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Character Index, Part 4

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Ramkin-Vimes, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna, Duchess of Ankh
Richest woman in Ankh-Morpork and dragon fanatic. Lives inn Scoone Avenue. Tall, not too slim, hair burned off (wears wigs). Amateur soprano. Thoughtful, genteel, but with quite a few centuries of aristocracy to back her up in a corner (and woe to anyone who stands in her way then). Wife to Commander Vimes. Appears in Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms, Feet Of Clay, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant

Raven, the
See Quoth, the Raven

Recent Runes, Lecturer in (Runes)
Wizard and member of UU faculty. Appears in Soul Music

Reg
God of Club Musicians. Mentioned in Soul Music

Rhysson, Rhys
Low King of the dwarfs. Comes from an old family, but only from a small mine near Llamedos. Short even for a dwarf, speaks with a Llamedosian accent. Also <spoiler for The Fifth Elephant>very probably a female </spoiler>

Ribobe, Deccan
The last Keeper of the Door of Holy Wood. Died in his sleep without training a successor. Went to the lavatory a lot. Appears in Moving Pictures

Ridcully, Hughnon
Chief Priest of Blind Io, Ankh-Morpork's religious spokesman. Brother of Mustrum Ridcully. Appears in Reaper Man, Feet Of Clay and The Truth

Ridcully, Mustrum (Ridcully the Brown)
Archchancellor of Unseen University. A thick-skinned, single-minded man with no tact or humour, but intelligent and aware of his surroundings. Wears a red dress, not as much fat as well-built (if it's possible at about seventy-three years old), large moustache. Born in the Ramtops. Had a romantic relationship with Esme Weatherwax one summer. Reached the 7th level at 27 years of age and went home to tend to the family estates. Hunter, fisherman, mean snooker player (has a snooker table instead of a desk). Keeps dragons. Believes in healthy living and that enough force can solve any problem. Doesn't like the rest of the faculty. Still composing his memoirs (Along the Ankh with Bow, Rod and Staff with a Knob on the End). Appears in Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Lords And Ladies, Men At Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Hogfather, The Last Continent, Jingo and The Truth

Riktor the Tinkerer (Numbers, Counter)
A wizard with a crack for measurements. Friend of Windle Poons. Made a number of devices for measuring things (Star Ennumerator, Rev Counter for Use in Ecclesiastical Areas, Swamp Meter, Resograph etc). Mentioned in Moving Pictures and Soul Music

Rincewind
Homo sapiens sorcerous, although definitely not a typical specimen. Possibly the worst wizard on the Disk, he can't even spell the name of his profession. Yet his lovable personality and a cute, if overendowed in the legs department, pet make him one of the favourite Discworld characters. Owner of the The Luggage. Appears in The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, Interesting Times, The Last Continent and The Last Hero.

Rincewind, Bill
The Archchancellor of XXXX University (motto: NULLUS ANXIETAS). Looks very alike to a certain failure wizard, although of course older. This is only one example of how in XXXX everything is upside down. Appears in The Last Continent

Rocksmacker, Minty
A female dwarf and once sweetheart of Carrot. Mentioned in Guards! Guards! and sixty years old at the time

Rodley, Brenda
The Dowager Duchess of Quirm. Fabulously wealthy. Breeds dragons. Appears in Guards! Guards!, mentioned in The Truth

Rodley, Lord
Heir to the Quirm estates. Fat and stupid. Appears in Mort

Rodney
A picturebox imp employed by the City Watch to take pictures of speeding carts on the Brass Bridge. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Ron, Crunchie
A thief in Ankh-Morpork. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Ron, Foul Ole
One of the Misbegot Bridge beggars. A physical schizophrenic -- his smell has a separate existence. Has a Thinking Brain dog (Gaspode). Wears a huge greatcoat and a felt hat. Sometimes spies for the Patrician. Appears in Men At Arms, Soul Music, Feet of Clay, Hogfather and The Truth

Ruby
Detritus's girlfriend. Around 140 years old, about 500 lbs. Statuesque. Appears in Moving Pictures and Men At Arms

Rust, Lord
Ankh-Morpork nobleman. Thinks everything works out in real life just as it does in history -- at least in the version he's learned. Scheming and commanding enough to take power, but too narrow-minded to do anything worthwhile with it. Appears in Jingo, mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

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Safe Way, Mister
A voodoo god. Mentioned in Witches Abroad

Salami
A composer. Wrote Prelude to a Nocturne on a Theme by Bubla. Mentioned in Soul Music

Salzella
Music director in the Ankh-Morpork opera house. Misplaced sense of humour. Appears in Maskerade

