, Lily is not dead, but is in a state between life and death inside the mirror. Unlike Granny, she doesn't know which Lily is the real one and presumably will search forever for herself. This proves the danger of using mirrors combined with magic.

[[de:Lily Wetterwachs]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Human characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Witches|Weatherwax, Lily]]

Lily Weatherwax

2018-05-25T11:26:33Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Lily Weatherwax
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Lily Weatherwax, also known as Lilith de Tempscire
|age= Don't ask, but older than Esmerelda.
|race= [[Human]], [[Witch]]
|occupation= [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]
|appearance= A strong resemblance to her sister Esme.
|residence= The Duc's Palace, [[Genua]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]]
|relatives= [[Esmeralda Weatherwax]], sister; [[Galder Weatherwax]]
|children=
|marital status= Self-made widow, several times over.
|books= {{WA}}
|cameos={{CJ}}
}}

Also known as '''Lilith de Tempscire'''. This is her name as the power behind the throne of Genua, and is made up of two French or indeed Genuan words (temps, meaning weather, and cire, meaning wax).

According to {{WA}}, Lily Weatherwax was born the older of two daughters; the older sister of [[Esmeralda Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Esme" (later "Granny") Weatherwax]]. As with all Weatherwaxes, she has powerful magic abilities, although, while the books do not indicate whether their mother was a witch or not, but Granny mentions that her father was a [[Wikipedia:Hunter|hunter]] (who taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" ({{LL}})). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows (and [[Wikipedia:Caning|canings]]) with her parents over Lily's behaviour. As Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic; "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age; Lily was vain and prideful ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"); and "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13-years-old.

Lily would go-out on her own into the world, causing trouble where-ever she went (à la ''[[Wikipedia:Sleeping Beauty|Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Little Red Riding Hood|Little Red Riding Hood]]'', etc.), "Feeding people to stories" (as Granny would later put it), all the while completely oblivious to the misery she left in her wake, under the delusion that she's made their lives 'better', giving them what only ''she'' thinks they should want. It's also mentioned that, over the years, she'd had at least 3 husbands (at least 2 of them she was sure were dead when she buried them). According to family tradition (alluded to in {{WA}}), as the older sibling, Lily is supposed to be the "Good One", and Esme the "Bad One"; and because of this, Lily takes this to mean that ''every'' thing she does is there fore 'Right'; where-as, due to Lily's delusional character, Esme had to become the "Good One" in order to restore the balance between them, and all the while she has begrudge Lily for 'having all the fun' (''Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. “I’m goin’ to give you the hidin’ our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall--but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop’ly, after you went; '''I had to be the Good One'''. You had all the fun. An’ there’s no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I’m surely goin’ to give it a try...”''), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One".

She is one of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]s of [[Ella Saturday|Princess Ella]]. To increase her [[Witches magic|magical]] potential, she uses mirrors. Mirrors are also a big theme in the book ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', with the good and the bad godmother (Lily versus [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]), the old and new Genua, and the good versus the bad sister. Granny blames Lily for being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one.

In [[Genua]] she tries to use the power of stories to make Ella marry the [[Duc]], thus fulfilling Lily's wish as a Fairy Godmother that Ella would marry a prince. This plot is interrupted when the Lancre [[witches]] show up and interfere with the story (as witches do, of course). Lily and Esme are not on good terms, although Esme does try to "save" Lily because she is family.

At the end of the book, Lily is not dead, but is in a state between life and death inside the mirror. Unlike Granny, she doesn't know which Lily is the real one and presumably will search forever for herself. This proves the danger of using mirrors combined with magic.

[[de:Lily Wetterwachs]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Human characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Witches|Weatherwax, Lily]]

Lily Weatherwax

2018-05-25T11:26:03Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Lily Weatherwax
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Lily Weatherwax, also known as Lilith de Tempscire
|age= Don't ask, but older than Esmerelda.
|race= [[Human]], [[Witch]]
|occupation= [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]
|appearance= A strong resemblance to her sister Esme.
|residence= The Duc's Palace, [[Genua]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]]
|relatives= [[Esmeralda Weatherwax]], sister; [[Galder Weatherwax]]
|children=
|marital status= Self-made widow, several times over.
|books= {{WA}}
|cameos={{CJ}}
}}

Also known as '''Lilith de Tempscire'''. This is her name as the power behind the throne of Genua, and is made up of two French or indeed Genuan words (temps, meaning weather, and cire, meaning wax).

According to {{WA}}, Lily Weatherwax was born the older of two daughters; the older sister of [[Esmeralda Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Esme" (later "Granny") Weatherwax]]. As with all Weatherwaxes, she has powerful magic abilities, although, while the books do not indicate whether their mother was a witch or not, but Granny mentions that her father was a [[Wikipedia:Hunter|hunter]] (who taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" ({{LL}})). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows (and [[Wikipedia:Caning|canings]]) with her parents over Lily's behaviour. As Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic; "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age; Lily was vain and prideful ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"); and "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13-years-old.

Lily would go-out on her own into the world, causing trouble where-ever she went, à la ''[[Wikipedia:Sleeping Beauty|Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Little Red Riding Hood|Little Red Riding Hood]]'', etc.), "Feeding people to stories" (as Granny would later put it), all the while completely oblivious to the misery she left in her wake, under the delusion that she's made their lives 'better', giving them what only ''she'' thinks they should want. It's also mentioned that, over the years, she'd had at least 3 husbands (at least 2 of them she was sure were dead when she buried them). According to family tradition (alluded to in {{WA}}), as the older sibling, Lily is supposed to be the "Good One", and Esme the "Bad One"; and because of this, Lily takes this to mean that ''every'' thing she does is there fore 'Right'; where-as, due to Lily's delusional character, Esme had to become the "Good One" in order to restore the balance between them, and all the while she has begrudge Lily for 'having all the fun' (''Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. “I’m goin’ to give you the hidin’ our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall--but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop’ly, after you went; '''I had to be the Good One'''. You had all the fun. An’ there’s no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I’m surely goin’ to give it a try...”''), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One".

She is one of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]s of [[Ella Saturday|Princess Ella]]. To increase her [[Witches magic|magical]] potential, she uses mirrors. Mirrors are also a big theme in the book ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', with the good and the bad godmother (Lily versus [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]), the old and new Genua, and the good versus the bad sister. Granny blames Lily for being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one.

In [[Genua]] she tries to use the power of stories to make Ella marry the [[Duc]], thus fulfilling Lily's wish as a Fairy Godmother that Ella would marry a prince. This plot is interrupted when the Lancre [[witches]] show up and interfere with the story (as witches do, of course). Lily and Esme are not on good terms, although Esme does try to "save" Lily because she is family.

At the end of the book, Lily is not dead, but is in a state between life and death inside the mirror. Unlike Granny, she doesn't know which Lily is the real one and presumably will search forever for herself. This proves the danger of using mirrors combined with magic.

[[de:Lily Wetterwachs]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Human characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Witches|Weatherwax, Lily]]

Lily Weatherwax

2018-05-25T11:23:27Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Lily Weatherwax
|photo=Blank.jpg|
|name= Lily Weatherwax, also known as Lilith de Tempscire
|age= Don't ask, but older than Esmerelda.
|race= [[Human]], [[Witch]]
|occupation= [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]
|appearance= A strong resemblance to her sister Esme.
|residence= The Duc's Palace, [[Genua]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax]]
|relatives= [[Esmeralda Weatherwax]], sister; [[Galder Weatherwax]]
|children=
|marital status= Self-made widow, several times over.
|books= {{WA}}
|cameos={{CJ}}
}}

Also known as '''Lilith de Tempscire'''. This is her name as the power behind the throne of Genua, and is made up of two French or indeed Genuan words (temps, meaning weather, and cire, meaning wax).

According to {{WA}}, Lily Weatherwax was born the older of two daughters; the older sister of [[Esmeralda Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Esme" (later "Granny") Weatherwax]]. As with all Weatherwaxes, she has powerful magic abilities, although, while the books do not indicate whether their mother was a witch or not, but Granny mentions that her father was a [[Wikipedia:Hunter|hunter]] (who taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" (''[[Lords and Ladies (novel)|Lords and Ladies]]'')). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows (and [[Wikipedia:Caning|canings]]]]) with her parents over Lily's behaviour. As Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic; "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age; Lily was vain and prideful ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"); and "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13-years-old.

Lily would go-out on her own into the world, causing trouble where-ever she went, à la ''[[Wikipedia:Sleeping Beauty|Sleeping Beauty]]'', ''[[Wikipedia:Little Red Riding Hood|Little Red Riding Hood]]'', etc.), "Feeding people to stories" (as Granny would later put it), all the while completely oblivious to the misery she left in her wake, under the delusion that she's made their lives 'better', giving them what only ''she'' thinks they should want. It's also mentioned that, over the years, she'd had at least 3 husbands (at least 2 of them she was sure were dead when she buried them). According to family tradition (alluded to in {{WA}}), as the older sibling, Lily is supposed to be the "Good One", and Esme the "Bad One"; and because of this, Lily takes this to mean that ''every'' thing she does is there fore 'Right'; where-as, due to Lily's delusional character, Esme had to become the "Good One" in order to restore the balance between them, and all the while she has begrudge Lily for 'having all the fun' (''Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. “I’m goin’ to give you the hidin’ our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall--but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop’ly, after you went; '''I had to be the Good One'''. You had all the fun. An’ there’s no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I’m surely goin’ to give it a try...”''), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One".

She is one of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Fairy Godmother]]s of [[Ella Saturday|Princess Ella]]. To increase her [[Witches magic|magical]] potential, she uses mirrors. Mirrors are also a big theme in the book ''[[Book:Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', with the good and the bad godmother (Lily versus [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]]), the old and new Genua, and the good versus the bad sister. Granny blames Lily for being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one.

In [[Genua]] she tries to use the power of stories to make Ella marry the [[Duc]], thus fulfilling Lily's wish as a Fairy Godmother that Ella would marry a prince. This plot is interrupted when the Lancre [[witches]] show up and interfere with the story (as witches do, of course). Lily and Esme are not on good terms, although Esme does try to "save" Lily because she is family.

At the end of the book, Lily is not dead, but is in a state between life and death inside the mirror. Unlike Granny, she doesn't know which Lily is the real one and presumably will search forever for herself. This proves the danger of using mirrors combined with magic.

[[de:Lily Wetterwachs]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Human characters|Weatherwax, Lily]]
[[Category:Witches|Weatherwax, Lily]]

Quirm College for Young Ladies

2018-02-27T19:27:58Z

Mare-Silverus:

At various times, the ''alma mater'' of [[Susan Sto Helit]], [[Sybil Ramkin]], [[Serafine von Überwald]],[[Georgina Bradshaw]], and the witch [[Miss Tick]]. This proves that the school ethos, of turning out strong and self-reliant young women capable of taking an active role in society and working on at least equal terms with men, is not just advertising.

It is described, by alumna [[Georgina Bradshaw]], as "a fine building overlooking [[Three Roses Park]] in [[Quirm]] city. it can be inferred from this that the chip shop on [[Three Roses Alley]] is not too far away, either.

The school uniform is a loose, navy-blue woollen smock that stretches from neck to just above the ankle, with a waistline somewhere around knee level (practical, healthy, and as attractive as a plank). The girls also have to wear their hair in twin plaits/pigtails with ribbons in the school colours (navy-blue); Dwarf girls also plat their beards.

Employs a PE teacher whose real name is not known to us but who is known to the girls as Iron Ronnie (or Iron Lily in certain editions of {{SM}} published in the United States). She bellowed encouragement on the sports field of "Give it some stick!" and "Get stuck in, you soft nellies!" could well be an unofficial school motto. If nothing else, it proves there is a kindred spirit here with the boys' school [[Hugglestones]], who also place a high emphasis on self-expression through contact sport.

The gels are allowed, by prior consultation with the Headmistress, Miss [[Eulalie Butts]], to stable horses at the school. This rule was stretched somewhat when [[Binky]] showed up.

Miss Butts prides herself on running a progressive and forward-looking educational establishment. The daughters of prominent [[Trolls|trolls]] and [[Dwarfs|dwarfs]] are welcomed here, as royalty adds a certain ''ton'' to the place. Dwarf pupils are excused shaving but must plait their beards and tie them with ribbons in the school colours (navy-blue). Trolls are generally excused sports, which take place in daytime and contribute to the overheating-and-turning-to-inanimate-stone problem of the species. And a contemporary of Sybil Ramkin's was actually a [[Werewolves|werewolf]], although she was also a Grafin and a Delphine, which made it '''''perfectly''''' acceptable, just so long as she didn't go near the stables and salivate.

The Old Girls, thought of by [[Samuel Vimes]] as '''''Ladies Who Organise''''', form a powerful group who remain in constant touch with each other and who meticulously stay in touch, hug one another when they meet, almost without exception marry rich and influential men, love to reminisce about the old days in Form 3b, in between gently steering and persuading their husbands to see things their way. Vimes suspects that if they all acted together, they'd end up running the world. A deeper suspicion that only a cynical old copper could entertain is that they already '''''are'''''.

Given that two of Susan Sto Helit's contemporaries were a Dwarf and a Troll, who by the end of {{SM}} became firm friends, it is tempting to suppose that the Ladies who Organise, who gently steer and persuade their menfolk to see things their way, now have influential representatives in the Dwarf and Troll communities. And lately, the Discworld has been seeing a marked thawing in relations between these two species.

==Teaching Staff==
* Miss [[Eulalie Butts]], headmistress.
* Miss Cumber, Language
* Miss [[Delacross]], Biology and Hygiene
* Miss Greggs, History
* Professor [[Bengo Macarona]], quite likely. Makes you think.
* "Iron Ronnie", PE and Games
* Miss Stamp, History
* Miss Traitor, Logic
* Miss Turpitude, Maths (at time of Sybil Ramkin)

==Notable alumnae==
* [[Georgina Bradshaw]]
* Assorted Bunties and Bubbleses.
* Lady [[Odile Flume]]
* Princess [[Jade]]
* [[Sybil Ramkin]]
* Dowager Duchess of Quirm [[Brenda Rodley]]
* [[Susan Sto Helit]]
* [[Gloria Thogsdaughter]]
* [[Perspicacia_Tick|Perspicacia Tick]]
* [[Serafine von Überwald]]
* [[Bunty Waynesbury]]

[[Category:Streets and Landmarks of Quirm]]
[[de:Internat für junge Damen in Quirm]]

Quirm College for Young Ladies

2018-02-27T19:27:00Z

Mare-Silverus:

At various times, the ''alma mater'' of [[Susan Sto Helit]], [[Sybil Ramkin]], [[Serafine von Überwald]],[[Georgina Bradshaw]], and the witch [[Miss Tick]]. This proves that the school ethos, of turning out strong and self-reliant young women capable of taking an active role in society and working on at least equal terms with men, is not just advertising.

It is described, by alumna [[Georgina Bradshaw]], as "a fine building overlooking [[Three Roses Park]] in [[Quirm]] city. it can be inferred from this that the chip shop on [[Three Roses Alley]] is not too far away, either.

The school uniform is a loose, navy-blue woollen smock that stretches from neck to just above the ankle, with a waistline somewhere around knee level (practical, healthy, and as attractive as a plank). The girls also have to wear their hair in twin plaits/pigtails with ribbons in the school colours (blue); Dwarf girls also plat their beards.

Employs a PE teacher whose real name is not known to us but who is known to the girls as Iron Ronnie (or Iron Lily in certain editions of {{SM}} published in the United States). She bellowed encouragement on the sports field of "Give it some stick!" and "Get stuck in, you soft nellies!" could well be an unofficial school motto. If nothing else, it proves there is a kindred spirit here with the boys' school [[Hugglestones]], who also place a high emphasis on self-expression through contact sport.

The gels are allowed, by prior consultation with the Headmistress, Miss [[Eulalie Butts]], to stable horses at the school. This rule was stretched somewhat when [[Binky]] showed up.

