List of Discworld characters

A Klatchian warrior and bodyguard who accompanies his Prince, Khufurah, an envoy on a diplomatic mission from Klatch to Ankh-Morpork in the 21st Discworld novel, Jingo. Ahmed belongs to a formidable but honourable warrior clan called the D'regs. Speaking purposefully with a heavy accent and chewing cloves he is suspected of killing the Watch's prime suspect in a botched assassination attempt on the prince; provoking Vimes and the Watch to pursue Ahmed back to Klatch. Ahmed got his nickname by killing a man guilty of poisoning a well, one hour before the cultural D'reg three days of unwavering hospitality allowed; a time during which even great enemies should be shown respect. He is later revealed to be the Wali of Klatch, equivalent to Vimes's position as Commander of the City Watch. Ahmed and Vimes eventually develop a wary respect for each other as basically honest cops in unenviable positions. ==Ankh-Morpork==

A character in itself, Ankh-Morpork is the largest city on the Disc with 1 million inhabitants, and a common location for many of the Discworld's stories. Its nickname is "the Big Wahoonie" (an ugly, smelly fruit). Originally two cities separated by a river, Ankh and Morpork today are governed as one city-state. Ankh-Morpork contains the Assassin's guild, the Unseen University and the City Watch amongst many other famous Discworld institutions. Many of its denizens appear sporadically through the series in the novels set in the city. Ankh-Morpork City Watch The Ankh-Morpork Watch, simply known as just "The Watch", is Ankh-Morpork's police force. Prominent members being; • Sam Vimes • Captain Carrot • Angua • Sergeant Fred Colon • Corporal Nobby Nobbs ===Notable residents=== • The Canting Crew, a group of beggars who are too anarchic for the Beggars' Guild, including; Foul Ole Ron, Altogether Andrews, Coffin Henry, The Duck Man and Arnold Sideways. • Willie Hobson, who runs Hobson's Livery Stable. • Mr Hong, a part of Ankh-Morpork's collective memory. • Doughnut Jimmy, a horse doctor that treats humans. ==The Auditors of Reality==

The Auditors of Reality are formless non-beings housed under grey cloaks with no distinguishing marks. Auditors do not speak; they re-arrange the world as they wish to express without words being uttered. Auditors are neutral, devoid of emotion but are opposed to the chaotic morass of emotions of humanity. This is because humanity is messy and upsets the logically reasoned order of the universe; by which the Auditors feel the universe should be run without let or hindrance. Auditors appear in eleventh Discworld novel, Reaper Man, attempting to replace Death with a more amenable professional, with less of an identity and personality. The Auditors choose to remain at odds with Death as he champions the concepts of identity, individuality and personality, which remain alien to the Auditors. Any Auditors who start to exhibit expressions of individuality are instantaneously disintegrated into non-existence and immediately replaced by a new identical facsimile. Auditors are supposedly of one mind, always acting in concert with unanimity, but as more interaction with reality occurs this unison gradually and inevitably breaks down as disagreement, bickering, creativity and jealousy formulate, with Auditors developing consciousness. A notable example of an Auditor going through the process of anthropopathism is Myria LeJean, (myriad and legion), who appears in the 26th Discworld novel, Thief of Time, who rebels against the Auditors in their mission to destroy humanity. The 'greyness' of the Auditors may be a nod to The Grey Men of the novel Momo and its similar paranormal entities. ==Mavolio Bent==

The Head Cashier and all but in charge of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork, makes his first appearance in the 36th Discworld novel, Making Money. Mr Bent has been employed at the bank since he was thirteen, when he came to the city with a group of travelling accountants. He was born as a clown, but his first time performing the audience laughing at him caused him to flee and join a group of travelling accountants, discovering his talent for numbers. Mavolio Bent's history bears a passing resemblance to that of John Major who was born the son of a music hall performer, but left to join a bank, eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK, 1990–1997. Andrew Rawnsley said that he "ran away from the circus to join a troupe of accountants". ==Lieutenant Blouse==

Polly Perks's platoon commander in 31st Discworld novel, Monstrous Regiment, Blouse is an effeminate aristocrat who was promoted from administrator in the Quartermaster-General's Blanket, Bedding, and Horse Fodder Department to field command with no previous experience, thanks to Borogravia's rapidly diminishing supply of combat-ready men. Blouse's ambition to have an item of clothing or a food named after him, following in the tradition of famous military men, is eventually fulfilled when a fingerless glove is given his name. Blouse's talent for mathematics and technology propel him to success despite a feminine manner and lack of martial prowess signalling a change in Discworld warfare as intelligence and technology begin to replace bravery and fighting skill. Blouse comes to respect the women serving under him. ==Brutha==

