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Bewdley

2022-01-05T13:24:49Z

Sharlee:

'''Bewdley''' was a former [[Archchancellor]] of [[Unseen University]] about whom three facts are known.

According to his commemorative statue, he disliked the city of [[Ankh-Morpork]] intensely.

According to {{TLC}}, a magical hole once opened in his left boot. This was one of a number of incidents cited by the senior [[Faculty]] as why playing around with rips in space and dimensional holes and so on was a bad idea.

According to {{SOD1}}, he devised the [[Roundworld]] thought experiment. All the other wizards at the time said it was impossible, as it would require far too much magic to create and would take months to do, at least for human wizards. Fortunately, when a vast amount of magic needs to be used up very quickly, [[Hex]] is able to cast all the spells to create Roundworld in less than a minute, to the disbelief of the [[Dean]].

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Galder Weatherwax

2022-01-05T13:23:04Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
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|photo= Galder.JPG|Galder Weatherwax, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]
|title= Galder Weatherwax
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|race= [[:Category:Human characters|Human]]
|occupation= [[Archchancellor]] of the [[Unseen University]]
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|residence= [[Ankh-Morpork]]
|death= 1964 UC
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|relatives= [[Granny Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax]], [[Lily Weatherwax]]
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Not much is known about [[Galder Weatherwax]]. He was the 304th [[Archchancellor]] of the [[Unseen University]] and was described by [[Granny Weatherwax|Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax]] as "a distant cousin; never met him." His full title is ''"Supreme Grand Conjurer of the [[Ancient and Truly Original Brothers of the Silver Star]], Lord Imperial of the Sacred Staff, Eight-Level Ipsissimus"''.

It is believed that while he was cunning and watchful enough to ward off most assassination attempts by ambitious seventh-level Mages (especially [[Ymper Trymon]]), his foresight failed in matters relating to interior design, in that he commissioned a bathroom from [[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]] without stopping to ask what might, on the basis of B.S. Johnson's past form, possibly go wrong. More is revealed about Archchancellor Weatherwax's bathroom in {{H}}, when a [[Mustrum Ridcully|later Archchancellor]] discovers the fixture, and rather rashly has it set up for use. Again displaying uncharacteristic naivety about his fellow wizards, Weatherwax apparently survived his encounter with the bathroom, at least for long enough to nail up the door and put up a notice along the lines of "Never, ever, use again".

Archchancellor Weatherwax's history of poorly-thought-out lavatory design was further referenced by the [[Dean]] in {{TLC}}, during the senior wizards' discussion of holes in space-time. Upon the discovery of one such hole in the University cellars, through which dropped objects vanished without a trace, Weatherwax had a privy installed over it: a decision to be regretted, as the hole was later found to exit into one of the UU attics.

His tenure as Archchancellor comes to an end during {{TLF}} when he is eaten - having mistakenly summoned [[The Luggage]] instead of [[Rincewind]] - paving the way for Trymon to become Archchancellor.

==Annotations==
{{wp|James_Cosmo|James Cosmo}} of ''Highlander'' and ''Braveheart'' fame played Galder in the Sky One adaptation of {{COM}}.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Weatherwax, Galder]]
[[Category:Human characters|Weatherwax, Galder]]
[[Category:Wizards|Weatherwax, Galder]]
[[de:Galder Wetterwachs]]

Evans the Striped

2018-09-04T04:02:02Z

Sharlee:

'''Evans the Striped''' used to be Sports Master at [[Unseen University]]. He was in all probability a qualified Wizard, but of a sporting bent, and would have presided over the glory days wistfully remembered by [[Mustrum Ridcully]] in {{UA}}, when the University genuinely was (at least in Ridcully's memory) a centre of physical prowess and sporting excellence, when UU entered a football team in the city leagues and both Ridcully and the [[Dean]] (!) won their [[University Brown|Brown]]s for rowing. In {{BS}}, it is revealed that his full name is ''Gryffydd Tabernacle Evans'', and the honorary team number on his Association playing card is 9.

He is remembered as having disappeared abruptly one day when doing press-ups in the Great Hall, and vaporizing into a cloud of dust. As at some point in those forty years, the emphasis of the University changed to a different sort of physical prowess - ie, how physically fat can a Wizard get from competitive pie-eating - it is tempting to suppose that Evans may have been the victim of a magical vendetta from the fat unathletic wizards, whom he would certainly have mocked and derided. The revenge of the fat kids who are always picked last for sports teams, against the PE master who holds them up to the sarcasm and sadism which is virtually mandatory in his profession? A PE teacher can get away with belittling Fatty Muldoon in 2B, but ''not'' a fully trained Wizard who, while he is packing the pounds on, is also a sixth or seventh level Mage. And forty years ago, Wizards of course settled such differences with more than just cutting remarks in the [[Uncommon Room]] or at a [[Faculty]] meeting...

His whistle, however, lives on, where anyone who blows it now carries on his haranguing, making sure that all know that any boy who has not brought his kit will have to "PLAY IN HIS PANTS!!!", which was the terrible fate of every unfortunate whose badly-faked note from his mother didn't fool the PE teacher in England between about 1950 and 1988, when it became illegal under the mental cruelty and educational acts.

"Evans" is also a [[Llamedos]]ian name. Does this point to a national origin? The very image of Evans bring forth racial memories that make us cringe even now. Whilst he was the wrong nationality, the perfect example on film is {{wp|Brian_Glover|Brian Glover}}'s magical-but-terrible Mr Sugden in ''{{wp|Kes_(film)|Kes}}''. Comedian Jack Dee played a similar terrible PE sadist, Douglas Digellby, in seventies' secondary school TV nostalgia-fest ''The Grimleys''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSFMz3RsDxk]

and in Terry's own words ([http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/warwick.html])

''"......and then I realised that ..mad welsh sports master.. was a tautology..."''

The naming of people as Someone ''the'' something is a usual Welsh device to distinguish between two people of the same surname, as seen in ''Ivor the Engine'' (Jones the Steam) and ''The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain'' (Morgan the Goat, Williams the Petroleum, etc).

[[Category:Wizards|Evans the Striped]]

Chair of Indefinite Studies

2018-09-04T03:21:44Z

Sharlee:

The '''Chair of Indefinite Studies''' is a post at [[Unseen University]], held by a high level mage (traditionally only Eighth Level Wizards are Heads of Department, but this seems to have lapsed under the Archchancellorship of [[Mustrum Ridcully]]). The current incumbent seems to wander in and out of importance as part of the [[Faculty]]. For example, he goes to the lost continent of [[XXXX]] and accompanies the rest of the Heads of Wizardry on the mission to stop [[Cohen the Barbarian]] and his [[Silver Horde]] from inadvertently destroying the world by taking fire back to [[Dunmanifestin]], the home of the [[gods]], but he is not present at other transdimensional emergencies. Perhaps this is due to his insistence that once a problem becomes a 'definite' problem, it no longer falls under his remit as Chair of ''Indefinite'' Studies.

In {{MP}}, the Chair is described as a white-haired old man wholly in keeping with the university ethos of very large meals six times a day. The combination of untended beard and the cumulative effect of those six meals a day combine to liken him, or the then post-holder, to an overstuffed horsehair armchair which is beginning to leak its stuffing along bursting critical seams. He attends the screening of [[Blown Away]] with the other covert wizards and, while he does think to suggest that his colleagues sneak into the ''Odium'' via the rear, he wholly fails to deliver any practical advice or assistance in the interdimensional leak that follows. In {{H}}, the Chair uncovered references to "lares and penates" in ''Woddeley's Basic Gods''. In "A Collegiate Casting-Out Of Devilish Devices", he claimed to have been working on his Theory of Anything for fifteen years, and that every one of the six or seven pages yet produced was hard won.

In {{TLC}}, it's revealed that the Chair is fond of croquet and bridge. He also collects pressed lizards, a curious hobby he shares with at least one irritating young boy from {{H}}. He wears expensive socks with flax-enforced heels. A staid, prim fellow, the Chair was the last of the faculty to develop an affection for Mrs. Whitlow in {{TLC}}. Frequently a bit slow on the uptake, he admits that the state of magical research has passed him by in recent years, ever since dribbly candles fell out of favor. He was quite a drinker in his student days, having nipped over the University wall for a pint or three most evenings. A likely contemporary of [[Ridcully]] and the [[Dean of Pentacles]], as he remembers the latter being too studious to join in such forays.

He plays a minor, but important, role in {{MM}}, in re-introducing [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] to the [[Cabinet of Curiosity]], and afterwards facilitating an introduction to [[Ponder Stibbons]] and the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]]. For his sins.

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Clancy

2016-03-21T17:12:02Z

Sharlee:

== Clancy (i) - daughter of [[War]]==

Clancy is [[War]]'s daughter, appears in {{IT}}, and is portrayed as a spoiled little girl wearing a {{wp|Pony_Club|Pony Club}} hat. As the daughter of a [[Valkyrie]], this is perhaps only fitting.
She has a permanent scowl which makes her brothers [[Panic]] and [[Terror]] somewhat redundant at the moment.
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[[Category:Supernatural entities]]

==Annotation==
Clancy's description evokes the work of British cartoonist Norman Thelwell[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelwell], who specialised in drawing cartoons of serious, somewhat grumpy, Pony Club girls and their ponies, described as "fat little things with a leg at each corner" (a description used somewhat ambiguously - it isn't clear that this is ''just'' about the ponies). Thelwell's cartoons[http://www.thelwell.org.uk/galleries/galleries.html] tend to depict mini-Valkyries getting into all sorts of equine scrapes, and there was a big vogue for them, among the horsy set, in the fifties and sixties.

Clancy's name is a likely reference to Tom Clancy, author of Cold War techno-thrillers.

== Clancy (ii) - the butchers==

Sidney Clancy (39) and Son, 11 [[Long Hogmeat]], Purveyors of Finest Cat and Dog Meats To The Gentry.

[[Vetinari]]'s pet-food retailer of choice for [[Wuffles]] and a lifesaver for [[Otto Chriek]]. However, there is a hint in {{MM}} that with the advent of a new pet dog, Clancy's may have lost the contract to a [[Grace Speaker|new supplier]]. Clancy's may not be too bothered about this. [[Book:Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook|Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook]] informs us in the section on [[Shankydoodle]] that Clancy's have a long association with the racecourse here. The company sponsors a grandstand, and has an exclusive contract with the racecourse (and possibly others) to sensitively remove and reverently dispose of those horses that not even [[Doughnut Jimmy]] could usefully resuscitate. Unfortunate horses may be consoled by the thought their deaths were not in vain and they will be reverentially buried, after a short period of digestion, in somebody else's back garden by grateful cats.

== Clancy (iii) - XXXX'ian ==

This Clancy is a stock man who works for [[Remorse]] in {{TLC}}, and helps invent XXXX-ian slang. Well, he is frequently accused of inventing it and winging it when he doesn't know the correct slang term

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[[de:Sidney Klänsi]]

Joe Aching

2016-01-16T12:13:49Z

Sharlee:

'''Joe Aching''' is the tenant of [[Home Farm]], like generations of his ancestors. He is now likely in his forties, with his older children grown and gone, leaving just young [[Wentworth Aching|Wentworth]] and, part-time, his youngest daughter, [[Tiffany Aching|Tiffany]]. Joe is a little confused by his daughter: your little girl isn't supposed to turn into a [[Witches|Witch]] and take over your mother's duties to the sheep and the land. How do you ''address'' the child you used to spank for being beastly to Wentworth now that she's been to [[the Desert]]? It's not easy being the father (or husband, or son, or daughter-in-law) of a witch.

A big fair-haired man, who works very hard yet has very soft hands (from the oils in the sheep's wool).

[[Category:Discworld characters|Aching,Joe]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Aching,Joe]]

Book:Reaper Man

2015-09-26T04:26:35Z

Sharlee:

{{Book Data
|title= Reaper Man
|cover=
[[File:Cover Reaper Man.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date= May 1991
|publisher= Victor Gollancz
|isbn=0552134643
|pages=286
|rrp=
|series=Death Series
|characters=[[Death]], [[Unseen_University#The_Top_Faculty|U.U. Wizards]], [[Renata Flitworth]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=
}}

==Blurb==
[[Death]] is missing – presumed ... er ... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos to always expect when an important public service is withdrawn.

Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. Dead Rights activist [[Reg Shoe]] – "You Don't Have to Take This Lying Down" – suddenly has more work than he had ever dreamed of. And newly deceased [[wizard's magic|wizard]] [[Windle Poons]] wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a [[zombies|corpse]]. But it's up to Windle and the members of Ankh-Morpork's rather unfrightening group of undead'''*''' to save the world for the living.

Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall, dark stranger, by the name of Bill Door, is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be got in. And a different battle to be fought.

In passing we learn of many things. The lifecycles of Mayflies and [[Counting pines]]; of the [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]], where men go to forget; of the [[Eau-de-Nil|true colour of infinity]]; and of [[chocolate]], flowers, and gemstones as items which ease the path to a lady's heart.

'''*''' ''Arthur Winkings, for example, became a [[vampires|vampire]] after being bitten by a [[Guild of Lawyers|lawyer]]. Schleppel the bogeyman would be better at his job if he wasn't agoraphobic and frightened of coming out of the closet. And Mr Ixolite is a [[banshees|banshee]] with a speech impediment, so instead of standing on the roof and screaming when there's a death in the house he writes "OooEeeOooEeeOoo" on a piece of paper and pushes it under the door.''

==Characters==

===Main characters===

*[[Death]] / [[Death|Bill Door]]
*[[Renata Flitworth]]
*[[Auditors of Reality]]
*[[Azrael]]
*[[New Death]]
*[[Death of Rats]]
*[[Windle Poons]]
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]
*The [[Librarian]]
*The [[Senior Wrangler]]
*The [[Dean]]
*The [[Bursar]]
*The [[Lecturer in Recent Runes]]
*[[Lupine]]
*[[Ludmilla Cake]]
*[[Evadne Cake|Mrs. Cake]]
*[[Reg Shoe]]
*[[Schleppel]]
*[[Ixolite|Mr. Ixolite]]
*Arthur Winkings (Count [[Notfaroutoe]])
*Doreen Winkings (Countess [[Notfaroutoe]])

===Minor characters===

*[[Gabby Wheels]]
*[[Duke Bottomley]]
*[[William Spigot]]
*Captain [[Douglas]]
*[[Alberto Malich|Albert]]
*[[Sal Lifton]]
*[[Ned Simnel]]
*[[Rufus]]
*[[Fred Colon]]
*[[Modo]]
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]

=== Cameos and Mentions===
*[[Giamo Casanunda]]
*[[Mrs. Drull]]
*[[Mr. Gorper]]
*The late [[Prissal Teatar]]

== Locations ==

* [[Death's Domain]]

* [[Ramtops]]
** [[Octarine Grass Country]]
*** [[Sheepridge]]

* [[Ankh-Morpork]]
** [[The Shades]]
** [[River Ankh]]

*[[Howondaland]]
**[[Tear of Offler|The Lost Jewelled Temple of Doom of Offler]]

* [[Pseudopolis]] (mentioned)
* [[Khan'Li]] (mentioned), destroyed long ago by 'the little carts'
* [[Dungeon Dimensions]] (mentioned)
* [[XXXX]] (mentioned)

==Sentient Species==

*[[Dwarfs]]
*[[Gargoyles]]
*[[Golems]] (mentioned)
*[[Humans]]
*[[Undead]]

==Supernatural Entities==

*[[Auditors of Reality]]
*[[Death]]
*[[Ghosts]]
*[[The gods|The Gods]]
*[[Imps]]
*[[Hogfather]] (mentioned)
*[[Dungeon Dimensions|Things from the Dungeon Dimensions]] (mentioned)
*[[Olden Ones|Old High Ones]]

== Things and Concepts ==

*[[Scumble]]
*[[Combination Harvester]]
*[[Tear of Offler]]

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/reaper-man.html ''Reaper Man'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

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[[Category:Discworld Series|Reaper Man]]
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Prissal Teatar

2015-09-26T04:25:47Z

Sharlee: Created page with "Nicknamed "Merry Prankster", Teatar is 30 years dead when recalled by his colleagues in {{RM}}. It was because of him that Unseen University introduced a custom of one da..."

