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Dactylos, Goldeneyes Silverhand
A genius craftsman who suffered for his greatness. Subsequent employers disabled him in a variety of ways, so that he would never repeat the thing he did for them. As a result he was one-handed and blind. His final employer was the Archastronomer of Krull. Works include the Metal Warriors that guard the tomb of Pitchu, the Light Dams of the Great Nef, the Palace of the Seven Deserts and the Potent Voyager. Appears in The Colour Of Magic

Dafe
An apprentice with Vitoller's Men. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

D'Arrangement, Lady Violentia
A Genuan noblewoman who happened to be the same size as Granny Weatherwax just when the latter needed a dress. Appears in Witches Abroad

Daviss
A butcher in Lancre. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Dean
See Pentacles, Dean of

D'Eath, Edward
An impoverished aristocrat -- 37th Lord D'Eath. The first person ever to pass the post-graduate course at the Assassins' Guild with full marks. Obsessed with the royal succession. Appears in Men At Arms

Death (Mort, Bill Door, Mr. Scrub)
I've devoted a full page to him

Death, New
A tall (>7 feet) hooded figure. No face -- just smoke under the hood, and a golden crown. Talked like this. Rode a skeletal steed. Replaced Death after his retirement. A cruel, stylish and power-obsessed individual... too bad he didn't get many lines in. Makes you wonder that the Auditors preferred him to the old one. Appears in Reaper Man

Death Of Fleas
A part of Death that got a separate existence after his temporary retirement in Reaper Man. Appears in Reaper Man

Death Of Rats (the Grim Squeaker)
A part of Death that got a separate existence after his temporary retirement in Reaper Man. Looks like a small rodent skeleton with brittle gray whiskers, in a black, cowled robe, carries a scythe. Speaks only in Rat, which usually comes out as SQUEAK. Does rats, mice, hamsters and gerbils. Appears in Reaper Man, Soul Music, Small Gods, Maskerade, Feet Of Clay and Hogfather

De Bris
A troll gang, persumably consisting of members of the De Bris family. This is unsubstantial anyway, as they had the bad luck to get on Chrysoprase's nerves and ended up without either lifes or teeth. Mentioned in Soul Music

Declivities
An Ephebian philosopher. Mentioned in Small Gods

Delcross, Miss
Co-founder of the Quirm College for Young Ladies. Taught Biology and Hygiene to a certain young lady with a walking skeleton in her ancestry. Keen on eurythmics. Appears in Soul Music

Demurrage, Aliss (Black Aliss)
A very powerful and skilled witch, who once lived in a gingerbread cottage (not the same one Rincewind and Twoflower discovered in The Light Fantastic). Known deeds: sending a whole castle to sleep for a hundred years, turning a pumpkin into a coach etc. Bad temper, romantic, sweet tooth, dirty fingernails. Died when a couple of kids shoved her into her own oven. Something of a legend among witches, and probably the most powerful till Esme came onto the stage. Mentioned in The Light Fantastic, Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad

Destiny
A god/goddess/antropomorphic personification (details unknown). Mentioned in The Colour Of Magic and Mort

Detritus
An Ankh-Morporkian troll. The person people most often think of on hearing the word. Not too tall for a troll, drags his knuckles on the ground. IQ = 70 - temperature in degrees Celsius. Works physically, usually as a guard of some sort (used to be the Mended Drum splatter, for example). Since Men At Arms he is a Sergeant in the City Watch, which is undoubtedly the effect of Ruby's influence. A primeval troll, simple and strong. Appears in Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Men At Arms, Soul Music, Masquerade, Feet Of Clay and Jingo, mentioned in Reaper Man

Devant-Molei, Rosie
A high-born lady dragon breeder, and the caretaker of the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons in Ankh-Morpork. Very strongly bult. Friend of Sybil Ramkin. Appears in Guards! Guards!