Miss Butts prides herself on running a progressive and forward-looking educational establishment. The daughters of prominent [[Trolls|trolls]] and [[Dwarfs|dwarfs]] are welcomed here, as royalty adds a certain ''ton'' to the place. Dwarf pupils are excused shaving but must plait their beards and tie them with ribbons in the school colours (navy-blue). Trolls are generally excused sports, which take place in daytime and contribute to the overheating-and-turning-to-inanimate-stone problem of the species. And a contemporary of Sybil Ramkin's was actually a [[Werewolves|werewolf]], although she was also a Grafin and a Delphine, which made it '''''perfectly''''' acceptable, just so long as she didn't go near the stables and salivate.

The Old Girls, thought of by [[Samuel Vimes]] as '''''Ladies Who Organise''''', form a powerful group who remain in constant touch with each other and who meticulously stay in touch, hug one another when they meet, almost without exception marry rich and influential men, love to reminisce about the old days in Form 3b, in between gently steering and persuading their husbands to see things their way. Vimes suspects that if they all acted together, they'd end up running the world. A deeper suspicion that only a cynical old copper could entertain is that they already '''''are'''''.

Given that two of Susan Sto Helit's contemporaries were a Dwarf and a Troll, who by the end of {{SM}} became firm friends, it is tempting to suppose that the Ladies who Organise, who gently steer and persuade their menfolk to see things their way, now have influential representatives in the Dwarf and Troll communities. And lately, the Discworld has been seeing a marked thawing in relations between these two species.

==Teaching Staff==
* Miss [[Eulalie Butts]], headmistress.
* Miss Cumber, Language
* Miss [[Delacross]], Biology and Hygiene
* Miss Greggs, History
* Professor [[Bengo Macarona]], quite likely. Makes you think.
* "Iron Ronnie", PE and Games
* Miss Stamp, History
* Miss Traitor, Logic
* Miss Turpitude, Maths (at time of Sybil Ramkin)

==Notable alumnae==
* [[Georgina Bradshaw]]
* Assorted Bunties and Bubbleses.
* Lady [[Odile Flume]]
* Princess [[Jade]]
* [[Sybil Ramkin]]
* Dowager Duchess of Quirm [[Brenda Rodley]]
* [[Susan Sto Helit]]
* [[Gloria Thogsdaughter]]
* [[Perspicacia_Tick|Perspicacia Tick]]
* [[Serafine von Überwald]]
* [[Bunty Waynesbury]]

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Willikins

2017-07-29T07:15:13Z

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Willikins is the butler of [[Sybil Ramkin]] and, after their marriage, [[Sam Vimes]]. He has been part of the Ramkin household for some time, starting work as [[The Boy|a scullery boy]] when [[Forsythe]] was family butler. He has now been raised to the role of butler himself and, in this role, he is a paragon of civility; mildly disapproving of Vimes's uncouth habits. Though Vimes remains uneasy with the idea of having a servant, he seems to have accepted the idea.

This is possibly because of Willikin's distinctly non-butler like abilities, as revealed in {{J}}. When Willikins temporarily suspends his duties to sign up with [[Lord Venturi's Heavy Infantry]], he soon reveals himself to be an exceptional fighter, and an abnormally violent one at that. During the brief war with [[Klatch (country)|Klatch]] (see {{J}}), Willikins manages to kill a number of Klatchians, bite off a nose during hand-to-hand combat and turn out to be an exceptional leader of men in his own right, managing to keep them alive despite numerous encounters behind enemy lines. He would later have a very surprising reunion with his employer, though he would not be nearly as surprised as Vimes (which can only be summed up in the mans own words: "I'll chop ya tonker off you greasy... Oh is that you Sir Samuel?"). We hear of Willikin's fighting prowess once more in {{T!}}, when a group of would-be [[Dark Guards|dwarf assassins]] attacked the manor by tunnelling into the basement. Unfortunately for them, at the time, Willikins was in the ice cellar carving ice, and upon encountering the assailants, makes use 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 captive had died from poison ingested before the mission.

The origins of his violent tendencies are shown to lie in his youth, when he was a member of the [[Shamlegger Street]] Rude Boys. His weapon of choice was an old hat/cap with sharpened pennies sewn into the brim (similar to James Bond's enemy Odd Job, who incidentally also served in the capacity of a butler). According to the man himself, the weapon could take someone's eye out, "with care". Due to his formidable skill in combat, Willikins is also part of the [[Specials]], an auxiliary police force called up by the Watch when more men are required.

Fighting skills aside, Willikins is a very competent butler, embodying the very image of a butler "as fat as butter and as shiny as schmaltz". He coughs in a certain way, he politely requests that Vimes removes his razor before reading out a bit from the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]] that he has worked out that Vimes will react violently to, and he quietly but competently goes about his business. It is mentioned in {{SN}} that he is also a member of the [[Guild of Butlers, Valets and Gentlemen's Gentlemen]]; given his competence and status and the way the City guilds frown on non-Guild labour, it would have been surprising if he were not.

During the events of [[Snuff]] he acts as a loyal and resourceful companion to Vimes providing him with information about the local area and its people, backup, and when required, lethal weapons. Willikins takes pleasure in pointing out that, as Vimes' personal valet and manservant, he outranks all other servants, including [[Silver (Crundells)|Silver]], butler of [[Ramkin Hall]]. We also learn that he as an 'understanding' with [[Purity]], the maid, although precisely what is understood remains a mystery. Willikins also has the wit to use psychological warfare; when it is necessary to bring out the best of Feeney Upshot he fires a crossbow (the [[Piecemaker|Burleigh & Stronginthearm Piecemaker Mark IX]], no less) at his old mum, thus angering him sufficiently to daunt the Shire public. His skill with a steel comb as a lethal weapon has to be seen to be believed; he uses knives as nail files. Together with [[Detritus]], he has enough firepower to match a platoon.

At the end of Snuff, and without his master's knowledge, he makes use of his day off by following the murderer [[Stratford]] while he is in the custody of the [[Quirm]] gendarmes. Knowing that the ruthless Stratford held a grudge against Vimes and would likely seek revenge should he manage to escape, Willikins watched and waited. He was still watching when a mail coach collided with the prison wagon and Stratford escaped in the confusion. He approached the killer on the open road, and calmly informed him that he had come to kill him 'to tidy the world up a bit'. The conclusion was that Stratford was very fast, but not fast enough and only managed to come second in the duel to the death with Willikins.

Willikins the butler is not to be confused with another Willikins who was a young actor with [[Olwyn Vitoller|Vitoller's]] Men when [[Tomjon]] was a baby.

==Annotations==

Willikins is more or less the classic example of the butler/manservant. He is also reminiscent of the kind of fictional butler/manservant who complements his master wonderfully yet unobtrusively. Following are some of the aspects he may be drawn from:

# Alfred displayed his hidden depths to his employer Bruce Wayne by defending the secrets of the Batcave against all foes, with extreme prejudice and great technical competence. In the later ''{{wp|Batman|Batman}}'' stories, there is a suggestion that the Wayne family butler has been in gentlemen's service all his life, save for a few trifling years, in his youth, spent in the British Army's special forces.
# In the long-running BBC Radio thriller serial ''{{wp|Paul_Temple|Paul Temple}}'' (first broadcast in the 1950's and still a favourite today on BBC Radio Seven), the gentleman crime novelist turned Sherlock-Holmes-alike is ably assisted by his manservant, a salt-of-the-earth Cockney who can deliver a killer punch in his master's service.
# In the Japanese manga and animated series ''{{wp|Hellsing|Hellsing}}'', a butler named Walter is seen early on as a thin, middle aged-old man. However, when the Hellsing HQ is attacked, he displays impossible and amazing abilities: Namely manipulating spiderweb-thin razorwire with his fingers in such a way that he is able to slice 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 his wires to "puppeteer" a corpse and make it fight for him. Walter also displayes the ability to dodge bullets. In his youth, he fought in World War II and aided the stories' protagonist - Alucard - in detroying a Nazi undead research facility. The echoes of a young Walter in his older self are reminiscent of the echoes of a young Willikins.
# There is an air of Jeeves about Willikins too, the utterly unflappable and far-more-intelligent-than-his-master manservant from PG Wodehouse's incomparable ''{{wp|Jeeves_and_Wooster|Jeeves and Wooster}}'' series. Suave and completely in control of every situation, preternaturally aware of what needs doing/preparing, yet always in the background, allowing his preposterous master to reap all the benefits.
# These skills seem also to be combined and allied to the rarer skills of {{wp|Margery_Allingham|Margery Allingham}}'s fictional manservant Magersfontein Lugg (played by {{wp|Brian_Glover|Brian Glover}}), in the TV series ''{{wp|Campion_(TV_series)|Campion}}''. Servant and factotum to Mr Campion, Lugg is a former burglar with a gruff manner, who hinders Campion socially as much as he helps in his investigations. With reference to the underworld dialect of the [[Thieves' Guild]], Lugg is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide". The sentence means, "It's insane to try and bribe a policeman with fake money."
# In {{SN}}, Willikins takes on aspects of {{wp|The_Admirable_Crichton|The Admirable Crichton}}, refusing a drink with his master as something "just not done", feeling bound by a code of class relations.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Willikins]]
[[Category:Human characters|Willikins]]
[[de:Willikins (Butler)]]

Willikins

2017-07-29T07:12:25Z

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Willikins is the butler of [[Sybil Ramkin]] and, after their marriage, [[Sam Vimes]]. He has been part of the Ramkin household for some time, starting work as [[The Boy|a scullery boy]] when [[Forsythe]] was family butler. He has now been raised to the role of butler himself and, in this role, he is a paragon of civility; mildly disapproving of Vimes's uncouth habits. Though Vimes remains uneasy with the idea of having a servant, he seems to have accepted the idea.

This is possibly because of Willikin's distinctly non-butler like abilities, as revealed in {{J}}. When Willikins temporarily suspends his duties to sign up with [[Lord Venturi's Heavy Infantry]], he soon reveals himself to be an exceptional fighter, and an abnormally violent one at that. During the brief war with [[Klatch (country)|Klatch]] (see {{J}}), Willikins manages to kill a number of Klatchians, bite off a nose during hand-to-hand combat and turn out to be an exceptional leader of men in his own right, managing to keep them alive despite numerous encounters behind enemy lines. He would later have a very surprising reunion with his employer, though he would not be nearly as surprised as Vimes (which can only be summed up in the mans own words: "I'll chop ya tonker off you greasy... Oh is that you Sir Samuel?"). We hear of Willikin's fighting prowess once more in {{T!}}, when a group of would-be [[Dark Guards|dwarf assassins]] attacked the manor by tunnelling into the basement. Unfortunately for them, at the time, Willikins was in the ice cellar carving ice, and upon encountering the assailants, makes use 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 captive had died from poison ingested before the mission.

The origins of his violent tendencies are shown to lie in his youth, when he was a member of the [[Shamlegger Street]] Rude Boys. His weapon of choice was an old hat/cap with sharpened pennies sewn into the brim (similar to James Bond's enemy Odd Job, who incidentally also served in the capacity of a butler). According to the man himself, the weapon could take someone's eye out, "with care". Due to his formidable skill in combat, Willikins is also part of the [[Specials]], an auxiliary police force called up by the Watch when more men are required.

Fighting skills aside, Willikins is a very competent butler, embodying the very image of a butler "as fat as butter and as shiny as schmaltz". He coughs in a certain way, he politely requests that Vimes removes his razor before reading out a bit from the [[Ankh-Morpork Times]] that he has worked out that Vimes will react violently to, and he quietly but competently goes about his business. It is mentioned in {{SN}} that he is also a member of the [[Guild of Butlers, Valets and Gentlemen's Gentlemen]]; given his competence and status and the way the City guilds frown on non-Guild labour, it would have been surprising if he were not.

During the events of [[Snuff]] he acts as a loyal and resourceful companion to Vimes providing him with information about the local area and its people, backup, and when required, lethal weapons. Willikins takes pleasure in pointing out that as Vimes' personal valet and manservant he outranks all other servants including [[Silver (Crundells)|Silver]], butler of [[Ramkin Hall]]. We also learn that he as an 'understanding' with [[Purity]], the maid, although precisely what is understood remains a mystery. Willikins also has the wit to use psychological warfare; when it is necessary to bring out the best of Feeney Upshot he fires a crossbow (the [[Piecemaker|Burleigh & Stronginthearm Piecemaker Mark IX]], no less) at his old mum, thus angering him sufficiently to daunt the Shire public. His skill with a steel comb as a lethal weapon has to be seen to be believed; he uses knives as nail files. Together with [[Detritus]], he has enough firepower to match a platoon.

At the end of Snuff, and without his master's knowledge, he makes use of his day off by following the murderer [[Stratford]] while he is in the custody of the [[Quirm]] gendarmes. Knowing that the ruthless Stratford held a grudge against Vimes and would likely seek revenge should he manage to escape, Willikins watched and waited. He was still watching when a mail coach collided with the prison wagon and Stratford escaped in the confusion. He approached the killer on the open road, and calmly informed him that he had come to kill him 'to tidy the world up a bit'. The conclusion was that Stratford was very fast, but not fast enough and only managed to come second in the duel to the death with Willikins.

Willikins the butler is not to be confused with another Willikins who was a young actor with [[Olwyn Vitoller|Vitoller's]] Men when [[Tomjon]] was a baby.

==Annotations==

Willikins is more or less the classic example of the butler/manservant. He is also reminiscent of the kind of fictional butler/manservant who complements his master wonderfully yet unobtrusively. Following are some of the aspects he may be drawn from:

# Alfred displayed his hidden depths to his employer Bruce Wayne by defending the secrets of the Batcave against all foes, with extreme prejudice and great technical competence. In the later ''{{wp|Batman|Batman}}'' stories, there is a suggestion that the Wayne family butler has been in gentlemen's service all his life, save for a few trifling years, in his youth, spent in the British Army's special forces.
# In the long-running BBC Radio thriller serial ''{{wp|Paul_Temple|Paul Temple}}'' (first broadcast in the 1950's and still a favourite today on BBC Radio Seven), the gentleman crime novelist turned Sherlock-Holmes-alike is ably assisted by his manservant, a salt-of-the-earth Cockney who can deliver a killer punch in his master's service.
# In the Japanese manga and animated series ''{{wp|Hellsing|Hellsing}}'', a butler named Walter is seen early on as a thin, middle aged-old man. However, when the Hellsing HQ is attacked, he displays impossible and amazing abilities: Namely manipulating spiderweb-thin razorwire with his fingers in such a way that he is able to slice 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 his wires to "puppeteer" a corpse and make it fight for him. Walter also displayes the ability to dodge bullets. In his youth, he fought in World War II and aided the stories' protagonist - Alucard - in detroying a Nazi undead research facility. The echoes of a young Walter in his older self are reminiscent of the echoes of a young Willikins.
# There is an air of Jeeves about Willikins too, the utterly unflappable and far-more-intelligent-than-his-master manservant from PG Wodehouse's incomparable ''{{wp|Jeeves_and_Wooster|Jeeves and Wooster}}'' series. Suave and completely in control of every situation, preternaturally aware of what needs doing/preparing, yet always in the background, allowing his preposterous master to reap all the benefits.
# These skills seem also to be combined and allied to the rarer skills of {{wp|Margery_Allingham|Margery Allingham}}'s fictional manservant Magersfontein Lugg (played by {{wp|Brian_Glover|Brian Glover}}), in the TV series ''{{wp|Campion_(TV_series)|Campion}}''. Servant and factotum to Mr Campion, Lugg is a former burglar with a gruff manner, who hinders Campion socially as much as he helps in his investigations. With reference to the underworld dialect of the [[Thieves' Guild]], Lugg is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide". The sentence means, "It's insane to try and bribe a policeman with fake money."
# In {{SN}}, Willikins takes on aspects of {{wp|The_Admirable_Crichton|The Admirable Crichton}}, refusing a drink with his master as something "just not done", feeling bound by a code of class relations.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Willikins]]
[[Category:Human characters|Willikins]]
[[de:Willikins (Butler)]]

Guild of Butlers, Valets and Gentlemen's Gentlemen

2017-07-29T07:08:04Z

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This Guild represents the professional interests of, well, those who valet and buttle. It is a men-only concern: it has yet to open its doors to its gender-peers, senior female servants of a Mrs [[Whitlow]]-like disposition and social standing. But whilst being men only, it is remarkably open to men of all species, including [[Igor|Igors]]. Igors were welcomed as it is understood their job description involves acting as senior domestic servant and effective valet to some ''very'' noble and distinguished gentlemen. The illustration of butlers-in-training featured in {{CAM}} clearly depicts one Dwarf butler, possibly one who will be employed to ease the life of Dwarf nobility, perhaps even royalty.