Nicknamed "Merry Prankster", Teatar is 30 years dead when recalled by his colleagues in {{RM}}. It was because of him that [[Unseen University]] introduced a custom of one day's lying-in-state for deceased faculty, evidently owing to him having played his favorite prank - painting his face green and playing dead, then opening the coffin lid mid-funeral and yelling "Surprise!" - either too often or too convincingly.

Unseen University

2015-09-26T04:19:58Z

Sharlee:

{{Building Data
|photo=UU01.png|coat of arms|100px|
|name= Unseen University
|location= [[Ankh-Morpork]]
|owner=
|apperance=
|residents= [[Wizards]]
|use= University
|built= 1282 AM ([[1 UC]])
|founded by= [[Albert|Alberto Malich the Wise]]
|demolished=
|books= {{TCOM}} {{TLF}} {{ER}} {{M}} {{S}} {{E}} {{MP}} {{RM}} {{SM}} {{IT}} {{H}} {{TLC}} {{TT}} {{TOT}} {{GP}} {{UA}}
|notes= Motto: ''NVNC ID VIDES, NVNC NE VIDES'' (now you see it, now you don't)
}}

''"Unseen University, home of the greatest wizards on the Discworld. And one or two of the worst."''

The '''Unseen University''' (UU) is a school for [[Wizards|wizards]] located in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. It was founded in the year 1282 AM ([[1 UC]]) by [[Albert|Alberto Malich the Wise]].

==The Place==
The Unseen University has gates of [[octiron]], and single-minded [[Bledlows]] to perform the Ceremony of the Keys every night. The University has an octagonal lawn, roses, other plants, and compost heaps tended by Mr. [[Modo]], the university's dwarf gardener. The buildings are of ancient stone, and contain many dark, winding corridors and small rooms, far more than the size of the grounds should allow. The unusual architecture of the building suggests that the top storeys and roof were built before the ground floors. Inside the University is the [[Great Hall]], where the Wizard's four main meals of the day are eaten. Also noteworthy are the hundreds of paintings and busts of former [[Archchancellor|Archchancellors]] that line the vestibule just outside the Great Hall. Other notable features are the [[Uncommon Room]], the staffroom of the Faculty (see below); the gymnasium (which is for students to practise spells, not exercise, and - as such - is lined and protected ''very'' powerfully); the [[Emperor]] candle and the [[Tesseractical Floor|Tesseractical floor]].

The grounds are enclosed in brick walls, but there are some places where bricks can be removed to offer convenient footholds for young and reasonably athletic students to climb over. The more famous buildings are: The [[Tower of Art]], the [[Library]], and the [[High Energy Magic Building]].

[[Old Tom]] is the University's bell and it is made of octiron. Every hour this bell chimes heavy silences which render all sounds inaudible. Sometimes Old Tom also rings during incidents involving a massive amount of magic, making verbal communication very difficult during the emergency.

The [[Unreal Estate]] is an area outside of the University walls. The area used to be the University's dumpster, and the magic contamination has until recently made the ground unusable for any housing or farming. However, part of this area has since been developed into the [[Thaumatological Park]]. This serves two purposes: it earns money for the University by selling commercially useful by-products of research magic such as the [[Dis-organiser]], and it keeps young wizards trained by [[Ponder Stibbons]] usefully occupied after graduation, otherwise there's no telling what minds like those would find to do. As the area is still inherently dangerous, a ''really'' cynical senior wizard might reflect that it could even thin their numbers out a bit, which is no bad thing...

The University is unbelievably rich. This comes from the rents of [[Sator Square]], the [[Plaza of Broken Moons]], magical services throughout the city and the classrooms that are rented out for various uses. Much more recently there has been the money made from the Thaumatological Park. Additionally, the University doesn't spend much, on food especially. People donate food regularly to the place, on the basis that if there were a lot of daft old men living on enough magic to rip a hole in two realities near ''you'', you'd want them to be too full to move as well.

==The People==
For many centuries, the wizards in Unseen University vied for the top position, the Archchancellor. The wizards were also in eight orders, each wizard fighting for the higher positions in the order, and fighting off other orders. (For more on in-fighting of wizards, see also the article [[Wizard's magic]].) After the coming of Archchancellor Ridcully, the power structure stabilized because nobody is able to murder Ridcully. The fighting changed from magical and murderous to quarrels and minor insults between faculty members. Everybody is able to come down alive and have a big dinner in relative calm, (unless the Bursar is insane for the moment or there is major magical disturbance in the vicinity.) There are many, many faculty members who are wizards who specialize in particular studies, drawing no salary, living at the ends of obscure corridors, unknown and unseen by others except at meals or when the more important wizards require the specialized wizards for some reason. Few faculty members like to teach. They have virtual lectures in a classroom, ([[Room 3b]]) that does not exist, a happy arrangement mutually understood and respected by [[Faculty]] and [[students]] alike. The other lecture theatre specifically mentioned in the chronicles is [[Room 5b]], which has its own woes in that Space and Time have come adrift from each other, and a lecturer walking in might discover he's already there and has started taking a class twenty minutes previously. Genuine lectures do happen at the University and are generally well-attended: refer to {{ER}}, where [[Eskarina Smith]] clandestinely attends the lectures by hiding underneath the tiered benches, and watching from behind a line of pointy boots. Student wizards do have to pass an exam, with an 88% pass mark, to obtain a Bachelor's degree. After that, a wizard may leave and find work, or stay and do more researches for advanced degrees.

All alumni of the UU have the right to wear a bronze octogram which symbolises their attendance at the school.

The faculty members listed below are well-known simply because they appear more often to the public and are there when the Archchancellor calls for meetings. These faculty members are not known for their lectures or the importance of their subjects. A hot subject, if such it may be called, is any technomancy under Ponder Stibbons's supervision, but in fact, his students are not more single-minded than other research students, and his department does not draw particularly many more students than other departments. Still, Mr. Stibbons's labs in the High Energy Building are often helpful to the Archchancellor in these modern times.

===The Top Faculty===
[[image:UUFaculty.jpg|350px|thumb|Left to right: The Chair, The Dean, The Librarian, The Archchancellor, Runes, The Bursar, Ponder Stibbons, The Senior Wrangler and Rincew.... oh he's, er, gone.]]
*The [[Archchancellor]] ([[Mustrum Ridcully]]),
*The [[Bursar]] (A. A. Dinwiddie)
*The [[Dean]] (Henry Porter)
Note:As of ''Unseen Academicals'' "The Dean" is now Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]]
*The [[Senior Wrangler]] (Horace)
*The [[Chair of Indefinite Studies]]
*The [[Lecturer in Recent Runes]]
*The [[Librarian]], (an orangutan, previously Human Horace Worblehat)
*The Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic ([[Ponder Stibbons]])
*The [[Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography]] ([[Rincewind]])
*The [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications|Head of the Department of Post-Mortem Communications]] (Dr [[John Hicks]])

*[[Hex]], the University's thinking-engine, although nominally a campus resource, functions as a ''de facto'' member of the top faculty

===Other Members of the Teaching Staff (in alphabetical order)===
*Master of the Music (Professor Ritornello)
*The [[Chair for the Public Misunderstanding of Magic]]
*The [[Dean of Liberal Studies]]
*The [[Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage]]
*The [[Lecturer in Applied Astrology]]
*The [[The Lecturer in Approximate Accuracy|Lecturer in Approximate Accuracy]]
*The [[Lecturer in Creative Uncertainty]]
*The [[Professor of Applied Anthropics]]
*The [[Professor of Astrology]]
*The Professor of Dust, Miscellaneous Particles and Filaments
*The [[Professor of Extreme Horticulture]]
*The [[Professor of Illiberal Studies]]
*The [[Professor of Logic]]
*The [[Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy|''Posthumous'' Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy]]
*The [[Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy|''Prehumous'' Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy]]
*The [[Professor of Natural Studies]]
*The Professor of Ornithology
*The [[Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map Folding‎]]
*The [[Professor of Recondite Phenomena]]
*The [[Professor of Slood Dynamics]]
*The [[The Professor of Virtual Anthropology|Professor of Virtual Anthropology]]
*The [[Reader in Esoteric Studies]]
*The [[Reader in Woolly Thinking]]

===The Staff===
*[[Modo]], Gardener
*Mrs. [[Whitlow]], head of housekeeping
*The [[Bledlows]], the UU's policemen, nowadays basically the porters
**[[McAbre]], Head Bledlow
**[[Gelid]], Bledlow
**[[Alphonse Nobbs]] (no relation), Bledlow
**[[Frankly Ottomy]], Bledlow
*[[Glenda Sugarbean]], head of the [[Night Kitchen]]
**[[Juliet Stollop]], one of Ms Sugarbean's workers
**Mrs. May Hedges, Night Kitchen cheeseboards
**Mildred & Rachel, Night Kitchen vegetable women
* [[Ksandra]], hapless undermaid
*The [[Candle Knave]], Mr [[Natchbull Smeems|Smeems]]
*The [[Candle Dribbler|Candle Dribblers]] of [[The Vats|the Vats]]
*Mr. [[Downbody]], one of the servants in the [[Uncommon Room]]
*Mr [[Blunk]], the coal porter

===Former Faculty & Staff===
* [[Windle Poons]], wizard (deceased).
* [[Evans the Striped]], sports master (deceased).
*[[Brother Fingers]] once worked as an odd-job man at UU.
*[[Inspector Lewton]] briefly hired on as a dormitory bedmaker in [[Discworld Noir]], but only as a ruse to snoop around the campus.
* Dr. [[Fettle Dodgast]], age 132 when interviewed in {{TT}}, most likely belongs among the ''former'', not current, faculty by now.
* Dr [[Sensibility Bustle]], DM, Phil, B.EI L, Patricius Professor of Magic, linguistics expert and hiver researcher (deceased).
* Professor H.F. Pullunder (Doctor Erratamus) is mentioned by Ponder while reading the Book of Traditions. No one recognizes the name.
* Dr. Earwig retired to get married to a witch, now Mrs. [[Letice Earwig]].
* Dr. Housemartin left UU for medical reasons (a bad case of work-related frogs).
* Professor Maidenhair transferred to Genua, possibly in hopes that people there wouldn't laugh at his name.
* The Senior Tutor attends a faculty council meeting at the start of {{E}}, but no later Council meeting includes him. Possibly this is one of the top faculty, not yet promoted to his better-known rank.
* [[Prissal Teatar]] passed away for real at UU some 30 years before {{RM}}, having previously faked his death in jest on multiple occasions.

===Former Archchancellors===
*[[Albert|Alberto Malich]] – founder
*Archchancellor [[Bewdley]] – according to his commemorative statue, disliked Ankh-Morpork intensely. According to {{TLC}}, a magical hole opened in his left boot.
*Archchancellor "Trouter" Hopkins – his actual preserved body is in the great hall, in accordance with his will, in which he stated that he wanted his body to be pickled in alcohol posthumously.
*Archchancellor William Badger – a very unpopular man, whose likeness is on the University's drain covers.
*Archchancellor [[Galder Weatherwax]] – Archchancellor in {{TLF}}
*Archchancellor [[Cutangle]] – Archchancellor in {{ER}}
*Archchancellor-Elect [[Virrid Wayzygoose]] – an ''almost''-Archchancellor who died before his own inaugural dinner in {{S}}
*Archchancellor [[Ezrolith Churn]] – Archchancellor in {{E}}
*Archchancellor [[Buckleby]] – Apparently locked himself in his own wardrobe. Mentioned in {{H}}
*Archchancellor [[Spode]] – mentioned in {{H}} and instituted a rule about locking doors
*Archchancellor [[Sloman]] – mentioned in "A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices"; discovered the Special Theory of Slood
*Archchancellor [[Bowell]] – left an unusual bequest and has a vestibule named after him (see below)
*Archchancellor Preserved Bigger – left a substantial bequest with the requirement that UU play football at least once every 20 years.
*Archchancellor Abasti – The ever-changing stained glass window overlooking the Great Hall is dedicated to him.

==The Orders of Wizardry==
*[[Ancient and Truly Original Brothers of the Silver Star]]
*[[Ancient and Truly Original Sages of the Unbroken Circle]]
*[[Brotherhood of the Hoodwink]]
*[[Brothers of the Order of Midnight]]
*[[Sages of the Unknown Shadow]]
*[[Venerable Council of Seers]]
*[[Mrs Widgery's Lodgers]]
*[[The Last Order]]

==Terms==
There are eight terms, each one is roughly one week long, to minimise the time that the professers must spend teaching. However, the students continue to live and study on their own for the remainder of the year. The terms are called:
*Octinity
*Rotation
*Backspindle
*Hogswatch
*Evelyn
*Micklemote
*Candlerent
*Soul Cakes

==Unseen University Degrees==
These are the UU courses in magic and related topics. UU also offers lesser degrees in medicine, law, geology and so on, but lecturers are required to have at least one magical degree from UU before they are allowed to teach.

The full list can be [[UU degrees|found here]].

==Customs and traditions==
===Beating the Bounds===
Also known as "plunkers", this ceremony takes place each year at dawn on the 22nd of Grune. The entire faculty walks along the original boundaries of the University, walking through or if necessary over any buildings in the way of the original march route. Any nearby citizens are hit with live ferrets, and any red-headed men (except for one [[Carrot|Captain Ironfoundersson]]) are given a "plunking". Upon return to the University, breakfast is served, in which duck must be present.

In our world the beating of the bounds of Oxford takes place every Ascension day (changes every year but it is either May or June).