Brutha is an Omnian novice at the Citadel in the capital city of Kom in the 13th Discworld novel, Small Gods. Omnia is an autocratic theocracy that believes in the existence of only one God, The Great God Om. Brutha is a dutiful and truly faithful lad; his devotion being instilled from infancy by being raised by his piously strict grandmother. Brutha is word-perfect on Omnian religious texts thanks to his eidetic memory but unable to read or write. By virtue of his memory, Brutha retains all conversations and moments from the day of his birth. Brutha finds a one-eyed tortoise in the soft soil of his melon patch, the tortoise is actually the Great God Om afflicted with temporary amnesia, which recedes in the presence of Brutha. Brutha is the sole remaining true believer of Om as all other Omnians have unknowingly shifted their belief to the structure of the church itself, leaving Om with almost no godly powers, resulting in his earthly manifestation into a tortoise with memory loss instead of a rampaging giant bull. Brutha comes to the attention of Deacon Vorbis, the Chief Exquistor in charge of the Quisition, who intends to use Brutha's amazing memory to invade and occupy the neighbouring country of Ephebe and propel himself to head of the Omnian church. Brutha foils Vorbis's plans, restores Om's godly powers, resolves the conflict between Omnia and the other nations on the Klatchian coast and becomes the Cenobiarch and the Eighth Prophet of the Church. He reforms the Church into a "constitutional religion", one where even Om has to obey his own commandments. Brutha fills his time as Cenobiarch by copying all of the lost works from the Great Library of Ephebe fire that had occurred during the Omnian occupation of Ephebe. ==Seldom Bucket==

Seldom Bucket was a big man in cheese production in Ankh-Morpork, who just prior to the events in Maskerade, purchases the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. Seldom believes he can make money from opera like he can from cheese, he becomes horrified to learn how expensive opera is, and it is in fact a money pit. This becomes exacerbated by the slew of strange murders being committed by the 'Opera Ghost', causing Seldom to rethink his purchase. ==Carcer==

Carcer (from the ) is the psychopathic villain of 29th Discworld novel, Night Watch, described by Vimes as "a stone-cold killer. With brains". His full name is revealed in a preview of Night Watch but not in the completed novel, as Carcer Dun. Carcer has a talent for unnerving people, an annoying laugh and a perpetual conviction of his own innocence despite his many crimes, which include at least two murders. Carcer claims his original crime was stealing a loaf of bread although, Vimes says, Carcer would have murdered the baker and stolen the whole bakery. Following a rooftop chase across Unseen University in a magical thunderstorm, both Carcer and Vimes are transported thirty years into the past, about a week before the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May. Carcer immediately murders Pseudopolitan watchman John Keel and joins Lord Winder's secret police force, the Cable Street Particulars (also known as the Unmentionables), quickly climbing through their ranks to become a sergeant. Ultimately, Carcer is returned to the present day and arrested by Vimes. ==Imp Y Celyn==

In the 16th Discworld novel, Soul Music, Imp Y Celyn (, , a pun on "Buddy Holly") is a bard from the mountainous country of Llamedos who is possessed by "Music with Rocks in" and becomes the Disc's greatest musician under the name Buddy, people comment on him appearing a little "elvish". Buddy founds the Band with Rocks In, along with Cliff and Glod. The band tries to adhere to the hedonistic rock'n'roll stereotypical lifestyle of 'live fast and die young,' as they tour the Disc to the new fans of this music. An intervention by Death leads to a timeline change, where the music ends and Imp may have been seen working in a fried-fish stall in Quirm, a reference to Kirsty MacColl's song "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis". == Christine ==

Christine is a pretty, thin, blonde chorus singer at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, in the 18th Discworld novel, Maskerade, who wears white and uses exclamation marks at the end of every sentence. She is an extraordinarily untalented singer in an inverse proportion to her beauty, but she has 'star talent'. The Opera House management promotes Christine because of her beauty and because her father helped finance the purchase of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. Christine performs onstage by lip-syncing to the voice of Agnes Nitt who remains backstage. Christine's father once told her that a "dear little pixie" would help her career and she thinks that Agnes might be that pixie. ==Roland de Chumsfanleigh==

Roland de Chumsfanleigh — pronounced 'de Chuffley', which, as Pratchett says, is not his fault — is the son of the Baron of the Chalkland. Roland is introduced as a 12-year-old in the 30th Discworld novel, The Wee Free Men, the first novel in the Tiffany Aching series. A dull-witted child, Roland is kidnapped and held by the Queen of the Elves for a year, eventually being freed by Tiffany. In Wintersmith, now a young man Roland is recruited by the Nac Mac Feegle to perform the role of the mythic Hero in the Dance of the Seasons, to fix the damage done by Tiffany and the Wintersmith. In I Shall Wear Midnight, the fourth book in the series, Roland marries Letitia Keepsake, a good-natured, pampered aristocrat. ==Cohen the Barbarian==