Sandelfon
God of Corridors. Menioned in Reaper Man

Sandman, The
The entity that puts children to sleep by throwing magical sand in their eyes. Unlike other Sandmans, the Discworld one doesn't take the sand out of the sack first. Mentioned in Hogfather

Sarduk
Djelibeybian Goddess of Caves. Old and terrible. Her worship includes human sacrifice. Mentioned in Pyramids

Sasho
Secretary to Deacon Vorbis. Member of the Turtle Movement. Found out by his master. Strong will, bad death. Appears in Small Gods

Saturday, Baron
The ruler of Genua. Drowned by Lilith. Erzulie's lover and father of Ella. Not too bad a ruler (but definitely not good, either). Appears in Witches Abroad

Saturday, Ella (Embers, Emberella)
Daughter of Baron Saturday and Erzulie Gogol. Likes parties and doing things her own way. Platinum hair, brown skin. Appears in Witches Abroad

Saveloy, Ronald (Teach)
Geography teacher and member of Cohen's Silver Horde. Doesn't like sports masters. Appears in Interesting Times

Scrab
In the Djelibeybian pantheon, Pusher of the Ball of Sun. Appears in Pyramids

Scrofula
Death's demon assistant and temporary stand-in. Appears in The Colour of Magic

Scrub, Mr
see Death

Scum
Drummer in the Band Formerly Known As Insanity. Artist at bad drum playing -- he actually can't manage to hit them half the time. Quite kind to people, although not too smart. Appears in Soul Music

Scummidge
Porter at the Assassins' Guild when Windle Poons was a student. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Sea Queen
A goddess of the Sea. Very powerful. Attention span of a mosquito. Likes porpoises and beaches, doesn't like ships and small gods. Appears in Small Gods

Sek, Seven-Handed
A Discworld god. Friend of Offler. Mentioned in Reaper Man

Selachii, Lady
An acquaintance of Lady Sybil. Mentioned in Jingo

Selachii, Lord Robert
A nobleman, diplomant and senior Assassin. Rather old-fashioned in his ways (especially in the "If they make trouble, cut their heads of, what ho" way). Appears in Soul Music and Jingo, mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Sendivoge
Secretary of the Alchemists' Guild. Appears in Moving Pictures

Sessifet
Djelibeybian Goddess of the Afternoon. Appears in Pyramids

Shamharoth, Bel(Soul-Eater, Sender of Eight, Ichor God)
A god of the Discworld. Not Evil, but the other side... real scary. Black, Cthulhu-like, many tentacles. His number is eight. Comes from the dawn of time. Only organization of his cult mentioned in the books -- the Young Men Reformed-Cultists-Of-Ichor-God-Bel-Shamharoth Association, also known as the Young-Men-Pagan-Association or YMPA. Appears in The Colour of Magic and is mentioned in Eric and whenever the YMPA is mentioned (roughly every odd book).

Shoe, Reg(inald?)
An Ankh-Morpork zombie and anti-vitalist revolutionary. Pallid skin, shredded clothes, a "Glad To Be Gray" badge. Works in the mortuary on Elm Street and stays at Mrs Cake's lodging house. Founder and chairman of the Fresh Start Club, an organisation for the promotion of Dead Rights. Can't play a guitar. Graffiti-philiac -- show him a wall and a pot of paint, and he'll even stop a lecture on the discrimination of the dead. Since Jingo, constable of the Watch. Appears in Reaper Man, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant, mentioned in Men At Arms

Shuffle, Herbert (Mr Harpsichord)
Librarian in the Musicians' Guild. Appears in Soul Music

Skazz
A student at the Unseen University. Weighs about seven stone. Has all-around shoulder-length hair, so only the protruding tip of his nose tells the world which way its owner is facing. Takes a part in Ponder Stibbons's researches at the High Energy Magic building. Appears in Soul Music

Silicarious
The troll god of good fortune. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Silverfish, Thomas
President of the Alchemists' Guild. Little weaselly eyes. Not too much of a business sense. Good alchemist and billiards player. Appears in Moving Pictures and Men At Arms

Simmons, Grabber
One of the most feared bar-room fighters in Ankh-Morpork. Appears in Guards! Guards!