===Boy Archchancellor===
Occurring at around [[Hogswatch]], a first year student is selected to be the Archchancellor for the day. He has the full powers of Archchancellorship, and there is many a tale of him performing all manner of jokes and pranks on the most senior wizards. Because his life expectancy following this will almost certainly be brief, the boy chosen is normally the University's most unpopular student.

This is similar to the idea of a boy bishop, which is present in our world.

===The [[Convivium]]===
The Degrees ceremony, in which the [[Archchancellor]], University Council, eighth level wizards, masters and doctors proceed from the University to the [[Opera House]]. They are led by the Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]], or if there isn't one, then by a man carrying a pot of mustard and a quill. Foreign dignitaries, city officials and nobles are also invited to this ceremony, and upon arrival at the Opera House, the [[Patrician]] will present the graduates with their degrees.

===Gaudy Night===
This appears to be a follow up of the Convivium, and the new graduates attend a feast in the Great Hall of the University, making an even greater effort than usual to be the best dressed. The winner is thrown into the river by the losers.

This is an celebration dinner at Oxford University, around which the novel ''Gaudy Night'' by Dorothy L. Sayers is based.

===Head of the River===
Because of the difficulty of rowing on the river, teams of eight wizards will carry the racing skiffs and run from the University boathouse to the Brass Bridge. The course is known as the "Bumps", and the winning team is awarded a "Brown" (a new pair of brown boots to replace the ones that will by now have been effectively disintegrated). They are now referred to as "Head of the River". One past winner of this race is the current Archchancellor, [[Mustrum Ridcully|Mustrum Ridcully the Brown]].

===May Morning===
Every May Day Dawn, the University choir sing from the top of the [[Tower of Art]] to the rest of the faculty, assembled below. Although the anthem cannot be heard, the Tower of Art being 800 feet high, the listeners still clap after five minutes, the length of time taken to sing the anthem.

===The Poor Scholars===
This harks back to the founding days of the University, when young, but poor men with magical talent were accepted into the universities. However, there was no accommodation space for them, so they lived in lean-tos against the walls of the [[Tower of Art]]. As a recognition of their determination, the faculty would throw food down to (or at) the poor scholars. Now, this ceremony takes place once a year, and the students gather in [[Sator Square]], where the faculty throw stale bread rolls at them as hard as they can.

===Rag week===
This is the entire backspindle term. On this week, the wizards are let loose on Ankh-Morpork. Activities include the Short Street Climb, in which the wizards climb sideways across the streets. Some fail to reach the end, and fall into the [[the Mended Drum]]. Another custom is tobogganing, in which the wizards go up to the Tower of Art on teatrays, and then toboggan back down. It must be noted that for this to happen, the involved students must have consumed a large amount of alcohol.

===Scrawn Money===
Also known as "Archchancellor Scrawn's bequest", this rather dated ceremony requires all those who live on University property to assemble in Sator Square, where they are given two pennies, a pair of socks, and a loaf of day-old bread each. They are then allowed to watch the wizards eat lunch.

==='Sity and Guilds===
Due to the rivalry induced violence between students of the various [[guilds]] and the university, it was decided to channel the rivalries into an annual sporting match, similar to football or rugby. The "playing field" was from [[The Shades]] to the Tower of Art. Goals are scored by kicking the ball through the door or window of a pub, and the scoring team had to get drinks bought by the other teams. Only one goal per pub was allowed due to the length of some games that had not benefited from this rule. It appears that the Unseen University has not participated in this for some time now.

===The Wizards' Excuse Me===
A large dance at the end of the Backspindle term, to which the city nobles are also invited. There are two bands and a giant buffet with three dozen kinds of meat.

=== Archchancellor [[Bowell]]'s Remembrance's bun and penny ===
An extant bequest pays for one small currant bun and one copper penny to be placed on a high stone shelf on one wall of this vestibule (circular hall) every second Wednesday. No one knows why this is done, or even why the vestibule is named [[Archchancellor Bowell's Remembrance]] ({{H}})

===The Hunting of the Megapode===
A veritable heyhoe-rumbledown as all fellows pursue the [[Megapode]] through the college buildings with much mirth and good spirits.

===Archchancellor Preserved Bigger's Bequest, or Poore Boys Funne===

The Bigger's Bequest is a very large fund. Monies from the interest on the fund cover approximately 87.4% of the college food bill. It does however carry conditions, in order for the UU to have access to these funds they must play [[Football]] at least once every twenty years.
Food is ''important'' to the modern wizard: the University appears to be regualted as tightly as any ship at sea by its [[Unseen University Mealtimes|mealtimes]], which happen at approximately two-hour intervals throughout the day and night, like the ship's bells that tell sailors what watch they're on. Therefore while there is much grumbling and reluctance, the vital necessity to play football is acknowledged in {{UA}}.

==Flora and Fauna==
The grounds are closed and heavily contaminated with magic, so a special ecosystem has evolved within Unseen University, with many wondrous creatures not found elsewhere, and many highly intelligent and civilized varieties of common house pests. These include:
*[[.303 Bookworm]] in the Library.
*Ants; some pull carts, some ride on beetles. One time, a clan of ants built a sugar pyramid for the mummy of a deceased queen (on the walls the true secret of longevity was inscribed, but it was lost when it was washed out).
*Bedbugs in Rincewind's mattress, smart enough to take the mattress with them when they feel they need to flee the University.
*Cockroaches; billions of them can march with their steps perfectly in time.
*[[Critters]] in the Library.
* Escaped demons in the cellar.
*Flying insects (including bees) who are not only capable of leaving a room by the window through which they entered, they can unerringly pick out a tiny hole in the glass no larger than a small coin, and enter and leave via this aperture.
*{{wp|Marmosets|Marmosets}} were planned to be used by a previous Archchancellor in order to communicate throughout the university (a piped system).
*[[Rats]] who seem to understand human speech. Some have moved to under the [[Patrician's Palace]] and sometimes serve the Patrician, Lord [[Havelock Vetinari]].
*Owls - [[Book:The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook & Diary 2007|The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook & Diary]] notes that there are a large population of owls living in the upper attics of UU. The wizards did once try and use the owls are an internal postal-service to deliver the letters and memos. However these were very intelligent birds, and saw the letters an an easily obtainable source of nesting material. The letters had to be retrieved from owls and stamped 'defected on by owls' (although most people can see this when they get it).
*[[Quoth|Ravens]] talk and are very inquisitive, but not very bright.
*[[Swear-Words]], cussed into being by Ridcully during a time of great magical potential.

:These creatures can be found in: {{ER}}, {{S}}, {{G!G!}}, {{RM}} and {{NW}}.

[[Gargoyles]] - There are a large colony of gargoyles covering much of the ancient buildings of the Unseen University. The first appear in {{ER}}. In wet weather they delight in spitting the water over passing students. In the event of a serious storm however, they have been known to leave the walls and hide under the attics, holding 'that just because your are ugly, doesn't mean you have to be stupid'. In {{S}} the entire gargoyle population abandoned UU, descending to ground level and fleeing across the immaculate grass lawns, sensing the approach of the [[Coin|Sourcerer]].

The University still dumps magical rubbish carelessly in the back alleys of [[Ankh-Morpork]]. The eating of magical rubbish led to the rise of the [[Rats|rat]] Clan, composed of rats not only intelligent but also fluent in human speech. These rats are important characters in ''[[Book:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]''.

[[Gaspode]], the thinking-brain dog for the [[Canting Crew]], may also have got his thinking abilities and human speech from eating Unseen's rubbish (or, as he says in {{MAA}}, by sleeping next to the High Energy Magic Building), dumped by time-honoured custom in the [[Unreal Estate]]. (Details in {{MP}} and {{MAA}}). This was certainly the case for [[The Amazing Maurice]], an otherwise bright feral tomcat who, before eating Unseen's rubbish at one step removed, was scratching a bare living on the margins, but then got a Big Idea.

[[Schleppel]], a boogeyman, was invited to move into the University's cellars after the events of {{RM}}, and happily looked forward to preying on its various wildlife. It is uncertain how he may have fitted into its curious ecology.

==Annotation==
The name of the Unseen University probably comes from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_College Invisible College]

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Chair of Indefinite Studies

2015-09-19T18:54:16Z

Sharlee:

The Chair of Indefinite Studies is a post at [[Unseen University]], held by a high level mage (traditionally only Eighth Level Wizards are Heads of Department, but this seems to have lapsed under the Archchancellorship of [[Mustrum Ridcully]]). The current incumbent seems to wander in and out of importance as part of the [[Faculty]]. For example, he goes to the lost continent of [[XXXX]] and accompanies the rest of the Heads of Wizardry on the mission to stop [[Cohen the Barbarian]] and his [[Silver Horde]] from inadvertently destroying the world by taking fire back to [[Dunmanifestin]], the home of the [[gods]], but he is not present at other transdimensional emergencies. Perhaps this is due to his insistence that once a problem becomes a 'definite' problem, it no longer falls under his remit as Chair of ''Indefinite'' Studies.

In {{MP}}, the Chair is described as a white-haired old man wholly in keeping with the university ethos of very large meals six times a day. The combination of untended beard and the cumulative effect of those six meals a day combine to liken him, or the then post-holder, to an overstuffed horsehair armchair which is beginning to leak its stuffing along bursting critical seams. He attends the screening of [[Blown Away]] with the other covert wizards and, while he does think to suggest that his colleagues sneak into the ''Odium'' via the rear, he wholly fails to deliver any practical advice or assistance in the interdimensional leak that follows. In {{H}}, the Chair uncovered references to "lares and penates" in ''Woddeley's Basic Gods''.

In {{TLC}}, it's revealed that the Chair is fond of croquet and bridge. He also collects pressed lizards, a curious hobby he shares with at least one irritating young boy from {{H}}. He wears expensive socks with flax-enforced heels. A staid, prim fellow, the Chair was the last of the faculty to develop an affection for Mrs. Whitlow in {{TLC}}. Frequently a bit slow on the uptake, he admits that the state of magical research has passed him by in recent years, ever since dribbly candles fell out of favor. He was quite a drinker in his student days, having nipped over the University wall for a pint or three most evenings. A likely contemporary of [[Ridcully]] and the [[Dean of Pentacles]], as he remembers the latter being too studious to join in such forays.

He plays a minor, but important, role in {{MM}}, in re-introducing [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] to the [[Cabinet of Curiosity]], and afterwards facilitating an introduction to [[Ponder Stibbons]] and the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]]. For his sins.

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Dean

2015-09-19T18:30:06Z

Sharlee:

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|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
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The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University. Dean Smoth, who appears in {{TLC}}, was ''much'' too helpful to be mistaken for UU's Dean.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''. In the wake of {{SM}}, he's been known to don a leather robe at times of crisis, with the phrase "Born To Rune" in studs on the back.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields, seven months before [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. As a student, he studied in the evenings rather than join his classmates on forays into the city's taverns. In ''The Science of Discworld II: The Globe'', Rincewind mentions that the Dean's UU office features, among the usual wizardly decor, a skull that sings comic songs.

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

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Chair of Indefinite Studies

2015-09-19T18:28:12Z

Sharlee:

The Chair of Indefinite Studies is a post at [[Unseen University]], held by a high level mage (traditionally only Eighth Level Wizards are Heads of Department, but this seems to have lapsed under the Archchancellorship of [[Mustrum Ridcully]]). The current incumbent seems to wander in and out of importance as part of the [[Faculty]]. For example, he goes to the lost continent of [[XXXX]] and accompanies the rest of the Heads of Wizardry on the mission to stop [[Cohen the Barbarian]] and his [[Silver Horde]] from inadvertently destroying the world by taking fire back to [[Dunmanifestin]], the home of the [[gods]], but he is not present at other transdimensional emergencies. Perhaps this is due to his insistence that once a problem becomes a 'definite' problem, it no longer falls under his remit as Chair of ''Indefinite'' Studies.

In {{MP}}, the Chair is described as a white-haired old man wholly in keeping with the university ethos of very large meals six times a day. The combination of untended beard and the cumulative effect of those six meals a day combine to liken him, or the then post-holder, to an overstuffed horsehair armchair which is beginning to leak its stuffing along bursting critical seams. He attends the screening of [[Blown Away]] with the other covert wizards, and wholly fails to deliver any practical advice or assistance in the interdimensional leak that follows. In {{H}}, the Chair uncovered references to "lares and penates" in ''Woddeley's Basic Gods''.

In {{TLC}}, it's revealed that the Chair is fond of croquet and bridge. He also collects pressed lizards, a curious hobby he shares with at least one irritating young boy from {{H}}. He wears expensive socks with flax-enforced heels. A staid, prim fellow, the Chair was the last of the faculty to develop an affection for Mrs. Whitlow in {{TLC}}. Frequently a bit slow on the uptake, he admits that the state of magical research has passed him by in recent years, ever since dribbly candles fell out of favor. He was quite a drinker in his student days, having nipped over the University wall for a pint or three most evenings. A likely contemporary of [[Ridcully]] and the [[Dean of Pentacles]], as he remembers the latter being too studious to join in such forays.

He plays a minor, but important, role in {{MM}}, in re-introducing [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] to the [[Cabinet of Curiosity]], and afterwards facilitating an introduction to [[Ponder Stibbons]] and the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]]. For his sins.

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Dean

2015-09-19T18:26:03Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
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|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
|appearance=
|residence=[[Unseen University]]
|death=
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The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University. Dean Smoth, who appears in {{TLC}}, was ''much'' too helpful to be mistaken for UU's Dean.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''. In the wake of {{SM}}, he's been known to don a leather robe at times of crisis, with the phrase "Born To Rune" in studs on the back.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields, seven months before [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. As a student, he studied in the evenings rather than join his classmates on forays into the city's taverns. In ''The Science of Discworld II: The Globe'', Rincewind mentions that the Dean's UU office features, among the usual wizardly decor, a skull that sings comic songs.

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

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Chair of Indefinite Studies

2015-09-19T18:23:49Z

Sharlee:

The Chair of Indefinite Studies is a post at [[Unseen University]], held by a high level mage (traditionally only Eighth Level Wizards are Heads of Department, but this seems to have lapsed under the Archchancellorship of [[Mustrum Ridcully]]). The current incumbent seems to wander in and out of importance as part of the [[Faculty]]. For example, he goes to the lost continent of [[XXXX]] and accompanies the rest of the Heads of Wizardry on the mission to stop [[Cohen the Barbarian]] and his [[Silver Horde]] from inadvertently destroying the world by taking fire back to [[Dunmanifestin]], the home of the [[gods]], but he is not present at other transdimensional emergencies. Perhaps this is due to his insistence that once a problem becomes a 'definite' problem, it no longer falls under his remit as Chair of ''Indefinite'' Studies.