Devereaux
An innkeeper in Genua, who had the bad luck not to be fat and red-faced under Lilith's rule. Appears in Witches Abroad

DeVice, Amanita
One of Diamanda's Lancre junior witch coven. Has an ink tattoo of a dagger and a skull on her arm. Appears in Lords And Ladies

Dhblah, Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off
CMOT's alter-ego in Small Gods. Sells sticky items in the Place of Lamentiation in front of the Great Temple. Good marketing sense. Wears a djellaba, sidles. Appears in Small Gods

Diamanda
See Tockley, Lucy

Dibbler, Cut-Me-Own-Throat (C.M.O.T., Throat)
Ankh-Morpork's most enterprising salesman / merchant adventurer / itinerant pedlar. Usually selling sausages(uhm...)-inna-buns, but will take up any promising venture. Easily giving in to new ideas. Skinny, short, rodent-like. Wears a huge overcoat. Appears in Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Men At Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Feet of Clay

Dibbler, Fair-Go
Bugarup, XXXX resident Dibbler. Wears shorts, a large hat and large boots. Owner of the Café de Feet. Primary trade: meat pie floaters. Born in Treacle Street, Bludgeree. Appears in The Last Continent

Dibbler, Solstice (Soll)
CMOT's nephew. A more modern version of his uncle, in other words -- a young enterprising businessman with unconventional ideas. In yet other words, even more dangerous than Dibbler himself. Appears in Moving Pictures

Dibhala, Disembowel-Myself-Honourably
Hung Hung resident Dibbler. Sells fresh ancient eggs, pork ;-| balls onna chopstick and rice crackers. Appears in Interesting Times, mentioned in The Last Continent

Diblosson, Dib
Yet another Dibbler. Sells sorgasbord. Mentioned in The Last Continent

Dibooki, May-I-Be-Kicked-In-My-Own-Ice-Hole
What do you know? A Dibbler, of course! Sells unmentionable blubber made from dead whales. Mentioned in The Last Continent

Didactylos
Ephebian philosopher. Blind, short, bald. Not washing himself often enough. Brilliant like a supernova, but not leadership material. A Cynic/Stoic/Epicurean. Author of the [in]famous De Chelonian Mobile, among other things. Carries an empty lantern. Lives in a barrel. Calculated the speed of the sun. Appears in Small Gods

Dil
Master embalmer in Djelibeybi. 35 years behind the bandages. Vegetarian. Philosophical. Appears in Pyramids

Diome, Witch of the Night
An adventuress and friend of Herrena. Mentioned in Eric

Dios
High Priest in Djelibeybi.First Minister and High Priest among High Priests and Priestesses. Tall, bald, impressive nose. Traditional. Didn't like gods interfering with things. His eternal advising to subsequent pharaos could be considered bad until one has seen Vorbis. Appears in Pyramids

Dismass, Gammer (Old Mother)
A witch near Lancre. Old and with a detached retina in her second sight, which makes her behave a bit Bursary at times -- she goes through time at random. Friend of Granny Weatherwax and the gang. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters, appears in Witches Abroad

Dlang-Dlang, Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart
Another Dibbler (is there a factory somewhere?). Sells green beer. Mentioned in The Last Continent

Dolly
A kitchen girl in the Unseen University. Appears in Soul Music

Door, Bill
see Death

Dorfl
A golem of red clay, quite ancient. Once a butcher, now (after FOC) a watchman. Appears in Soul Music, Feet of Clay and Jingo

Douglas
Captain of the Palace Guard at the time of Reaper Man

Downey, Lord
Head of Assassins' Guild after Dr. Cruces's unfortunate demise, before that his deputy. White haired, old, nice-looking. Speciality: poisoned peppermints. Professional and unscareable. Appears in Men At Arms, Soul Music, Feet Of Clay, Hogfather and Jingo

Downspout, Constable
A gargoyle and watchman. Very good at guarding and watching things. Appears in Feet Of Clay and Jingo

Doxie, Captain
Captain of the City Day Watch before Mayonnaise Quirke. Appears in Reaper Man

Dragon King Of Arms
Chief Herald at the Ankh-Morpork Royall College of Heralds and a vampire. Not too good a sense of humour, penchant for intrigues. Merciless, regards humans as simply useful animals. Traditional evil-one style. Appears in Feet Of Clay.