Whilst invitations for membership are hard to get, the Guild sponsors the training of boys and young men of aptitude for the profession. It is based in Ankh, at Snapcase House, on Snapcase Street, nearby to Snapcase Square (B6). The Guild premises were formerly a principal town dwelling of the [[Snapcase]] family, but after the unfortunate demise of the former [[Patrician]], Lord [[Snapcase]], it is believed a lady described as his widow willed the house and freehold to His Lordship's former butler in recognition of services given. The Guild thus enjoys one of the finest Guildhouses in town with an extensive wine cellar and an enviable table. The Guild President is named as a Mr Neattley. In {{SN}}, [[Willikins]], butler to Lord and Lady Vimes, Duke and Duchess of [[Ankh]], mentions that he is a member of this guild; given his experience, seniority and prestige, it would have been surprising if he wasn't.

[[Category:Guilds]]

Samuel Vimes

2017-07-29T06:34:40Z

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Vimes Family Motto: ''PROTEGO ET SERVIO''

''I protect and serve''

His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes, [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].
His Grace, His Excellency, His Blackboard-Monitorship, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Lord of the Ramkin Estates, King of the River.
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|age= b. 1941? UC
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|occupation= Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|City Watch]] (Badge No.177)
|appearance= Skinny, balding and unshaven
|residence= Ramkin Residence, [[Scoone Avenue]], [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]
|death=
|parents= [[Thomas Vimes]] (father) [[Mrs. Vimes]] (mother)
|relatives= [[Gwilliam Vimes]] (paternal grandfather) [[Grandma Clamp]] (maternal grandmother). "Old Stoneface" Vimes (AKA [http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/%22Stoneface%22_Vimes "Suffer Not Injustice" Vimes])
|children= [[Young Sam Vimes]]
|marital status= Married to Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]]. A previous girlfriend, alluded to in passing in {{T!}}, is [[Mavis Trouncer]].
|books= {{G!G!}} {{MAA}} {{FOC}} {{J}} {{T5E}} {{NW}} {{MR}} {{T!}} ''[[Book:Where's My Cow?|Where's My Cow?]] [[Book:Snuff|Snuff]] {{RS}} [[Discworld Noir]]''
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'''Samuel "Sam" Vimes''' is the Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork]] [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|City Watch]]. He is the central character of the [[Watch Series]], in which his rises from being a poor and often-drunk policeman to being the leader of a modern police force.

During his first appearance in {{G!G!}}, he is the Captain of the (useless) Night Watch. He is promoted to being the Commander of a reunified City Watch at the end of its sequel {{MAA}}, and presides over the Watch's transformation into a modern police force. Through his detective work and adventures he saves the city and many people's lives on multiple occasions. He is often referred to as the second-most powerful man in the city after [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]]. As a result of his reputation, the word ''[[Sammies]]'' has become a nickname for watchmen trained in Ankh-Morpork.

Despite his distaste for nobility, he becomes a Duke and an ambassador. His current full title is ''His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch''. He is married to [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], the wealthiest woman in the city, and they have a son [[Young Sam Vimes|Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II]].

== Biography ==
Samuel Vimes was born in [[Cockbill Street]], [[the Shades]], [[Ankh-Morpork]] into a poor family. Through his father Thomas, he is a descendant of [["Stoneface" Vimes|Suffer-Not-Injustice "Stoneface" Vimes]], who overthrow the [[Monarchy|monarchy]] in Ankh-Morpork centuries earlier, killed [[Lorenzo the Kind|its last king]], and ruled the city briefly before being overthrown himself. The Vimes family, until then a noble family, were disgraced and lived in poverty for many generations after. In his later life Sam is often compared to his ancestor, in both his personality and his appearance.

He went to the local school, where he was taught by Dame [[Slightly]] for 9 months and became blackboard monitor. After that, he spent some time in street gangs, including the [[Cockbill Street Roaring Lads]]. At the age of 16, he enlisted in the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Night Watch]], because his mate, Iffy Scurrick, had joined the year before and told him that there was "free food and a uniform and you could pick up the extra dollar here and there". Vimes joined the Night Watch shortly before the birth of the Glorious [[People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road]] during the [[Glorious Revolution|Glorious Revolution]]. In the original timeline, Vimes was mentored by Sergeant [[John Keel]]. Keel taught Vimes several important lessons, such stopping him from taking bribes at a time when such behaviour was widespread in the Watch. Keel took charge of the rebellion and was killed. In {{NW}}, the timeline was altered and his future self ended up impersonating John Keel for the duration of the Revolution, teaching him the same lessons instead.

Little is known about what happens between then and {{G!G!}}. Vimes became more street-smart, particularly after learning to fight with any means necessary by [[Gussie Two-Grins]]. However, the Watch declined in importance during this time, particularly after [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]] legalised the [[Thieves Guild]]. The Guild proved to be a better regulator of crime than the Watch. The Night Watch were reduced to patrolling the streets, ringing their bells at night and half-heartedly chasing criminals. During this time, Vimes became an {{wp|alcoholism|alcohoic}} (although as he was poor, he considered himself to be "a drunk", not an alcoholic).

By the start of {{G!G!}}, Vimes has become a Captain of a Night Watch that had dwindled to just four people: himself, Sergeant [[Fred Colon|Colon]], Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]] and the new recruit [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]. Around this time, Colon claims that Vimes never advanced further because he was "Brung Low by a Woman", (if so than her name is [[Morporkia|Ankh Morporkia]]), although Vimes himself attributes it to his irreverent habit of speaking his mind to authority figures. But the events of this novel mark the turning point for the Watch and Vimes's career. The Watch showed their worth by stopping a [[Noble dragon|dragon]] from taking over the city. Vimes also began a romantic relationship with [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], one of the wealthiest women in the city.

From then on, the Watch began to grow again. In {{MAA}}, Vimes and the Watch thwart another attempt to take over the city. As a reward, the Night Watch and Day Watch are merged into a unified City Watch and Vimes is promoted to the post of Commander, as well as being given the somewhat unwanted title of Knight. He also marries Sybil and kicks his drinking habit.

Vimes and the City Watch go on to save the city and multiple lives, including a plot by golems and a vampire in {{FOC}} and a threat of war with Klatch in {{J}}. For this, Vimes is awarded with yet another unwanted nobility title: Duke of Ankh. Later adventures include a journey to [[Überwald]] in {{T5E}}, a journey back to the days of the Glorious Revolution in {{NW}}, making peace between dwarfs and trolls in {{T!}} and busting a goblin slavery network in {{SN}}. His son [[Young Sam Vimes|Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II]] was born at the end of {{NW}}.

===Ranks and titles===
Vimes's ranks and titles rise over the course of the series:
*Lance-Constable Samuel Vimes ({{NW}}, his younger self)
*Captain Samuel Vimes of the Night Watch ({{G!G!}} until the end of {{MAA}})
*Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] (the end of {{MAA}} until the end of {{J}})
*His Grace, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] (the end of {{J}} until {{T5E}})
*His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] ({{T5E}} to present)
This is not the full list; he almost certainly had others during his early Watch career, and he had none prior to joining the Watch.

==Characteristics==
Sam Vimes is by nature an extremely cynical person. He has few good opinions on people in general, and even fewer on the nobility, the guilds, [[Vetinari]], [[vampires]], the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], monarchy, democracy, [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspapers]]...and the list goes on. In short, nearly everyone and everything is subject to his distrust. His first impression upon meeting someone is that they're guilty of some crime - 'the possibility that they were not guilty of anything he didn't think worthy of consideration' ([[Jingo]]) - though in a city such as Ankh-Morpork, this is more or less true.

Equally, he is known to be an angry person. His sheer, incandescent rage is barely suppressed by his desire to be lawful and administer justice properly (and also in a way, to not follow in Stoneface's steps). Due to his authority in {{MAA}}, when he finds himself in possession of the [[Gonne]], he struggles between his sense of justice and the Gonne's twisted desire to use him to kill in the name of justice. He can barely restrain himself from the Gonne's temptations. In {{T!}}, he nearly gives in entirely to those of the [[Summoning Dark]]. In the latter case, you have to consider that a [[Helmclever|dwarf]] stirs deliberately his anger, and the [[Dark Guards]] attempt later to assassinate not only Vimes, 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 of law and order, and the other side is a Vimes who would kill for revenge and make his own law.

In {{T!}}, after years of nighttime patrols, Vimes's mindscape is described as the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], streets and all, in the dead of night, with the rains bucketing down over your head. When Vimes is angry, doors of some of the houses (the more angry he is, the more doors) will open. When the [[Summoning Dark]] trespasses into his mind, needing a host in order to track down the [[Deep-Downers]], it tries to enter through one of the doors that opens when Vimes becomes angry, only to be pulled away at every time. It is later revealed that the force preventing the [[Summoning Dark]] from making any progress in possessing Vimes is Vimes's own 'inner guardsman'.

His chronic alcoholism may be partially due to his natural state of extreme sobriety, known as being [[knurd]]. According to Vimes's long-time close friend and fellow officer [[Fred Colon]], it is because that every other normal person is naturally slightly drunk to some extent to conceal the true horrors of reality from them. However Vimes lacks the ability to produce his 'own alcohol', as it were. Vimes used to attempt to cure this by drinking heavily; unfortunately he often over-dosed himself, and became an alcoholic. After marrying Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], he quit drinking and smoked cigars instead. In {{FOC}}, he still has the habit to reach in stress situations for the bottom desk drawer, where his bottle used to be. But he'd never bought a bottle since he got married, and Carrot and Fred Colon keep an eye on him, as well. As of ''[[Book:Snuff|Snuff]]'', even his smoking has been barred from the house (likely for Young Sam's sake), and he sates his cravings with non-alcoholic mixers whipped up by [[Willikins]].

Another reason for Vimes's past alcoholism may be his history; Vimes has been on the Watch since his late teens. He has lived through the successive regimes of Homicidal Lord [[Winder]] and [[Mad Lord Snapcase]], two patricians whose sobriquets more than adequately describe their tenures, as well as several wars, and the legalization of the Guilds under Vetinari, which more or less broke his spirit. His participation as a young copper in handing people to the [[Cable Street Particulars|Unmentionables]] has surely left him also with a deep feeling of guilt and shame, after witnessing the results in their headquarters.

Vimes is a firm believer in the institution of law. He has a soft spot for the poor and those otherwise unable to fend for themselves, as although he views them as equally able to commit crimes as any other demographic; he sees law as a great equalizer, regardless of race (however despite his acceptance of just about any species into the Watch, until he was forced to in [[Thud!]] he refused to have a [[vampire]].)

As Vimes's long-time close friend [[Fred Colon|Sgt. Colon]] puts it, Vimes could get drunk in better style, Vimes could be baffled about a case with better vocabulary, and Vimes could deal with the paperwork. To himself, Samuel Vimes is a not very intelligent man with a sordid personal history that he'd rather forget. To many others he is, somehow, the person to look up to. [[Carrot Ironfoundersson|Captain Carrot]] quotes Vimes's ideas about social justice, and tries to make them a reality. [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], Vimes's wife, thinks that he can sort out anything. The new policemen trained in the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] and then hired elsewhere, though they haven't seen Vimes in person much, are called ''[[Sammies]]'' (perhaps a nod to the "bobbies," so-called because of Sir Robert Peel).

Vimes is far from being perfect, and he knows the fact better than anyone. In addition to former alcoholism, Vimes has many prejudices. He hates many kinds of people and many things, and he has quite good reasons to. He hates the upper class because they look down on the rest of the society while exploiting it (e.g. charging high rent from the poor people living in slum properties).

He hates [[dwarfs]] and [[trolls]], but he has stated that he doesn't care that much for humans either so he can't be blamed. He hates [[zombies]], [[werewolves]] and [[vampires]]; for unashamedly discriminative reasons, among them being that they cannot be killed if police duty necessitates that Vimes should fight them, and he believes that vampires naturally or reflexively prey upon people, as well as often being rich and snobby.

He hates dishonest policemen. He accepts that a publican may offer a free pint or a meal to an officer just because having an officer on the premises at rush hour makes things go more smoothly is just a way of doing business, but draws the line at an officer taking money to look the other way. He also sacks, and may even prosecute, officers who abuse prisoners or participate in crimes. In his view, the law must apply to everyone, or it applies to noone. That was why, in Jingo, he reluctantly agreed to arrest Lord Vetinari.

He hates [[Assassins' Guild|Assassins]] and [[Thieves' Guild|Thieves]] because their crimes are legalized and he cannot arrest them, and their leaders are even city dignitaries now. He hates [[Alchemists' Guild|Alchemists]] because they blow things up.

Just about the only kind of people that he doesn't hate are gargoyles, who never commit crimes that anybody finds out about, and the [[wizard's magic|wizards]]; they may mess up the space-time continuum and destroy the universe, but such offenses seldom fall within Vimes's jurisdiction. Vimes hates the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], too. It has been said that he protects the city just as he protects the dwarfs and trolls, so that he can go on hating them. In truth, Vimes has seen too many bad things in his line of work, and now finds it difficult to have a good opinion of anything in general; he is far too cynical (and yet depressingly sometimes not cynical enough). He doesn't have too much animosity for the Seamstresses Guild, since the Agony Aunts handle any excesses by customers, and the Houses themselves make sure that a customer will not end up beaten, naked, and penniless in the streets, "unless his tastes run that way."

In {{J}}, Vimes finds himself in a difficult and tense situation where he is holding the [[Klatch|Klatchian]] Prince [[Cadram]] at bowpoint, and is prepared to kill him because (tenuous) evidence links him to a conspiracy to kill Prince [[Khufurah]], but there is no court which would try the case. He is saved by the arrival of [[Vetinari]], who defuses the situation.

According to [[Detritus]], when Vimes found a child-killer who has kept a "''memento''" of his deed, it was all the troll could do to prevent him from killing the perpetrator. This all comes to light during the events of {{T!}} where Vimes' internal Watchman - which describes itself as existing to keep the darkness in rather than keeping it out- battles with the [[Mine sign|Summoning Dark]] for supremacy of his soul and is ultimately victorious in dispelling the evil entity from its attempts to use Vimes to kill for it. This can be illustrated by the fact that when asked 'quis custodies ipsos custodes' ('Who watches the watchmen?') Vimes's immediate reaction is 'Me'. When asked who guards him, he replies, 'I do that too.'

He is capable of accepting specific individuals. He has married Lady Sybil and certainly loves her. He accepts members of ethnic minorities in his Watch, has personally trained some of them, and is quite proud of them. He promotes Watch officers according to merit and ability, regardless of gender, species, or seniority. He also has a soft spot for the poor, the working class, or the young. When he finds younger Assassins failing their attempts on him, for example, he lets them go with only minor wounds; older Assassins, on the other hand, have been known to be [[Richard Liddleley|painted and tied up left in public]], or even [[Eustace Bassingly-Gore|chained up and sent on a sea voyage]] all the way to the other end of [[Klatch (continent)|Klatch]]. To put it very simply, he tries to look after those who have nobody else looking after them.

In attempting to carry out justice, Vimes has arrested sons of Ankh-Morpork nobles as well as city dignitaries, all the way up to [[Lord Vetinari]]. This has put Vimes high on the hit list of the Assassins at a price of $AM20,000 in {{FOC}} rising to $AM600,000 after 9 failed attempts at the time of {{T5E}}; recently, however, he has been taken off the register, and the Guild of Assassins no longer accepts contracts on his life. This may be because he is somehow vital to the running of the city, as [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]] is, or it may be because no sensible Assassin will volunteer for the task anyway. Vimes has personally designed and installed many traps and deadfalls all around the Ramkin family home and the Watch headquarters at [[Pseudopolis Yard]]. So far, Vimes hasn't been even injured by any Assassin. The Assassins Guild now has some of its trainees conduct "''dry run''" assassination attempts on Vimes as a matter of testing the trainee's skills - particularly if they feel the need to [[Jocasta Wiggs|bring the trainee's ego back down to the Disc]] (see {{NW}}).

