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| {{Character Data
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| |title= Tiffany Aching
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| |photo= Tiffany Aching.png|Tiffany Aching by Paul Kidby
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| |name= Tiffany Aching
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| |age= 9 in {{WFM}}<br/>11 in {{HFOS}}<br/>12 & 13 in {{W}}<br/>15 in {{ISWM}}<br/>16, 17 or 18 in {{TSC}}<br/>(born around [[1979 UC]])
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| |race= Human
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| |occupation= Former Milkmaid, now [[Witch]]
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| |appearance= Short, slim, brown-haired, wears big boots. Almost never wears black (except for the hat) preferring blue or green. Has a silver necklace of the Horse (later a golden hare necklace).
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| |residence= Home Farm, The Chalk
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| |death=
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| |parents= [[Joe Aching]] (father)<br/>Mrs. Aching (mother)
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| |relatives= [[Sarah Aching]] (Grandmother)<br>Six older sisters including Hannah and Fastidia<br/>younger brother [[Wentworth Aching|Wentworth]]<br/>Aunt Hetty
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| |children=
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| |marital status= single
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| |books= {{WFM}}<br/>{{HFOS}}<br/>{{W}}<br/>{{ISWM}}<br/>{{TSC}}<br/>{{TAG}}
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| |cameos=
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| }}
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| '''Tiffany Aching''' is a young witch apprentice. She appears in the Young Adult [[:category:Tiffany Series|Tiffany Series]], which cover several years of her life growing up in a rural area of the [[Discworld]].
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| ==Biography==
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| Tiffany Aching grew up in a sheep-grazing region known as [[The Chalk]], [[rimwards]] of the [[Ramtops]] on the hubward margin of the [[Sto Plains]]. She has one little brother ([[Wentworth Aching|Wentworth]]) and six older sisters, including Hannah and Fastidia. She is an expert at cheese-making, to the point of making it [[Horace the Cheese|sentient]].
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| Tiffany's talent was discovered at age 9, by itinerant witch and teacher [[Perspicacia Tick|Miss Tick]]; This surprised her, as [[Well-Known Facts|everyone knows]] that good witches cannot grow on chalk. She is seen as a "gel".
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| Her first inclination of her unique abilities came as she experienced a susurration when creatures were passing from [[Fairyland]] into her own.
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| Since she fought off the [[Queen of the Elves]] with an iron frying pan to save her little brother, and [[Roland|the baron's son]], the [[Nac Mac Feegle]] (who helped her on her quest, and who made her a temporary [[Kelda]]) have watched her and helped her through danger, as was presented in her eleventh spring and thirteenth winter, in the form of a hiver and the [[Wintersmith]].
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| She lives, as aforementioned, on the Chalk, but in the second novel she studies in mountains close to Lancre with [[Constance Level|Miss Level]]. By the third, she has spent time with two other mentors before moving to live with [[Eumenides Treason|Miss Treason]]. After Miss Treason's death, [[Annagramma Hawkin]] takes her cottage, and Tiffany cleans up the mess Annagramma leaves behind.
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| When Tiffany foolishly joined in with the [[Dark Morris]] dance (which turns autumn into winter), she learned that the supposedly empty spot belonged to [[Summer Lady|Summer]]. This resulted in a lovestruck [[Wintersmith]] and a very angry Summer, who believed that Tiffany was trying to take her place.
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| In {{ISWM}}, after helping the old Baron to a peaceful death, she learned that she had attracted the attentions of the [[Cunning Man]]. By the end of the tale she had assured her own stead, married Roland (...to someone else), opened a school, made peace between the Chalk-folk and the Feegles, conversed with a [[Eskarina Smith|legendary female wizard]], and spoken to herself from the future.
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| In {{TSC}}, Tiffany inherits [[Granny Weatherwax]]’s belongings and steading. She struggles to take care of the people of both the Chalk and Bad Ass, as well as becoming the new “head witch”. She takes on [[Geoffrey Swivel|an apprentice]], and must deal with another invasion of Elves, under a [[Peaseblossom|new leader]]. Afterwards she gives up Granny’s steading to concentrate on being the witch of the Chalk.
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| After settling back into her life as witch of the Chalk, Tiffany completed the manuscript for a book she had been working on throughout her time learning to be a witch, with helpful input from Granny, Nanny, Ms Tick and other witches (and less helpful input from Rob Anybody and the Feegles). {{TAG}} was published by [[Goatberger|Goatberger Publishers]] in Ankh-Morpork.
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| ==Characteristics==
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| Tiffany is mature for her age. She is serious and literal like [[Granny Weatherwax]], but unlike Granny she is still learning fast (Granny's learned a lot but she'd say she's learning faster). She has second and third thoughts, and occasionally fourth thoughts.
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| Her connection with the Chalk is important to her, which makes it very strong - the connection saved Tiffany from the [[Hiver]], helping her to expel it from herself when it had consumed every other victim it took.
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| ==Relationships==
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| The most important person in her life was her late grandmother [[Granny Aching]] (who referred to her as "Jiggit").
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| Tiffany cares for her family deeply: while she may find her brother irritating, she saves him from the Queen of the Elves. She also grows closer to her father as the books go on, feeling she can always be honest with him.
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| Tiffany is officially single, and believes this how a Witch should stay. She had a romantic connection with [[Roland]] once, which leads to some rare (internal) immaturity when he finds himself [[Letitia Keepsake|a fiancée]]. She also had a brief relationship with the [[Wintersmith]]. In [[I Shall Wear Midnight]], Tiffany became interested in medical student and former guard [[Preston]], who gifted her the golden hare necklace.
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| In a professional capacity, she forms working relationships and tentative friendships with [[Annagramma Hawkin]] and [[Petulia Gristle]]. She marvels at [[Nanny Ogg]] too.
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| Tiffany has a strong (if a bit prickly) mentor-apprentice relationship with [[Granny Weatherwax]], which grew to a level of importance rivalling her own granny's. Aside from being allowed to call her Granny (she's 'Mistress Weatherwax' to everyone else), Tiffany gifted her a white kitten later called [[You]] - as in, "''Here, You''!" or "''Stop that, You''!" Granny Weatherwax appears to be impressed with Tiffany, which is an extraordinarily difficult thing to achieve.
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| ==Annotations==
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| * Tiffany is 9 years old in {{WFM}}, and around two years elapse between subsequent novels. She is stated to be 16 in {{ISWM}}.
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| * All Tiffany's adventures seem to have a connection to winter. In [[The Wee Free Men]], Fairyland and the parts of the Chalk that get taken over by the Fairy Queen are covered with snow. In [[A Hat Full of Sky]], the creature that takes over Tiffany is called a hiver (hiver being the French word for winter). In [[Wintersmith]], the Wintersmith that brings winter to the land falls in love with Tiffany.
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| * Tiffany has a silver necklace of the Horse, a gift from Roland. At the end of {{ISWM}} she receives a golden necklace of a hare from Preston, completing the Sun-Moon symbology.
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| [[Image:Horse.jpg|600px|thumb|left|Picture of the Horse by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]].
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| The horse has also been made into a piece of jewellery by Barrie Wakeford. This is based on the White Horse near Uffington in the UK.]]
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| ==Also See==
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| * [[wikipedia:Tiffany Aching|Tiffany Aching's Entry]] on [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
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