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User talk:XtinaS

2021-07-17T10:42:43Z

XtinaS:

That's a lot of useful work; thank you, but how about a bit of introduction in your User page? 
(We do traditionally capitalise the Races, however.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 00:26, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
:Sure thing![[User:XtinaS|XtinaS]] ([[User talk:XtinaS|talk]]) 02:10, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you did for the character template, but it seems to be an improvement if not a sovereign remedy. Thank you. (Other templates would welcome tampering, as well.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:21, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
:I, love, templates in wikis. I'm interested in fixing things up a lot. :D [[User:XtinaS|XtinaS]] ([[User talk:XtinaS|talk]]) 02:31, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
On the other hand, your recent additions seem really unhelpful. Bordering on vandalism...? We have enough trouble just now with a chunk of the database missing. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 03:15, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
:Huh. Can you call out specifics? I can also stop editing things here if that's your preference. Wouldn't want to over-edit a public wiki. [[User:XtinaS|XtinaS]] ([[User talk:XtinaS|talk]]) 10:42, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

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2021-07-17T03:02:42Z

XtinaS:

Glowbury

2021-07-17T02:58:50Z

XtinaS: Adding a template yay

{{Character Data
| title = Mrs Glowbury
| name = Mrs Glowbury
| race = Human
| occupation = cook
| relatives = a sister in Sto Lat
| books = {{GP}}
}}
Mrs Glowbury was a kindly and homely woman who served as cook to [[Reacher Gilt]]. She was fond of his resident [[Igor]] who saw the signs of a Mad Marster, reasoned that [[Concludium|the equivalent of a howling mob with torches and pitchforks]] would soon be beating the door down, and advised her as he left to make haste in claiming holiday leave to visit her sister in [[Sto Lat]]. Igor was equally fond of her, admiring her skilled way with livers and kidneys and other miscellaneous organs (and Igors are not usually impressed). Her current wherabouts are unknown but it's a safe bet that a woman with her talent for savoury pies would not be long out of work.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]

Grace Speaker

2021-07-17T02:54:22Z

XtinaS: Adding a template yay

{{Character Data
| title = Grace Speaker
| name = Grace Speaker
| race = Human
| occupation = runs a pet-food shop
| residence = [[Pelicool Steps]]
| books = {{MM}} {{UA}} {{SN}} {{RS}}
}}

She should be slightly worried that [[Vetinari]] knows where she lives and what she does for a living. Grace runs a pet-food shop on [[Pelicool Steps]] and in her spare time appears to have an inexhaustible passion for all kinds of general knowledge trivia. As one of only five people in Ankh-Morpork who could confidently and correctly answer the question "What is, or are, [[Pysdxes]]?" (the others are Vetinari, [[Rufus Drumknott|Drumknott]], "Puzzler" of the [[Ankh-Morpork Times|Times]] and the Curator of Ephebian Antiquities at the [[Royal Art Museum]]), Vetinari is concerned that somebody with a mind like that might not ''just'' be content to run a pet-food shop. Therefore she is under observation...

As an aside in {{UA}}, we learn that there is a possibility that Grace Speaker and "Puzzler" of the [[Ankh-Morpork Times|Times]] are now one and the same person. At least, [[Vetinari]] appears to have deduced so.

In {{UA}}, she briefly employed [[Rudolph Scattering]], but he left after three days because the way the kittens stared at him gave him nightmares. The world can be very cruel to some people... Vetinari's mild obsession with her intellectual ability extends very clearly into {{UA}} as well. Are we being set up for something here?

In {{SN}}, we learn that she is still vexing Vetinari with [[snarkenfaugister|impenetrably fiendish and obscure crossword clues]] and that she is in fact a native of [[NoThingfjord]].

In {{RS}}, the word is ''[[lagniappe]]''1: not too taxing, at least for anyone familiar with [[Genua]], but it seems to provoke a change of puzzle-setters at the Times. Can one accuse a graduate of the College of Assassins of poor sportsmanship?

1 ''Literally a small bonus, a little extra to make the deal, but taking on the suggestion of a bribe.''