He is also fiercely anti-authority, possibly a facet of his character which he inherited from Old Stoneface. That he manages this whilst actually being authority is, as [[Lord Vetinari]] put it, "''practically zen''." He regards being the Duke of Ankh as a job title and always prefers "Commander" or "sir" to any of his other titles, which include "''His Grace''," "''His Excellency''" and "''his blackboard-monitorship''" ({{T5E}} and {{T!}}). Continuing to call him by any of these titles after he's explained his preferences is an excellent way to get in His Grace His Excellency's bad graces.

Sam Vimes's full title of record is "''His Grace, His Excellency, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes''." His "Blackboard Monitor" epithet is used like a title in ''[[Book:Snuff|Snuff]]'', implying it may actually have been accorded some official weight by the Low King of the dwarfs. Ironically, the one title Vimes holds with genuine pride (as of ''[[Book:Snuff|Snuff]]''), aside from Commander, is "King" .. as in, "King of the River", an honorarium awarded in recognition of his role in saving the riverboat ''Wonderful Fanny'' from piracy and flood.

Members of the Watch earn the privilege, and it is a privilege, of calling him "''Mister Vimes''" only after very long association (i.e. [[Nobby Nobbs]] or [[Fred Colon]]), or after watching his back in a street fight to the extent that they have demonstrably saved his life ([[A.E. Pessimal]]). He does not tolerate the "''Mister''" from outsiders. [[Fred Colon]] sometimes calls him by his first name when he's worried. He has inherited his ancestor's nickname "''Old Stoneface''," but this is never said to his face.

==Activities and Duties==
As other noblemen might ride horses, wear laces, ruffles, and plumes, Sam Vimes walks the city on endless patrols and wears his old battered Watch armor and leather shirt and jerkin, with the standard sword and truncheon.

Since becoming the Commander of the Watch and as such a popular target with the clients of the [[Assassins' Guild]], Vimes also started the exercise of personally engineering pitfalls and death traps around his house and outside of his office at the police headquarters.

As Commander and top officer of the Watch, Vimes' job is to oversee its operations and has to deal with a lot of paperwork, a job which he hates but accomplishes adequately. He still tries to go on patrol whenever he has a chance; to him, walking the quiet streets in the dark is a calming, almost relaxing activity. When there is an important occasion on which crime is anticipated, for example, that a foreign dignitary may be attacked during a public appearance (in {{J}}), Vimes likes to personally check suspicious places such as an abandoned building that an assassin might use.

Deduction is not Vimes' favorite activity; he distrusts clues and loathes mysteries (''"mysteries get you killed"''), and he now has the [[Cable Street Particulars]] to deal with peculiar crimes, but sometimes Vimes still personally investigates a case. When he witnesses a crime occurring, he abandons everything and chases the miscreant. It is possible that he uses police work to escape the social life of "Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh".

As both urged by Lady Sybil and ordered by Lord Vetinari, Vimes now often has to appear at dinners and parties. Most of the nobles and government officials that he sees at such social occasions, he considers stupid or obnoxious. Should he be accosted by one of these people, he does not hesitate to make clear how and why he loathes them. Vetinari likes to use Vimes as a diplomat, and while more often than not Vimes is the cause of diplomatic incidents, these seem often the intention of Vetinari.

The former Lord Ramkin, Lady Sybil's late father, had always had servants to shave him, to lay out his bath, to scrub his back, to lay out his clothes, to clean his shiny boots, and so on. Vimes now allows the butler to lay out his clothes, but that is about all. He insists on shaving himself as he dislikes other people putting a [[razor blade]], (or indeed any sort of sharp edge) to his throat, and attempts to wear cheap boots with cardboard soles. He has been walking the city in such boots for decades, and he likes being able to feel the different types of cobblestones so that he can tell which street he is on. Besides watch armour, Vimes has some gentleman's suits, a dress uniform of the Watch Commander, and a dress uniform of the Duke. He is often required to wear the ducal dress uniform, which has ruby tights (''"you wouldn't wear tights to battle if you thought you would be taken prisoner"''), a spiky coronet, a gilt armour (''"toy armour"''), and no place to hang his sword (''"you got made a duke for fighting and then they gave you no sword to fight with"''). Vimes compromises by wearing the Watch Commander dress uniform.

Nowadays, Vimes has to eat fancy food as cooked in the Ramkins' house. Personally, he prefers simple, greasy food with burnt crunchy bits, and so he is happier when he eats things that Lady Sybil has personally cooked by a dragon's fire.

Upon becoming a father, Vimes swore to faithfully get home by 6 p.m. every evening to read a certain picture book called ''[[Book:Where's My Cow?|Where's My Cow?]]'' to his son, Young Sam. This has become such a point of pride that he now has nightmares about not being home by 6 p.m. There is absolutely nothing that takes precedence over this; Vimes believes that if he misses it even once for a good reason, the next time he might miss it for a bad one, and eventually this attitude might spill over into the rest of his life. By the time of ''Snuff'', Young Sam has become the reader and Vimes Senior, the listener, but their 6 p.m. reading sessions continue like clockwork.

His son's welfare is one of the few things Vimes is willing to cross even his wife about, such that he insisted that they hire a nursemaid, Purity, to attend to Young Sam over Sybil's objections. Presumably this is also why the protective flame-baffles between the Vimes residence and Sybil's dragon stables are much, much sturdier in ''Thud!'' than in previous books.

==Annotation==
Philip Jackson from the British ''Robin of Sherwood'' TV series provides the voice for Vimes in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of {{NW}}.

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Sam Vimes|Samuel Vimes's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
* [http://discworldreadingorder.azurewebsites.net/TheWatch The Watch reading order] - A guide to Sam Vimes's story arc.

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Mare-Silverus:

Vimes Family Motto: ''PROTEGO ET SERVIO''

''I protect and serve''

His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes, [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

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|name= Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]
|age= b. 1941? UC
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|occupation= Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|City Watch]] (Badge No.177)
|appearance= Skinny, balding and unshaven
|residence= Ramkin Residence, [[Scoone Avenue]], [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]
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|parents= [[Thomas Vimes]] (father) [[Mrs. Vimes]] (mother)
|relatives= [[Gwilliam Vimes]] (paternal grandfather) [[Grandma Clamp]] (maternal grandmother). "Old Stoneface" Vimes (AKA [http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/%22Stoneface%22_Vimes "Suffer Not Injustice" Vimes])
|children= [[Young Sam Vimes]]
|marital status= Married to Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]]. A previous girlfriend, alluded to in passing in {{T!}}, is [[Mavis Trouncer]].
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'''Samuel "Sam" Vimes''' is the Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork]] [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|City Watch]]. He is the central character of the [[Watch Series]], in which his rises from being a poor and often-drunk policeman to being the leader of a modern police force.

During his first appearance in {{G!G!}}, he is the Captain of the (useless) Night Watch. He is promoted to being the Commander of a reunified City Watch at the end of its sequel {{MAA}}, and presides over the Watch's transformation into a modern police force. Through his detective work and adventures he saves the city and many people's lives on multiple occasions. He is often referred to as the second-most powerful man in the city after [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]]. As a result of his reputation, the word ''[[Sammies]]'' has become a nickname for watchmen trained in Ankh-Morpork.

Despite his distaste for nobility, he becomes a Duke and an ambassador. His current full title is ''His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch''. He is married to [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], the wealthiest woman in the city, and they have a son [[Young Sam Vimes|Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II]].

== Biography ==
Samuel Vimes was born in [[Cockbill Street]], [[the Shades]], [[Ankh-Morpork]] into a poor family. Through his father Thomas, he is a descendant of [["Stoneface" Vimes|Suffer-Not-Injustice "Stoneface" Vimes]], who overthrow the [[Monarchy|monarchy]] in Ankh-Morpork centuries earlier, killed [[Lorenzo the Kind|its last king]], and ruled the city briefly before being overthrown himself. The Vimes family, until then a noble family, were disgraced and lived in poverty for many generations after. In his later life Sam is often compared to his ancestor, in both his personality and his appearance.

He went to the local school, where he was taught by Dame [[Slightly]] for 9 months and became blackboard monitor. After that, he spent some time in street gangs, including the [[Cockbill Street Roaring Lads]]. At the age of 16, he enlisted in the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Night Watch]], because his mate, Iffy Scurrick, had joined the year before and told him that there was "free food and a uniform and you could pick up the extra dollar here and there". Vimes joined the Night Watch shortly before the birth of the Glorious [[People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road]] during the [[Glorious Revolution|Glorious Revolution]]. In the original timeline, Vimes was mentored by Sergeant [[John Keel]]. Keel taught Vimes several important lessons, such stopping him from taking bribes at a time when such behaviour was widespread in the Watch. Keel took charge of the rebellion and was killed. In {{NW}}, the timeline was altered and his future self ended up impersonating John Keel for the duration of the Revolution, teaching him the same lessons instead.

Little is known about what happens between then and {{G!G!}}. Vimes became more street-smart, particularly after learning to fight with any means necessary by [[Gussie Two-Grins]]. However, the Watch declined in importance during this time, particularly after [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]] legalised the [[Thieves Guild]]. The Guild proved to be a better regulator of crime than the Watch. The Night Watch were reduced to patrolling the streets, ringing their bells at night and half-heartedly chasing criminals. During this time, Vimes became an {{wp|alcoholism|alcohoic}} (although as he was poor, he considered himself to be "a drunk", not an alcoholic).

By the start of {{G!G!}}, Vimes has become a Captain of a Night Watch that had dwindled to just four people: himself, Sergeant [[Fred Colon|Colon]], Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs|Nobbs]] and the new recruit [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]. Around this time, Colon claims that Vimes never advanced further because he was "Brung Low by a Woman", (if so than her name is [[Morporkia|Ankh Morporkia]]), although Vimes himself attributes it to his irreverent habit of speaking his mind to authority figures. But the events of this novel mark the turning point for the Watch and Vimes's career. The Watch showed their worth by stopping a [[Noble dragon|dragon]] from taking over the city. Vimes also began a romantic relationship with [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], one of the wealthiest women in the city.

From then on, the Watch began to grow again. In {{MAA}}, Vimes and the Watch thwart another attempt to take over the city. As a reward, the Night Watch and Day Watch are merged into a unified City Watch and Vimes is promoted to the post of Commander, as well as being given the somewhat unwanted title of Knight. He also marries Sybil and kicks his drinking habit.

Vimes and the City Watch go on to save the city and multiple lives, including a plot by golems and a vampire in {{FOC}} and a threat of war with Klatch in {{J}}. For this, Vimes is awarded with yet another unwanted nobility title: Duke of Ankh. Later adventures include a journey to [[Überwald]] in {{T5E}}, a journey back to the days of the Glorious Revolution in {{NW}}, making peace between dwarfs and trolls in {{T!}} and busting a goblin slavery network in {{SN}}. His son [[Young Sam Vimes|Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II]] was born at the end of {{NW}}.

===Ranks and titles===
Vimes's ranks and titles rise over the course of the series:
*Lance-Constable Samuel Vimes ({{NW}}, his younger self)
*Captain Samuel Vimes of the Night Watch ({{G!G!}} until the end of {{MAA}})
*Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] (the end of {{MAA}} until the end of {{J}})
*His Grace, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] (the end of {{J}} until {{T5E}})
*His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]]; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] ({{T5E}} to present)
This is not the full list; he almost certainly had others during his early Watch career, and he had none prior to joining the Watch.

==Characteristics==
Sam Vimes is by nature an extremely cynical person. He has few good opinions on people in general, and even fewer on the nobility, the guilds, [[Vetinari]], [[vampires]], the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], monarchy, democracy, [[Ankh-Morpork Times|newspapers]]...and the list goes on. In short, nearly everyone and everything is subject to his distrust. His first impression upon meeting someone is that they're guilty of some crime - 'the possibility that they were not guilty of anything he didn't think worthy of consideration' ([[Jingo]]) - though in a city such as Ankh-Morpork, this is more or less true.

Equally, he is known to be an angry person. His sheer, incandescent rage is barely suppressed by his desire to be lawful and administer justice properly (and also in a way, to not follow in Stoneface's steps). Due to his authority in {{MAA}}, when he finds himself in possession of the [[Gonne]], he struggles between his sense of justice and the Gonne's twisted desire to use him to kill in the name of justice. He can barely restrain himself from the Gonne's temptations. In {{T!}}, he nearly gives in entirely to those of the [[Summoning Dark]]. In the latter case, you have to consider that a [[Helmclever|dwarf]] stirs deliberately his anger, and the [[Dark Guards]] attempt later to assassinate not only Vimes, 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 of law and order, and the other side is a Vimes who would kill for revenge and make his own law.

In {{T!}}, after years of nighttime patrols, Vimes's mindscape is described as the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], streets and all, in the dead of night, with the rains bucketing down over your head. When Vimes is angry, doors of some of the houses (the more angry he is, the more doors) will open. When the [[Summoning Dark]] trespasses into his mind, needing a host in order to track down the [[Deep-Downers]], it tries to enter through one of the doors that opens when Vimes becomes angry, only to be pulled away at every time. It is later revealed that the force preventing the [[Summoning Dark]] from making any progress in possessing Vimes is Vimes's own 'inner guardsman'.

His chronic alcoholism may be partially due to his natural state of extreme sobriety, known as being [[knurd]]. According to Vimes's long-time close friend and fellow officer [[Fred Colon]], it is because that every other normal person is naturally slightly drunk to some extent to conceal the true horrors of reality from them. However Vimes lacks the ability to produce his 'own alcohol', as it were. Vimes used to attempt to cure this by drinking heavily; unfortunately he often over-dosed himself, and became an alcoholic. After marrying Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], he quit drinking and smoked cigars instead. In {{FOC}}, he still has the habit to reach in stress situations for the bottom desk drawer, where his bottle used to be. But he'd never bought a bottle since he got married, and Carrot and Fred Colon keep an eye on him, as well. As of ''[[Book:Snuff|Snuff]]'', even his smoking has been barred from the house (likely for Young Sam's sake), and he sates his cravings with non-alcoholic mixers whipped up by [[Willikins]].

Another reason for Vimes's past alcoholism may be his history; Vimes has been on the Watch since his late teens. He has lived through the successive regimes of Homicidal Lord [[Winder]] and [[Mad Lord Snapcase]], two patricians whose sobriquets more than adequately describe their tenures, as well as several wars, and the legalization of the Guilds under Vetinari, which more or less broke his spirit. His participation as a young copper in handing people to the [[Cable Street Particulars|Unmentionables]] has surely left him also with a deep feeling of guilt and shame, after witnessing the results in their headquarters.

Vimes is a firm believer in the institution of law. He has a soft spot for the poor and those otherwise unable to fend for themselves, as although he views them as equally able to commit crimes as any other demographic; he sees law as a great equalizer, regardless of race (however despite his acceptance of just about any species into the Watch, until he was forced to in [[Thud!]] he refused to have a [[vampire]].)

As Vimes's long-time close friend [[Fred Colon|Sgt. Colon]] puts it, Vimes could get drunk in better style, Vimes could be baffled about a case with better vocabulary, and Vimes could deal with the paperwork. To himself, Samuel Vimes is a not very intelligent man with a sordid personal history that he'd rather forget. To many others he is, somehow, the person to look up to. [[Carrot Ironfoundersson|Captain Carrot]] quotes Vimes's ideas about social justice, and tries to make them a reality. [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], Vimes's wife, thinks that he can sort out anything. The new policemen trained in the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] and then hired elsewhere, though they haven't seen Vimes in person much, are called ''[[Sammies]]'' (perhaps a nod to the "bobbies," so-called because of Sir Robert Peel).