In {{MP}}, the Chair is described as a white-haired old man wholly in keeping with the university ethos of very large meals six times a day. The combination of untended beard and the cumulative effect of those six meals a day combine to liken him, or the then post-holder, to an overstuffed horsehair armchair which is beginning to leak its stuffing along bursting critical seams. He attends the screening of [[Blown Away]] with the other covert wizards, and wholly fails to deliver any practical advice or assistance in the interdimensional leak that follows. In {{H}}, the Chair uncovered references to "lares and penates" in ''Woddeley's Basic Gods''.

In {{TLC}}, it's revealed that the Chair is fond of croquet and bridge. He also collects pressed lizards, a curious hobby he shares with at least one irritating young boy from {{H}}. He wears expensive socks with flax-enforced heels. A staid, prim fellow, the Chair was the last of the faculty to develop an affection for Mrs. Whitlow in {{TLC}}. Frequently a bit slow on the uptake, he admits that the state of magical research has passed him by in recent years, ever since dribbly candles fell out of favor. He was quite a drinker in his student days, having nipped over the University wall for a pint or three most evenings.

He plays a minor, but important, role in {{MM}}, in re-introducing [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] to the [[Cabinet of Curiosity]], and afterwards facilitating an introduction to [[Ponder Stibbons]] and the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]]. For his sins.

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Chair of Indefinite Studies

2015-09-19T18:21:54Z

Sharlee:

The Chair of Indefinite Studies is a post at [[Unseen University]], held by a high level mage (traditionally only Eighth Level Wizards are Heads of Department, but this seems to have lapsed under the Archchancellorship of [[Mustrum Ridcully]]). The current incumbent seems to wander in and out of importance as part of the [[Faculty]]. For example, he goes to the lost continent of [[XXXX]] and accompanies the rest of the Heads of Wizardry on the mission to stop [[Cohen the Barbarian]] and his [[Silver Horde]] from inadvertently destroying the world by taking fire back to [[Dunmanifestin]], the home of the [[gods]], but he is not present at other transdimensional emergencies. Perhaps this is due to his insistence that once a problem becomes a 'definite' problem, it no longer falls under his remit as Chair of ''Indefinite'' Studies.

In {{MP}}, the Chair is described as a white-haired old man wholly in keeping with the university ethos of very large meals six times a day. The combination of untended beard and the cumulative effect of those six meals a day combine to liken him, or the then post-holder, to an overstuffed horsehair armchair which is beginning to leak its stuffing along bursting critical seams. He attends the screening of [[Blown Away]] with the other covert wizards, and wholly fails to deliver any practical advice or assistance in the interdimensional leak that follows. In {{H}}, the Chair uncovered references to "lares and penates" in ''Woddeley's Basic Gods''.

In {{TLC}}, it's revealed that the Chair is fond of croquet and bridge. He also collects pressed lizards, a curious hobby he shares with at least one irritating young boy from {{H}}. He wears expensive socks with flax-enforced heels. A staid, prim fellow, the Chair was the last of the faculty to develop an affection for Mrs. Whitlow in {{TLC}}. Frequently a bit slow on the uptake, he admits that the state of magical research has passed him by in recent years, ever since dribbly candles fell out of favor.

He plays a minor, but important, role in {{MM}}, in re-introducing [[Adora Belle Dearheart]] to the [[Cabinet of Curiosity]], and afterwards facilitating an introduction to [[Ponder Stibbons]] and the [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications]]. For his sins.

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Lecturer in Recent Runes

2015-09-19T18:19:50Z

Sharlee:

The Lecturer in Recent Runes is one of the [[Faculty]] of [[Unseen University]] - one of the highest level mages on the disc. As such he is a rotund, elderly gentleman with an ability to bicker finely honed by decades of interdepartmental meetings. As a member of the Faculty he has been present at some of the larger catastrophes that have engulfed the Disc and has had some extraordinary adventures. He has featured in many of the books. Here is an indicative quote from {{TLC}}:

"Well, I for one have never believed all that business about dead animals turning into stone," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "It's against all reason. What's in it for them?"

"So how do you explain fossils, then?" said Ponder.

"Ah, you see, I don't," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, with a triumphant smile. "It saves so much trouble in the long run."

Presumably, then, spell-creation using Runes is not a dead science - new ones are being discovered/forged/created, which leads to the exciting conclusion that new ''spells'' are also being created! Whether the Lecturer has invented any spells himself is unknown; he did, however, design a new life form for Roundworld that would be invulnerable to cometary impacts. Or would have been, if Ridcully hadn't nixed his proposal for a two-mile limpet.

Giant whale-eating mollusks aside, the Lecturer does have a good idea or make a practical contribution from time to time, as when he came up with the idea of false "false beards" in {{MP}}. An amateur lute-player, he introduced music to the natives of [[Roundworld]] as part of Rincewind's plan to educate them in the arts; conversely, under the influence of Music With Rocks In, he chose drumming on the dining-hall tableware over getting a guitar in {{SM}}. In {{UA}}, the Lecturer reveals enough fluency in Quirmian to say "not in front of the servants".

Like many senior wizards, the Lecturer's real name is unknown even to his colleagues. {{TLC}} did reveal, at least, that it's ''not'' Arnold. His age is likewise unspecified, although a comment of his from {{MP}} implies he hadn't climbed over the University wall in the previous 50 years, presumably since his student days.

==Annotation==

This is a parody of the "Lecturer in Recent Literature" that many [[Roundworld]] universities have.

He also appears in the Discworld Game, wearing blue wizard's clothes and has a white beard. He is voiced by Rob Brydon and appears to have an Irish accent.

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Lecturer in Recent Runes

2015-09-19T18:19:32Z

Sharlee:

The Lecturer in Recent Runes is one of the [[Faculty]] of [[Unseen University]] - one of the highest level mages on the disc. As such he is a rotund, elderly gentleman with an ability to bicker finely honed by decades of interdepartmental meetings. As a member of the Faculty he has been present at some of the larger catastrophes that have engulfed the Disc and has had some extraordinary adventures. He has featured in many of the books. Here is an indicative quote from {{TLC}}:

"Well, I for one have never believed all that business about dead animals turning into stone," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "It's against all reason. What's in it for them?"

"So how do you explain fossils, then?" said Ponder.

"Ah, you see, I don't," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, with a triumphant smile. "It saves so much trouble in the long run."

Presumably, then, spell-creation using Runes is not a dead science - new ones are being discovered/forged/created, which leads to the exciting conclusion that new ''spells'' are also being created! Whether the Lecturer has invented any spells himself is unknown; he did, however, design a new life form for Roundworld that would be invulnerable to cometary impacts. Or would have been, if Ridcully hadn't nixed his proposal for a two-mile limpet.

Giant whale-eating mollusks aside, the Lecturer does have a good idea or make a practical contribution from time to time, as when he came up with the idea of false "false beards" in {{MP}}. An amateur lute-player, he introduced music to the natives of [[Roundworld]] as part of Rincewind's plan to educate them in the arts; conversely, under the influence of Music With Rocks In, he chose drumming on the dining-hall tableware over getting a guitar in {{SM}]. In {{UA}}, the Lecturer reveals enough fluency in Quirmian to say "not in front of the servants".

Like many senior wizards, the Lecturer's real name is unknown even to his colleagues. {{TLC}} did reveal, at least, that it's ''not'' Arnold. His age is likewise unspecified, although a comment of his from {{MP}} implies he hadn't climbed over the University wall in the previous 50 years, presumably since his student days.

==Annotation==

This is a parody of the "Lecturer in Recent Literature" that many [[Roundworld]] universities have.

He also appears in the Discworld Game, wearing blue wizard's clothes and has a white beard. He is voiced by Rob Brydon and appears to have an Irish accent.

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Lecturer in Recent Runes

2015-09-19T18:18:09Z

Sharlee:

The Lecturer in Recent Runes is one of the [[Faculty]] of [[Unseen University]] - one of the highest level mages on the disc. As such he is a rotund, elderly gentleman with an ability to bicker finely honed by decades of interdepartmental meetings. As a member of the Faculty he has been present at some of the larger catastrophes that have engulfed the Disc and has had some extraordinary adventures. He has featured in many of the books. Here is an indicative quote from {{TLC}}:

"Well, I for one have never believed all that business about dead animals turning into stone," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "It's against all reason. What's in it for them?"

"So how do you explain fossils, then?" said Ponder.

"Ah, you see, I don't," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, with a triumphant smile. "It saves so much trouble in the long run."

Presumably, then, spell-creation using Runes is not a dead science - new ones are being discovered/forged/created, which leads to the exciting conclusion that new ''spells'' are also being created! Whether the Lecturer has invented any spells himself is unknown; he did, however, design a new life form for Roundworld that would be invulnerable to cometary impacts. Or would have been, if Ridcully hadn't nixed his proposal for a two-mile limpet.

Giant whale-eating mollusks aside, the Lecturer does have a good idea or make a practical contribution from time to time, as when he came up with the idea of false "false beards" in ''Moving Pictures''. An amateur lute-player, he introduced music to the natives of Roundworld as part of Rincewind's plan to educate them in the arts; conversely, under the influence of Music With Rocks In, he chose drumming on the dining-hall tableware over getting a guitar. In ''Unseen Academicals'', the Lecturer reveals enough fluency in Quirmian to say "not in front of the servants".

Like many senior wizards, the Lecturer's real name is unknown even to his colleagues. {{TLC}} did reveal, at least, that it's ''not'' Arnold. His age is likewise unspecified, although a comment of his from {{MP}} implies he hadn't climbed over the University wall in the previous 50 years, presumably since his student days.

==Annotation==

This is a parody of the "Lecturer in Recent Literature" that many [[Roundworld]] universities have.

He also appears in the Discworld Game, wearing blue wizard's clothes and has a white beard. He is voiced by Rob Brydon and appears to have an Irish accent.

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Lecturer in Recent Runes

2015-09-19T18:17:48Z

Sharlee:

The Lecturer in Recent Runes is one of the [[Faculty]] of [[Unseen University]] - one of the highest level mages on the disc. As such he is a rotund, elderly gentleman with an ability to bicker finely honed by decades of interdepartmental meetings. As a member of the Faculty he has been present at some of the larger catastrophes that have engulfed the Disc and has had some extraordinary adventures. He has featured in many of the books. Here is an indicative quote from {{TLC}}:

"Well, I for one have never believed all that business about dead animals turning into stone," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "It's against all reason. What's in it for them?"

"So how do you explain fossils, then?" said Ponder.

"Ah, you see, I don't," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, with a triumphant smile. "It saves so much trouble in the long run."

Presumably, then, spell-creation using Runes is not a dead science - new ones are being discovered/forged/created, which leads to the exciting conclusion that new ''spells'' are also being created! Whether the Lecturer has invented any spells himself is unknown; he did, however, design a new life form for Roundworld that would be invulnerable to cometary impacts. Or would have been, if Ridcully hadn't nixed his proposal for a two-mile limpet.

Giant whale-eating mollusks aside, the Lecturer does have a good idea or make a practical contribution from time to time, as when he came up with the idea of false "false beards" in ''Moving Pictures''. An amateur lute-player, he introduced music to the natives of Roundworld as part of Rincewind's plan to educate them in the arts; conversely, under the influence of Music With Rocks In, he chose drumming on the dining-hall tableware over getting a guitar. In ''Unseen Academicals'', the Lecturer reveals enough fluency in Quirmian to say "not in front of the servants".

Like many senior wizards, the Lecturer's real name is unknown even to his colleagues. ''The Last Continent'' did reveal, at least, that it's ''not'' Arnold. His age is likewise unspecified, although a comment of his from {{MP}} implies he hadn't climbed over the University wall in the previous 50 years, presumably since his student days.

==Annotation==

This is a parody of the "Lecturer in Recent Literature" that many [[Roundworld]] universities have.

He also appears in the Discworld Game, wearing blue wizard's clothes and has a white beard. He is voiced by Rob Brydon and appears to have an Irish accent.

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Theda Withel

2015-09-19T18:02:09Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Theda Withel
|photo=synmine.jpg|Early [[Iconograph]] of the [[Moving Pictures]] star Delores de Syn by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name=Theda Withel
|age=
|race=Human

|occupation=Milkmaid, Moving Pictures Star
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|residence=Holy wood.

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Theda Withel says of herself that she "comes from a little town you probably haven't heard of". After running away from there to "be someone" - to be the most famous person in the whole world, she finds herself in the [[Moving Pictures]] industry at [[Holy Wood]], where she takes the name Ginger.

Using the name ''Delores De Syn'', she starred in several movies with [[Victor Tugelbend]], usually as the maiden to be rescued. She is likely descended from the High Priestess of Holy Wood, and while sleeping, she was repeatedly possessed by an unknown force, which attempted to use her to awaken the [[Oswald|Holy Wood guardian]], which would have put a stop to the Holy Wood magic and prevented the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions from breaking through to the Discworld.

She ended up as famous as she wanted - when sitting next to Lord [[Vetinari]] people recognised her but not him.

Presumably, once the Holy Wood magic dies and is pretty much wiped from the mass consciousness, Ginger reverts to calling herself Theda and goes back to being a milkmaid in the little town you've probably never heard of. Or maybe not.

There is more than a little suggestion of romance between Ginger and [[Victor Tugelbend]].

She is not known to be any relation to [[Stren Withel]]. Indeed, the only relative she mentions is her Uncle Oswald, whom she only saw once while attending his funeral.

==Annotation==

Terry Pratchett says that he did not intend the name "Ginger" as a reference to ''Gone with the Wind'''s Scarlett. If that's true it must be the only film reference that doesn't follow in the book {{MP}}, which is full of hundreds of them.

Her name is likely a reference to Theda Bara (see below) and - obviously - Ginger Rogers. There is much of Marilyn Monroe about her, too, as evidenced by Withel's daydream of the famous blowing skirt picture of Monroe. Her character also has a brief reference to Greta Garbo and her famous line "I want to be alone" - this was misheard in the book as "I want to be a lawn".

Theda Bara (an anagram of ''Death Arab'') was a famous movie star of the 1910s. Her portrayal of evil women in movies like ''When a Woman Sins'' and ''The She Devil'' caused the current meaning of the word 'vamp' to be added to the English language.

In the scene near the end of the book a 50-foot high Ginger carries an ape (the [[Librarian]]) up a tower. This is a reference to ''Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman'' combined with a reversal of ''King Kong'', and - once the scales and tentacles start to emerge - ''Godzilla''.

In the audiobook version of Moving Pictures, narrator Nigel Planer speaks Theda Withel's parts with a faux American accent. This is an interesting parallel, as English actress Vivien Leigh had to fake a "southern" American accent while playing Scarlet O'Hara, Withel's Gone With the Wind counterpart.

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Sphinx

2015-09-19T17:18:48Z

Sharlee:

The '''Sphinx''' that guards [[Djelibeybi]]. It allows people to pass only by answering the riddle:
''What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the middle of the day, and 3 legs in the evening?''