Simnel, Ned
The blacksmith in the town near Miss Flitworth's farm. Young, curly hair. Leaves unfinished sandwiches all over the place. Ingenious, although sometimes missing an inspirational particle or two. A passionate agitator for progress. Knows Death, isn't very good friends with him. Built the Combination Harvester. Appears in Reaper Man

Simony
A sergeant in the Omnian Divine Legion. A fierce atheist. Appears in Small Gods

Six Beneficent Winds
An accountant in the Agatean administration. Appears in Interesting Times

Size 15
A legionary in the Klatchian Foreign Legion. Doesn't remember his real name. Appears in Soul Music

Skalt
A semi-legendary dwarf, a figure in the tale of Bloodaxe and Ironhammer. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Skiller
A tavern owner in Ohulan. His bar is called "Fiddler's Riddle". He had an opportunity to improve his good fortune on encounter with a small child named Esk, but wasted it thanks to his greed and the rules of a good story. Appears in Equal Rites

Skinner, Inigo
To all outward appearances just one of Vetinari's clerks, but also an Assassin. Not from a rich family, got a scholarship into the Guild. Small, thin, going bald. Of an undeterminate age, though judged under thirty by Vimes. Has a nervous laugh on the lines of 'mhm-mhm'. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Skipps, Lord Henry
A historic figure. With his men he persumably beat the trolls at the battle of Pseudopolis, although some historians argue how come trolls were on the worse-paying human side. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Skulldrinker, Lars
A female dwarf Watchperson mentioned in Feet Of Clay

Slant, Mr
President of the Guild of Lawyers, the most respected zombie in Ankh-Morpork. Refuses to die until he has been paid for the disbursements in the matter of conducting his own defense. Was executed by beheading. Appears in Feet Of Clay and Jingo

Slapper, Constable
Watchman, appears in Feet Of Clay

Sleeps, Wando
Ankh-Morpork ambassador in Uberwald, misteriously disappeared a few weeks before the coronation of the Low King in The Fifth Elephant. Also had a slightly less diplomatic emploi as Vetinari's eyes and ears in the Old Country

Slider, Smelly
A sometime Watch informant, unfortunately deceased after being hit by a falling bedstead. Mentioned in Jingo

Slogram
The villain of the tale of Bloodaxe and Ironhammer. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Sluvver, Wally
Once a wizard and UU tutor. His students realised he was dead only after 3 years. Mentioned in The Last Continent

Small Hexagonal Room in the North Turret, Lady of the
A Sto Lat noblewoman. Appears in Mort

Smimto Tsortean God of Wine. Appears in Small Gods

Smince, Giggling Lord
A Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. Famous for his Laugh-A-Minute dungeon. Mentioned in Guards! Guards!

Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments
Friend and co-believer of Visit. Mentioned in Feet Of Clay

Smith, Eskarina
The Discworld's first female wizard. Heir to Drum Billet's power. Tutored by Esmerelda Weatherwax. Principal character of Equal Rites

Smith, Howondaland
Balgrog hunter and legendary hero. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Smith, Thomas
See Thomas Stronginthearm

Snapcase, Mad Lord
A Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. Mentioned in Feet Of Clay

Sniddin
A four-inch-high gnome actor in Holy Wood. Appears in Moving Pictures

Snoriscousin, Snori
Leader of the band Snori Snoriscousin And His Brass Idiots, a dwarf music band. Once employer of Asphalt. Mentioned in Soul Music

Snoxall
Classmate of Teppic. His prayers call for painting himself green and wounding someone's intestines around a tree. Appears in Pyramids

Sock, Gerhardt
President of the Butchers' Guild and owner of a slaughterhouse. Stout, easily scareable. Loses at poker. Appears in Men At Arms and Feet Of Clay

Soddoth, Yob
An outer-dimensional monster whose distinctive cry is "Yerwhatyerwhatyerwhat". Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Sonky, Wallace
Ankh-Morpork tradesman and maker of condoms. A pioneer of the industry. Had a brother in Uberwald. Appears as a corpse in The Fifth Elephant

Squeak
A talking mouse from Holy Wood. Also known as 'Definitely-not-Squeak'. Appears in Moving Pictures

Spent, Mrs
Ankh-Morpork landlady. Ginger hair, old, not too polite. Appears in Jingo

Spigot, William
An old man hired as a helper on Miss Flitworth's farm. Sings when working. Friend of Bill Door. Appears in Reaper Man

Spold, Gerhard (Tudgy)
Once the oldest wizard on the Disc. Died in an unfortunate attempt to keep Death away. Appears in The Light Fantastic, mentioned in Moving Pictures

Staid, Wussie
Janitor at the Assassins' Guild. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Stamp, Miss
Teacher of Maths at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. Taught Susan. Mentioned in Soul Music

Steighegel
God of isolated cow byres. Mentioned in Mort

Stibbons, Ponder
The head of High Energy Magic. Twenty-four in The Last Continent. Missing a part of one ear. Used to be bullied as a child. Graduated UU after answering a trick question meant for Victor Tugelbend. Built Hex. Appears in Moving Pictures, Lords And Ladies, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Hogfather and The Last Continent

Sto Helit, Duke of
Cousin of Olerve the Bastard and uncle of Keli. Reptillian demeanour. Wore a little mustache. Appears in Mort

