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Jiminy

2012-08-01T16:39:53Z

Viridovix:

Jiminy is the landlord of the [[Goblin's Head]], the principle pub in [[The Shires]]. He is a stout believer in equality, being a republican, and is married with a daughter, who works as a maid in [[Crundells]]. He once was a policeman in the [[Pseudopolis]] City Watch, and still keeps his truncheon in case of any rowdy customers. Because coppering never fully leaves you, he still keeps a close attention to things going on, and is able to "assist" [[Sam Vimes]] throughout the events of [[Snuff]]

Al-Khali (Character)

2012-08-01T16:37:16Z

Viridovix:

{{Character Data
|title= Al-Khali
|photo= Al Khali.png|
|name= Al-Khali
|race= [[Dwarfs|Dwarf]]
|age=

|occupation=
|appearance=

|residence=

|death= Killed by [[Anu-anu]]
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=

|books= ''[[Discworld Noir]]''
|cameos=
}}

Al-Khali is an associate of [[Jasper Horst]], who's job is to follow [[Inspector Lewton]] to wherever he goes to spy on him, and report everything to Horst. Lewton meets Al-Khali when he returns to his [[Lewton's Office|office]] and finds him waiting for him there. Al Khali then takes him to Horst. Near the end of the game, Lewton hides in a bush in the [[Wizard's Pleasaunce]] and Al Khali is killed by [[Anu-anu]], making him the eighth conterweight killing, the murders of the summoning of [[Nylonathatep]].

==Annotations==
Al-Khali is a reference to the character Joel Cairo in the movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_Falcon Maltese Falcon], being a short man who works for a fat man, and has the pseudonym of a city. There are several other references to the film.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Dwarf characters]]

Book:Witches Abroad

2012-07-31T11:04:54Z

Viridovix:

{{Book Data
|title= Witches Abroad
|photo=
|date= November 1991
|publisher= Victor Gollancz
|isbn= 0552134651
|pages= 288

|series= Witches Series
|characters= [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Esme Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Magrat Garlick]]
|annotations=
|notes= Book #12
}}

==Blurb==
It seemed an easy job ...

After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince?

But for the [[witches magic|witches]] [[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]] and [[Magrat Garlick]], traveling to the distant city of [[Genua]], things are never that simple ...

For one thing, all they've got is [[Erzulie Gogol|Mrs. Gogol]]'s voodoo, a [[Greebo|one-eyed cat]] and a second-hand magic wand that can only do pumpkins. And they're up against the malignant power of the [[Fairy-Godmothering|Godmother]] herself, who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse. And finally there's the sheer power of the Story. Servant girls have to marry the Prince. That's what life is all about.

You can't fight a Happy Ending.

At least – up until now ...

==Characters==

=== Main characters ===

*[[Granny Weatherwax|Esme Weatherwax]]
*[[Nanny Ogg]]
*[[Magrat Garlick]]
*[[Greebo]]
*[[Lily Weatherwax|Lily]] aka Lilith de Tempscire
*[[Ella Saturday|Emberella]]
*[[Mrs Pleasant]]
*[[Erzulie Gogol]]
*[[Baron Saturday]]