Otherwise it would eat them. The protagonist, [[Pteppic]], is unable to answer the riddle, but is not eaten as he exploits flaws in the riddle.

The Sphinx lives in a separate plane of dimension just outside of Djelibeybi.

Contrary to what Mr. [[Dibbler]] claims in {{MP}}, "sphinx" is singular, not plural.

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Dean

2015-09-17T05:08:12Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
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|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]
|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
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|residence=[[Unseen University]]
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The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University. Dean Smoth, who appears in {{TLC}}, was ''much'' too helpful to be mistaken for UU's Dean.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''. In the wake of {{SM}}, he's been known to don a leather robe at times of crisis, with the phrase "Born To Rune" in studs on the back.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields, seven months before [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. In ''The Science of Discworld II: The Globe'', Rincewind mentions that the Dean's UU office features, among the usual wizardly decor, a skull that sings comic songs.

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

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Violet Bottler

2015-09-12T17:20:34Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title= Violet Bottler
|photo= Lass1.jpg|Violet, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]
|name= Violet Bottler

|books={{H}}
|cameos={{FOC}}
}}

Violet works in Ankh Morpork as a [[Tooth Fairy|tooth fairy]], and appears in {{H}}. Conscientious but not bright, she lives by herself in a small room in [[Shamlegger Street]], when she's not making her rounds with a stepladder, bag of coins, and pliers.

[[Susan Sto Helit]] sometime saw her in [[Biers]], where the undead drank, and recognized her when she came to collect a tooth from [[Twyla]]. Why would Violet be drinking in a pub where you could be asked, “Hey normo, what you looking at?” Perhaps as a Tooth Fairy representative she is in an in-between world, and cannot get service at less supernatural-friendly establishments, being invisible to ordinary mortals while on duty.

After Mr [[Teatime]] punched [[Banjo]] Lilywhite in the mouth, Banjo being a child at heart, a tooth becomes available for collection. Violet is followed after visiting Banjo, captured and taken by Teatime and his group to the domain of the Tooth Fairy, where they keep her tied up. Quite what Teatime had in mind for her is not clear, but for Susan, once she finds out what Violet’s full name was, Violet becomes a kind of homing beacon. “If I want to, I can find anybody. It’s a family trait.”

On meeting [[Bilious]] the drinker-phobic oh god of hangovers, eyes meeting across a crowded room as it were, Violet says that as a young member of Offler’s League of Temperance she had a blue ribbon. She seems to imply that this is still in force, which might not be 100% true. For that matter, the oh god starts revising upward his account of the kind of godding he does, particularly after rather disdainful comments from Violet about his standing in for the God of Hangovers. They are last seen in the domain of the Tooth Fairy, where they have agreed to help Banjo, now in charge.

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Marietta Cosmopilite

2015-09-12T17:11:08Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title= Mrs. Marietta Cosmopilite
|photo= Mrs cosmopolite1.JPG|Mrs Cosmopilite, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]
|name= Marietta Cosmopilite
|age=
|race= [[Humans|Human]]

|occupation= Dress-maker and seamstress (in the [[Sandra Battye]] sense)

|appearance=

|residence= 3 [[Quirm Street]], [[Ankh-Morpork]]. She apparently also runs a dress-shop/haberdashery located not far away from Blert Wheedown's guitar workshop ({{SM}}).

|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= presumably there once was a Mr. Cosmopilite

|books= {{MP}}
|cameos= {{SG}}, {{TOT}}
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Mrs. Marietta Cosmopilite is a dress-maker living at 3 [[Quirm Street]], Ankh-Morpork. She also runs a dress shop and haberdashery not far away from [[Blert Wheedown]]'s guitar workshop: during the [[Music With Rocks In]] craze, Wheedown sent his apprentice [[Gibbsson]] round to her shop to negotiate for sequins, Ankhstones and suitably flashy material for guitar straps. During the [[Holy Wood]] moving pictures fever, Mrs. Cosmopilite worked as the wardrobe mistress for the actors. Mrs. Cosmopilite also makes dresses for the new dwarf females. Other than dress-making, Mrs. Cosmopilite rents out some rooms in her house (Very Reasonable).

Since seekers of wisdom always want to seek it somewhere far away, some young monks come down from the [[Ramtops]] and the [[Hub]] and try to learn ''[[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]]''. This collection of trite, but sometimes pithy homilies was compiled by [[Lu-Tze]], a.k.a. the Sweeper, of the [[History Monks]]; he carries it with him in a small notebook. It has never been published, otherwise, but rumor has spread of the teacher of the great and wise Lu-Tze. The seekers of enlightenment on Quirm Street never know quite what they're looking for, and Mrs. Cosmopilite has no idea why they're bothering her.

She complains that she is bothered at nights by [[Dwarfs|dwarf]] voyeurs peeping in through the curtains while she undresses. Dwarfs have a different aesthetic as to what constitutes attractiveness (as evidenced by [[Giamo Casanunda|Casanunda]]'s passion for [[Nanny Ogg]]), and it is hinted that, however unlikely this behaviour is for dwarfs, this is the only thing she has got right out of a catalogue of interesting delusional beliefs. Although it is possible that she is on one of [[Nobby Nobbs]]' patrol beats, and has made a common error re: Nobby's species...

Extremely accomplished with broom, dustpan and feather duster, by Lu-Tze's expert testimony.

==Annotation==

If the young Lu-Tze went to her to learn ''[[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]]'' and is over 800 years old at the time of the events described in {{TOT}}, how can she still be alive to be gallivanting in the time of {{MP}}? Is it that Lu-Tze persuaded [[Qu]] to send him forwards in time and then bring him back once he'd learnt? (Linear time is not something the History Monks seem to worry about.)

It is also possible that part of her interesting mental state may be due to the mercury traditionally employed in the haberdashery and millinery trades.

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Clockmakers' Guild

2015-09-12T17:06:37Z

Sharlee:

One of the many [[Guilds of Ankh-Morpork|guilds]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], this groups concerns are clockmaking and clockwork machinery. There is no facts mention of their making toys and items like locks, which may fall under the purview of the Artificers' Guild instead.

As its members are typically self-employed craftsmen, the Clockmakers' Guild is not concerned with setting wages or fees but functions primarily in an educational capacity, both providing a basic education to members' children & foundlings and providing "Continuing Education" to its practicing members.

The Guild, like any other, is a caring institution that will also obtain the appropriate medical intervention for a member in distress and ensure that member takes his medicine regularly. It will be ''especially'' punctilious in this, if the alternative is a distressing incident and a sudden dramatic decrease in the number of Guild members.

An anonymous Guild member - or members - are responsible for devising the clock in [[Vetinari]]'s waiting room - the one with the very slightly irregular "tick-tock" which you barely notice at first but which, while waiting for your always slightly un-nerving interview, will ''grow'' on you, like the Chinese water torture... Vetinari is believed to have paid most handsomely for such an example of craftsmanship.

Most famous member to date was [[Jeremy Clockson]], a foundling educated by the Guild who turned out to be a son of [[Time]]. Another member of repute was former civic hangman [[Hepzibah Whitlow]], whose observations revolutionised the accuracy of the long-case ("Grandfather") clock. Least well-known of the famous clockmakers is [[Wilframe Balderton]], who invented the Fish Tail Escapement device after having a nightmare about fish.

The current Guild Secretary is Dr [[Hopkins]].

Possibly also known as the Watchmakers' Guild, unless the building passed by [[William de Worde]] in a brief scene from {{TT}} was a subsidiary or rival enterprise.

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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]
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Clockmakers' Guild

2015-09-12T17:04:55Z

Sharlee:

One of the many [[Guilds of Ankh-Morpork|guilds]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], this groups concerns are clockmaking and clockwork machinery. There is no facts mention of their making toys and items like locks, but presumably they do.

As its members are typically self-employed craftsmen, the Clockmakers' Guild is not concerned with setting wages or fees but functions primarily in an educational capacity, both providing a basic education to members' children & foundlings and providing "Continuing Education" to its practicing members.

The Guild, like any other, is a caring institution that will also obtain the appropriate medical intervention for a member in distress and ensure that member takes his medicine regularly. It will be ''especially'' punctilious in this, if the alternative is a distressing incident and a sudden dramatic decrease in the number of Guild members.

An anonymous Guild member - or members - are responsible for devising the clock in [[Vetinari]]'s waiting room - the one with the very slightly irregular "tick-tock" which you barely notice at first but which, while waiting for your always slightly un-nerving interview, will ''grow'' on you, like the Chinese water torture... Vetinari is believed to have paid most handsomely for such an example of craftsmanship.

Most famous member to date was [[Jeremy Clockson]], a foundling educated by the Guild who turned out to be a son of [[Time]]. Another member of repute was former civic hangman [[Hepzibah Whitlow]], whose observations revolutionised the accuracy of the long-case ("Grandfather") clock. Least well-known of the famous clockmakers is [[Wilframe Balderton]], who invented the Fish Tail Escapement device after having a nightmare about fish.

The current Guild Secretary is Dr [[Hopkins]].

Possibly also known as the Watchmakers' Guild, unless the building passed by [[William de Worde]] in a brief scene from {{TT}} was a subsidiary or rival enterprise.

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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]
[[de:Uhrmachergilde]]

Clockmakers' Guild

2015-09-12T17:04:15Z

Sharlee:

One of the many [[Guilds of Ankh-Morpork|guilds]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]], this groups concerns are clockmaking and clockwork machinery. There is no facts mention of their making toys and items like locks, but presumably they do.

As its members are typically self-employed craftsmen, the Clockmakers' Guild is not concerned with setting wages or fees but functions primarily in an educational capacity, both providing a basic education to members' children & foundlings and providing "Continuing Education" to its practicing members.

The Guild, like any other, is a caring institution that will also obtain the appropriate medical intervention for a member in distress and ensure that member takes his medicine regularly. It will be ''especially'' punctilious in this, if the alternative is a distressing incident and a sudden dramatic decrease in the number of Guild members.

An anonymous Guild member - or members - are responsible for devising the clock in [[Vetinari]]'s waiting room - the one with the very slightly irregular "tick-tock" which you barely notice at first but which, while waiting for your always slightly un-nerving interview, will ''grow'' on you, like the Chinese water torture... Vetinari is believed to have paid most handsomely for such an example of craftsmanship.

Most famous member to date was [[Jeremy Clockson]], a foundling educated by the Guild who turned out to be a son of [[Time]]. Another member of repute was former civic hangman [[Hepzibah Whitlow]], whose observations revolutionised the accuracy of the long-case ("Grandfather") clock. Least well-known of the famous clockmakers is [[Wilframe Balderton]], who invented the Fish Tail Escapement device after having a nightmare about fish.

The current Guild Secretary is Dr [[Hopkins]].

Possibly also known as the Watchmakers' Guild, unless the building passed by [[William de Worde]] in a brief scene from {{TT}} is in reference to a subsidiary or rival Guild.

[[Category:Guilds]]
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]
[[de:Uhrmachergilde]]

Scone of Stone

2015-09-07T02:04:22Z

Sharlee:

{{spoilersfor|''[[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''}}

The '''Scone of Stone''' is the most famous form of [[Dwarf Bread|dwarf bread]]. It has seated the [[Low King|Low Kings]] of the [[Dwarfs]] since it was first created to seat [[B'hrian Bloodaxe]], some fifteen hundred years ago. The Low King cannot be Low King without this artifact. Tragedy came however when the scone was apparently stolen from its keeping place. The belief is that the truth was once something solid, like a mineral, and the last piece of it was hidden by [[Agi Hammerthief]] and baked into the Scone. Because the Scone contains a grain of truth it is said to burn red-hot if a lie is told in it's presence, a fact than came in useful when [[Rhys Rhysson| Low King Rhys]] wished to interrogate [[Dee]].

The stone is also referred to as "the thing, the whole thing, and nothing but the thing."

A copy of the stone is kept at the Museum of dwarf bread in [[Ankh-Morpork]].

It should be noted that dwarf bread only lasts for a maximum of 300 years and belief has strange side effects.

The Scone plays an important role in ''[[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''.

==Annotations==

It is noteworthy that there is a Roundworld equivalent, namely the [[wikipedia:Stone_of_scone|Stone of Scone]] (pronounced 'scoon'), also commonly known as the Stone of Destiny or the Coronation Stone. It is a block of sandstone used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland, the monarchs of England, and, more recently, British monarchs. It was stolen in 1950 and returned about a year later. Even today rumours circulate that copies had been made of the Stone.

Another name the dwarfs give the Scone is the [[Low Throne]], which is itself a parody of many a 'High Throne' such as that at Cair Paravel in the ''Narnia'' series by CS Lewis.

In Irish mythology, the ''lias fail'' ('''stone of destiny''') is the traditional throne of the High King or Queen of All Ireland, and has a voice - it will scream or sing when the true High Monarch sits upon it. Later mythology is confused, but there is a hint that this was stolen by raiding Scots, who in turn had it stolen from them by the raiding English...

"The thing, the whole thing, and nothing but the thing" mirrors the swearing in of witnesses in court trials, when they are enjoined to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

The Low King's use of the Scone like a lie detector to make Dee confess is very similar to how King Arthur used Excalibur to identify a traitor in the ''Camelot 3000'' comic series. Yes, including the way the King knew, but did not mention, something about the detection-method's efficacy.

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Scone of Stone

2015-09-07T02:02:41Z

Sharlee:

{{spoilersfor|''[[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''}}

The '''Scone of Stone''' is the most famous form of [[Dwarf Bread|dwarf bread]]. It has seated the [[Low King|Low Kings]] of the [[Dwarfs]] since it was first created to seat [[B'hrian Bloodaxe]], some fifteen hundred years ago. The Low King cannot be Low King without this artifact. Tragedy came however when the scone was apparently stolen from its keeping place. The belief is that the truth was once something solid, like a mineral, and the last piece of it was hidden by [[Agi Hammerthief]] and baked into the Scone. Because the Scone contains a grain of truth it is said to burn red-hot if a lie is told in it's presence, a fact than came in useful when [[Rhys Rhysson| Low King Rhys]] wished to interrogate [[Dee]].

The stone is also referred to as "the thing, the whole thing, and nothing but the thing."

A copy of the stone is kept at the Museum of dwarf bread in [[Ankh-Morpork]].

It should be noted that dwarf bread only lasts for a maximum of 300 years and belief has strange side effects.

The Scone plays an important role in ''[[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''.

==Annotations==

It is noteworthy that there is a Roundworld equivalent, namely the [[wikipedia:Stone_of_scone|Stone of Scone]] (pronounced 'scoon'), also commonly known as the Stone of Destiny or the Coronation Stone. It is a block of sandstone used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland, the monarchs of England, and, more recently, British monarchs. It was stolen in 1950 and returned about a year later. Even today rumours circulate that copies had been made of the Stone.

Another name the dwarfs give the Scone is the [[Low Throne]], which is itself a parody of many a 'High Throne' such as that at Cair Paravel in the ''Narnia'' series by CS Lewis.