[[Category:Discworld characters|Speaker, Grace]]
[[de:Grazia Sprecher]]

Brenda Rodley

2021-07-17T02:43:00Z

XtinaS: Adding a template yay

{{Character Data
| title = Brenda Rodley
| name = Brenda Rodley
| race = Human
| occupation = Her Grace the Dowager Duchess of [[Quirm]]
| appearance = a small, elderly but very active lady
| residence = Quirm
| books = {{G!G!}}
}}

'''Brenda Rodley''', Her Grace the Dowager Duchess of [[Quirm]], one of the important city-states on the [[Sto Plains]].

While [[Lord Rodley]], Lady Brenda's son and current ruler of Quirm, has been described as a fat and rather stupid young man, Brenda Rodley is a small, elderly but very active lady who spends much time on the breeding of [[swamp dragons]]. She is commanding but not imposing, nor is she arrogant. She introduces herself simply as "Brenda Rodley", and one can figure out her position only by looking at the address on her card.

One of her closer friends is [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], another swamp dragon breeder who lives in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Her Grace Brenda Rodley has a brief appearance in {{G!G!}}, where she takes care of the dragons in Lady Sybil's house because Lady Sybil is temporarily busy with something more important than the dragons. Lady Brenda couldn't understand what could be more important than the dragons, but she came to help anyway. (The more important thing turned out to be [[Samuel Vimes]], then Captain of the Night division, [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].)

[[Category:Discworld characters|Rodley,Brenda]]
[[Category:Human characters|Rodley,Brenda]]
[[de:Brenda Rodley]]

Nooty Kiddie-Klothes

2021-07-17T02:34:30Z

XtinaS: Adding a template yay

{{Character Data
| title = Nooty Kiddie-Klothes
| name = Nooty Kiddie-Klothes
| race = [[Nome]]
| appearance = a little plump; normally wears trousers
| residence = [[Jekub]]
| occupation = engineer
| books = {{D}}
}}

A young female [[Nome]] born in The [[Store]]. She is a little plump and normally wears trousers. She was carried to the [[Quarry]] on the [[Long Drive]] and has shown herself to be a fairly good engineer. She plays a large part in the {{D}} story, as a guard, Dorcas's helper, and finally running the team in charge of the hand brake on [[Jekub]]. She is mostly teamed up with another young Nome named [[Sacco]].

[[Category:Bromeliad characters|Kiddie-Klothes, Nooty]]

XtinaS: Minor design deal.

{{Character Data
|title= Lobsang Ludd
|photo=brothersmine.jpg|Lobsang and Jeremy by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= name Newgate Ludd and [[Jeremy Clockson]]
|age= early 20s in appearance
|race= Half [[Humans|human]], half [[anthropomorphic personification]]
|occupation= A thief (Ludd) and a clockmaker (Clockson)
|appearance=
|residence= [[Glass House]]
|death=
|parents= [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= unmarried
|books= [[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]
|cameos=
}}

:''This article is about the son of Time. For the character in The Long Earth, see [[Lobsang]].''

Lobsang Ludd was born as one soul with two bodies from [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]. [[Nanny Ogg]] assisted at the birth, and witnessed the two souls being born. This can probably be explained by the whole universe being destroyed and recreated in an instant by Time. The two babies were put on the doorsteps of the [[Clockmakers' Guild]] and the [[Thieves' Guild]]. Naming conventions for the guilds resulted in the surnames Ludd and Clockson.

[[Jeremy Clockson|Jeremy]] became the best clockmaker of [[Ankh-Morpork]] and was chosen by the [[Auditors of Reality|Auditors]] to build the new [[Glass Clock]] which would stop time. A brilliant clockmaker, Jeremy succeeds. His brilliance does come at a price: all he cares about are clocks, he is not strong in social relations and has to take medicine (closely monitored by the guild) to behave in a socially accepted way. His [[Igor]] notices that his extreme sanity and orderliness is just another form of madness.

Newgate Ludd grows up entirely different, baffling people with his speed in stealing things, often small objects. On the run from persecutors he falls, but saves his life by performing the ''Stance of the Coyote''. This is noticed by [[Marco Soto]] who sends him to the [[History Monks]] to be trained, where he receives the name Lobsang. Mostly because he has such talents he's a lazy student who gets thrown into the care of sweeper [[Lu-Tze]]. They both head to Ankh-Morpork, supposedly to learn [[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]], but really to find and destroy the Glass Clock. In the aftermath of the stopping of time, Lobsang meets [[Susan Sto Helit]] and together they find his "brother" who got wounded in the events. Their souls get reunited, but Lobsang is his preferred personality. Between him and Susan a romance blossoms.