Sto Helit, Mortimer (Mort)
The tall, red-haired duke of Sto Helit. Once an apprentice of Death, he was later a renowned diplomat. As Death, he had been quite stylish, but lacking in objectivity. He married Ysabell and they had a daughter, Susan. He devoted his life to upkeeping peace on the Sto plains. Mort and Ysabell died in their early thirties, in a carriage accident in the mountains. He appears in Mort and Soul Music and is mentioned in Guards! Guards!, Hogfather and The Truth

Sto Helit, Susan
Daughter of Ysabell and Mort. White hair, self-styling. Practical and desperately clinging to normality. Well-educated. Appears in Soul Music and Hogfather

Sto Helit, Ysabell
Death's adopted daughter. White hair, quite plump. Later wife of Mort and mother of Susan. Romantic and practical, likes chocolate. Appears in The Light Fantastic, Mort and Soul Music and is mentioned in Hogfather

Sto Lat, Keliherenna (Keli)
Princess, later queen of Sto Lat. Full title: Her Supreme Majesty, Lord of Sto Lat, Protector of the Eight Protectorates and Empress of the Long Thin Debated Piece Hubwards of Sto Kerrig. Rather thin, red hair. Quite intelligent, proud and regal. Appears in Mort and Soul Music

Stride Wide Man
A voodoo god. Mentioned in Witches Abroad

Stripfettle
A wizard and author of the Belive-It-Or-Not Grimoire. Mentioned in Reaper Man

Stronginthearm, Abba
Dwarf community leader, later Lance-Corporal, Corporal and Sergeant (since The Fifth Elephant) of the Watch. Appears in Men At Arms, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant

Stronginthearm, Olaf
One of the dwarfs at Ironcrust's Dwarf Bakery. Appears in Feet Of Clay

Stronginthearm, Thomas
The human owner of Stronginthearm's Iron Founders, Beaters and General Forging. A long beard and a helmet help create a dwarfish impression, which is good for business. Appears in Feet Of Clay

Sveltz, Corporal
A member of the Bonk city watch. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Swires, Buggy
Gnome. First appeared in The Colour of Magic, living in Skund forest, then in Jingo and The Fifth Elephant as a member of the Watch stationed at Chitterling Street Station

T

Talonthrust of Ankh, Lord Mountjoy Gayscale III
Pedigree swamp dragon (a bit overbred), property of Lady Ramkin. Mentioned in Guards! Guards!

Tantony, Captain
An officer in the Bonk Watch. Young, idealistic. Speaks Morporkian. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Tazikel
A Klatchian who has about twenty elephants. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Teach
See Saveloy, Ronald

Teatar, Prissal (Merry Prankster)
A late wizard from Unseen University. One of his practical jokes was apparently pretending to be dead and then jumping out at people. This has lead to the current UU practice of twenty-four hours' lying-in-state after a wizard's death (which has proved successful, as nothing can make a wizard miss a whole day's worth of meals with nothing to look forward to but a pine coffin). Mentioned in Reaper Man

Teatime, Jonathan
An assassin with a brilliant, twisted and insane mind. Megalomaniac and manic-depressive, and those are just the most normal of his characteristics... Homicidal maniac, psychopath, sociopath and whatever you can think of and I can't spell. Oh, and he has one glass eye, blond hair and is quite good-looking in a boyish way. His name is pronounced Teh-ah-tim-eh, and don't you forget it. He appears in Hogfather and steals the show


Teg
Djelibeybian God of Agriculture. Mentioned in Pyramids

Tempscire, Lady Lilith de
See Weatherwax, Lily

Tento
Keeper of the Door in Holy Wood. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Teppic
See Teppicymon XXVIII

Teppicymon XXVII
King of Djelibeybi. Teppic's and Ptraci's father. Husband of Artela. Looked like a short-sighted chicken. Liked seagulls. Appears in Pyramids

Teppicymon XXVII (Teppic, Pteppic, Tep)
Heir to the throne of Djelibeybi and apprentice Assassin. Known classmates: Chidder, Cheesewright, Arthur, Snoxall. Appears in Pyramids

Tightbritches, Bjorn
One of the dwarfs at Ironcrust's Dwarf Bakery. Appears in Feet Of Clay

Thargum
King of Lancre before Verence I's father. Died of poison, by the hand of his successor. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Thaumic, Doctor
A scientist in Uberwald, living on the other side of Schmaltzberg from Bonk. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Thighbiter, Hrolf
Constable in the Watch. Appears in Feet Of Clay and The Fifth Elephant

Thogsdaughter, Gloria
A dwarf pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies and friend of Susan Sto Helit. Good at basketball and axe-waving. Appears in Soul Music