In Irish mythology, the ''lias fail'' ('''stone of destiny''') is the traditional throne of the High King or Queen of All Ireland, and has a voice - it will scream or sing when the true High Monarch sits upon it. Later mythology is confused, but there is a hint that this was stolen by raiding Scots, who in turn had it stolen from them by the raiding English...

"The thing, the whole thing, and nothing but the thing" mirrors the swearing in of witnesses in court trials, when they are enjoined to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

The Low King's use of the Scone like a lie detector to make Dee confess is very similar to how King Arthur used Excalibur to identify a traitor in the ''Camelot 3000'' comic series. Yes, including fact the King was bluffing about it actually working as such.

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Stronginthearm

2015-09-05T00:53:12Z

Sharlee:

{{Disambig}}

Stronginthearm is a very common [[dwarfs|dwarf]] surname, and an old one. A young Stronginthearm survived the original Battle of Koom Valley some fifteen hundred years ago, and carried an item up to the surface which would prove pivotal to the events of ''Thud!''.

Particular Stronginthearms in the ''[[Discworld]]'' chronicles include:

*[[Abba Stronginthearm]]: [[Ankh-Morpork]] [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watchman]];
*[[Bjorn Stronginthearm]]: [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]'s great uncle;
*[[Erig Stronginthearm]]: [[Barbarian heroes|Barbarian hero]];
*[[Pors Stronginthearm]]: of [[Burleigh & Stronginthearm]];
*[[Thomas Stronginthearm]]: owns a workshop in [[Five-and-Seven Yard]];
*[[Morose Stronginthearm]]: Inventor of [[Hnaflbaflsniflwhifltafl]].
*[[Zakzak Stronginthearm]]: [[CMOT Dibbler|Dibbler-esque]] purveyor of suspect magical merchandise at inflated prices for gullible young witches

== Annotation ==

Incidentally, there are a surprising number of "Stronginthearms" in the Manchester North and Lancashire telephone directories. The name is thought to originate with the heaviest jobs in manufacturing industry during the Industrial Revolution which called for most physical strength. In the manner of these things, a nickname conferred in admiration became a surname and is carried with pride today. The symbol of {{wp|Stones_Bitter|Stones Bitter}} shows a typically admiring image.

==An old Yorkshire poem:==

''Lancashire born and Lancashire bred''

''Stronginth'arm and weak in t'head!''

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Keli

2015-08-24T01:51:26Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title= Princess Keli
|photo=
|name= Princess Keli
|age= over 40
|race= Human

|occupation= Princess
|appearance=

|residence= [[Sto Lat]]

|death=
|parents= [[King Olerve the Bastard]] (d)
|relatives= [[Duke of Sto Helit]] (d); second cousin Jamie
|children=
|marital status=

|books= {{M}}
|cameos={{SM}}, {{GP}}, {{RS}}.
}}

'''Princess Keli''' appears mainly in the book ''[[Book:Mort|Mort]]''. She is about sixteen years old when she becomes the Queen of [[Sto Lat]] after her father, the King, is killed by her uncle.

[[Mort]], who is [[Death|Death's]] apprentice, falls in love with her when he first sees her, party because Keli appears to be one of those rare mortals who can see ''him''. This may be a natural talent in her, or it may be that Mort's own interest made him more visible, in the same way that Death's interest in Mort gave his apprentice the ability to see and recognize Death. Mort's infatuation with Keli causes him to spare her life a short time later on his first solo mission. Instead of taking Keli's soul, Mort "reaps" the assassin, whose soul he never interacts with, and who seems to drop altogether out of the story.

This deed has grave consequences. Even though Keli is alive, nobody seems to notice her. The reality in which Keli is dead is slowly taking over again. And Mort is fighting against time, with the help of [[Ysabell]] and the young wizard [[Igneous Cutwell|Cutwell]].

In the end, Death, impressed by their stubborness, changes reality for them; Keli remains Queen of Sto Lat. Or, to be more specific, ''Her Supreme Majesty, Queen Kelirehenna I, Lord of Sto Lat, Protector of the Eight Protectorates and Empress of the Long Thin Debated Piece Hubwards of Sto Kerrig''.

Although people of the [[Sto Plains]] like to think of themselves as having the most civilized history, Keli's distant ancestor had in fact been a barbarian raider who led a tribe and conquered the area now known as Sto Lat.

Queen Keli is also referenced in {{SM}} and {{GP}}, but makes no personal appearance.

It is interesting to note that while Keli was 16 years old when she first became queen in {{M}}, twenty four years later in {{GP}} the mayor of Sto Lat, [[Joe Camels]], refers to the queen as a 'nice girl' when she should be about 40. Perhaps she has just aged well. Or possibly this is some after affect of her life ending and then restarting, and she has remained ageless for a long time...

She is still alive and going strong at the time of {{RS}}, where she attends the ceremonial opening of the railway to the Sto states and takes a ride on the train.

==Annotation==
Ref. Mayor Camels referring to her as a "nice girl". He might have some of the laid-back egalitarianism of Scouser John Lennon, who wrote in a Beatles song
''Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say...'' (''Her Majesty'' on LP '''''Abbey Road''''')
Or else the down-to-earth streak of the Australian politician who innocently placed a guiding hand on the lower Royal back and afterwards referred to her as ''a hell of a nice girl''.

In the Discworld audiobook series, Nigel Planer reads Keli's lines in a "Klatchian" accent, and pronounces her name "Kay'-lee." Nevertheless, she is described in the novel as having slightly too many freckles to be conventionally attractive, not a trait noted among Klatchians. The freckles and complexion may have been inherited from one of her ancestors, a marauding tribal leader, who from his description seems to have been analogous to Roundworld Eastern Europeans, possibly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns Huns] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_people Magyars]. Her accent may be inspired by her other great ancestor, Queen [[Ezeriel]], the Discworld version of Cleopatra.

Later reader Steven Briggs, however, reads Keli as the anglophone "Kelly."

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Black Widow House

2015-08-19T03:58:58Z

Sharlee:

One of the four all-female houses at the [[Assassins' Guild]] school. The House Mistress is Madame les [[Deux-Epées]].

Informally nicknamed the ''Darners'', on the grounds that ''they'll all end up as Seamstresses some day.''

Formerly a boys' dormitory until the Guild school went co-educational, under the name Tarantula House.

==Annotation==

The Black Widow is one of the deadliest poisonous spiders to be found on Roundworld. It must evidently have a Discworld analogue, as its use in this context does not seem to be accidental. Like all spiders, the Black Widow is larger and deadlier than the male, and once the male has ceased to be of use while alive, the female will not think twice before killing and devouring him. In fact, she may not even think once.

In general, in the British public school system of which the Discworld schools are a reflection, a house name is conferred as a sort of exemplar, which house members are expected to ponder the meaning and significance of and model themselves upon. It can be a person or quality or animal seen to have perceived virtues and graces which the pupils are expected to assimilate. Therefore Black Widow alumni should be more than usually avoided?

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Death

2015-08-11T18:39:49Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Death
|Death Illustrated by [[User:whtmnk|Christopher Stryjewski]] a.k.a. whtmnk
|photo= D1rip.jpg
|name=Death
|age= As old as the death of the first living thing
|race=[[Anthropomorphic personification]]
|occupation=Releasing the spirits of dead beings
|appearance=Tall, not what you'd call fleshy, {{death|Talks like this}}
|residence= [[Death's Domain]]
|death= Nearly, in {{RM}}
|parents=
|relatives= [[Susan Sto Helit]] (Granddaughter)
|children= [[Ysabell]] (Adopted Daughter) [[Mort]] (son-in-law)
|marital status= Never Married... for some reason...
|books= {{M}} {{S}} {{RM}} {{SM}} {{H}} {{TOT}} ''[[Discworld Noir]]''
|cameos= Every [[:category:Discworld Series|Discworld book]] except {{WFM}}
}}
'''Death''' is the [[anthropomorphic personification]] of death on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. He appears as the traditional Grim Reaper, with a skeletal body, a black robe and a [[Death's Scythe|scythe]] (or sometimes a sword for royalty) and {{death|talks in unquoted small caps}}. Death appears for the first time in the first novel, ''[[Book:The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' (though it is suggested that his first appearance was actually that of his 'stand-in', [[Scrofula]]), and reappears in all of the stories that take place in the Discworld universe, with the exception of ''[[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]]'', a [[Tiffany Aching]] young adult book and {{SN}}.

Death is fascinated with humans in general, and as a result attempts to emulate their behaviour, if only to better understand them. However, as an immortal skeletal who does not have to pay heed to fatigue or even time, he seems to lack comprehension of some human concepts, such as detective novels. He is also described by [[Susan]] as someone who would solve world hunger, not by changing socioeconomic forces, but by giving everyone a good meal. While his job and anatomy cause a lack of emotions which he displays in his {{death|hollow voice}}, Death can be quite passionate about life in general and in some cases, actively defends it against the depredations of the [[Auditors]]. Death is fundamentally incapable of forgetting anything, with the possible exceptions of 1) how the horse moves in chess, and 2) how to get drunk.

Death had an apprentice named [[Mort]] and an adopted daughter named [[Ysabell]], who later got married and left him to become the Duke and Duchess of [[Sto Helit]]. Sometimes he visits [[Susan Sto Helit]], his grand-daughter through them. When not out and about, Death lives alone in [[Death's Domain]] with his manservant [[Albert]] and, since the events of ''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', the [[Death of Rats]]. Also members of the [[Death's Domain|household]] are the famed pale horse, named [[Binky]], and at times [[Quoth]] the talking raven.

He is fond of kittens, Binky, Susan, Albert, curries and life (without which he would be useless). He ''strongly'' dislikes the [[Auditors]], whose machinations against life he considers to be cheating, and at times has seemed to resent [[Rincewind]]'s unpunctuality, though at other times he has seemed more amiable toward him. Death occasionally finds it tiresome when his work entails dealing with irregularities, such as finding an appropriate posthumous destiny for [[Mr. Tulip]] or the repeated resurrections of [[Scraps]]. Nevertheless, he sticks by his Duty and very rarely interferes in human affairs, because of The Rules. He ''has'', however, been known to persuade Susan to act in his stead, not always by straightforward means; she occasionally reflects that he may have learnt a bit more about human behaviour than he lets on.

While of course in a ''sense'' he is there for every death, he need only personally attend to relatively few in order to keep things running. Death is however a caring individual and likes to keep an eye on things he does not necessarily need to, sometimes to the extend to be present at the end of a tiny tube worm on the abyssal floor. He gets quite upset when people (mostly those freshly severed from their bodies) accuse him of killing them. He argues that he simply allows them to leave this world and enter the next, and empirical evidence (such as the results of his various voluntary and involuntary sabbaticals) seems to bear this out. His jurisdiction, so to speak, appears to be Discworld itself; he is not Death in the universal sense.

Every living individual has a book in the great [[Death's Domain|Library]] of Death, and an hourglass-shaped [[Life-timer|lifetimer]] in a cathedral-dwarfing room that exists solely for the purpose of housing them. The look of each one seems to be personalised, and they keep on writing themselves or pouring sand through until the associated person dies. The books remain; the lifetimers apparently pop out of existence and new ones appear in their place, as a new life begins.

Death also introduces individuals to [[The Desert]] from time to time. Each soul has to walk the desert - to what end, Death refuses to be drawn. There is no justice, there is only him.

While Death himself cannot be seen by most individuals, (with the exceptions of cats, children, witches, wizards and other anthropomorphic personifications,) unless he wants them to see him, he is unable to see beings that are truly deathless, as they are not subject to his "''power''". He has nothing to do with them and thus cannot see them. This reflects that most humans cannot see him, as they naturally do not think about dying.

He was there when the first proto-life faded, and has been given his general shape by the belief of humans - of all creatures the most afraid of dying and the most likely to have evolved an agrarian culture in which scythes feature. He is also still there at the end of all things, as evidenced by his appearance at the end of time and space when [[Astfgl]] arrives to destroy [[Rincewind]]. Death is just about to metaphorically turn the lights out in the universe when he sees a new one germinating. Eventually, he thinks, there will be life. And therefore death. He will be needed. He can wait.

Death is a servant of [[Azrael]], the 'Death of Universes'; an entity of enormously unthinkable scope and size, "the Ultimate Reality". Azrael is the Being from whom all lesser-Deaths are mere reflections or aspects.

===Appearances===

[[Image:Death.jpg|200px|left|thumb|[[Death]]]]In {{RM}} Death is forced to retire by the Auditors, who fear he has become too human. He assumes the name Bill Door and finds work on [[Renata Flitworth|Miss Flitworth's]] farm as a farmhand. When the [[New Death]] is formed, it comes to claim Bill: he outwits it and destroys it, then resumes his role as Death.

In {{H}} we find that [[Jonathan Teatime|Mr. Teatime]] has devised a plan to kill Death, though no details are given, and he is skewered by Susan with a fireplace poker before he has a chance to execute it. His dialogue in the Tooth Fairy's castle suggests that he intended to strike Death with his own sword, which is reputed to be able to cut anything.

He has one of what Albert calls his 'fancies' during the events of {{SM}}, and tries to join the [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]] where he is called [[Beau Nidle]], fails in his quest for forgetfulness, and repairs to Ankh-Morpork to drink too much, all to forget what he is and has to do. He ends up as a member of the [[Canting Crew]], with the unusual moniker of 'Mr Scrub'. Beggars seem just as invisible as anthropomorphic personifications.

Death has a major role in ''[[Book:Mort|Mort]]'', ''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', ''[[Book:Soul Music|Soul Music]], [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' and ''[[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''. As a member of the [[Four Horsemen]] of the [[Apocralypse]], he plays an obligatory role in ''[[Book:Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' and ''[[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''.

== Annotation: the birth of Death ==
[[File:Seventh-seal.jpg|275px|thumb|right|The knight offers Death the choice of playing black or white in the game of chess.]]
In the Richard Dimbleby lecture, broadcast on Monday 1st February 2010 on BBC1, Terry revealed that at the age of four at his grandparents' house, he got to see the classic Ingmar Bergman film ''[[Wikipedia: The Seventh Seal|The Seventh Seal]]'' and therefore one of his earliest childhood memories is the defining game of chess between Bergman's death and the knight whose soul is in limbo: ''"...the Grim Reaper did not seem so terribly grim...the image has remained with me ever since."''