After restoring the world and the flow of time, Lobsang takes over the job as Time so his parents can enjoy some time off. He meets [[Lu-Tze]] in a duel who beats him with [[Deja Fu]], finishing his education and making him a fully approved [[sweeper]].

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[[Category: Discworld characters|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[Category: Supernatural entities|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[Category: Leading characters|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[de:Lobsang Ludd]]

Lobsang Ludd

2014-05-10T12:13:47Z

XtinaS: Added disambiguation.

:''This article is about the son of Time. For character in The Long Earth, see [[Lobsang]].''

{{Character Data
|title= Lobsang Ludd
|photo=brothersmine.jpg|Lobsang and Jeremy by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= name Newgate Ludd and [[Jeremy Clockson]]
|age= early 20s in appearance
|race= Half [[Humans|human]], half [[anthropomorphic personification]]
|occupation= A thief (Ludd) and a clockmaker (Clockson)
|appearance=
|residence= [[Glass House]]
|death=
|parents= [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= unmarried
|books= [[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]
|cameos=
}}

Lobsang Ludd was born as one soul with two bodies from [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]. [[Nanny Ogg]] assisted at the birth, and witnessed the two souls being born. This can probably be explained by the whole universe being destroyed and recreated in an instant by Time. The two babies were put on the doorsteps of the [[Clockmakers' Guild]] and the [[Thieves' Guild]]. Naming conventions for the guilds resulted in the surnames Ludd and Clockson.

[[Jeremy Clockson|Jeremy]] became the best clockmaker of [[Ankh-Morpork]] and was chosen by the [[Auditors of Reality|Auditors]] to build the new [[Glass Clock]] which would stop time. A brilliant clockmaker, Jeremy succeeds. His brilliance does come at a price: all he cares about are clocks, he is not strong in social relations and has to take medicine (closely monitored by the guild) to behave in a socially accepted way. His [[Igor]] notices that his extreme sanity and orderliness is just another form of madness.

Newgate Ludd grows up entirely different, baffling people with his speed in stealing things, often small objects. On the run from persecutors he falls, but saves his life by performing the ''Stance of the Coyote''. This is noticed by [[Marco Soto]] who sends him to the [[History Monks]] to be trained, where he receives the name Lobsang. Mostly because he has such talents he's a lazy student who gets thrown into the care of sweeper [[Lu-Tze]]. They both head to Ankh-Morpork, supposedly to learn [[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]], but really to find and destroy the Glass Clock. In the aftermath of the stopping of time, Lobsang meets [[Susan Sto Helit]] and together they find his "brother" who got wounded in the events. Their souls get reunited, but Lobsang is his preferred personality. Between him and Susan a romance blossoms.

After restoring the world and the flow of time, Lobsang takes over the job as Time so his parents can enjoy some time off. He meets [[Lu-Tze]] in a duel who beats him with [[Deja Fu]], finishing his education and making him a fully approved [[sweeper]].

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[[Category: Discworld characters|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[Category: Supernatural entities|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[Category: Leading characters|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[de:Lobsang Ludd]]

Lobsang

2014-05-10T12:12:45Z

XtinaS: Added disambiguation.

:''This article is about the character in The Long Earth. For the son of Time, see [[Lobsang Ludd]].''

'''Lobsang''' is a character in ''[[The Long Earth]]''. He is a Tibetan motorcycle repairman... who has been reincarnated as a supercomputer. The reasoning was that several sixth generation computers have tried without success to be named a human, but, if it is said that the computer is actually a human being (albeit in an unusual form) there can be no trouble. Any people who try to argue with the practicality of reincarnation will get some very short shrift from the religious community.
He now part-owns transEarth, a company which studies the various Long Earths, since the founder, Douglas Black, offered him a partnership. He does have a sense of humour, as he frequently disguises himself as a soft drinks dispenser.

==Annotations==
A Tibetan motorcycle repairman who is involved with spirituality - is there an echo of ''[[Wikipedia:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' here?

[[Category:The Long Earth]]