Vimes is far from being perfect, and he knows the fact better than anyone. In addition to former alcoholism, Vimes has many prejudices. He hates many kinds of people and many things, and he has quite good reasons to. He hates the upper class because they look down on the rest of the society while exploiting it (e.g. charging high rent from the poor people living in slum properties).

He hates [[dwarfs]] and [[trolls]], but he has stated that he doesn't care that much for humans either so he can't be blamed. He hates [[zombies]], [[werewolves]] and [[vampires]]; for unashamedly discriminative reasons, among them being that they cannot be killed if police duty necessitates that Vimes should fight them, and he believes that vampires naturally or reflexively prey upon people, as well as often being rich and snobby.

He hates dishonest policemen. He accepts that a publican may offer a free pint or a meal to an officer just because having an officer on the premises at rush hour makes things go more smoothly is just a way of doing business, but draws the line at an officer taking money to look the other way. He also sacks, and may even prosecute, officers who abuse prisoners or participate in crimes. In his view, the law must apply to everyone, or it applies to noone. That was why, in Jingo, he reluctantly agreed to arrest Lord Vetinari.

He hates [[Assassins' Guild|Assassins]] and [[Thieves' Guild|Thieves]] because their crimes are legalized and he cannot arrest them, and their leaders are even city dignitaries now. He hates [[Alchemists' Guild|Alchemists]] because they blow things up.

Just about the only kind of people that he doesn't hate are gargoyles, who never commit crimes that anybody finds out about, and the [[wizard's magic|wizards]]; they may mess up the space-time continuum and destroy the universe, but such offenses seldom fall within Vimes's jurisdiction. Vimes hates the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], too. It has been said that he protects the city just as he protects the dwarfs and trolls, so that he can go on hating them. In truth, Vimes has seen too many bad things in his line of work, and now finds it difficult to have a good opinion of anything in general; he is far too cynical (and yet depressingly sometimes not cynical enough). He doesn't have too much animosity for the Seamstresses Guild, since the Agony Aunts handle any excesses by customers, and the Houses themselves make sure that a customer will not end up beaten, naked, and penniless in the streets, "unless his tastes run that way."

In {{J}}, Vimes finds himself in a difficult and tense situation where he is holding the [[Klatch|Klatchian]] Prince [[Cadram]] at bowpoint, and is prepared to kill him because (tenuous) evidence links him to a conspiracy to kill Prince [[Khufurah]], but there is no court which would try the case. He is saved by the arrival of [[Vetinari]], who defuses the situation.

According to [[Detritus]], when Vimes found a child-killer who has kept a "''memento''" of his deed, it was all the troll could do to prevent him from killing the perpetrator. This all comes to light during the events of {{T!}} where Vimes' internal Watchman - which describes itself as existing to keep the darkness in rather than keeping it out- battles with the [[Mine sign|Summoning Dark]] for supremacy of his soul and is ultimately victorious in dispelling the evil entity from its attempts to use Vimes to kill for it. This can be illustrated by the fact that when asked 'quis custodies ipsos custodes' ('Who watches the watchmen?') Vimes's immediate reaction is 'Me'. When asked who guards him, he replies, 'I do that too.'

He is capable of accepting specific individuals. He has married Lady Sybil and certainly loves her. He accepts members of ethnic minorities in his Watch, has personally trained some of them, and is quite proud of them. He promotes Watch officers according to merit and ability, regardless of gender, species, or seniority. He also has a soft spot for the poor, the working class, or the young. When he finds younger Assassins failing their attempts on him, for example, he lets them go with only minor wounds; older Assassins, on the other hand, have been known to be [[Richard Liddleley|painted and tied up left in public]], or even [[Eustace Bassingly-Gore|chained up and sent on a sea voyage]] all the way to the other end of [[Klatch (continent)|Klatch]]. To put it very simply, he tries to look after those who have nobody else looking after them.

In attempting to carry out justice, Vimes has arrested sons of Ankh-Morpork nobles as well as city dignitaries, all the way up to [[Lord Vetinari]]. This has put Vimes high on the hit list of the Assassins at a price of $AM20,000 in {{FOC}} rising to $AM600,000 after 9 failed attempts at the time of {{T5E}}; recently, however, he has been taken off the register, and the Guild of Assassins no longer accepts contracts on his life. This may be because he is somehow vital to the running of the city, as [[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]] is, or it may be because no sensible Assassin will volunteer for the task anyway. Vimes has personally designed and installed many traps and deadfalls all around the Ramkin family home and the Watch headquarters at [[Pseudopolis Yard]]. So far, Vimes hasn't been even injured by any Assassin. The Assassins Guild now has some of its trainees conduct "''dry run''" assassination attempts on Vimes as a matter of testing the trainee's skills - particularly if they feel the need to [[Jocasta Wiggs|bring the trainee's ego back down to the Disc]] (see {{NW}}).

He is also fiercely anti-authority, possibly a facet of his character which he inherited from Old Stoneface. That he manages this whilst actually being authority is, as [[Lord Vetinari]] put it, "''practically zen''." He regards being the Duke of Ankh as a job title and always prefers "Commander" or "sir" to any of his other titles, which include "''His Grace''," "''His Excellency''" and "''his blackboard-monitorship''" ({{T5E}} and {{T!}}). Continuing to call him by any of these titles after he's explained his preferences is an excellent way to get in His Grace His Excellency's bad graces.

Sam Vimes's full title of record is "''His Grace, His Excellency, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes''." His "Blackboard Monitor" epithet is used like a title in ''[[Book:Snuff|Snuff]]'', implying it may actually have been accorded some official weight by the Low King of the dwarfs. Ironically, the one title Vimes holds with genuine pride (as of ''[[Book:Snuff|Snuff]]''), aside from Commander, is "King" .. as in, "King of the River", an honorarium awarded in recognition of his role in saving the riverboat ''Wonderful Fanny'' from piracy and flood.

Members of the Watch earn the privilege, and it is a privilege, of calling him "''Mister Vimes''" only after very long association (i.e. [[Nobby Nobbs]] or [[Fred Colon]]), or after watching his back in a street fight to the extent that they have demonstrably saved his life ([[A.E. Pessimal]]). He does not tolerate the "''Mister''" from outsiders. [[Fred Colon]] sometimes calls him by his first name when he's worried. He has inherited his ancestor's nickname "''Old Stoneface''," but this is never said to his face.

==Activities and Duties==
As other noblemen might ride horses, wear laces, ruffles, and plumes, Sam Vimes walks the city on endless patrols and wears his old battered Watch armor and leather shirt and jerkin, with the standard sword and truncheon.

Since becoming the Commander of the Watch and as such a popular target with the clients of the [[Assassins' Guild]], Vimes also started the exercise of personally engineering pitfalls and death traps around his house and outside of his office at the police headquarters.

As Commander and top officer of the Watch, Vimes' job is to oversee its operations and has to deal with a lot of paperwork, a job which he hates but accomplishes adequately. He still tries to go on patrol whenever he has a chance; to him, walking the quiet streets in the dark is a calming, almost relaxing activity. When there is an important occasion on which crime is anticipated, for example, that a foreign dignitary may be attacked during a public appearance (in {{J}}), Vimes likes to personally check suspicious places such as an abandoned building that an assassin might use.

Deduction is not Vimes' favorite activity; he distrusts clues and loathes mysteries (''"mysteries get you killed"''), and he now has the [[Cable Street Particulars]] to deal with peculiar crimes, but sometimes Vimes still personally investigates a case. When he witnesses a crime occurring, he abandons everything and chases the miscreant. It is possible that he uses police work to escape the social life of "Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh".

As both urged by Lady Sybil and ordered by Lord Vetinari, Vimes now often has to appear at dinners and parties. Most of the nobles and government officials that he sees at such social occasions, he considers stupid or obnoxious. Should he be accosted by one of these people, he does not hesitate to make clear how and why he loathes them. Vetinari likes to use Vimes as a diplomat, and while more often than not Vimes is the cause of diplomatic incidents, these seem often the intention of Vetinari.

The former Lord Ramkin, Lady Sybil's late father, had always had servants to shave him, to lay out his bath, to scrub his back, to lay out his clothes, to clean his shiny boots, and so on. Vimes now allows the butler to lay out his clothes, but that is about all. He insists on shaving himself as he dislikes other people putting a [[razor blade]], (or indeed any sort of sharp edge) to his throat, and attempts to wear cheap boots with cardboard soles. He has been walking the city in such boots for decades, and he likes being able to feel the different types of cobblestones so that he can tell which street he is on. Besides watch armour, Vimes has some gentleman's suits, a dress uniform of the Watch Commander, and a dress uniform of the Duke. He is often required to wear the ducal dress uniform, which has ruby tights (''"you wouldn't wear tights to battle if you thought you would be taken prisoner"''), a spiky coronet, a gilt armour (''"toy armour"''), and no place to hang his sword (''"you got made a duke for fighting and then they gave you no sword to fight with"''). Vimes compromises by wearing the Watch Commander dress uniform.

Nowadays, Vimes has to eat fancy food as cooked in the Ramkins' house. Personally, he prefers simple, greasy food with burnt crunchy bits, and so he is happier when he eats things that Lady Sybil has personally cooked by a dragon's fire.

Upon becoming a father, Vimes swore to faithfully get home by 6 p.m. every evening to read a certain picture book called ''[[Book:Where's My Cow?|Where's My Cow?]]'' to his son, Young Sam. This has become such a point of pride that he now has nightmares about not being home by 6 p.m. There is absolutely nothing that takes precedence over this; Vimes believes that if he misses it even once for a good reason, the next time he might miss it for a bad one, and eventually this attitude might spill over into the rest of his life. By the time of ''Snuff'', Young Sam has become the reader and Vimes Senior, the listener, but their 6 p.m. reading sessions continue like clockwork.

His son's welfare is one of the few things Vimes is willing to cross even his wife about, such that he insisted that they hire a nursemaid, Purity, to attend to Young Sam over Sybil's objections. Presumably this is also why the protective flame-baffles between the Vimes residence and Sybil's dragon stables are much, much sturdier in ''Thud!'' than in previous books.

==Annotation==
Philip Jackson from the British ''Robin of Sherwood'' TV series provides the voice for Vimes in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of {{NW}}.

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Sam Vimes|Samuel Vimes's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
* [http://discworldreadingorder.azurewebsites.net/TheWatch The Watch reading order] - A guide to Sam Vimes's story arc.

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Latatian Phrases

2017-06-23T22:37:38Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Family Mottos */

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumquae Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" ({{FOC}})
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less) ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes)

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo Homini Lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
** Interestingly, [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] is ''Noli Timore Messorum'' - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto.
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:Modus operandi|M.O.]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of 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 city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow" -- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks"/"I will reimburse sufficiently" (which is very close to the legend "I promise to the bearer, on demand, the sum of" written on all British paper money. It is commonly held to be the case that, should the bearer of e.g. a £5 note could exchange it for £5 worth of gold in a bank and that is true provided no-one ever actually asks. Once you've got your head around that fact, it becomes clear that paper money is in fact an illusion, but one we all believe in - we have to.) (See also; [[Paper Money]].) {{MM}}
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!]]'' - "I am an [[Ankh Morpork]] Citizen!" ({{RS}})
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the realworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss. [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's dubious motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Latatian Phrases

2017-06-23T22:33:44Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Family Mottos */

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumquae Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" ({{FOC}})
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less) ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes)

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo Homini Lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
** Interestingly, [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] is ''Noli Timore Messorum'' - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto.
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's "personal motto" ({{RS}}).
** ''Uno Homo, Uno Voto'' - "One Man, One Vote." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto/[[Wikipedia:MO|MO]] ({{M}}, {{UA}})--("Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of 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 city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.")

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow" -- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks"/"I will reimburse sufficiently" (which is very close to the legend "I promise to the bearer, on demand, the sum of" written on all British paper money. It is commonly held to be the case that, should the bearer of e.g. a £5 note could exchange it for £5 worth of gold in a bank and that is true provided no-one ever actually asks. Once you've got your head around that fact, it becomes clear that paper money is in fact an illusion, but one we all believe in - we have to.) (See also; [[Paper Money]].) {{MM}}
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!]]'' - "I am an [[Ankh Morpork]] Citizen!" ({{RS}})
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the realworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss. [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's dubious motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Granny Weatherwax

2015-09-03T09:32:02Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Trivia */

{{Character Data
|title= Granny Weatherwax
|photo=grannymine.jpg|Granny Weatherwax by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= Esmerelda Weatherwax
|age= Dare you ask?
|race= Human
|occupation= Greatest [[witches magic|Witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]
|appearance= Tall, thin with a wart-free complexion and good teeth, (despite her best efforts,) and perpetual scowl
|residence= Granny's Cottage, [[Bad Ass]], [[Lancre]], The [[Ramtops]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax|Violet]]
|relatives= [[Lily Weatherwax|Lily]], [[Alison Weatherwax|Alison]], [[Galder Weatherwax|Galder]]
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{ER}}, {{WS}}, {{WA}}, {{LL}}, {{M!!!}}, {{CJ}}, {{NOC}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{TSC}}
|cameos= {{M}}, {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}}, {{SOD2}}, possibly {{GP}} }}

'''Granny Weatherwax''', (full name ''Esmerelda ("''Esme''") Weatherwax'', [[Troll]] name ''Aaoograha hoa'' ("''She Who Must Be Avoided'',") [[Dwarf]] name ''K'ez'rek d'b'duz'' ("''Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain'',") [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] name ''The Hag O' Hags'' ("''The High Hag'',")) is a [[witch]], who lives in a small cottage outside the village of [[Bad Ass]], in the kingdom of [[Lancre]], on the Sto Plains face of the [[Ramtops]].

==Backhistory==
According to ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', Esme "Granny" Weatherwax was born the younger of two daughters. While it hasn't been mentioned if her mother was a Witch or not, Granny mentions that her father was a hunter, who once taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" (''[[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]''). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows with her parents over Lily's behavior, as Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic, "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age, that Lily was vain and prideful, ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"), and that "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13 years.

After Granny had grown-up, she was adamant on becoming a Witch; as she reveals in ''Lords and Ladies'', 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 everything she knew. Hah. That took her a week ''and'' I had the afternoons free. ... No ''I'' chose...''"). Granny would go on to become a fully-fledged Witch, and at some point took responsibility for her own steading, the village of Bad Ass and the Kingdom of Lancre as a whole. Granny Weatherwax, as she would later come to be known as, also nursed her ailing mother until the time of her death, (what became of her father has never been mentioned). Whilest still a young woman, Granny was involved in a summer-long romance with then-aspiring Wizard, Mustrum Ridcully, but ultimately they were both committed to their respective paths of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Granny is estimated to be in her seventies during the events of {{WS}}, {{WA}}, ''Lords and Ladies'', {{M}} & {{CJ}}, the same age as Nanny Ogg, (having grown up with her). Yet, by the standards of [[Eumenides Treason|Mistress Eumenides Treason]], she is still considered a girl ({{W}}).

Granny Weatherwax passes away early in the events of ''{{TSC}}'', now in her 80's; where, after experiencing The Call, she tidys-up her cottage, prepares her own wicker casket, and sets her last will and testament down in writing (confirming instructions she had already 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 with her life, with Granny confirming that she was satisfied to have lived the way she did and kept her part of the world safe, Death in turn assuring her that her candle will continue to flicker long after her passing and that she has left the world in a better condition than it was when she entered it. Her death is felt across the Disc; Nanny Ogg and Tiffany Aching arrive first to lay her to rest in the forest at a site pre-chosen by Granny-herself, and Archchancellor [[Mustrum Ridcully]] visits briefly to pay his last respects. Over the course of the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown'', Tiffany Aching, who Granny has named her benefactor, overstretches herself trying to witch two steadings and live-up to Granny's reputation as the new 'Witch of Witches', but eventually comes to accept the need to do things her way rather than simply make herself do everything Granny did.

==Characterization==
She is considered, (not least of all by herself,) to be the best [[witches magic|witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] and is refered to by the [[Pictsies]] as the 'Hag O' Hags'. She is the resident witch of [[Bad Ass]], but she tends to regard the whole kingdom, and indeed absolutely anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain, (not unlike [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] in that respect.) Her cottage is probably the most traditional of all the witches' cottages in Lancre, complete with archaic thatch, goats, and huge thickets of '[[herbs]]' which move even when there's no breeze. She has a special fondness for bees and keeps several hives in her garden.