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Death (Discworld)|Death's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

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Death

2015-08-11T18:37:41Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Death
|Death Illustrated by [[User:whtmnk|Christopher Stryjewski]] a.k.a. whtmnk
|photo= D1rip.jpg
|name=Death
|age= As old as the death of the first living thing
|race=[[Anthropomorphic personification]]
|occupation=Releasing the spirits of dead beings
|appearance=Tall, not what you'd call fleshy, {{death|Talks like this}}
|residence= [[Death's Domain]]
|death= Nearly, in {{RM}}
|parents=
|relatives= [[Susan Sto Helit]] (Granddaughter)
|children= [[Ysabell]] (Adopted Daughter) [[Mort]] (son-in-law)
|marital status= Never Married... for some reason...
|books= {{M}} {{S}} {{RM}} {{SM}} {{H}} {{TOT}} ''[[Discworld Noir]]''
|cameos= Every [[:category:Discworld Series|Discworld book]] except {{WFM}}
}}
'''Death''' is the [[anthropomorphic personification]] of death on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. He appears as the traditional Grim Reaper, with a skeletal body, a black robe and a [[Death's Scythe|scythe]] (or sometimes a sword for royalty) and {{death|talks in unquoted small caps}}. Death appears for the first time in the first novel, ''[[Book:The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' (though it is suggested that his first appearance was actually that of his 'stand-in', [[Scrofula]]), and reappears in all of the stories that take place in the Discworld universe, with the exception of ''[[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]]'', a [[Tiffany Aching]] young adult book and {{SN}}.

Death is fascinated with humans in general, and as a result attempts to emulate their behaviour, if only to better understand them. However, as an immortal skeletal who does not have to pay heed to fatigue or even time, he seems to lack comprehension of some human concepts, such as detective novels. He is also described by [[Susan]] as someone who would solve world hunger, not by changing socioeconomic forces, but by giving everyone a good meal. While his job and anatomy cause a lack of emotions which he displays in his {{death|hollow voice}}, Death can be quite passionate about life in general and in some cases, actively defends it against the depredations of the [[Auditors]]. Death is fundamentally incapable of forgetting anything, with the possible exceptions of 1) how the horse moves in chess, and 2) how to get drunk.

Death had an apprentice named [[Mort]] and an adopted daughter named [[Ysabell]], who later got married and left him to become the Duke and Duchess of [[Sto Helit]]. Sometimes he visits [[Susan Sto Helit]], his grand-daughter through them. When not out and about, Death lives alone in [[Death's Domain]] with his manservant [[Albert]] and, since the events of ''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', the [[Death of Rats]]. Also members of the [[Death's Domain|household]] are the famed pale horse, named [[Binky]], and at times [[Quoth]] the talking raven.

He is fond of kittens, Binky, Susan, Albert, curries and life (without which he would be useless). He ''strongly'' dislikes the [[Auditors]], whose machinations against life he considers to be cheating, and at times has seemed to resent [[Rincewind]]'s unpunctuality, though at other times he has seemed more amiable toward him. He occasionally finds it tiresome when his work entails dealing with irregularities, such as finding an appropriate posthumous destiny for [[Mr. Tulip]] or the repeated resurrections of [[Scraps]]. Nevertheless, he sticks by his Duty and very rarely interferes in human affairs, because of The Rules. He ''has'', however, been known to persuade Susan to act in his stead, not always by straightforward means; she occasionally reflects that he may have learnt a bit more about human behaviour than he lets on.

While of course in a ''sense'' he is there for every death, he need only personally attend to relatively few in order to keep things running. Death is however a caring individual and likes to keep an eye on things he does not necessarily need to, sometimes to the extend to be present at the end of a tiny tube worm on the abyssal floor. He gets quite upset when people (mostly those freshly severed from their bodies) accuse him of killing them. He argues that he simply allows them to leave this world and enter the next, and empirical evidence (such as the results of his various voluntary and involuntary sabbaticals) seems to bear this out. His jurisdiction, so to speak, appears to be Discworld itself; he is not Death in the universal sense.

Every living individual has a book in the great [[Death's Domain|Library]] of Death, and an hourglass-shaped [[Life-timer|lifetimer]] in a cathedral-dwarfing room that exists solely for the purpose of housing them. The look of each one seems to be personalised, and they keep on writing themselves or pouring sand through until the associated person dies. The books remain; the lifetimers apparently pop out of existence and new ones appear in their place, as a new life begins.

Death also introduces individuals to [[The Desert]] from time to time. Each soul has to walk the desert - to what end, Death refuses to be drawn. There is no justice, there is only him.

While Death himself cannot be seen by most individuals, (with the exceptions of cats, children, witches, wizards and other anthropomorphic personifications,) unless he wants them to see him, he is unable to see beings that are truly deathless, as they are not subject to his "''power''". He has nothing to do with them and thus cannot see them. This reflects that most humans cannot see him, as they naturally do not think about dying.

He was there when the first proto-life faded, and has been given his general shape by the belief of humans - of all creatures the most afraid of dying and the most likely to have evolved an agrarian culture in which scythes feature. He is also still there at the end of all things, as evidenced by his appearance at the end of time and space when [[Astfgl]] arrives to destroy [[Rincewind]]. Death is just about to metaphorically turn the lights out in the universe when he sees a new one germinating. Eventually, he thinks, there will be life. And therefore death. He will be needed. He can wait.

Death is a servant of [[Azrael]], the 'Death of Universes'; an entity of enormously unthinkable scope and size, "the Ultimate Reality". Azrael is the Being from whom all lesser-Deaths are mere reflections or aspects.

===Appearances===

[[Image:Death.jpg|200px|left|thumb|[[Death]]]]In {{RM}} Death is forced to retire by the Auditors, who fear he has become too human. He assumes the name Bill Door and finds work on [[Renata Flitworth|Miss Flitworth's]] farm as a farmhand. When the [[New Death]] is formed, it comes to claim Bill: he outwits it and destroys it, then resumes his role as Death.

In {{H}} we find that [[Jonathan Teatime|Mr. Teatime]] has devised a plan to kill Death, though no details are given, and he is skewered by Susan with a fireplace poker before he has a chance to execute it. His dialogue in the Tooth Fairy's castle suggests that he intended to strike Death with his own sword, which is reputed to be able to cut anything.

He has one of what Albert calls his 'fancies' during the events of {{SM}}, and tries to join the [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]] where he is called [[Beau Nidle]], fails in his quest for forgetfulness, and repairs to Ankh-Morpork to drink too much, all to forget what he is and has to do. He ends up as a member of the [[Canting Crew]], with the unusual moniker of 'Mr Scrub'. Beggars seem just as invisible as anthropomorphic personifications.

Death has a major role in ''[[Book:Mort|Mort]]'', ''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', ''[[Book:Soul Music|Soul Music]], [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' and ''[[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''. As a member of the [[Four Horsemen]] of the [[Apocralypse]], he plays an obligatory role in ''[[Book:Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' and ''[[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''.

== Annotation: the birth of Death ==
[[File:Seventh-seal.jpg|275px|thumb|right|The knight offers Death the choice of playing black or white in the game of chess.]]
In the Richard Dimbleby lecture, broadcast on Monday 1st February 2010 on BBC1, Terry revealed that at the age of four at his grandparents' house, he got to see the classic Ingmar Bergman film ''[[Wikipedia: The Seventh Seal|The Seventh Seal]]'' and therefore one of his earliest childhood memories is the defining game of chess between Bergman's death and the knight whose soul is in limbo: ''"...the Grim Reaper did not seem so terribly grim...the image has remained with me ever since."''

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Death (Discworld)|Death's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Leading characters]]
[[Category:Serial characters]]
[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
[[de:Tod]]

Death

2015-08-11T18:29:47Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Death
|Death Illustrated by [[User:whtmnk|Christopher Stryjewski]] a.k.a. whtmnk
|photo= D1rip.jpg
|name=Death
|age= As old as the death of the first living thing
|race=[[Anthropomorphic personification]]
|occupation=Releasing the spirits of dead beings
|appearance=Tall, not what you'd call fleshy, {{death|Talks like this}}
|residence= [[Death's Domain]]
|death= Nearly, in {{RM}}
|parents=
|relatives= [[Susan Sto Helit]] (Granddaughter)
|children= [[Ysabell]] (Adopted Daughter) [[Mort]] (son-in-law)
|marital status= Never Married... for some reason...
|books= {{M}} {{S}} {{RM}} {{SM}} {{H}} {{TOT}} ''[[Discworld Noir]]''
|cameos= Every [[:category:Discworld Series|Discworld book]] except {{WFM}}
}}
'''Death''' is the [[anthropomorphic personification]] of death on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. He appears as the traditional Grim Reaper, with a skeletal body, a black robe and a [[Death's Scythe|scythe]] (or sometimes a sword for royalty) and {{death|talks in unquoted small caps}}. Death appears for the first time in the first novel, ''[[Book:The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' (though it is suggested that his first appearance was actually that of his 'stand-in', [[Scrofula]]), and reappears in all of the stories that take place in the Discworld universe, with the exception of ''[[Book:The Wee Free Men|The Wee Free Men]]'', a [[Tiffany Aching]] young adult book and {{SN}}.

Death is fascinated with humans in general, and as a result attempts to emulate their behaviour, if only to better understand them. However, as an immortal skeletal who does not have to pay heed to fatigue or even time, he seems to lack comprehension of some human concepts, such as detective novels. He is also described by [[Susan]] as someone who would solve world hunger, not by changing socioeconomic forces, but by giving everyone a good meal. While his job and anatomy cause a lack of emotions which he displays in his {{death|hollow voice}}, Death can be quite passionate about life in general and in some cases, actively defends it against the depredations of the [[Auditors]].

Death had an apprentice named [[Mort]] and an adopted daughter named [[Ysabell]], who later got married and left him to become the Duke and Duchess of [[Sto Helit]]. Sometimes he visits [[Susan Sto Helit]], his grand-daughter through them. When not out and about, Death lives alone in [[Death's Domain]] with his manservant [[Albert]] and, since the events of ''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', the [[Death of Rats]]. Also members of the [[Death's Domain|household]] are the famed pale horse, named [[Binky]], and at times [[Quoth]] the talking raven.

He is fond of kittens, Binky, Susan, Albert, curries and life (without which he would be useless). He ''strongly'' dislikes the [[Auditors]], whose machinations against life he considers to be cheating, and at times has seemed to resent [[Rincewind]]'s unpunctuality, though at other times he has seemed more amiable toward him. He sticks by his duty and very rarely interferes in human affairs, because of The Rules. He ''has'', however, been known to persuade Susan to act in his stead, not always by straightforward means; she occasionally reflects that he may have learnt a bit more about human behaviour than he lets on.

While of course in a ''sense'' he is there for every death, he need only personally attend to relatively few in order to keep things running. Death is however a caring individual and likes to keep an eye on things he does not necessarily need to, sometimes to the extend to be present at the end of a tiny tube worm on the abyssal floor. He gets quite upset when people (mostly those freshly severed from their bodies) accuse him of killing them. He argues that he simply allows them to leave this world and enter the next, and empirical evidence (such as the results of his various voluntary and involuntary sabbaticals) seems to bear this out. His jurisdiction, so to speak, appears to be Discworld itself; he is not Death in the universal sense.

Every living individual has a book in the great [[Death's Domain|Library]] of Death, and an hourglass-shaped [[Life-timer|lifetimer]] in a cathedral-dwarfing room that exists solely for the purpose of housing them. The look of each one seems to be personalised, and they keep on writing themselves or pouring sand through until the associated person dies. The books remain; the lifetimers apparently pop out of existence and new ones appear in their place, as a new life begins.

Death also introduces individuals to [[The Desert]] from time to time. Each soul has to walk the desert - to what end, Death refuses to be drawn. There is no justice, there is only him.

While Death himself cannot be seen by most individuals, (with the exceptions of cats, children, witches, wizards and other anthropomorphic personifications,) unless he wants them to see him, he is unable to see immortal beings, as they are not subject to his "''power''". As they cannot die, he has nothing to with with them and thus cannot see them. This reflects that most humans cannot see him, as they naturally do not think about dying.

He was there when the first proto-life faded, and has been given his general shape by the belief of humans - of all creatures the most afraid of dying and the most likely to have evolved an agrarian culture in which scythes feature. He is also still there at the end of all things, as evidenced by his appearance at the end of time and space when [[Astfgl]] arrives to destroy [[Rincewind]]. Death is just about to metaphorically turn the lights out in the universe when he sees a new one germinating. Eventually, he thinks, there will be life. And therefore death. He will be needed. He can wait.

Death is a servant of [[Azrael]], the 'Death of Universes'; an entity of enormously unthinkable scope and size, "the Ultimate Reality". Azrael is the Being from whom all lesser-Deaths are mere reflections or aspects.

===Appearances===

[[Image:Death.jpg|200px|left|thumb|[[Death]]]]In {{RM}} Death is forced to retire by the Auditors, who fear he has become too human. He assumes the name Bill Door and finds work on [[Renata Flitworth|Miss Flitworth's]] farm as a farmhand. When the [[New Death]] is formed, it comes to claim Bill: he outwits it and destroys it, then resumes his role as Death.

In {{H}} we find that [[Jonathan Teatime|Mr. Teatime]] has devised a plan to kill Death, though no details are given, and he is skewered by Susan with a fireplace poker before he has a chance to execute it. His dialogue in the Tooth Fairy's castle suggests that he intended to strike Death with his own sword, which is reputed to be able to cut anything.

He has one of what Albert calls his 'fancies' during the events of {{SM}}, and tries to join the [[Klatchian Foreign Legion]] where he is called [[Beau Nidle]], fails in his quest for forgetfulness, and repairs to Ankh-Morpork to drink too much, all to forget what he is and has to do. He ends up as a member of the [[Canting Crew]], with the unusual moniker of 'Mr Scrub'. Beggars seem just as invisible as anthropomorphic personifications.

Death has a major role in ''[[Book:Mort|Mort]]'', ''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', ''[[Book:Soul Music|Soul Music]], [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' and ''[[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''. As a member of the [[Four Horsemen]] of the [[Apocralypse]], he plays an obligatory role in ''[[Book:Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' and ''[[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''.

== Annotation: the birth of Death ==
[[File:Seventh-seal.jpg|275px|thumb|right|The knight offers Death the choice of playing black or white in the game of chess.]]
In the Richard Dimbleby lecture, broadcast on Monday 1st February 2010 on BBC1, Terry revealed that at the age of four at his grandparents' house, he got to see the classic Ingmar Bergman film ''[[Wikipedia: The Seventh Seal|The Seventh Seal]]'' and therefore one of his earliest childhood memories is the defining game of chess between Bergman's death and the knight whose soul is in limbo: ''"...the Grim Reaper did not seem so terribly grim...the image has remained with me ever since."''

==Also See==
* [[wikipedia:Death (Discworld)|Death's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Leading characters]]
[[Category:Serial characters]]
[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
[[de:Tod]]

Senior Wrangler

2015-08-11T18:25:42Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title= Senior Wrangler
|photo=
|name=
|age=
|race= human
|occupation= [[Wizard's magic|Wizard]]
|appearance= small for a wizard, resembles a horse
|residence= [[Unseen University]]
|death=
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|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= reluctantly celibate, particularly around Mrs [[Whitlow]]
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''Wrangler'': A trainer and handler of horses, or, in Hollywood, any animal handler for film production.