=== Minor characters ===

*[[Casanunda|Count Casanunda]]
* [[Death]]
* The [[Duc]], a frog prince

=== Cameos and Mentions ===

*[[Birthday, Frog-like humanoid thing with a|Frog-like humanoid thing with a Birthday]]
* [[Voodoo]] gods created by Mrs Gogol
** [[Mister Safe Way]], whose name parodies a supermarket
** [[Lady Bon Anna]],
** [[Hotaloga Andrews]],
** [[Stride Wide Man]]
* [[Al-Ybi|Seriph of Al-Ybi]] (mentioned)
* [[Glod]] (mentioned), a severely inconvenienced [[dwarfs|dwarf]]
* [[Desiderata Hollow]]
* [[Chert]], a [[trolls|troll]] who works at a sawmill and sells coffins at a good price
* [[Albert Hurker]], aka "Hurker the Poacher"
* [[Gammer Beavis]], a witch
* [[Old Mother Dismass]], a witch
* [[Granny Hopliss]], a dead witch
* Mrs [[Singe]], a dead witch
* [[Mabel Peavey|Gammer Peavey]], a witch who died mountain climbing
* [[Simplicity Garlick]], [[Magrat Garlick]]'s mother
* [[Araminta Garlick]], Magrat Garlick's grandmother (probably maternal)
* [[Yolande Garlick]], Magrat Garlick's aunt
* [[Shane Ogg]], Nanny Ogg's grandson
* [[Millie Hopgood]], a girl from [[Slice]] with a squint, suggested as a replacement for Desiderata Hollow
* [[Gertie Simmons]], a witch with a very bad squint
* [[Sophia Ogg]], Nanny Ogg's great-aunt
* [[Jason Ogg]], master blacksmith/farrier, Nanny Ogg's son, who knows [[the Horseman's Word]]
* [[Shawn Ogg|Sean Ogg]] (mentioned), Nanny Ogg's son(?)
* Mr [[Vernissage]], a hatter in [[Slice]] whose makes 'very' strong hats
* [[Guy de Yoyo]], an explorer who discovered the Disc's 2nd-highest waterfall in the [[Year of the Revolving Crab]]
* [[Legba]], a spirit in the form of a rooster (or perhaps just a big black cock)
* [[Goodie Whemper]], Magrat's predecessor and mentor
* [[Lagro te Kabona]], innkeeper
* [[Mister Frank]], a card sharp
* [[Yen Buddhism]], an extremely rich religious sect (parodying {{wp|Zen|Zen Buddhism}})
* [[Black Aliss]] (mentioned)
* [[Deliria Skibbly]] (mentioned)
* [[Sumpkins]] (mentioned), a dirty old man who lodged with Nanny Ogg's grandmother
* [[Shaker Wistley]], footwear fetishist
* [[Ronald the Third]], unpleasant Lancre king whose name is rhyming slang for something nasty (mentioned)
* [[Mr Wilkins]] (mentioned). Granny made him '''think''' he was a frog after he insulted her
* [[Mr Travis]], senior footman
* [[Beryl Ogg]], Nanny's sister (mentioned)
* Guests at the Ball
** [[Henry Gleet]] and [[Lady Gleet]]
** [[Douglas Incessant]]
** [[Volentia D'Arrangement]], who's approximately Granny's size, dress-wise
** [[Captain de Vere]], of the Palace Guard
** [[Sir Roger the Coverley]]
** [[Colonel Moutarde]], whose name parodies {{wp|List_of_Cluedo_characters|Colonel Mustard}} from ''Cluedo'' (North American: ''Clue''.)

== Locations ==

* [[Ramtop Mountains]]
**[[Lancre]]
*** [[Bear Mountain]], a 'bare' mountain, not a mountain with bears on it
*** [[Broken Mountain]] (mentioned)
* [[Creel Springs]] (mentioned)
* [[Sto Plains]] (mentioned)
*[[Überwald]]
*[[Borogravia]]
*[[Genua]]
* [[Vieux River]]

== Events and Timeframes ==

* [[Fat Tuesday]] aka Mardi Gras aka Samedi Nuit Mort (literally, "Saturday Night Dead", parodying the TV show {{wp|Saturday_Night_Live|Saturday Night Live}}
* Although the Roundworld Carnival and Mardi Gras occur in late winter, just before Lent, Genua's Carnival occurs in the fall; Terry appears to have calqued it upon the Haitian Night of the Dead (All Hallows' Eve), when Voudon worshipers beat drums in cemeteries to awaken the dancing Lord of the Dead Baron Samedi (Saturday) and his troupe of Gede revelers; the Duc's masked ball relates the night to the Halloween tradition.

== Items and Concepts ==

* [[magic wand]]
* [[Marietta_Cosmopilite|Way of Mrs Cosmopilite]], mentioned
* [[Path of The Scorpion]], a book(?) written by [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|Grand Master Lobsang Dibbler]]
* [[With Wand and Broomstick Across the Great Nef Desert]], chapter heading of one of [[Desiderata Hollow]]'s books
* [[magrats]], trousers for women
* [[dwarf bread]]
* [[Hedgehog Song]]
* [[That Thing With The Bulls]], parodying the [[Roundworld]] {{wp|Running_of_the_Bulls|Running of the Bulls}} in Pamplona, Spain (and other locations)
* [[Cripple Mister Onion]], a card game
* [[Chase My Neighbour Up the Passage]], a game (mentioned)
* [[Three-Banded Coit]], type of snake
* [[Klatchian Candle]], firework parodying {{wp|Roman_candle (firework)|Roman Candle}}

== Annotations ==

* Even though they're on a presumably "covert" mission, Nanny hands her letters to the nearest passer-by for delivery. Does this seem wise? And none of them arrived before she did.