Dream, Perdita
see Nitt, Agnes

Drongo, Big Mad
See Turnipseed, Adrian

Druellae
A Dryad, and like all of them green-skinned. Luminous green eyes, long, dark green hair. No clothes. Kind and cruel in a way that suggests emotional deprivation in her childhood, or possibly saplinghood. Appears in The Colour Of Magic

Drull, Mrs
A retired ghoul who now does children's party cartering. Old, shy. Wears a shapeless grey dress. Has a room at Mrs Cake's. Doesn't cook very well. Appears in Reaper Man and is mentioned in Men At Arms

Drumknott
A clerk in the Patrician's palace. Appears in Men At Arms, Soul Music and Feet of Clay

Drunah, Bishop
Secretary to the Omnian Congress of Iams. Believes in the Turtle. Appears in Small Gods

Duc Of Genua
The puppet ruler of a fairy tale city, and the product of yet another of Lilith's twisted stories. Let's just say that he really needed a princess's kiss... In his human guise he was very handsome, wore black silk and smoked glasses (remember the rule about not being able to change one's own eyes?). Unfortunately the spell gave out at night, so he had to have a pond in his bedroom. He appeared and disappeared in Witches Abroad

Duck Man
Leader (?) of the beggars of Misbegot Bridge. Sane except for the duck on his head, which he doesn't notice. Educated and once rich. Pleasant tenor voice. Appears in Soul Music, Feet Of Clay and Hogfather

Duncan, Done It
An unspecified person in Ankh-Morpork that might be in possession of information. Mentioned in Jingo

Dunelm, Hibiscus
Current owner of the Mended Drum. Full of ideas for attracting new customers (those are not useful things, like lowering the price of beer or brewing it without the gutter sweepings, but usually some machine of Leonard da Quirm that hasn't worked out in the way it was supposed to do). Appears in Soul Music

Dunnykin, Brother
Member of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Seems to consist of a little perambulatory black robe with halitosis. Complains about things. Not too smart. Appears in Guards! Guards!

Dykeri
Ephebian philosopher. Wrote Principles of Navigation and then got lost in his own bathroom. Mentioned in Small Gods

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Egbert
Ned Simnel's apprentice, mentioned in Reaper Man

Eightpanther, Captain
Producer of Captain Eightpanther's Traveller's Digestives. Those Counterweight biscuits are not unakin to dwarf bread, and almost certainly have gravel put in them as well. Mentioned in The Colour Of Magic

Endos
An Ephebian Listener (listens to Ephebian philosophers for a fee, cause no-one would do it for free). Skinny, large ears. Appears in Pyramids

Eorle, Duke of
A nobleman of Ankh. Stupid. Appears in Men At Arms

Eric
See Thursley, Eric

Errol (Goodboy Bindle Featherstone of Quirm)
A swamp dragon bred and raised by Lady Ramkin. Sire: Treebite Brightscale. Short wings, silver, very powerful flame. Last seen going over the Rim. Appears in Guards! Guards!

Esk
See Smith, Eskarina

Esoteric Studies, Reader in
See Lavatory, Reader in the

Evil-Minded Son of a Bitch
A camel. Appears in Moving Pictures

Evil-Smelling Bugger
The greatest camel mathematician of all time. Appears in Pyramids

Expletius
Ephebian philosopher. Counted the width of the Disc (10000 miles). Mentioned in Small Gods

Ezeriel
Past Queen of Klatch. Basic Cleopatra type: lovers, asses' milk baths, sat on a snake. Distant ancestor of Keli. Mentioned in Mort

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Famine
One of the riders of the Apocralypse. Always hungry. Friend of Death, War and Pestilence. Appears in The Light Fantastic and Sourcery

Far-re-ptah (Pooney)
Once Queen of Djelibeybi. Grandmother to Teppicymon XVII and great-grandmother to Teppic. Intelligent and strong-willed. Appears in Pyramids

Fate
A God of the Discworld. Appeared after an unfortunate accident in another universe. He likes to play games, especially with the Lady. Always wins - at least, when people stick to the rules. His eyes are black windows into another space-time. Doesn't like Rincewind. Appears in The Colour Of Magic and Interesting Times.