She prefers to use "''[[headology]]''" instead of magic as the [[wizard's magic|wizards]] practise it, believing that magic is not so much flashy lights as knowing things that other people don't know. As a witch she is, on the one hand, feared by the people of the [[Ramtops]] and, on the other hand, respected as a midwife, herbalist, and the spiritual version of a coal-mine canary. Granny likes to [[borrowing|borrow]], a special kind of magic where the user enters the mind of an animal and can see through the eyes of that animal. As this technique renders her own body totally dormant, she now wears a small cardboard sign with the words "I Aten't Dead" on it to avoid unnecessary embarrassment.[[Image:Granny_Weatherwax.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Illustrated by [[user:Puggdogg|Mick Collins]]]]

''"Granny had been introduced to [[Broomstick]] flying quite late in life, and after some initial suspicion had taken to it like a bluebottle to an ancient fish-head. A problem, however, was that Granny saw every flight simply as a straight line from A to B and was unable to get alongside the idea that other users of the air might have any rights whatsoever; the flight migration patterns of an entire continent had been changed because of that simple fact. High-speed evolution among local birds had developed a generation that flew on their backs, so that they could keep a watchful eye on the skies...Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and , on occasion, mountains,"'' ([[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]).

Granny's opinions about other things being in the way of her broomstick has since moved with modern technology, as in {{GP}} we hear of an anonymous witch from Lancre who succeeded in bringing the [[Clacks|clacks]] line down by riding her broomstick into one of the towers, damaging its sensitive mechanisms and terrifying the luckless crew.

While this witch is not identified and remains anonymous, a fairly accurate guess could be hazarded as to her name... it is noteworthy that [[Reacher Gilt]] himself must have thought twice about pursuing any claim for damages or inconvenience! {{SOD2}} confirms that she has had several such accidents, and believes the towers move into her way. Her broomstick was originally borrowed from a witch called [[Hilta Goatfounder]], and despite the best and continued efforts of the dwarfs servicing her broomstick, it won't take off without a considerable run.

Her [[Lily Weatherwax|elder sister]] left home in her youth, eventually to become a [[fairy godmother]]. Granny seems to harbour a bitter resentment of this fact, because after that she felt compelled to be the "good one" in the family; she also believes that she could have been a lot more evil than her sister. Despite this, she did stay at home and nurse her mother until she died.

Granny's personality would, to many, lend itself nicely to the "bad witch" stereotype: she's competitive, selfish and ambitious, with a quick temper and a sharp tongue. She also wields a gaze stern enough to make bears cower in humiliated shame. Her practical history, however, clearly puts her in the "good witch" camp (a sort of personification of "tough love"), if only because she's too proud to be any other kind.

Granny Weatherwax has faced [[Death]] many times, and has not backed down yet. She has also faced and defeated [[Elves]], [[vampires]] (or [[vampyres]]), and [[wizard's magic|wizards]]. (See [[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]], [[Book:Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]] and [[Book:Equal Rites|Equal Rites]])

Her companions, as far as a witch can have these, are [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]] and [[Agnes Nitt]]. She was [[Eskarina Smith]]'s first teacher in the arts of magic, until she realised that Esk's magic was of a different sort altogether. She gave [[Tiffany Aching]] her hat. She was once romantically involved with [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. Recently, via [[Tiffany Aching]], she has been acquired by a white kitten called [[You]]. This is surprising, as Granny is, by her own admission, not a cat person; [[Greebo]], who knows bad news when it blesses the house, always hides when she visits [[Nanny Ogg]].

==Character annotations==
"''Weatherwax''" was also the name of the author of an old lawbook. [http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.books.pratchett/msg/1dad94515c79f71c?hl=nl& Source]

==Trivia==
* According to ''[[Equal Rites]]'', Granny Weatherwax, amongst other things, makes her own liqour for medicinal purposes, (she has her own [[wikipedia:Still|Still]]), her "triple-distilled white mountain [[wikipedia:Peach brandy|Peach brandy]]" is well known even in the town of Ohulan Cutash, (a town fifteen miles away from Bad Ass), and its regaurded as "much better than [[wikipedia:Beer|beer]]". Granny's triple-distilled peach brandy isn't mentioned again until the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown''.

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Granny Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

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[[de:Esmeralda Wetterwachs]]

Granny Weatherwax

2015-09-03T09:30:32Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Granny Weatherwax
|photo=grannymine.jpg|Granny Weatherwax by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= Esmerelda Weatherwax
|age= Dare you ask?
|race= Human
|occupation= Greatest [[witches magic|Witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]
|appearance= Tall, thin with a wart-free complexion and good teeth, (despite her best efforts,) and perpetual scowl
|residence= Granny's Cottage, [[Bad Ass]], [[Lancre]], The [[Ramtops]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax|Violet]]
|relatives= [[Lily Weatherwax|Lily]], [[Alison Weatherwax|Alison]], [[Galder Weatherwax|Galder]]
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{ER}}, {{WS}}, {{WA}}, {{LL}}, {{M!!!}}, {{CJ}}, {{NOC}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}, {{TSC}}
|cameos= {{M}}, {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}}, {{SOD2}}, possibly {{GP}} }}

'''Granny Weatherwax''', (full name ''Esmerelda ("''Esme''") Weatherwax'', [[Troll]] name ''Aaoograha hoa'' ("''She Who Must Be Avoided'',") [[Dwarf]] name ''K'ez'rek d'b'duz'' ("''Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain'',") [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] name ''The Hag O' Hags'' ("''The High Hag'',")) is a [[witch]], who lives in a small cottage outside the village of [[Bad Ass]], in the kingdom of [[Lancre]], on the Sto Plains face of the [[Ramtops]].

==Backhistory==
According to ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', Esme "Granny" Weatherwax was born the younger of two daughters. While it hasn't been mentioned if her mother was a Witch or not, Granny mentions that her father was a hunter, who once taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" (''[[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]''). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows with her parents over Lily's behavior, as Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic, "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age, that Lily was vain and prideful, ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"), and that "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13 years.

After Granny had grown-up, she was adamant on becoming a Witch; as she reveals in ''Lords and Ladies'', 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 everything she knew. Hah. That took her a week ''and'' I had the afternoons free. ... No ''I'' chose...''"). Granny would go on to become a fully-fledged Witch, and at some point took responsibility for her own steading, the village of Bad Ass and the Kingdom of Lancre as a whole. Granny Weatherwax, as she would later come to be known as, also nursed her ailing mother until the time of her death, (what became of her father has never been mentioned). Whilest still a young woman, Granny was involved in a summer-long romance with then-aspiring Wizard, Mustrum Ridcully, but ultimately they were both committed to their respective paths of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Granny is estimated to be in her seventies during the events of {{WS}}, {{WA}}, ''Lords and Ladies'', {{M}} & {{CJ}}, the same age as Nanny Ogg, (having grown up with her). Yet, by the standards of [[Eumenides Treason|Mistress Eumenides Treason]], she is still considered a girl ({{W}}).

Granny Weatherwax passes away early in the events of ''{{TSC}}'', now in her 80's; where, after experiencing The Call, she tidys-up her cottage, prepares her own wicker casket, and sets her last will and testament down in writing (confirming instructions she had already 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 with her life, with Granny confirming that she was satisfied to have lived the way she did and kept her part of the world safe, Death in turn assuring her that her candle will continue to flicker long after her passing and that she has left the world in a better condition than it was when she entered it. Her death is felt across the Disc; Nanny Ogg and Tiffany Aching arrive first to lay her to rest in the forest at a site pre-chosen by Granny-herself, and Archchancellor [[Mustrum Ridcully]] visits briefly to pay his last respects. Over the course of the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown'', Tiffany Aching, who Granny has named her benefactor, overstretches herself trying to witch two steadings and live-up to Granny's reputation as the new 'Witch of Witches', but eventually comes to accept the need to do things her way rather than simply make herself do everything Granny did.

==Characterization==
She is considered, (not least of all by herself,) to be the best [[witches magic|witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] and is refered to by the [[Pictsies]] as the 'Hag O' Hags'. She is the resident witch of [[Bad Ass]], but she tends to regard the whole kingdom, and indeed absolutely anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain, (not unlike [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] in that respect.) Her cottage is probably the most traditional of all the witches' cottages in Lancre, complete with archaic thatch, goats, and huge thickets of '[[herbs]]' which move even when there's no breeze. She has a special fondness for bees and keeps several hives in her garden.

She prefers to use "''[[headology]]''" instead of magic as the [[wizard's magic|wizards]] practise it, believing that magic is not so much flashy lights as knowing things that other people don't know. As a witch she is, on the one hand, feared by the people of the [[Ramtops]] and, on the other hand, respected as a midwife, herbalist, and the spiritual version of a coal-mine canary. Granny likes to [[borrowing|borrow]], a special kind of magic where the user enters the mind of an animal and can see through the eyes of that animal. As this technique renders her own body totally dormant, she now wears a small cardboard sign with the words "I Aten't Dead" on it to avoid unnecessary embarrassment.[[Image:Granny_Weatherwax.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Illustrated by [[user:Puggdogg|Mick Collins]]]]

''"Granny had been introduced to [[Broomstick]] flying quite late in life, and after some initial suspicion had taken to it like a bluebottle to an ancient fish-head. A problem, however, was that Granny saw every flight simply as a straight line from A to B and was unable to get alongside the idea that other users of the air might have any rights whatsoever; the flight migration patterns of an entire continent had been changed because of that simple fact. High-speed evolution among local birds had developed a generation that flew on their backs, so that they could keep a watchful eye on the skies...Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and , on occasion, mountains,"'' ([[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]).

Granny's opinions about other things being in the way of her broomstick has since moved with modern technology, as in {{GP}} we hear of an anonymous witch from Lancre who succeeded in bringing the [[Clacks|clacks]] line down by riding her broomstick into one of the towers, damaging its sensitive mechanisms and terrifying the luckless crew.

While this witch is not identified and remains anonymous, a fairly accurate guess could be hazarded as to her name... it is noteworthy that [[Reacher Gilt]] himself must have thought twice about pursuing any claim for damages or inconvenience! {{SOD2}} confirms that she has had several such accidents, and believes the towers move into her way. Her broomstick was originally borrowed from a witch called [[Hilta Goatfounder]], and despite the best and continued efforts of the dwarfs servicing her broomstick, it won't take off without a considerable run.

Her [[Lily Weatherwax|elder sister]] left home in her youth, eventually to become a [[fairy godmother]]. Granny seems to harbour a bitter resentment of this fact, because after that she felt compelled to be the "good one" in the family; she also believes that she could have been a lot more evil than her sister. Despite this, she did stay at home and nurse her mother until she died.

Granny's personality would, to many, lend itself nicely to the "bad witch" stereotype: she's competitive, selfish and ambitious, with a quick temper and a sharp tongue. She also wields a gaze stern enough to make bears cower in humiliated shame. Her practical history, however, clearly puts her in the "good witch" camp (a sort of personification of "tough love"), if only because she's too proud to be any other kind.

Granny Weatherwax has faced [[Death]] many times, and has not backed down yet. She has also faced and defeated [[Elves]], [[vampires]] (or [[vampyres]]), and [[wizard's magic|wizards]]. (See [[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]], [[Book:Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]] and [[Book:Equal Rites|Equal Rites]])

Her companions, as far as a witch can have these, are [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]] and [[Agnes Nitt]]. She was [[Eskarina Smith]]'s first teacher in the arts of magic, until she realised that Esk's magic was of a different sort altogether. She gave [[Tiffany Aching]] her hat. She was once romantically involved with [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. Recently, via [[Tiffany Aching]], she has been acquired by a white kitten called [[You]]. This is surprising, as Granny is, by her own admission, not a cat person; [[Greebo]], who knows bad news when it blesses the house, always hides when she visits [[Nanny Ogg]].

==Character annotations==
"''Weatherwax''" was also the name of the author of an old lawbook. [http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.books.pratchett/msg/1dad94515c79f71c?hl=nl& Source]

==Trivia==
* According to ''[[Equal Rites]]'', Granny Weatherwax, amongst other things, makes her own liqour for medicinal purposes, (she has her own [[wikipedia:Still|Still]]), her "triple-distilled white mountain [[wikipedia:Peach brandy|Peach brandy]]" is well known even in the town of Ohulan Cutash, (a town fifteen miles away from Bad Ass), and its regaurded as "much better than [[wikipedia:Beer|beer]]".

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Granny Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Granny]]
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[[de:Esmeralda Wetterwachs]]

Granny Weatherwax

2015-09-03T09:29:44Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Backhistory */

{{Character Data
|title= Granny Weatherwax
|photo=grannymine.jpg|Granny Weatherwax by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= Esmerelda Weatherwax
|age= Dare you ask?
|race= Human
|occupation= Greatest [[witches magic|Witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]
|appearance= Tall, thin with a wart-free complexion and good teeth, (despite her best efforts,) and perpetual scowl
|residence= Granny's Cottage, [[Bad Ass]], [[Lancre]], The [[Ramtops]]
|death=
|parents= [[Violet Weatherwax|Violet]]
|relatives= [[Lily Weatherwax|Lily]], [[Alison Weatherwax|Alison]], [[Galder Weatherwax|Galder]]
|children=
|marital status=
|books= {{ER}}, {{WS}}, {{WA}}, {{LL}}, {{M!!!}}, {{CJ}}, {{NOC}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}}
|cameos= {{M}}, {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}}, {{SOD2}}, possibly {{GP}} }}

'''Granny Weatherwax''', (full name ''Esmerelda ("''Esme''") Weatherwax'', [[Troll]] name ''Aaoograha hoa'' ("''She Who Must Be Avoided'',") [[Dwarf]] name ''K'ez'rek d'b'duz'' ("''Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain'',") [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] name ''The Hag O' Hags'' ("''The High Hag'',")) is a [[witch]], who lives in a small cottage outside the village of [[Bad Ass]], in the kingdom of [[Lancre]], on the Sto Plains face of the [[Ramtops]].

==Backhistory==
According to ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', Esme "Granny" Weatherwax was born the younger of two daughters. While it hasn't been mentioned if her mother was a Witch or not, Granny mentions that her father was a hunter, who once taught Granny that "''a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits''" (''[[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]''). While Granny was practically still just a [[wiktionary:bairn|bairn]], her teenaged, older sister, Lily, was getting into increasingly frequent rows with her parents over Lily's behavior, as Granny reveals to Nanny Ogg in ''Witches Abroad'', Lily was wanton, using magic for it and not just ordinary magic, "''she was wilful''", as Granny describes it, able to remember her sister's and mother's rows even at that young age, that Lily was vain and prideful, ("''always looking in mirrors... Prideful as a cat, she was. Prefer to look in a mirror than out of a window, she would''"), and that "''young men's fathers used to come round to complain''", culminating in Lily being kicked out of the household at the age of 13 years.

After Granny had grown-up, she was adamant on becoming a Witch; as she reveals in ''Lords and Ladies'', 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 everything she knew. Hah. That took her a week ''and'' I had the afternoons free. ... No ''I'' chose...''"). Granny would go on to become a fully-fledged Witch, and at some point took responsibility for her own steading, the village of Bad Ass and the Kingdom of Lancre as a whole. Granny Weatherwax, as she would later come to be known as, also nursed her ailing mother until the time of her death, (what became of her father has never been mentioned). Whilest still a young woman, Granny was involved in a summer-long romance with then-aspiring Wizard, Mustrum Ridcully, but ultimately they were both committed to their respective paths of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Granny is estimated to be in her seventies during the events of {{WS}}, {{WA}}, ''Lords and Ladies'', {{M}} & {{CJ}}, the same age as Nanny Ogg, (having grown up with her). Yet, by the standards of [[Eumenides Treason|Mistress Eumenides Treason]], she is still considered a girl ({{W}}).