* 'In some foreign parts "bum" means "tramp" and "tramp" means "hobo"' - On [[Roundworld]], this is true for American English. The full chain goes something like this: "American [kitty] = British fanny", "American fanny = British bum", "American bum = British tramp", "American tramp = uh, ... lady of easy virtue". Interestingly, we've never seen any part of DiscWorld that's similar to the USA. (Even though the riverboat ride down the Vieux River is irrestibly close to the high life of the antebellum Deep South, what with a floating pleasure palace for the gentry, and slaves, ie chained trolls, providing the motive power to turn the wheels of the boat. Could have been the Mississipi running down to the Delta and N'awlins, y'all...)

* While traveling down a subterranean river, a creature climbs out of the water on a log, declaring to the witches that, "It's my birthday." This is a reference to the character Gollum from ''The Hobbit'' and ''Lord of the Rings'' books, who acquired the One Ring on his birthday.

* While walking down a road paved with yellow bricks, a small farm house lands on Nanny Ogg, the only one of the witches wearing red boots. Shortly afterward, a group of dwarves show up asking if they can have her boots. In ''The Wizard of Oz'', the Wicked Witch of the East is crushed by Dorothy Gale's farmhouse and her sparkly red shoes are given to the witchicidal young woman.

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/witches-abroad.html ''Witches Abroad'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=Reaper Man|series=Discworld|after=Small Gods}}
{{series|series=Witches|before=Wyrd Sisters|after=Lords and Ladies}}

[[Category:Discworld Series|Witches Abroad]]
[[Category:Witches Series|Witches Abroad]]
[[de:Buch:Total verhext]]

Special Sheep Liniment

2012-07-31T11:00:20Z

Viridovix:

The golden-brown liquid [[Granny Aching]] used to make in the old cowshed. Strong stuff for special occasions. It puts hairs on your chest and dissolves spoons. If you want to be sure of finding the [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegles]], go and fetch some.

[[Category:Food and drink]]
[[de:Spezielles Schaf-Einreibemittel]]

Amber Petty

2012-07-31T10:52:49Z

Viridovix:

{{Character Data
|title= Amber Petty
|photo=
|name= Amber (nee Petty)
|age= 14 (born around 1976 UC)
|race= [[Humans|Human]]
|occupation=
|appearance=
|residence= Petty residence, The Chalk
|death=
|parents= [[Seth Petty]] (father)<br>[[Molly Petty]] (mother)
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= Married to William
|books= {{ISWM}}
|cameos=
}}

'''Amber''' (née Petty) is a thirteen year old girl when first encountered. Tragically, this debut sees her the victim of a brutal physical asault by her own, drunken father - it has not only left her unconscious, but she has also miscarried her unborn child.

[[Tiffany Aching]] takes charge, delivering appropriate punishment to her drunken brute of a [[Seth Petty|father]]. Tiffany then organises round-the-clock nursing care of a very unique sort - Amber is adopted by the [[Pictsies|Nac Mac Feegles]], where the [[Kelda]], [[Jeannie]], performs the deep rite of the [[Hiddlins|Soothings]] to restore her body and soul. The dead baby is buried alongside Mrs [[Snapperly]], in the place of remembrance Tiffany has established near the village.

It soon becomes noticeable that the neglected child, thought simple by the rest of the village, is in her own way a born witch, whose specialised talent goes further and deeper than Tiffany's. She is revealed to be a master of languages - she commands chickens around a yard, but more importantly picks up the [[Pictsie]] tongue (Amber even understands some of the Soothings).

Tiffany arranged for [[Roland|the new Baron]] to provide Amber a dowry, allowing her tailor boyfriend William to buy his indenture to a master craftsman. One year later (aged fourteen) Amber had married William, and was training under the Kelda.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Petty,Amber]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series characters|Petty,Amber]]
[[Category:Human characters|Petty,Amber]]

Bill Rincewind

2010-09-25T22:09:21Z

Viridovix:

Bill Rincewind appears briefly in {{TLC}}, is the Archchancellor of [[Bugarup University]], and probably, like [[Lavaeolus]], a relative of [[Rincewind]]. He is also mentioned in [[Unseen Academicals]].

[[Category:Discworld characters|Rincewind, Bill]]
[[Category:Wizards|Rincewind, Bill]]
[[de:Bill Rincewind]]
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Talk:Tilden

2010-08-27T18:44:35Z

Viridovix:

...but is weight the question? We have two other references to "Lord Venturi's Medium Dragoons" (weight, height or intelligence not specified). I couldn't find the reference in a quick scan of {{NW}}, but {{NDC}} supports "Medium".