Thrume
A god of the Discworld. Mentioned in Reaper Man

Thrrp
Charioteer of the Sun in the Djelibeybian pantheon. Appears in Pyramids

Thrum, Stamina
A girl living in Elm Street, Ankh-Morpork. Acquaintance of Nobby Nobbs. Has a wooden leg. Mentioned in Jingo

Thumpy, Mr
A talking rabbit. Also known as: 'Make-my-day-call-me-Mr-Thumpy', 'Don't-call-me-Mr-Thumpy' and so on. Appears in Moving Pictures

Thunderaxe
Young dwarf apprentice printer. Mentioned in The Truth

Thunderfoot
A dwarf actor in Holy Wood. Appears in Moving Pictures

Thundergust, Grabpot
A dwarf owner of a cosmetics mill in Hobfast Street. Appears in Wyrd Sisters, mentioned in Men At Arms

Thursley, Eric
Fourteen-year-old demonologist. Lives in Midden Lane, Psudopolis (next door to the tannery). Had a grandfather with a succubus fixation. Slim, dark-haired, acne attack ground zero. Not too bad at his work. According to some, terribly bright and self-centered. Has the normal for his age hormone storm. Appears in Eric

T'Malia, Lady
A tutor in the Guild of Assassins. Speciality: poisons. Beautiful with a calculated, well-kept beauty. Taught Political Expediency in Teppic's class on Octeday afternoons. Appears in Pyramids

Tockley, Lucy (Diamanda)
A witch wannabe in Lancre, with raw power and ambition. Wears black lace, paints her fingernails black. Seventeen years old. Started the events of Lords And Ladies

Topsy, Washable
A laundry woman in the Assassins' Guild. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Traitor, Miss
Teacher of Logic at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. Taught Susan. Mentioned in Soul Music

Treem
An Omnian bishop and the Citadel's archivist. Appears in Small Gods

Truckle the Uncivil
A member of Cohen's Silver Horde. Appears in Interesting Times

Trymon
Wizard, Seventh (later Eighth) level of the Order of the Silver Star. Assistant to Galder Weatherwax. Considers organization and management the best thing since slicing bread, and has the sort of mind you get from writing people's names on pieces of paper and putting them on a chart. Thinks in terms of "efficient" vs. "inefficient", rather than "good" vs. "bad". Rincewind's classmate. Black hair, gray eyes. Died in the Octavo incident. Appears in The Light Fantastic.

Tsort, Elenor of
Allegedly the most beautiful woman in the world, despite her squint. Object of the Tsortean war (kidnapped from her husband). Unfortunately, her beauty wasn't that long-lasting. Mentioned in Pyramids and appears in Eric

Tugelbend, Victor (Victor Maraschino)
A student wizard with a determination never to become a full one. Later a star of clicks in Holy Wood. Tall, looks like Clark Gable. Quite intelligent, although lazy. Friend of Ponder Stibbons. Appears in Moving Pictures

Tumult, Gammer
A witch in Lancre who had the (bad) luck to find on her lawn one morning a young girl who wanted to be a witch. That girl's name was Esmerelda Weatherwax. Mentioned in Equal Rites

Turnipseed, Adrian
A student wizard who works with Ponder Stibbons. Appears in Soul Music

Tuvelpit (Tsort: Smimto)
An Ephebian god of wine. Mentioned in Small Gods

Twoflower
The Discworld's first tourist and friend of Rincewind. First owner of the Luggage. Wears glasses. Nice to animals. The 'Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice' type that annoys people because he makes them realise it would. Doesn't know a thing about sarcasm. Father of Pretty Butterfly and Lotus Blossom. His wife was killed by the henchmen of Lord Hong. Appears in The Colour Of Magic, The Light Fantastic and Interesting Times

Two Fire Herb
An overzealous (in Rincewind's opinion) member of the Agatean Revolution. Friend of Lotus Blossom. Appears in Interesting Times

Tyrant
The Ephebian elected ruler. A fat little man with skinny legs and loads of brains. Diplomatic style, too. Appears in Small Gods

Tzut
Snake-Headed God of the Upper Djel. Appears in Pyramids

U

Überwald, Andrei von
Son of Guye and Serafine. Brother to Angua, Elsa and Wolfgang. A yennork (non-morphing werewolf) stuck in wolf form. After Wolfgang killed Elsa, Andrei ran off to Borogravia and became a sheepdog. Currently wins contests. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Angua Delphine von
Daughter of Guye and Serafine, descendant of the top werewolf family in Uberwald. Sister to Elsa, Andrei and Wolfgang. Constable, later Sergeant in the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch. Tall, blonde and beautiful in human form, light gray and well-bred in wolf form. In love with Corporal Carrot. Lives at Mrs. Cake's. Her werewolf abilities include good fighting skills and a keen smell (miles around and months into the past). Even though, she is afraid of her wolf nature taking over. Appears in Men At Arms, Feet Of Clay, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant.