Granny Weatherwax passes away early in the events of ''{{TSC}}'', now in her 80's; where, after experiencing The Call, she tidys-up her cottage, prepares her own wicker casket, and sets her last will and testament down in writing (confirming instructions she had already 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 with her life, with Granny confirming that she was satisfied to have lived the way she did and kept her part of the world safe, Death in turn assuring her that her candle will continue to flicker long after her passing and that she has left the world in a better condition than it was when she entered it. Her death is felt across the Disc; Nanny Ogg and Tiffany Aching arrive first to lay her to rest in the forest at a site pre-chosen by Granny-herself, and Archchancellor [[Mustrum Ridcully]] visits briefly to pay his last respects. Over the course of the events of ''The Shepherd's Crown'', Tiffany Aching, who Granny has named her benefactor, overstretches herself trying to witch two steadings and live-up to Granny's reputation as the new 'Witch of Witches', but eventually comes to accept the need to do things her way rather than simply make herself do everything Granny did.

==Characterization==
She is considered, (not least of all by herself,) to be the best [[witches magic|witch]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] and is refered to by the [[Pictsies]] as the 'Hag O' Hags'. She is the resident witch of [[Bad Ass]], but she tends to regard the whole kingdom, and indeed absolutely anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain, (not unlike [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] in that respect.) Her cottage is probably the most traditional of all the witches' cottages in Lancre, complete with archaic thatch, goats, and huge thickets of '[[herbs]]' which move even when there's no breeze. She has a special fondness for bees and keeps several hives in her garden.

She prefers to use "''[[headology]]''" instead of magic as the [[wizard's magic|wizards]] practise it, believing that magic is not so much flashy lights as knowing things that other people don't know. As a witch she is, on the one hand, feared by the people of the [[Ramtops]] and, on the other hand, respected as a midwife, herbalist, and the spiritual version of a coal-mine canary. Granny likes to [[borrowing|borrow]], a special kind of magic where the user enters the mind of an animal and can see through the eyes of that animal. As this technique renders her own body totally dormant, she now wears a small cardboard sign with the words "I Aten't Dead" on it to avoid unnecessary embarrassment.[[Image:Granny_Weatherwax.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Illustrated by [[user:Puggdogg|Mick Collins]]]]

''"Granny had been introduced to [[Broomstick]] flying quite late in life, and after some initial suspicion had taken to it like a bluebottle to an ancient fish-head. A problem, however, was that Granny saw every flight simply as a straight line from A to B and was unable to get alongside the idea that other users of the air might have any rights whatsoever; the flight migration patterns of an entire continent had been changed because of that simple fact. High-speed evolution among local birds had developed a generation that flew on their backs, so that they could keep a watchful eye on the skies...Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and , on occasion, mountains,"'' ([[Book:Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]).

Granny's opinions about other things being in the way of her broomstick has since moved with modern technology, as in {{GP}} we hear of an anonymous witch from Lancre who succeeded in bringing the [[Clacks|clacks]] line down by riding her broomstick into one of the towers, damaging its sensitive mechanisms and terrifying the luckless crew.

While this witch is not identified and remains anonymous, a fairly accurate guess could be hazarded as to her name... it is noteworthy that [[Reacher Gilt]] himself must have thought twice about pursuing any claim for damages or inconvenience! {{SOD2}} confirms that she has had several such accidents, and believes the towers move into her way. Her broomstick was originally borrowed from a witch called [[Hilta Goatfounder]], and despite the best and continued efforts of the dwarfs servicing her broomstick, it won't take off without a considerable run.

Her [[Lily Weatherwax|elder sister]] left home in her youth, eventually to become a [[fairy godmother]]. Granny seems to harbour a bitter resentment of this fact, because after that she felt compelled to be the "good one" in the family; she also believes that she could have been a lot more evil than her sister. Despite this, she did stay at home and nurse her mother until she died.

Granny's personality would, to many, lend itself nicely to the "bad witch" stereotype: she's competitive, selfish and ambitious, with a quick temper and a sharp tongue. She also wields a gaze stern enough to make bears cower in humiliated shame. Her practical history, however, clearly puts her in the "good witch" camp (a sort of personification of "tough love"), if only because she's too proud to be any other kind.

Granny Weatherwax has faced [[Death]] many times, and has not backed down yet. She has also faced and defeated [[Elves]], [[vampires]] (or [[vampyres]]), and [[wizard's magic|wizards]]. (See [[Book:Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]], [[Book:Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]] and [[Book:Equal Rites|Equal Rites]])

Her companions, as far as a witch can have these, are [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]] and [[Agnes Nitt]]. She was [[Eskarina Smith]]'s first teacher in the arts of magic, until she realised that Esk's magic was of a different sort altogether. She gave [[Tiffany Aching]] her hat. She was once romantically involved with [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. Recently, via [[Tiffany Aching]], she has been acquired by a white kitten called [[You]]. This is surprising, as Granny is, by her own admission, not a cat person; [[Greebo]], who knows bad news when it blesses the house, always hides when she visits [[Nanny Ogg]].

==Character annotations==
"''Weatherwax''" was also the name of the author of an old lawbook. [http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.books.pratchett/msg/1dad94515c79f71c?hl=nl& Source]

==Trivia==
* According to ''[[Equal Rites]]'', Granny Weatherwax, amongst other things, makes her own liqour for medicinal purposes, (she has her own [[wikipedia:Still|Still]]), her "triple-distilled white mountain [[wikipedia:Peach brandy|Peach brandy]]" is well known even in the town of Ohulan Cutash, (a town fifteen miles away from Bad Ass), and its regaurded as "much better than [[wikipedia:Beer|beer]]".

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Granny Weatherwax|Granny Weatherwax's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Granny]]
[[Category:Leading characters|Weatherwax, Granny]]
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[[de:Esmeralda Wetterwachs]]

Suicide

2015-08-10T03:45:57Z

Mare-Silverus:

One of the more common causes of death in [[Ankh-Morpork]], Suicide on [[Roundworld]] refers to the willful and premeditated taking of one's own life. However, the famous Morporkian literalism steps in to expand this definition until it includes not only self-initiated suicides but also those actions that are guaranteed beyond a doubt to result in another being killing the suicidal person in question. Should the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]] conclude that they are investigating a case of Suicide, (suicide with a capital '''S''',) they will tend to wrap up the investigation swiftly and move on to something more important.

== '''Methods of committing Suicide:''' ==
* Walking into [[the Mended Drum]] and announcing that your name is '[[Vincent the Invulnerable]]' or some-other-such-nonsense works every time.
* Calling a [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegle]] 'a fairy' will bring about a fairly quick Suicide.
* Shouting "''All [[Gods]] are bastards''!" in the middle of a thunderstorm, whilst wearing copper armour, counts as Suicide.
* Going up to a [[Witches|Witch]], [[Werewolves|werewolf]], [[Vampires|vampire]] or [[Susan Sto Helit]], leering, and proclaiming; "''I likes a girl with spirit!''" is extremely ill-advised, even if, strictly speaking, you're left alive afterwards to ponder the wisdom of your actions, having just slid down the learning curve...
* Unlicensed [[Thieves' Guild|theft]] is Suicide. So too is unlicensed [[Assassins' Guild|assassination]], unlicensed [[Fools' Guild|fooling]] and unlicensed [[Seamstresses' Guild|'needlework' (hem, hem)]].
* Attempting to apply the [[Marquis of Fantailler]] [[Marquis of Fantailler rules|rules]] of pugilism in an actual fight, is a very effective method of Suicide.
* Standing between the parades on [[Battle of Koom Valley|Battle of Koom Valley Day/Troll New Year]] is Suicide, (unless you happen to be Capt. [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].)
* Swimming in the [[River Ankh]] is suicide.
** Fishing in the River Ankh is also suicide... if [[Harry King]] doesn't get you for violating his sole right to "waterborne salvage", your catch will be ornery enough to express an opinion about it.
* Calling a [[dwarfs|dwarf]] "''short stuff''," will either result in Suicide, or a sudden lack of leg below the knees.
* Referring to [[Trolls|trolls]] as "''stupid [[rocks]]''" is also a sure-fire way to commit Suicide, as is looking [[elves|elvish]] in the presence of dwarves or trolls.
* Stepping on a [[gnomes|gnome]] will generally not result in Suicide, although it has unfortunate consequences for those who do.
* Wielding a [[Knockermen|flamethrower]] in the presence of a [[swamp dragon]] is Suicide--either due to the dragons, or due to [[Sybil Ramkin|Lady Sybil]] catching you in the act or finding out about it.
* Attempting to rob [[the Bucket]], in full-view of members of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] and/or take [[Angua|a certain member of the Watch]] hostage, is Suicide.
* Taking a stroll through [[the Shades]] is Suicide, or at least it was until the [[City Watch|Watch]] was brought back up to full-strength. Now, it is possibly only ''attempted'' Suicide.
* Attempting to swindle, cheat, rob, or otherwise deceive or harm any member of the [[Seamstresses' Guild]] (hem, hem) is a Suicide once the [[Agony Aunts]] find out. Those who survive are best advised to not complain...
* Being curt, frank or unpleasant to [[Jonathan Teatime|Mr. Jonathan Teatime]], before his death, was a method of Suicide.
* Messing with [[Rincewind]] is Suicide, (though indirectly,) since [[The Luggage]] (or, if you´re lucky, whatever Rincewind´s running away from) will eventually catch up with you. Messing with the Luggage itself is also Suicide.
* Attempting to traffic in [[Scrape]], [[slab]], or any other troll drug is Suicide... once Sgt. [[Detritus]] the troll catches up with you, though as actually causing a citizen to commit Suicide in this manner would be classified as "''police brutality''" and would result in unnecessary paperwork, Sgt. Detritus will probably leave you alive. Probably...
* Staging an assassination attempt on [[Mustrum Ridcully]] is Suicide, by way of the two loaded-crossbows he keeps handy on his bedside table or on his person.
* Standing near a [[Nac Mac Feegle]] mound with a spade, intent on digging, will for the moment be called Suicide... until a proper name can be invented.
* Devising a [[Linoleum|zoolological taxonomy]] for all living-things on the Discworld becomes Suicide when you choose to give Trolls the Latatian classification of ''stultus saxum'', ("''Stupid Rocks'',") or Werewolves, ''lupus sapiens'' ("''clever doggies''.") Add to this Latatian terms for Dwarfs that translate as "''garden ornaments''" and Vampires as "''bloody undead''" then you will have a Suicide-in-the-making.
* Tapping [[Cohen the Barbarian]] or any member of the [[Silver Horde]] on the back may result in Suicide... or it may just result in the loss of certain popular body parts...
* Enlisting in a regiment under the command of Lord [[Ronald Rust]] is Suicide. Luckly, Lord Rust is now confined to a wheelchair...
* Calling the [[Librarian]] of the [[Unseen University]] a "monkey" is Suicide.
* Keeping Sir [[Samuel Vimes]] from reading to his [[Young Sam Vimes|son]] is Suicide, as Sir Samuel will "Go Spare."
* An attempt on the life of [[Young Sam Vimes|The Honourable Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II]] is Suicide, either by means of his father, or his mother, the [[Sybil Ramkin|Lady Sybil]]...(Or if you're lucky [[Willikins|Willikins]] will get you)

==Annotation==
For the Roundworld definition of suicide, see [[Wikipedia:Suicide|here]], but put simply, "''suicide''," (Latin suicidium, from ''sui caedere'', "''to kill oneself'',") is the intentional killing of one's self. The most common cause is an underlying psychiatric disorder, such as, but not limited to, depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism and drug abuse. Financial difficulties or other undesirable situations play a significant role in the developing world.

World-wide it is the ''tenth'' leading cause of death with over one million people committing suicide every year. It is one of the leading causes of death among teenagers and adults under 35. There are an estimated ten to twenty ''million'' failed suicide attempts every year worldwide! That makes even Ankh-Morpork look tame (not considering the population difference...)!

The Discworld definition of Suicide is sometimes used on Roundworld too, as in [[Wikipedia:Suicide_by_cop|"Suicide by cop"]]

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Stratford

2015-08-10T03:25:07Z

Mare-Silverus:

{{Character Data
|title= Stratford
|photo= Stratford.png|Stratford, as drawn by [[User:TMOH|TMOH]]
|name= Stratford (first name unknown)
|age= early twenties
|race= Human
|death= killed by [[Willikins]]
|occupation= murderer in the employ of [[Gravid Rust]]
|appearance= Looks like everyone else: average height, mousy hair, no scars that show.
|residence= [[The Shires]]
|books= {{SN}}
}}

'''Mr Stratford''' (first name unknown) was a homicidal maniac and all-round nut job in the employ of [[Gravid Rust]], who murdered at least sixteen people and an unknown number of goblins, including the goblin woman whose murder set off the events of ''[[Snuff]]''. He was young, with mousy hair and no scars that show--as generic-looking as [[Moist von Lipwig]], in fact, except when he got angry enough for the beast inside to show through, just like [[Carcer]]. Good with a slingshot, but more often seen wielding a machete or a nasty-looking assortment of small knives. He didn't like water, and wouldn't get on a boat if he could help it.

He first came to the attention of [[Samuel Vimes|Commander Vimes]] during the latter's investigation of the murder on [[Hangman's Hill]]. He tried to outwit Vimes aboard the ''[[Wonderful Fanny]]'' by disguising himself as the river rat "Eddie Brassbound", but found himself outmaneuvered instead and, after a fight in the wheelhouse, left to go down with the ship.

But Stratford was not an easy man to kill, and he resurfaced on the riverboat, the ''[[Roberta E. Biscuit]]'', where he tried to kill Vimes' son, [[Young Sam Vimes]] Jr., only instead to be ambushed in a trap set by Vimes Sr., who had not been drunk as Stratford had first thought, (having seen him ingest many drinks named after him that night), and had set a trap for him. Only then did Stratford also meet Vimes' butler, [[Willikins]], who had been disguised as the bartender who had made and served Vimes all of the "virgin" Sam Vimes' cocktails all night.

He was duly arrested and put on a Watch transport bound for [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Before he could be conveyed into the hands of [[Daniel Trooper|One-Drop Trooper]], however, the wagon had a nasty collision with a mail coach, allowing Stratford to escaped in all the confusion. He is however intercepted by [[Willikins]] on the road shortly after and was quickly subdued. Permanently.

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Gravid Rust

2015-08-10T03:17:06Z

Mare-Silverus:

The obnoxious and unpleasant son of [[Ronald Rust]] and heir to the Rust land and title. He is first encountered as the Rust son who was arrested by [[Sam Vimes]] and brought before the [[Patrician]] for shooting a servant for allegedly setting his boots out the wrong way round.

In {{FOC}} he (or his father) was later the chief suspect in paying for an assassin to kill Vimes as revenge. The assassin failed, discovering too late the lengths Vimes had gone to make the Ramkin house a lethal death-trap for unwanted intruders, and was forced to hand over the payment to Sir Samuel while suspended above the dragon pens.

In {{SN}} Vimes encounters him again, as a prime mover behind even greater crimes. Gravid Rust is capable of a certain greasy charm, and uses this to persuade people who should know better to join him in a series of escalating crimes and offences. Gravid was responsible for having [[goblins]] forcibly taken from [[Hangman's Hill]], (which is a part of Vimes' estate), and shipped for use as slave labour on his tobacco plantation in [[Howondaland]]. He also used the same shipments of tobacco to smuggle a number of troll drugs into Ankh-Morpork along with the tobacco. These included the deadly [[Crystal Slam]] and others including Slab, Slice, Slap, and Slunkie.

Three years later Gravid attempted to move a second shipment of goblins to Howondaland, (having now worked many of the previously enslaved Goblins to death), also employing the ruthless killer [[Stratford]] to tidy away witnesses and lose ends. Here Gravid overreached himself, and by [[Vetinari|a lucky accident of chance]] [[Samuel Vimes]] was on holiday in the region to uncover this crime.