I take it back, you are so right! Sorry! Viridovix

Crispin Horsefry

2010-08-04T10:36:55Z

Viridovix:

{{Character Data
|title= Crispin Horsefry
|photo= Crispin.jpg|Crispin Horsefry, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]
|name= Crispin Horsefry
|age= young
|race= Human

|occupation=
|appearance= running, leaping and vaulting to obesity

|residence= [[Ankh-Morpork]]

|books= {{GP}}
}}

Crispin Horsefry of Ankh-Morpork Mercintile Bank is a vile young man with huge appetites. He puts one in mind of an overweight, yappy pekingese. He was one of those few who bought into [[Reacher Gilt]]'s vile schemes to defraud the rightful owners of the [[Grand Trunk]]. The sight of him eating pot-au-feu was an "unforgettable one" according to Lord [[Vetinari]]. He wore pink shirts that were $100AM each - this when a [[City Watch|Watchman's]] monthly salary was around $30AM. Stupidly he brought his secret financial records (you have to keep records of your tracks so that you know how to cover them) to Gilt when drunk, and was rewarded with a visit from Mr [[Gryle]] the [[Banshees|banshee]].

==Annotation==

The picture suggests a link: to the now deceased British Conservative politician Lord Hailsham, who was renowned for his appetite to the point where he would eat two six-course dinners back-to-back. Weighing well over forty-five stone (nearly 600 pounds for Americans)when he died, he set about sculpting his gargantuan figure early in life. He was renowned for his dog-like devotion to Margaret Thatcher and for his singular lack of any original political or indeed other thought (that's maybe stretching a truth - Lord Halisham was bright enough to side with Churchill against Chamberlain, fought and was severely wounded in WWII, and wrote quite an interesting book, attacking a man named Victor Gollancz - yes, THAT Gollancz). He bought into, and was a prominent spokesman for, the Thatcherite school of extreme ''laissez-faire'' economics, which argued that the risk-taker and entrepreneur who generated a nation's wealth should be allowed to do so, unencumbered by any of those pesky little rules and regulations that got in the way of his making money. He should, this school of thought opined, have as near to absolute freedom to generate wealth, and be taxed as lightly as possible by a State that should not interfere with the freedom of Capital. Formerly publicly-owned enterprises, in fact, should be sold off to such men, as the State had no business in managing business. The Thatcher government put this into practice on many occasions - including the privatisation of the telecommunications industry.

The concept that the absolute freedom of capitalists to make money might infringe the quality of life and/or civil liberties of those lower down the line was regarded as an unimportant consideration... (now doesn't this remind you of the subtext of {{GP}}?)

Hailsham was touchy about people making fun either of his weight or of his right-wing politics: an early action in the 1960's as Quintin Hogg MP was to attempt to sue jokester pop group The Bonzo Dog Band, who on one of their LP's made an unflattering porcine reference to his eating habits.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A3647630] (''see "Controversies" section at the end)'' He is now deceased, and this is fair comment...

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[[Category:Discworld characters|Horsefry, Crispin]]
[[Category:Human characters|Horsefry, Crispin]]
[[de:Pferdeschmorr]]

Pyramid

2010-07-25T21:41:50Z

Viridovix: Sp.

Thought of as a lot of time and trouble to go to, just to sharpen the Pharaoh's [[razor blade]]. (Although should Pharaoh be female, as happens for half the time over the long haul, a good sharp razor for legs and underarms is something any girl values. And with more surface area to cover, they blunt that much more quickly... so a useful theory for the origination of pyramids is that Pharaoh put her foot down, and ''insisted'' that a sharp fresh blade be laid out alongside the bath of ass's milk.)

A Pyramid, properly viewed as a device for manipulating time, doesn't so much keep a razor blade ''sharp'' as remind it of a time in its life when it wasn't blunt, and to make a suggestion that this would be a nice time to revisit, for ''just long enough'' to do Pharaoh's legs.

In [[Djelibeybi]], too many pyramids have accumulated over the years for [[Time]] to be entirely stable here. The very last pyramid built in this country tipped the whole assembly into a critical mass, with interesting results. See {{P}} for details.