''Wrangler'': At [[wikipedia:Cambridge_University|Cambridge University]], a graduate taking a "first" in mathematics.

The '''Senior Wrangler''' of Unseen University is very unlikely to be a mathematician. Beyond a close acquaintance with the number [[7a]], who cares? What he nominally ''does'' is unknown. What he actually does, of course, is eat several large meals a day and avoid students like the rest of the [[faculty]]. The title might refer to disputation of theses and judging of oral exams, or perhaps actual wrangling of [[Dungeon Dimensions|creatures]] more dangerous than horses. Since no one on the faculty does much to justify his title, we just don't know. The Senior Wrangler is, however, one of the senior faculty and an academic who ''looks'' like a horse. A long-faced man who hates the sound of silence, his attempts to fill it up tend to do to conversation what it takes quite thick treacle to do to the workings of an intricate watch mechanism. In {{H}}, we learn that his first name is Horace.

The least corpulent of the senior wizards, mostly owing to his belief that long food (beans, celery, rhubarb) makes the eater grow taller. Several other foods (pineapple, clams, shrimps) he likewise avoids, because some of his less-fortunate relatives succumbed to fatal mishaps involving such comestibles. It's been mentioned that the Senior Wrangler has a poor sense of smell, and rather small feet.

Remarks he makes in {{H}} imply that the Wrangler's family was poor, or at least frugal in their holiday celebrations. He may also be younger than his colleagues, to judge by the [[Dean]]'s snide remark about him losing his wisdom teeth "last week". Technically, the Dean outranks him at UU.

Around Mrs [[Whitlow]], the Senior Wrangler is apt to lose his cool - especially since he once saw rather more than her ankles (see {{TLC}}). Together with his ill-timed crush on the [[Cheerful Fairy]] in {{H}}, this sets him apart as the most romantically-inclined of the major faculty. During the Roundworld affair (''The Science of Discworld''), the Senior Wrangler championed the hypothesis that intelligence would most likely appear in the seas; earlier, he joined in on the student wizards' endeavors to hit "the Target" (Jupiter) with rocks, hence is likely responsible for one or more of that planet's moons. He was the last and most reluctant of the wizards to jump on the [[Dean]]'s "Yo! Hut! Hut! Hut!" campaign in ''Reaper Man'', but has since come to terms with himself a touch, and likes a bit of a righteous zap with his staff as much as the next man. Unless the next man is the Dean. ''No-one'' likes it as much as the Dean.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Oberster Hirte]]

Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography

2015-08-11T15:54:42Z

Sharlee:

One of [[Rincewind]]'s current positions on the faculty of [[Unseen University]].

His predecessor, a private sort with big ears and a perpetual suntan, was reduced to a pair of pointy boots following a terminal encounter with the wildlife on the [[God of Evolution]]'s home on [[Mono Island]], not far away from {{TLC}}. Well, he evidently wasn't paying attention to the job description, which specified ''Egregious, Cruel'' and ''Unusual''. [[Ridcully]] uses promotions and status either as weapons to divide the rest of the Faculty and get them squabbling among themselves (rather than entertain any ambitions for the Archchancellorship), or else as a carrot to get somebody else to achieve the desired result. With both of the above policy goals in mind, he took his time in finding a candidate to fill those pointy boots.

Ridcully is a manager dedicated to the carrot-and-stick principle. After terrorising [[Rincewind]] into a state of normality with the stick (all the things that can happen to somebody falsely claiming wizardhood when in fact he failed all his exams), he later applies the carrot of promoting Rincewind to professor and [[Faculty]] status. It is possible that Ridcully has recognised nobody on the Disc knows more about how cruel and unusual its geography is, and that he has promoted the right man to the job. (It is taken as read that Rincewind, by ''"performing a service of great value to Wizardry"'', ie his reluctant visit to the [[Counterweight continent]], his assistance to the Faculty when stranded on [[XXXX|Fourecks]], and his even more reluctant exploration of [[Roundworld]], has finally achieved full Wizardhood and a honorary degree.) Ridcully therefore succeeded in getting three missions' worth of useful work out of the stick, before finally rewarding Rincewind with what turned out to be a very small and relatively inexpensive carrot. Otherwise, Ridcully is deliberately annoying the rest of the Faculty by promoting somebody thought of as having the innate magical ability of a housebrick. He would also consider this a worthy goal.

It is certain that Rincewind was told his appointment is a honorific only, and he is not to do anything daft like holding lectures or tutorials or talking to students. (This begs a very big question of the rest of the Faculty, who also seek to avoid these things without needing to be ordered not to.) It may also be the case that [[Ponder Stibbons]] has now realised he is no longer the least, lowest and most despised junior faculty member. Certainly, his attitude to Rincewind is the easy and relaxed manner (most of the time) of a superior giving instructions to to a subordinate.

[[Category:Wizards|Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography]]
[[de:Unerhörter Professor für grausame und ungewöhnliche Geographie]]

Dean

2015-08-11T15:51:27Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Dean
|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]
|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
|appearance=
|residence=[[Unseen University]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books=
|cameos=
}}
The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University. Dean Smoth, who appears in {{TLC}}, was ''much'' too helpful to be mistaken for UU's Dean.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''. In the wake of {{SM}}, he's been known to don a leather robe at times of crisis, with the phrase "Born To Rune" in studs on the back.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields, seven months before [[Mustrum Ridcully]].

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Serial characters]]
[[Category:Supporting characters]]
[[Category:Human characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Henry]]

Dean

2015-08-11T15:48:34Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Dean
|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]
|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
|appearance=
|residence=[[Unseen University]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books=
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}}
The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University. Dean Smoth, who appears in {{TLC}}, was ''much'' too helpful to be mistaken for UU's Dean.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields, seven months before [[Mustrum Ridcully]].

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

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[[Category:Supporting characters]]
[[Category:Human characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Henry]]

Dean

2015-08-11T15:46:36Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Dean
|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]
|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
|appearance=
|residence=[[Unseen University]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books=
|cameos=
}}
The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University. Dean Smoth, who appears in {{TLC}}, was ''much'' too helpful to be mistaken for UU's Dean.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields.

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

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[[Category:Supporting characters]]
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[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Henry]]

B. Smoth

2015-08-11T15:44:58Z

Sharlee:

The Dean of [[Bugarup University]] and according to reputable graffiti, a pozza. Not to be confused with UU's [[Dean]] of Pentacles, later Archchancellor Henry of Brazeneck.

[[Category: Wizards|Smoth, B]].
[[de:B. Schmott]]

Dean

2015-08-11T15:43:52Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Dean
|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]
|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
|appearance=
|residence=[[Unseen University]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books=
|cameos=
}}
The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields.

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

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[[Category:Serial characters]]
[[Category:Supporting characters]]
[[Category:Human characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Henry]]

Dean

2015-08-11T15:43:10Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Dean
|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]
|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
|appearance=
|residence=[[Unseen University]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books=
|cameos=
}}
The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Dean Henry should not be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields.

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Serial characters]]
[[Category:Supporting characters]]
[[Category:Human characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Henry]]

Dean

2015-08-11T15:42:58Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title=Dean
|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]
|name=Henry, last name unknown.
|age= 72 in {{SM}}
|race=Human
|occupation=Dean
|appearance=
|residence=[[Unseen University]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=
|books=
|cameos=
}}
The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.

Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.

Dean Henry should not be confused with [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University.

==At the Unseen University==
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a grimoire or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.

Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''.

He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?

He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields.

==At Brazeneck College==
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.

More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.

His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.

==Notes==
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''."

*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].

* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"

* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Serial characters]]
[[Category:Supporting characters]]
[[Category:Human characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Henry]]

Senior Wrangler

2015-08-11T15:41:05Z

Sharlee:

{{Character Data
|title= Senior Wrangler
|photo=
|name=
|age=
|race= human
|occupation= [[Wizard's magic|Wizard]]
|appearance= small for a wizard, resembles a horse
|residence= [[Unseen University]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= reluctantly celibate, particularly around Mrs [[Whitlow]]
|books=
|cameos=
}}
''Wrangler'': A trainer and handler of horses, or, in Hollywood, any animal handler for film production.

''Wrangler'': At [[wikipedia:Cambridge_University|Cambridge University]], a graduate taking a "first" in mathematics.

The '''Senior Wrangler''' of Unseen University is very unlikely to be a mathematician. Beyond a close acquaintance with the number [[7a]], who cares? What he nominally ''does'' is unknown. What he actually does, of course, is eat several large meals a day and avoid students like the rest of the [[faculty]]. The title might refer to disputation of theses and judging of oral exams, or perhaps actual wrangling of [[Dungeon Dimensions|creatures]] more dangerous than horses. Since no one on the faculty does much to justify his title, we just don't know. The Senior Wrangler is, however, one of the senior faculty and an academic who ''looks'' like a horse. A long-faced man who hates the sound of silence, his attempts to fill it up tend to do to conversation what it takes quite thick treacle to do to the workings of an intricate watch mechanism. In {{H}}, we learn that his first name is Horace.

The least corpulent of the senior wizards, mostly owing to his belief that long food (beans, celery, rhubarb) makes the eater grow taller. Several other foods (pineapple, clams, shrimps) he likewise avoids, because some of his less-fortunate relatives succumbed to fatal mishaps involving such comestibles. It's been mentioned that the Senior Wrangler has a poor sense of smell, and rather small feet.

Remarks he makes in {{H}} imply that the Wrangler's family was poor, or at least frugal in their holiday celebrations. He may also be younger than his colleagues, to judge by the [[Dean]]'s snide remark about him losing his wisdom teeth "last week". Technically, the Dean outranks him at UU.

Around Mrs [[Whitlow]], the Senior Wrangler is apt to lose his cool - especially since he once saw rather more than her ankles (see {{TLC}}). Together with his ill-timed crush on the [[Cheerful Fairy]] in {{H}}, this sets him apart as the most romantically-inclined of the major faculty. During the Roundworld affair (''The Science of Discworld''), the Senior Wrangler championed the hypothesis that intelligence would most likely appear in the seas. He was the last and most reluctant of the wizards to jump on the [[Dean]]'s "Yo! Hut! Hut! Hut!" campaign in ''Reaper Man'', but has since come to terms with himself a touch, and likes a bit of a righteous zap with his staff as much as the next man. Unless the next man is the Dean. ''No-one'' likes it as much as the Dean.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]
[[de:Oberster Hirte]]

Elharib

2015-08-09T20:40:09Z

Sharlee:

Mentioned in {{P}}, this is presumably [[Elenor]]'s hometown, at least according to [[Copolymer]], the world's greatest storyteller. Given Copolymer's memory for details, however, this isn't necessarily 100% accurate.

[[Smale]] and Elharib were at war over religion for two hundred years, owing to a typographical error in the holy book of their mutual god. The conflict ended ten years before the events of {{J}}, when both sides ran out of rocks.

[[Category: Discworld geography]]
[[de:Elharib]]
{{stub}}

Smale

2015-08-09T20:39:14Z

Sharlee:

{{Nation Data
|title= Smale
|picture=
|established=
|motto=

|neighbours= [[Omnia]], [[Ushistan]], [[Betrek]]

|features= rocks, gravel, sand

|capital=

|population=
|size=
|government=

|notablecitizens= [[Koomi|Koomi the philosopher]]

|imports= Angry inquisitors from [[Omnia]]
|exports= Ideas about [[gods]]

|anthem=

|books= {{SG}}
}}

If you trek several hundred miles rimward across the desert from [[Kom]] to the edge of the [[Klatch|Klatchian]] [[Ramtops]], you may reach the region of '''Smale'''. You will then probably wonder why. Smale is known mainly as the home of [[Koomi]], a religious philosopher who ran afoul of the [[Omnia]]n Church.

Smale and [[Elharib]] were at war over religion for two hundred years, owing to a typographical error in the holy book of their mutual god. The conflict ended ten years before the events of {{J}}, when both sides ran out of rocks.

[[Category: Discworld geography]]
[[de:Smale]]

Wazir

2015-08-09T20:36:12Z

Sharlee:

Bookseller in Widdy Street. Ankh-Morpork. Originally from [[Smale]]. Sold [[Carrot]] a copy of ''The Perfumed Allotment, or, The Garden of Delights'', which led to mutual embarrassment when Carrot realized it wasn't about horticulture after all.

Mr. Wazir led the group of ethnic Klatchians who came to the Watch House to protest the detention of Mr. [[Goriff]]'s family. Upon being told that the Goriffs were free to go, Wazir then got into a screaming match with Mr. Goriff, as their respective natal countries had been at war for generations.

No known relation to the import-export business [[Wazir and Webb]].

Goriff

2015-08-09T20:35:38Z

Sharlee:

The Goriff familiy run a Klatchian take-away called [[Mundane Meals]] in [[Scandal Alley]], [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Mr. Goriff immigrated to Ankh-Morpork from [[Elharib]].

During the events of Jingo, the take-away was attacked, and (ineffectually) fire-bombed in the anti-Klatchian hysteria following the dispute over [[Leshp]]. [[Sam Vimes]] gave them temporary accomodation and protection at [[Pseudopolis Yard]], but when it became clear that there was going to be a war The Goriffs left with other Klatchians, possibly warned by Vimes that Lord Rust had tried to give orders that all Klatchians be deported. The family had been living in [[Ankh-Morpork]] for 10 years at this point.

The family consists of Mr and Mrs Goriff, and their thirteen year-old son Janil who was conscripted into the Klatchian Army on their return to Klatch. When the family later returned to Ankh Morpork, Janil stayed in Klatch with Mr Goriff's brother, with the intention of joining the Watch there.

[[Category:Human characters|Goriff]]
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Wazir and Webb

2015-08-09T20:33:45Z

Sharlee:

Wazir and Webb are an import-export company in [[Ankh-Morpork]] who deal in live animals. Their premises are to be found near the [[Trading Gate]], in Chirrup Avenue, just off Syrup Yard.

They are very scrupulous in their dealings and emphasise on their publicity material that they do not under any circumstances deal in simian bipeds closely related to the human race. It might just be that the [[Librarian]] comes round every so often to assure himself this is indeed the case.

Indeed, they boast of only dealing in quadrupeds, but it is hard to reconcile this with their advertisement that states they also deal in birds. Unless, of course, with that usual Ankh-Morporkian exactitude, they consider that two wings are the other two peds that, in conjunction with feet/talons/webbed toes, make up a quadra.

Ankh-Morpork does not yet have a zoo. It is possible that Wazir and Webb deal with the Palace [[Menagerie]], and with other private buyers - although Captain [[Carrot]] has said there is such a thing as a Dangerous Animals Act. As the city is a principal port, it is possible that live animals unloaded here from abroad are then shipped by road to institutions such as the [[Quirm Zoo]].

No known connection to Mr. [[Wazir]], a bookseller in Widdy Street.

[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses|Wazir and Webb]]