While most of Gravid's lackeys and smugglers were caught, and the corrupt magistrates removed, Vetinari was forced to point out to the enraged Vimes that slavery of goblins was not then a crime (goblins having being classed as vermin) and Gravid could not be brought to trial for his actions. While Diamond King of Trolls was demanding that Gravid be sent to him for trial (and near certain execution) for his role in the manufacture and shipping/smuggling of lethal troll drugs, the Patrician knew it would not be politically feasible to hand over the son of a prominent aristocrat for trolls to kill, regardless of his crimes. Instead Vetinari told Vimes that he would have to be content with Gravid being disinherited by his father, losing his position and title (having dragged the Rust Family name into public disgrace), and exiled to [[Fourecks]] for the foreseeable future. While this would be seen as a terrible fate for most aristocrats, Vimes saw it as 'a nice holiday in the sun' for someone who had trafficked in misery and suffering for profit.

In the end, they say all sins are forgiven. But perhaps not all...

Vetinari is later seen ordering one of his [[Dark Clerk|dark clerks]] in Forecks to poison Gravid and make it appear like a natural accident. Vetinari must act in the dark and outside of the Law without sanction, luxuries he envies Vimes, to ensure that there is Justice for the goblins, after having heard [[Tears of the Mushroom]]'s harp composition, "Twilight Serenade".

==Annotations==
The term '[[Wikipedia:Gravid|Gravid]]' in Roundworld refers to when animals (fish or reptiles) carry their eggs inside of them. On the Discworld, the term also applies to [[swamp dragons]], so probably has a different meaning. Then again, dragons are more or less reptiles and we don´t ''know'' that they don´t carry their eggs inside themselves.

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Latatian Phrases

2015-08-10T02:57:51Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Family Mottos */

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumquae Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" ({{FOC}})
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less) ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes)

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Carpe diem|Carpe Jugulum]]'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto.
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, ([[Mort]]'s predecessor).
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Homo Homini Lupus|Homo Homini Lupus]]'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto.
* ''[[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|Non Timetus Messor]]'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
** Interestingly, [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] is ''Noli Timore Messorum'' - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''[[wikipedia:To protect and to serve|Protego Et Servio]]'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto.
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto.
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto.
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild).
* ''[[wikipedia:Bert Lance#"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."|Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat]]'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto.
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto ({{RS}}).

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow" -- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks"/"I will reimburse sufficiently" (which is very close to the legend "I promise to the bearer, on demand, the sum of" written on all British paper money. It is commonly held to be the case that, should the bearer of e.g. a £5 note could exchange it for £5 worth of gold in a bank and that is true provided no-one ever actually asks. Once you've got your head around that fact, it becomes clear that paper money is in fact an illusion, but one we all believe in - we have to.) (See also; [[Paper Money]].) {{MM}}
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!]]'' - "I am an [[Ankh Morpork]] Citizen!" ({{RS}})
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the realworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss. [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's dubious motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Latatian Phrases

2015-08-10T02:38:25Z

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Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumquae Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" ({{FOC}})
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less) ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes)

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild)
* ''Carpe Jugulum'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, (Mort's predecessor.)
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild)
* ''Homo Homini Lupus'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto
* ''Non Timetus Messor'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
** Interestingly, [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] is ''Noli Timore Messorum'' - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''Protego Et Servio'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild)
* ''Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto ({{RS}}).

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow" -- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks"/"I will reimburse sufficiently" (which is very close to the legend "I promise to the bearer, on demand, the sum of" written on all British paper money. It is commonly held to be the case that, should the bearer of e.g. a £5 note could exchange it for £5 worth of gold in a bank and that is true provided no-one ever actually asks. Once you've got your head around that fact, it becomes clear that paper money is in fact an illusion, but one we all believe in - we have to.) (See also; [[Paper Money]].) {{MM}}
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!]]'' - "I am an [[Ankh Morpork]] Citizen!" ({{RS}})
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the realworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss. [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's dubious motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Principia Explosia'' - "The Explosion Principle"; ''The'' seminal written works on Alchemy on the Discworld, written by Klatchian national, Affir Al-chema ({{J}}).
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

[[Category:Discworld culture]]

Latatian Phrases

2015-07-21T23:25:49Z

Mare-Silverus: /* Other Latatian phrases */

Most residents of Ankh-Morkpork speak [[Morporkian]]. However from time to time [[Latatian]] is used particularly by certain [[Guilds]] such as [[Guild of Lawyers]] and by the [[College of Heralds]] to make excruciating puns.

==Legal Phrases==
* ''Ab Hamo'' - "Off The Hook"
* ''Acquiris Quodcumquae Rapis'' - "You Get What You Grab" - (Another term for "[[Wikipedia:Eminent Domain|Eminent Domain]]" ({{J}}), otherwise described as 'naked theft by the government' ({{J}} & {{T!}})).
* ''Casus Belli'' - "(a) reason (for) war" ({{T!}}).
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" ({{FOC}})
* ''Excretus Est Ex Altitudine'' - "Strongly reprimanded" (more or less) ({{FOC}})
* ''Exeo Carco Cum Nihil Pretii'' - "(I) Get Out Of Jail Free."
* ''Habeas Corpus'' - "You May Have The Body". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Mea Culpa'' - "My Fault" - a confession of guilt. Not likely to be used by a lawyer speaking in the first person...
* ''Olfacere Violarum'' - "Smelling Of Violets"
* ''Pro Bono Publico'' - "For The Public Good" - (ie a legal service performed for free. To a lawyer, this is the equivalent of an exorcism to a demon, or the very worst possible [[-ing]] that can be spoken. ({{TT}})).
* ''Quia Ego Sic Dico'' - "Because I Say So" - An argument which carries a great deal of procedural and precedential weight, especially when used in legal debate by the [[Patrician]], [[Havelock Vetinari]]. ({{MM}})
* ''Sini Plenis Piscis'' - "Pockets Full Of Fish" - a man who is pushed into a lake and comes up with his pockets full of fish has in fact benefited from being so pushed, and therefore cannot accuse the pusher of assault. A very old precedent, apparently. ({{TT}})

==Medical phrases==
*''Mortis Portalis Tackulatum'' - "Dead As A Doornail"
*''Ped Fecundis'' - "Fertile Feet" ({{W}})
*''Pyrocerebrum Ouerf Culinaire'' - "You Could Fry An Egg On His Forehead"

==[[Linoleum|Zoolological taxonomy]]==
===Animals===
* ''Chelys Galactica'' - "Star Turtle" - (See the [[Great A'Tuin]])
* ''Draco Lunaris'' - "Moon Dragon" - [[Moon dragon]] - ({{TLH}})
* ''Draco Nobilis'' - "Noble Dragon" - [[Noble dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Draco Stellaris Nauticae'' - "Star-Voyaging Dragon" - ({{TCOM}})
* ''Draco Vulgaris'' - "Common Dragon" - [[Swamp dragon]] - ({{G!G!}})
* ''Homo Sapiens'' - "Wise Human" - [[Human]]
* ''Hortus Decorus'' - "Lawn Ornament" - [[Dwarfs]]
* ''Lupus Sapiens'' - "Clever Doggies" - [[Werewolves]]
* ''Nosferatu Sanguineous'' - "Bloody Undead!" - [[Vampires]]
* ''Stultus Saxum'' - "Stupid Rocks" - [[Trolls]]

===Plants===
* ''Allium Sativum'' - "Sown/Planted Garlic" - (The Common Domestic Garlic) - ({{RM}}).
* ''Phallus Impudicus'' - "Shameless/Impudent Phallus" -- A Toadstool ({{MAA}} - Nobby's love of mushroom omelettes)

==Mottos==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's About the City" (text on the paper money in {{MM}})
* ''Fabricati Diem, Punc'' - "Make My Day, Punk" - The modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]] motto - ([[Fred Colon|Sergeant Colon]], however, maintains this means "To Protect And Serve")
* ''Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter'' - "Make The Day, The Moments Pass Quickly" - personal motto of King [[Veltrick I]], and the motto for the original incarnation of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]
* ''Merus In Pectu Et In Aquam'' - "Pure In Heart And In Water" - Ankh Morpork
* ''Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides'' - "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - The motto of [[Unseen University]].
* ''Quanti Canicula Illa In Fenestra'' - "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" - Ankh Morpork

==Guild Mottos==
* ''Acutus Id Verberat'' - "Whip It Quick" - [[Thieves' Guild]]
* ''Dico, Dico, Dico'' - "I Say, I Say, I Say" - [[Fools' Guild]]
* ''Excretus Ex Fortuna'' - "Shit Out Of Luck" - [[Gamblers' Guild]]
* ''Id Murmuratis, Id Ludamus'' - "You Hum It, We'll Play It" - [[Musicians' Guild]]
* ''Lucre Sermat'' - "Money Talks" - [[Guild of Lawyers]]
* ''Moneta Supervacanea, Magister?'' - "Spare Change, Guv'nor?" - [[Beggars' Guild]]
* ''Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre'' - "No Killing Without Payment" - [[Assassins' Guild]]
* ''Nil Volupti, Sine Lvcre'' - "No Pleasure Without Pay" - [[Seamstresses' Guild|Seamstresses' Guild (hem, hem)]]
* ''Non Ante Septem Dies Proxima, Squiri'' - "Not Before Next Week, Squire" - [[Plumbers' Guild]]
* ''Non Quod Maneat, Sed Quod Adimimus'' - "Not What Remains, But What We Take Away" - [[Engravers' Guild]]
* ''Nunc Ille Est Magicus'' - "Now That's Magic" - [[Guild of Conjurors]]
* ''Nunquam Vestimus'' - "We Never Clothe" - [[Guild of Ecdysiasts, Nautchers, Cancanieres and Exponents of Exotic Dance]]
* ''Omnis Quis Coruscat Est Or'' - "All That Glitters Is Gold" - [[Alchemists' Guild]]
* ''Vilis Ad Bis Pretii'' - "Cheap At Twice The Price" - [[Merchants' Guild]]

==Family Mottos==
* ''Ars Enixa Est Candelam'' - "Art Brought Forth The Candle" - Mr. [[Arthur Carry]] (Candlemaker's guild)
* ''Carpe Jugulum'' - "Seize The Throat" - [[Bela de Magpyr|de Magpyr]] family Motto
* ''Faber Est Quisqve Fortunae Suae'' - "Every Man Is The Maker Of His Own Fortune" - The Duke of Sto Helit, (Mort's predecessor.)
* ''Futurus Meus Est In Visceris'' - "My Future Is In (The) Entrails" - Mr. [[Gerhardt Sock]] (president of the Butcher's guild)
* ''Homo Homini Lupus'' - "Every Man Is A Wolf, (To Other Men)" - von Uberwald ([[Angua]]'s) family Motto
* ''Non Timetus Messor'' - "Fear Not The Reaper" - [[Susan Sto Helit|Sto Helit]] family Motto.
** Interestingly, [[Biography|Sir Terry Pratchett's knightly motto]] is ''Noli Timore Messorum'' - a more formal and grammatically correct Latin version.
* ''Protego Et Servio'' - "(I) Protect And Serve" - [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] Family Motto
* ''Quis Habemus Servamus'' - "What We Have, We Keep" - [[Ramkin]] Family Motto
** ''Non Sumet Nullus Pro Responso'' - "She Won't Take 'No' For An Answer" - [[Sybil Ramkin|Sybil Vimes (née Ramkin)]]'s personal motto
* ''Quod Subigo Farinam'' - "Because I Knead The Dough" - Mr. [[Rudolph Potts]] (Baker's guild)
* ''Si Non Confectus, Non Reficiat'' - "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" - [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] Family Motto
** ''Vox Populi Vox Deorum'' - "Voice of the people. Voice of God." - Havelock Vetinari's personal motto ({{RS}}).

==Other Mottos==
* ''Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia Et Cerebellum'' - "When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow" -- Motto of the [[Quisition|Omnian Quisition]], (now abolished.)
* ''Obliviscor'' - "I Forget" -- [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]]
* ''Veni Vidi Vici'' - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" -- personal Motto of General [[Callus Tacticus]]

==Other Latatian phrases==
* ''Ad Urbem Pertinet'' - "It's All About the City".
* ''Promitto Fore Ut Possessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks"/"I will reimburse sufficiently" (which is very close to the legend "I promise to the bearer, on demand, the sum of" written on all British paper money. It is commonly held to be the case that, should the bearer of e.g. a £5 note could exchange it for £5 worth of gold in a bank and that is true provided no-one ever actually asks. Once you've got your head around that fact, it becomes clear that paper money is in fact an illusion, but one we all believe in - we have to.) (See also; [[Paper Money]].) {{MM}}
* ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' - "I Can See Your House From Here". A boast and a threat used by the [[Morporkian Empire|old Morporkian Empire]] and [[Carcer]].
* ''Adorno Maximus, Magister'' - "Suits You, Sir!" - [[Leonard of Quirm]]'s declaration on designing Rincewind's spacesuit, ({{TLH}}).
* ''Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!'' and ''Avé! Bossa Nova! Similis Bossa Seneca!'' - both are variants on a theme of "Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!" - Cited by Mr. [[Slant]] in {{NW}}.
* ''[[wikipedia:Civis romanus sum|Civis Ankhmorporkianus Sum!]]'' - "I am an [[Ankh Morpork]] Citizen!" ({{RS}})
* ''Corpus Derelicti'' - "Body of the Crime" ({{MAA}})
* ''Depositatum De Latrina'' - "Gone Down The Toilet" - ({{FOC}})
* ''Nil Desperandum'' - "[[Wikipedia:List of Latin phrases (N)#nil desperandum|Do Not Despair]]" ({{MAA}}).
* ''Doctorum Adamus con Flabello Dulci'' - "Doctor of Sweet Fanny Adams" - honorary degree almost awarded by [[Unseen University]] to [[Khufurah|Prince Khufurah]].
* ''Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt'' - "Batteries Not Included" - Engraved by [[Neoldian]] on the [[Tsortese Falchion|golden falchion]] under the words "For the Strongest".
* ''Lingua Quirma'' - A nod to the realworld phrase, "[[wikipedia:Lingua franca|Lingua franca]]" ({{J}} and {{RS}})
* ''Magavenatio Obtusis'' - "Witch-Hunting For Dummies" - by Miss. [[Perspicacia Tick]] ([[Witch]])
* ''Memento Mori'' - "Remember, you are mortal"
* ''Morituri te salutant'' - "Those Who are About to Die, Salute You"
* ''Morituri Nolumus Mori'' - "Those Who Are About To Die Don't Want To" (roughly translated) - Rincewind's dubious motto for flight of the [[kite]] in {{TLH}}.
* ''Porcupinos Non Sodomy Est'' - "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered" - (Coined by [[Nanny Ogg]] to make the [[Hedgehog song]] sound posher).
* ''Potest-ne Mater Tua Suere, Amice'' - "Can Your Mother Sew, Pal?") ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Primus Inter Pares'' - "First Among Equals" or "First Among Peers".
* ''Quid Pro Quo'' - "This For That": a fair exchange
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes'' - "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
* ''Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Qui Custodes Custodiet'' - "Who Watches The Watcher Of The Watchmen?"
* ''Sine Die'' - "Without A Day". ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Sine Qua'' - "without which (cause)" -- See the [[Dis-organiser]] ("They're still appointments ''sine qua'' appointments. They exist, as it were, in appointment phase space. ... You can have an appointment at any time, right? So therefore ''any'' appointment exists ''in potentia-'' ... Any ''particular'' appointment simply collapses the waveform. I merely select the most likely one from the projected matrix".) ({{J}})
* ''Sodomy Non Sapiens'' - "Buggered If I Know", exclaimed by [[Albert]] in {{M}}
* ''Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum'' - "Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit, I'm Gonna Die". - A [[Rincewind]] quote.
* ''Veni, Vermini, Vomui'' - "I came, I got ratted (became drunk), I vomited". - [[Jingo]]: Vimes is contemplating [[Callus Tacticus|General Tacticus']] motto.
* ''Via Cloaca'' - "Sewer Way" (discovered by Lance-Constables' [[Detritus]] and [[Cuddy]] in {{MAA}})
* ''Vis-ne faciem capite repletam'' - "Would You Like A Face Full Of Head?" ([[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]])
* ''Visi, Veneri, Vamoosi'' - " I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away" - another alliterative phrase with V.

==See also==
* [[Quirmian Phrases]]

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