Überwald, Baron Guye von (Silvertail)
Head of the most important werewolf family in Uberwald, family motto Homo homini lupus. Husband of Serafine, father of Angua, Elsa, Andrei and Wolfgang. A large man with a red face and lots of hair. His wolf form has taken over lately, resulting in dog-like behavior even if he looks human. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Elsa von
Daughter of Guye and Serafine. Sister to Angua, Andrei and Wolfgang. A yennork (non-changing werewolf) stuck in human form. Was killed by her brother Wolfgang. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Hilda von
Sister to Guye. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Magwen von
A member of the von Uberwald werewolf family. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Lady Margolotta Amaya Katerina Assumpta Crassina von (in short form; long form takes 4 pages of print)
Head of the Uberwald vampires. Despite her name, apparently unrelated to the von Uberwald werewolf family. In looks, a middle-aged and distinguished lady. Has a pet, either a rat or a rat-like dog. An abstinent. An old friend of Havelock Vetinari. Appears in The Fifth Elephant, mentioned in The Truth

Überwald, Nancy von
A member of the von Uberwald werewolf family. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Serafine Soxe-Bloonberg von (Yellowfang)
Originally from Genua. Married to Guye, mother of Angua, Elsa, Andrei and Wolfgang. A distinguished and very snobbish lady, blond-haired and attractive. Went to finishing school with Lady Sybil. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Ulf von
Brother to Guye. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Unity von
A member of the von Uberwald werewolf family. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Überwald, Wolfgang von
Son of Guye and Serafine, descendant of the top werewolf family in Uberwald. Brother to Angua, Elsa and Andrei. Tall, well-muscled, blond hair growing down his back. A believer in the supremacy of the werewolf race and the kind of person who never backs out of a fight. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Ungulant, Sevrian Thaddeus (St Ungulant)
A hermit, anchorite and worshipper of the small gods. Very thin. Lots of hair, long beard. Lives in the desert. Has an invisible friend called Angus. Appears in Small Gods

Unhappiness, Dragon of
A metaphorical creature of Fung Shooey, brought to life by the force of Dibbler's persuasion. Apparently lives in people's privies, which is why it's important to keep the lid down. Mentioned in The Truth

Ur Gilash
A god destroyed by the expansion of Omnianism. Mentioned in Small Gods

Urglefloggah
Spawn of the Pit and Loathly Guardian of the Dread Portal. Not too intelligent. Appears in Eric

Urn
Didactylos's nephew and genius inventor. Appears in Small Gods

V

Varneshi, Mr
A trader from around Lancre, trades with the dwarfs in the Copperhead area. Not too tall or well-orientated in the current state of affairs. His grandfather was a member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Appears in Guards! Guards!

Venting, Dame
Teacher in a school Samuel Vimes attended. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Verence I
A king of Lancre. Tall, well-built. Long hair and a moustache. Not much of a thinker, but otherwise your typical Middle Ages king. Exercised his droit de seigneur a lot, while not paying attention to his own bedroom. Killed by Duke Felmet, later a ghost. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Verence II (the Fool)
Once the Fool of Duke Felmet, now the king of Lancre and husband of Magrat. His mother was a Beldame, from over Blackglass way. Scared stiff of Granny and Nanny. Tall, shifty, quite smart (or at least educated). Around seventeen when we meet him, which makes him about twenty-two in the current Discworld time-line. Sweet (in Magrat's opinion). Appears in Wyrd Sisters and Lords And Ladies, mentioned in The Truth

Vetinari, Havelock
Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. Looks like a black, blue-eyed predatory flamingo. A sapphire stare points to a possible (at least in Beth's opinion) link with the Weatherwax clan. Particularly cunning. Has a small, wire-haired terrier named Wuffles and an aunt in Quirm. Doesn't like mime artists. Reads sheet music. Plays chess. Lately walks with the help of a cane. Has studied with the Assassins' Guild and spent some time in Uberwald. An altogether fascinating person... Appears in Sourcery, Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Men At Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Feet Of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant and The Truth

Vincent the Invulnerable
A hero who committed suicide by going into the Mended Drum and announcing he was called Vincent the Invulnerable (technically the immediate cause of death was stabbing, but it was suicide by Ankh Morpork standards). Mentioned in Soul Music

Vimes, Gwilliam
Grandfather of Samuel Vimes. Mentioned in Feet Of Clay

Vimes, Samuel (Old Stoneface)
Captain, later Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Duke of Ankh. Also blackboard monitor for a term in school. Husband to Lady Ramkin. Somewhere between forty and fifty. Abstinent alcoholic. Doesn't believe in clues. Doesn't like the undead, kings and Vetinari. Current Assassins' Guild fee AM$ 600,000. Appears in Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms, Feet Of Clay, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant

Vimes, Suffer-Not-Injustice (Old Stoneface)
An ancestor of Samuel Vimes and the Commander of the City Watch during the reign of Lorenzo The Kind. Cut the king's head off and led the rebellion. His Ironheads ruled the city for six months. Mentioned in Feet Of Clay

Vimes, Thomas
Father of Samuel Vimes. Mentioned in Feet Of Clay

Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets (Visit, Washpot)
The Omnian corporal of the Night Watch. Talks about his religion a lot and abhors all other beliefs. Despite that, a rather nice and level-headed person. Appears in Feet Of Clay, Hogfather, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant

Vitoller, Mrs
An intelligent and kind-hearted woman. Patient and with lots of organising abilities. No children of her own (one daughter has died), she and her husband adopted Tomjon. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Vitoller, Olwyn
Manager and leader of a band of strolling players. Large, moustached and red-cheeked. Extremely talented actor. Kind heart. Around sixty years old. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Vitoller, Tomjon
Son of the queen of Lancre, Verence I's wife. Adopted by the Vitollers. A tall lad, somewhat resemblant to the Fool. Gifts from a certain witchy trio -- perfect memory, easy-goingness and an ability to be whoever he thinks he is -- made him ideal for the stage, where he excels. Can play anyone, anywhere, and call for a short one in a dwarf bar. Also has a talent for remembering untimely remarks of other people. Friends with Hwel. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Volfssonssonssonsson, Volf (Volf the Lucky)
A Hublandish hero. Member of the Vasung tribe. Died in battle with the Bergunds, another Hublandish tribe, and was subsequently carried away by Valkyries after a brief encounter with Susan Death. Appears in Soul Music

Vorbis, Deacon
The chief Exquisitor of Omnianism in the early times of Brutha. Very tall, bald, dark eyeballs, a nose you could plough rocks with. A totally closed mind with a curious desire for knowledge -- but only of certain kind. Pterry's scariest villain to date, too natural for my liking. Appears in Small Gods

Vortin
Owner of a diamond warehouse in Ankh-Morpork. Mentioned in Soul Music and Jingo

Vyrt
A prosperous assassin and Artela's brother. The first person to introduce Teppic to the trade. Appears in Pyramids

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Wa, Cripple
An Ankh-Morpork beggar and gambler, specializing in the so-called "floating crap game", which consists of throwing three eight-sided dice to get the most points. Had twenty-three men killed, but promised to reform himself after a mysterious dark stranger almost beat him in the greatest game of all... That was in Mort, but he also appeared in The Colour of Magic

Wallspur
An Omnian prophet responsible for the holy fire that purifies the infidels in the Citadel. Mentioned in Small Gods

Wally, Posh
An Ankh-Morpork criminal. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Weatherwax, Esmerelda (Esme, Granny)
The greatest leader of those witches don't have. Extremely good at magic and headology. Handsome, no warts, all her own teeth. Hair grey (once light blond), sapphire eyes. Can pin someone to the ground with a stare. Doesn't believe in magic's ability to help the world. Definitely not romantic. Has a bump-starting broomstick. Once in love with Mustrum Ridcully. Appears in Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords And Ladies and Maskerade, mentioned in Mort

Weatherwax, Galder
Supreme Grand Conjurer of the Order of the Silver Star, Lord Imperial of the Sacred Staff, Eighth Level Ipsissimus and 304th Chancellor of Unseen University. Distant cousin of Esme Weatherwax. Traditional wizard, quite smart. Dead (?) in an unfortunate incident involving the Luggage. Appears in The Light Fantastic, mentioned in Lords and Ladies and The Last Continent

Weatherwax, Lily (Lady Lilith)
Esme's sister. Close family resemblance. Eeevil. A fairy godmother to Embers. Uses mirrors and stories in her magic. The kind of person to kill someone because that's the way the story goes. Appears in Witches Abroad

Weems
One of the Morporkian mercenaries hired by Herrena to catch Rincewind. Died (?) in the Luggage. Appears in The Light Fantastic.