Febrius
And another Ephebian philosopher. This one proved that the speed of light is the same as that of sound. Mentioned in Small Gods

Fedecks
The Messenger of the Gods. Carries a bow. Mentioned in Small Gods

Felmet, Duchess
Wife of Duke Leonal Felmet and the brain behind the first of his murders. Tall, imposing and rather overweight. Wears red velvet, which matches her complexion. Thoroughly sadistic and megalomaniac. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Felmet, Duke Leonal
Husband of Duchess Felmet and king of Lancre between Verence I and Verence II. Fifty years old at the beginning of Wyrd Sisters. Didn't like the kingdom. Mad and sane in layers. Obsessed with cleanliness and health. Likes... uh... unconventional reproductive activities. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Fhez
The Crocodile-Headed God of the Lower Djel. Appears in Pyramids

Fido, Big
A poodle with a dream. Like Hitler's. Thinks all dogs should be wolves (i.e. big, strong and eating people, which shows that prejudices are catching). Chief Barker of the Dog Guild. Appears in Men at Arms

Filter, Goodie
Oldest witch in the Lancre area when Esme was the youngest. Had a sharp tongue. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Fingers, Brother
Member of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Thief and odd-job man. Once worked at UU. Real name: Bengy "Lightfoot" Boggis. Appears in Guards! Guards!

Flannelfoot, Zlorf
Past president of the Assassins' Guild. Not as well-born as the later ones, and with a troll somewhere in his family tree. Lots of scars, good-tempered if people don't say that troll thing. Appears in The Colour Of Magic

Flatulus
God of Winds. Mentioned in Small Gods

Flint
See Galena

Flitworth, Mr
Renata's father. A contrabandistor, or smuggler in normal language. Tall, moustached, missing the tip of the little finger on his left hand. Mentioned in Reaper Man

Flitworth, Renata
A daughter of a smuggler. As her fiancé was lost one winter night in the mountains, she took care of her farm alone. That is, until she hired a rather skinny helper who TALKED LIKE THIS and called himself Bill Door. 75 years old, skinny, tanned. Doesn't like the Auditors, or any kind of Revenoo. Appears in Reaper Man

Flume, Lady Odile
Pupil in the fifth form at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. Her great-great-grandmother was seduced by Blind Io disguised as a vaise of daisies, which poses some rather technical questions. Mentioned in Soul Music

Fondel
A composer. Wrote Prelude in G Major. Mentioned in Soul Music

Foorgol
Ephebian God of Avalanches. Mentioned in Small Gods

Forthright
The Boy at the Ramkin-Vimes house. Takes care of all the small jobs. Young, bright enough, can't whistle a tune if his life depended on it. Mentioned in Jingo

Fox, Cassandra
Pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. Interested in horses and nothing else. Appears in Soul Music

Framer (Cucumber)
Student wizard at the same time as Windle Poons. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Frank, Mister
A card sharp who plagued Vieux River riverboats until he tried cheating an old lady with a sapphire stare at Cripple Mister Onion. As you might expect, the experience was shattering. Appears in Witches Abroad

Fresnel
A wizard and inventor of Fresnel's Wonderful Concentrator, a spell calling for rare ingredients and used to create a hydrophobe-powered lens. Mentioned in Colour Of Magic

Fri'it, General Iam
The commander of the Omnian Divine Legion. Member of The Turtle MovesMent. A man educated by his frequent journeys into heathen lands. A good soldier, with healthy reason (although unhealthy in the case of Omnianism). Appears in Small Gods

Frord, Grisham
Leader of the Grisham Frord Close Harmony Singers, whose singing was so harmonious, the receipients (uncannily, always people who had messed with the Musicians' Guild) often didn't survive the concert. The band had tarnished sequins on their clothes and weaponry. Appears in Soul Music

Frostrip, Mr
Head of the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Accountants. Appears in Jingo

Frottidge, Violet (Magenta)
One of Diamanda's coven in Lancre. Appears in Lords And Ladies

F'rum
An invisible god generally considered unable, should he have a backside, to find it with both hands, should he have hands. Mentioned in Small Gods

Fruni
A prophet in Omnianism. Talked about demons. Mentioned in Small Gods

Fruntkin
Dwarf short-order chef in the Holy Wood Klatchian canteen. Appears in Moving Pictures