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Devices]]
[[de:Pyramiden]]

Wimbler

2010-07-18T10:32:21Z

Viridovix:

Sergeant Wimbler was [[Fred Colon]]'s drill sergeant as an Army recruit. He was everything a young recruit could hope and pray not to have in his first NCO. Described as a "tartar" with tongue like a whiplash, he moulds Colon and his fellow recruits into ''men''.

After their passing out parade he is rewarded by having a blanket thrown over him in a dark alley and then having the good-for-the-[[Gnolls|gnolls]] beaten out of him by Colon and his mates [[Hoagy]] and [[Spud]].

It took three days for Colon's knuckles to heal.

{{MAA}}

[[Category:Discworld characters]]

Dog Guild

2010-07-17T17:31:07Z

Viridovix:

A short-lived Guild set up by [[Big Fido]], it petered out when he met an untimely death attempting to pursue a [[Angua|werewolf]] across rather too large a gap between roofs.

The leader of the Guild, the aforementioned Big Fido, was known as the Chief Barker.

[[Category:Guilds]]
[[de:Hundegilde]]

Maroon

2010-07-02T21:22:21Z

Viridovix:

In the time of {{NW}}, a porter at the [[Assassins' Guild]]. Mr Maroon was inadvertently helpful to the young [[Vetinari]] on a number of occasions (for instance, active assignments were pigeon-holed in alphabetical order, right underneath the great big word "ACTIVE", so that from the other end of the hall, Vetinari could see there was one under "B" and make the deduction that the Hon [[John Bleedwell]], Esq., was out on a mission.) Mr Maroon quite likes Vetinari, rating him as a quiet and studious young man, with a polite interest in the welfare of the Maroon family which many of the other young gentlemen would not even think to have for a social inferior. Vetinari has also taken care to be "appropriately generous" when the occasion calls for it, and has made a useful ally, giving him an edge over other assassins who wouldn't even think to ask after the welfare of a mere servant's wife and child.

There also used to be a Sergeant 'Skully' Maroon in the Watch. In {{MAA}}, it is revealed that Sam Vimes is paying his widow a pension, of sorts. it is unclear whether the Maroons who are heriditary porters at the Assassins' Guild are related to the Watchman of the same name.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Maroon]]
[[de:Kastanie (Pförtner)]]

Goriff

2010-07-02T21:20:18Z

Viridovix:

The Goriff famility run a Klatchian take-away called [[Mundane Meals]] in Scandal Alley, [[Ankh-Morpork]].

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 Klatcnians 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 conscipted 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]]
[[Category:Discworld characters|Goriff]]
[[de:Goriff]]

Gammage

2010-05-31T08:27:07Z

Viridovix:

Mrs Gammage is one of the regulars in [[Biers]] the bar in Ankh-Morpork where the undead/differently alive hang out. In fact she's been one of the regulars since Biers was known as The Crown and Axe and had a more 'normal' clientelle. Unlike the other regulars Mrs Gammage is ordinarily alive. The regulars buy her drinks and generally look after her; when she was burgled, the burglars were found with not a drop of blood in their bodies, causing [[Angua]] to remark that you never hear about the 'good work in the community' done by the differently alive.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]

Book:Only You Can Save Mankind

2010-02-26T22:06:13Z

Viridovix: linked to Scree-Wee article

{{Book Data
|title= Only You Can Save Mankind
|photo=
|date= September 1992
|publisher= Doubleday
|isbn= 0385403089
|pages=

|series= Johnny Maxwell Series
|characters= [[Johnny Maxwell]], [[Wobbler]], [[Yo-Less]], [[Kirsty]]
|annotations=
|notes=
}}
== Blurb/synopsis ==

Twelve-year-old Johnny receives a pirate edition of the new video game Only You Can Save Mankind from his friend Wobbler. However, he hasn't been playing for long when the [[Scree-Wee|ScreeWee Empire]] surrenders to him. After accepting the surrender he finds himself inside the game in his dreams, where he must deal with the suspicious Gunnery Officer as well as the understanding Captain, and work out exactly what they're all supposed to do now.

This might all be the result of an over-active imagination except that the ScreeWee have disappeared altogether from everyone else's copy of the game. With the help of another player, Kirsty, who calls herself "Sigourney" (as in Weaver), Johnny must try to get the ScreeWee home.

{{series|series=Johnny Maxwell|before=|after=Johnny and the Dead}}

[[Category:Johnny Maxwell Series|Only You Can Save Mankind]]
[[Category:Children's books|Only You Can Save Mankind]]
[[de:Buch:Nur Du kannst die Menschheit retten]]