Weems, Harry 'The Boltcutter'
An Ankh-Morpork criminal. Mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Welegare, Reverend
Priest in a temple once frequented by Arthur Winkings. Not used to corpses walking around with extra-large teeth. Mentioned in Reaper Man

Wheedown, Blert
An Ankh-Morpork guitar maker. Good at his work and devoted to it. Wrote a guitar primer. Made a lot of money during the Music With Rocks In craze. Appears in Soul Music

Wheels, Gabby An old man helping at Miss Flitworth's farm. Friend of Bill Door. Doesn't talk a lot. Appears in Reaper Man

Whelk, Brother
A tutor in the Citadel. Taught Comparative Religion to Brutha (I wonder what he compared it to?). Mentioned in Small Gods

Whemper, Goodie
Magrat's tutor and a research witch. Lived in Mad Stoat. Always experimented with magic, right up to the time when she experimentally pulled the bristles out of her broomstick in mid-air. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Whiteface, Dr
Chairman of the Fools' Guild. Wears white clothes and makeup, with black accents. Appears in Men At Arms

Whitlow, Mrs
The Unseen University housekeeper. Statuesque and dignified. Wears a ginger wig. Strict ideas about social classes. Mentioned in Reaper Man, appears in Equal Rites, Moving Pictures, Soul Music and The Last Continent

Wilhelmina
One of Angua's pigeons. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Willikins
The Ramkin family butler and the bane of Sam Vimes's life. Appears in Men At Arms, Feet of Clay and Jingo, mentioned in The Fifth Elephant

Wimsloe
A young and rather simple member of Vitoller's Men. Specializes in female roles. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Winder, Homicidal Lord
A Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. Mentioned in Feet Of Clay

Windpike
A maker of cheap soap in Ankh-Morpork. Mentioned in Jingo

Winkings, Arthur
See Notfaroutoe, Count Arthur Winkings

Winkings, Doreen
See Notfaroutoe, Countess Doreen Winkings

Withel, Theda (Delores Del Syn, Ginger, Ginj)
Once a milkmaid in a small town you've probably never heard off (Lancre? ;->), later a star in Holy Wood. Five foot two and a half tall. Attractive if she hasn't got too much make-up on. Cat-lover. Descendant of the last High Priestess of Holy Wood. Appears in Moving Pictures

Wittles, William (Willy [home], Tosser [school])
One of the children on Violet's list. Lives at 68 Kicklebury Street. Mentioned in Hogfather

Woddeley
Wizard and author of the Occult Primer. Mentioned in Jingo

Wold
Author of Logic and Paradox, one of Susan's favorite books. Mentioned in Soul Music

Wonse, Lupine (Lupin Squiggle Sec'y PP)
Personal secretary of Patrician Vetinari in Guards! Guards!. Childhood acquaintance of Vimes. Rather ambitious, neat-looking. Uses the phrase "begin to commence", which tells you a lot about his personality. Vulnerable to cliche evil-usurper madness

Worde, Lord de
Descendant of an old Ankh-Morpork aristocratic family (motto: Le Mot Juste). Opinionated and prejudiced against everybody different than himself. Natural leader. Doesn't like to touch people. Favorite saying: "A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on." Father to Rupert and William. Appears in The Truth

Worde, Rupert de
Son and heir of Lord de Worde, older brother to William de Worde. Typical young aristocrat - brave and stupid. Studied as an Assassin. Died in the war with Klatch. Mentioned in The Truth

Worde, William de
Younger son and current (unwilling) heir to Lord de Worde. Attended the Hugglestones boarding school. First a scribe, now owner and editor-in-chief of Ankh-Morpork's first and finest newspaper, "The Ankh-Morpork Times". In a tentative hate-don'tknow relationship with Sacharissa Cripslock. Appears in The Truth

Wrangler, Senior
Wizard and member of UU faculty. A philosopher who looks like a horse. The traditional wizard's celibate life seems to have over-heated his brain as far as the fairer sex is concerned. Appears in Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather and The Last Continent

WxrtHltl-jwlpklz
The demon Magrat, Nanny and Granny summoned in Nanny's washroom. At that time manifested himself as a handsome man's head, a little cruel around the eyes. Arrogant and traditionalist, but not stupid. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

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Xeno
Ephebian philosopher. Short. Speciality: axioms. Friend of Ibid. Wrote Reflections. Appears in Pyramids and Small Gods

Y

You Bastard
The greatest mathematician alive, and a camel. Appears in Pyramids

Yoyo, Kompt de
A tutor in the Assassins' school. Taught Modern Languages and Music in Teppic's school. Keen edificeer. Mentioned in Pyramids

Z

Zeb
A false Omnian prophet, according to Vorbis (which is probably true, as in that time Om was a tortoise who didn't even remember being a god). The thing didn't work out. Mentioned in Small Gods

Zebedinah
A pigeon in the employ of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Appears in The Fifth Elephant

Zephilite of Klatch
A saint of F'rum. Real saint -- giving away riches, ministering to the sick and poor etc. Mentioned in Small Gods

Zephyrus
God of Slight Breezes. Appears in The Colour Of Magic

Zetesphut
A king of Tsort. Died and was buried in a piramid. Mentioned in Mort

Zorgo
An Ankh-Morporkian retrophrenologist with a clinic in Knuckle Passage. Appears in Men At Arms