Furgle
A dwarf famous for owning a horn which alerted the owner of danger by sounding itself. The only disadvantage was that one of the horn's definitions of danger was horseradish. Mentioned in Soul Music

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Gaiter, Mr and Mrs
An upwardly mobile Ankh-Morpork couple. Mr Gaiter is succesful in the wholesale boot and shoe business and is adamant in using neither serviette nor napkin, which worries his wife a lot. Another thing which worries his wife is the governess of their children, Twyla and Gawain, who just happens to be the Duchess of Sto Helit (motto: Non Timetis Messor). Appear in Hogfather

Gaiter, Twyla
A five years old girl, daughter of a wealthy Ankh-Morporkian family. Her governess is Susan Sto Helit, which makes her treat such commonplace things as walking skeletons or bogeymen with no more regard than the milkman. Cynical in everyday life, but wonders about the Hogfather just as any child her age. Appears in Hogfather

Galena (Flint, Rock Cliffe)
A self-conscious troll actor in Holy Wood. Screen name Rock Cliffe. Pointed ears, bad-looking nose (even for a troll). Later worked in the city armoury and got conscripted into the Night Watch. Appears in Moving Pictures, Men At Arms, Feet of Clay and Jingo

Gancia
Leader of the Morporkian mercenaries hired by Herrena to catch Rincewind. Died (?) in the Luggage, in Old Grandfather's mouth. Appears in The Light Fantastic

Gander, Adab
Trail boss of a caravenserai from Zemphis to Ankh-Morpork. Tall, wears trollhide clothing, which means that he doesn't pay atttention to political correctness. Appears in Equal Rites

Garhartra
The Guestmaster of Krull at the time of Rincewind's visit. Wizard. Takes care of future sacrifices. Too cheerful to cheer up. Appears in The Colour of Magic

Garlick, Magrat
The youngest of the three witches and resident witch of Mad Stoat. She had been the one who got the idea to form a coven at the beginning. Sloppy and romantic, blond, disheveled hair, lots of occult jewelry, none working. Thin, short and flat. Very open-minded. Daughter of Simplicity Garlick, niece of Yolande Garlick and granddaughter of Araminta Garlick (none of the above was a witch). Trained in witchcraft by Goodie Whemper. Usually too shy to speak (especially in the presence of Verence), but dangerous to cross on a bad day. Appears in Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad and Lords And Ladies, mentioned in Guards! Guards!

Gaskin, Herbert (Leggy)
Member of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch. Died in the line of duty (ran too fast). Lived in Mincing Street, and his widow still does. Mentioned in Guards! Guards! and Men At Arms

Gaspode The Wonder Dog
A small, scruffy mongrel with brains. First given intelligence by Holy Wood magic, then by leaks off the HEM building. Can talk. Gray with variations. All the doggy diseases you can think of, and a few you can't as well. Abandoned in the Ankh river as a pup. Eight years old in Men At Arms. Appears in Moving Pictures and Men At Arms, perhaps in Soul Music (the dog that peers into the sound-trapping box)

Gavin (Scumbag Gav)
Tough Ankh-Morpork street kid, ten years old. Likes knives. Appears in Jingo

Geoffrey
Once Secretary and Chief Butt of the Fools' Guild, later replaced by Dr Whiteface. Extremely nervous. Appears in Reaper Man

Gern
An apprentice Djelibeybian embalmer with a taste for tasteless practical jokes. Plump, spots. Secretly in love with the daughter of a garlic farmer. [Note: 'gern' means gladly / eagerly in German.] Appears in Pyramids

Gibbsson
An apprentice to Blert Wheedown, trains to be a guitar maker. Now does quite good, but started poorly. Appears in Soul Music

Gigalith
The troll god of wisdom. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Gimlet
The dwarfish owner of a café and delicatessen in Cable Street, Ankh-Morpork. Caters for dwarfs, trolls and vegetarians (a soya rat is on the menu). Famous for his place's hygiene and his penetrating stare. Mentioned in Reaper Man, appears in Feet of Clay