Ghenghiz Cohen, known as Cohen the Barbarian, is a hero in the classical sense, that is, a professional thief, brawler and ravisher of women. Cohen is introduced in the second Discworld novel, The Light Fantastic, and returns prominently in Interesting Times and The Last Hero. Cohen is the Discworld's greatest warrior hero, renowned for rescuing maidens, destroying mad high priests of dark cults, looting ancient ruins, and so on. Cohen first appears already as a toothless sinewy old man, with a long white beard that reaches below his loincloth and with a patch over one eye — "a lifetime in his own legend" — but still tough enough to handle anything, as to survive to such an age one must be very good as a barbarian indeed. Cohen supposes he might be between 90 and 95, before acquiring a set of diamond dentures made of troll teeth. Cohen has outlived the heroic age and finds himself in a world where great battles and astonishing rescues rarely happen except in stories, one of the last being Troll Bridge where Cohen and a troll reminisce about the good old days when everyone respected tradition. In Interesting Times Cohen becomes Emperor of the Agatean Empire by his own hand, but soon becomes bored and invades the home of the Gods in The Last Hero, by "returning fire to the gods, with interest". Cohen is last seen stealing horses belonging to the Valkyries and riding into the sky, to explore space. Cohen's name and character may be a literary echo of Robert E. Howard's character Conan the Barbarian and Genghis Khan, combined with the Jewish surname Cohen, because he can bring you "wholesale slaughter". Cohen boasts of fathering dozens of children over his long life, but only one is introduced — Conina, who appears in Sourcery. == Conina ==

Conina is the daughter of Cohen the Barbarian and a temple dancer, introduced in the fifth Discworld novel, Sourcery. Described as both a well-endowed, beautiful, and a skilled fighter due to attributes inherited from both parents, she nonetheless aspires to be a hairdresser, despite her natural talents as a barbarian heroine, where her genetics keep getting in the way, so she instinctively kills people who threaten her. Conina falls in love with Nijel the Destroyer, a clerk with the talents and physique to match who, despite having no aptitude for it, desperately wants to be a barbarian hero. ==Mrs Marietta Cosmopilite==

Mrs Cosmopilite is a dressmaker, who first appears in 10th Discworld novel, Moving Pictures as 'Vice-President' of Costuming and Theda Withel's landlady. Mrs Cosmopilite holds some individualistic ideas; amongst them she believes the Disc is under threat from inhuman monsters, that the world is round and that three dwarfs look in on her undressing every night. Mrs Cosmopilite known to be venerated by the History Monks, who know that knowledge is greater if it comes from further away. This reverence might be attributed to Lu-Tze, a former lodger of Mrs Cosmopilite. Lu-Tze wrote down many of Marietta's working class aphorisms as guides by which to live life. The sayings serving dual purpose of stereotypical utterances of an older working-class woman and pieces of oriental wisdom. An example being, "I wasn't born yesterday" which, as Lu Tze points out, resembles one of the key revelations of Wen the Eternally Surprised, who, in reference to the continually destroyed and renewed nature of the universe, and the constancy of revelation, said "I was not born-yesterday!". ==Sacharissa Cripslock==

Miss Sacharissa Cripslock is the reporter for the Ankh-Morpork Times appearing in the 25th Discworld novel The Truth and subsequent novels, having originally arrived at the print-works to complain about the invention of moveable type putting her father, an engraver out of a job. Sacharissa combines her buxom qualities, talent for asking devious questions, ability to think in headlines and her editorial skills to be a skilful roving reporter. ==Adora Belle Dearheart==

Adora Belle Dearheart is a cynical, angry chain-smoker. Her father Robert Dearheart, founded the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company and was conned out of it by Reacher Gilt. Forced into employment, Adora obtains a post at the Golem Trust, an organisation that seeks to liberate golems from slavery. Appearing first in 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, Adora starts a tentative relationship with Moist von Lipwig, filled with Tracy and Hepburn-style combative banter. Intelligent and intuitive, Adora can easily see through Moist's schemes. Out of fondness, she allows him to call her Spike. Adora wears what she claims are "the pointiest heels in the world" which she uses to deal with unwelcome advances. ==Death (& extended family)==

Death is the Disc's version of the Grim Reaper. He appears in every Discworld novel except for The Wee Free Men and Snuff. • Mort - Death's one-time apprentice and son-in-law. • Ysabell - Death's adopted daughter. • Susan Sto Helit - Death's granddaughter. • Albert - Death's manservant/valet. • The Death of Rats - The Death of Rats. ==Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler==

Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler — usually known by the epithet "Cut-Me-Own-Throat", CMOT Dibbler, or simply Dibbler, or even sometimes as just "Throat" — might be described as the Discworld's most enterprisingly successful unsuccessful entrepreneur, no-one has failed at success more times than Dibbler. A 'merchant venturer' of Ankh-Morpork, and the master of selling the 'sizzle' over the steak, Dibbler is most famous for selling meat by-products to unsuspecting passers-by, and also suspecting passers-by who have gotten sick from his sausages before, thus demonstrating that he is indeed a very good salesman. CMOT's nickname originates from his catchphrase "... and at that price, I'm cutting me own throat". Dibbler has been described as looking like a rodent wearing long 'poacher's' coat covered in pockets, he is usually seen either carrying a tray or, in financially better times, pushing a barrow. Dibbler for a time ran a mail-order service, including but not limited to 'fong shooey' advice, 'Grand Master Lobsang Dibbler' martial-arts lessons, ''Dibbler's Genuine Soggy Mountain Dew gin, souvenir snow-globes, and advertising space in the Ankh-Morpork Times''. Dibbler has branched out becoming at times: • a moving pictures producer/director • a music agent for a 'Music with Rocks In' group • an editor of the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer — a tabloid published by the Guild of Engravers — for which he fabricated news stories. When Dibbler's businesses (inevitably) fail, he falls back on selling 'pies (named meat for extra cost) with personality' and 'pig' sausages-inna-bun, where the sausages contain parts that might have been near a pig if you're lucky. Dibbler's nickname might be a temporal paradox suggested by a time displaced Samuel Vimes. The wizard Rincewind postulates that equivalents of Dibbler are everywhere. This theory is borne out by the appearance of many versions of Dibbler throughout the Discworld series, some prominent ones being: • Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah sold disturbingly live yogurt in Omnia (Small Gods). In the Discworld II computer game, his name is spelt D'blah and he gives secrets about pyramid power in Djelibeybi. • Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala sold suspiciously fresh thousand-year eggs in the Agatean Empire (Interesting Times). • Fair Go Dibbler sold the archetypal pie floaters on the lost continent of Fourecks (The Last Continent). Others include: • Al-Jiblah • May-I-Never-Achieve-Enlightenment Dhiblang • Dib Diblossonson • May-I-Be-Kicked-In-My-Own-Ice-Hole Dibooki • Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang • Point-Me-Own-Bone Dibjla Mentioned in The Science of Discworld, another Dibbler equivalent is Ratonasticthenes from Ephebe. It was previously thought they all might be related, but the Discworld Companion explains that this is parallel evolution. "Wherever people are prepared to eat terrible food," it says, "there will be someone there to sell it to them." Dibbler appeared in the Cosgrove Hall animations of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, where his appearance was modelled on Private Walker, the spiv in ''Dad's Army''. A character named C!Mot is briefly mentioned in non-Discworld novel, The Also People, by Ben Aaronovitch. Aaronovitch has confirmed that C!Mot is intended as a parallel Dibbler. A character called 'Clap-Me-In-Irons Daoibleagh' appears in the webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan. The Cretaceous conifer species Sulcatocladus dibbleri is named after CMOT Dibbler. ==Didactylos==

Meaning "Two-Fingered" in Ephebian, Didactylos is a Disc philosopher who bears more than a passing resemblance to Diogenes the Cynic in the 13th Discworld novel, Small Gods. Didactylos lives in a barrel inside the wall of the palace of the Tyrant in Ephebe, crafting bespoke philosophies, axioms and aphorisms for scraps. Although Didactylos is one of the most popular philosophers on the Disc, Didactylos never earns the respect of his fellow philosophers, who say he thinks 'about the wrong things', his authorship of the scroll, De Chelonian Mobile, which contradicts Omnian dogma about the shape of the Discworld, was one catalyst in Vorbis' plans to annex Ephebe. A common motif for Didactylos is being pictured with a lantern though blind and looking for an "honest man". Didactylos is made an Omnian bishop by Brutha. ==Dragon King of Arms==

Appearing in Feet of Clay, Dragon King of Arms is the vampire chief herald at the Royal College of Arms of Ankh-Morpork. He informs Sam Vimes that he is not entitled to a coat of arms due to his ancestor Suffer-Not-Injustice 'Stoneface' Vimes' executing Lorenzo the Kind, the last King of Ankh-Morpork, while at the same time proposing that Corporal Nobby Nobbs may be the heir to the Earldom of Ankh. Dragon becomes involved in a plot to return Ankh-Morpork to a monarchy by deposing of the current Patrician and the system he runs. == Evil Harry Dread ==