Gimletsson, Constable
Watchman. Mentioned in Feet of Clay

Ginger
See Withel, Theda

Glodsnephew, Constable
Watchman. Mentioned in Feet of Clay

Glodsson, Glod
The dwarf horn player of the Band With Rocks In. Born under Copperhead, Lancre. Lives in Phedre Road. Can't bargain (but doesn't let that stop him). Knows a lot of old legends. Cousin of Modo. Appears in Soul Music

Goatfounder, Hilta A witch of gypsy-like tastes in wardrobe. Specialises in discreet remedies. Friend to Eskarina Smith. First owner of the bump-start broomstick. Appears in Equal Rites

Gogol, Erzulie
Voodoo priestess and cook. Baron Saturday's lover and Ella's mother. Middle-aged, good-looking. Intelligent. Likes revenge. Doesn't like Lilith. Appears in Witches Abroad

Goodboy Bindle Featherstone of Quirm
See Errol

Goodtime, Lily
A further unspecified person that might have some information. Mentioned in Jingo

Googool
Aunt of M'Bu. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Gordo
A Tsortean philosopher. Mentioned in Small Gods

Goriff
Klatchian owner of the "Mundane Meals" Klatchian take-out in Scandal Alley. Has a son called Janil. Appears in Jingo

Gorper
An undead and member of Reg Shoe's Fresh Start Club. Doesn't speak too much -- at least, not enough to get even a line of dialogue in Reaper Man

Gortlick
Dwarf songwriter and member of the Musicians' Guild. Has a small office in Tin Lid Alley, which he shares with Hammerjug. Appears in Soul Music

Grateful, Lady Sara
Pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. Horse-crazy. Appears in Soul Music

Greebo
Nanny Ogg's incredibly smelly cat. Feline king of Lancre, rabid fighter and multiple rapist. Known for chasing various female wild animals up trees -- I'm talking she-bears and she-wolves here. Can turn into an incredible hunk of a man. One eye in both forms, lots of scars. Appears in Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies and Maskerade

Greggs, Miss
Teacher of History at the Quirm College for Young Ladies. Taught (or at least tried to teach) Susan. Mentioned in Soul Music

Grim Squeaker
See Death Of Rats

Grimnir the Impaler
A queen of Lancre (1514-1553, 1553-1557, 1557-1562, 1562-1567 and 1568-1573) and a vampire. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Grodley, Sister

A witch over Skund way. Sniffs, drops her haitches, sticks her little finger out when she's drinking tea. Her son went off to be a sailor. The Lancre witches don't like her. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Grune
God of Unseasonal Fruit. Mentioned in Reaper Man

Gruneberry the Good
A king of Lancre, 906-967. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Gumridge
A member of Vitoller's Men. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

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Hamish, Mad
One of Cohen's Silver Horde. Appears in Interesting Times

Harebut, Nijel (Nijel the Destroyer)
Apprentice barbarian. Wears wooly underwear. Wants to die heroically. Appears in Sourcery

Harridan, Herrena the Henna-Haired
Heroine and swordswoman. Sensible clothes, good at her job, lots of common sense. Appears in The Light Fantastic and Eric.

Hamesh
Mort's uncle and Lezek's brother. Appears in Mort

Hammerjug
A dwarf songwriter and member of the Musicians' Guild. Has a small office in Tin Lid Alley, which he shares with Gortlick. Invented rat music. Appears in Soul Music

Hamstring, Ammeline (Goodie)
An old witch young in spirit, the first victim of Mort. Lived in the Ramtops. Appears in Mort

Harga, Sham
Owner of Harga's House of Ribs. Caters to the traditional clientele, among them Sam Vimes. Appears in Mort, Guards! Guards! and Moving Pictures, mentioned in Men At Arms

Hashimi
A prophet of Omnianism. Wrote the Book of Creation, including the fact that Om is omnipresent (his comment: I can't be everywhere at once!). Mentioned in Small Gods

Hat
The Djelibeybian Vulture-Headed God of Unexpected Guests. Appears in Pyramids

Henri, Big
A brawler and hero. Appears in Guards! Guards!

Hex
A magical artificial intelligence. Built of ants and clockwork by Ponder Stibbons and company. Other ingredients: ram skulls, beehives (long term storage), an aquarium so the person working won't get bored, a mouse nest etc. When busy, lowers a hourglass. All erratic messages are signed: +++Redo From Start+++. Input by a tube or keyboard, output by letter assembling or quill pen. A guess at the operating system: Dungeons 97 (other ideas welcomed). Appears in Soul Music, Interesting Times and Hogfather

Hierarch
An Ephebian philosopher. Wrote Theologies. Mentioned in Small Gods

Hipwood, Millie
A girl in Lancre not wise enough to listen to Nanny Ogg's counsel before, so nine months later her child had to be ditch-delivered, as she dared not tell her mum. Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Hong, Lord
A warlord and Grand Vizier of the Agatean Empire. Mind as twisted as Vetinari, but less nice and caring. Perfect at everything he does. Killed his own father. Appears in Interesting Times

Hong, Mr
Unlucky Agatean who opened the Three Jolly Luck Take-away Fish Bar on the site of the old fish-god temple in Dagon Street on the night of the full moon. He has become a proverbial figure in Ankh-Morpork. Mentioned in Reaper Man and Jingo

Hopkinson
Curator of the Dwarf Bread Museum in Whirligig Alley. Human. Researched old recipes. Friend of Carrot. Beaten to death with a loaf of bread. Appears in Feet Of Clay

Hogfather
The god of the winter solstice, now occupying himself with delivering presents to nice kiddies. I guess everyone knows what he looks like. Rides in a sledge pulled by four giant pigs. Appears in Hogfather, mentioned in Soul Music

Hoki the Jokester
A Discworld god of tricks and jokes. Mentioned in many books. Rincewind swears by him.

Hollow, Desiderata
A fairy godmother (lately to Embers) and Ramtop witch. Blind for thirty years before her death. Second sight. Kind to people. A round, pink face. Good at headology, especially Esme's. Enemy of Lilith. Appears in Witches Abroad

Hotaloga Andrews
A voodoo god. Mentioned in Witches Abroad

Hron
One-time guard in the Lancre Castle. Chauvinist and sexual harrasser. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Hrun the Barbarian
The second most famous barbarian on the Discworld. Narcissistic. Quite intelligent for a barbarian - can use words over two syllables long. Appears in The Colour Of Magic and is mentioned in Interesting Times as working in a City Watch somewhere

Hwel
A dwarf playwright with Vitoller's Men. An inspirations' landing ground, a bit like Leonard of Quirm, only it's entertainment in his case. A good individual, even if often preoccupied with higher matters. Still has a dwarf's temper. Appears in Wyrd Sisters

Hyperopia
Goddess of Shoes. Mentioned in Reaper Man

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Ibid
Ephebian philosopher. Known authority on everything except geometry and interior decorating. Tall, thin. Friend of Xeno. Appears in Pyramids and Small Gods

Ichlos
A private in the Omnian Divine Legion. Good night vision. Appeared and died in Small Gods

Igneous
A troll, a potter and a wall (a fence, but tougher to beat). Quite intelligent. Appears in Feet Of Clay

Indefinite Studies, Chair of (Chair)
Wizard and member of UU faculty. One of the fattest there. Looks just like a frayed old armchair with a pointy hat on top. Appears in Moving Pictures, Soul Music, Hogfather and The Last Continent

Io, Blind
The general thunder god of the Discworld. Head of all other gods. Many eyes all around the place, none in his actual face. This is the reason why he got rid of his ravens. Appears in The Colour Of Magic, Small Gods and Interesting Times

Iodine
A pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies (fourth form). Mentioned in Soul Music

Ipslore the Red
An eccentric and powerful wizard. Had a metal staff. Quit the University, fell in love and married. Had 8 sons, the last one of whom was Coin. Dreamt of power. Hated Death for taking his wife. Appears in Sourcery

Irexes
A philosopher. Mentioned in Small Gods

Ironfoundersson, Carrot
A watchman in the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch. Red hair, tall, broad shoulders, crown-shaped birthmark and an extremely sharp sword. Simple (not the same as stupid). Raised by dwarfs at Copperhead mountain. Knows practically everyone in Ankh-Morpork. Friends with Vetinari. In love with Angua. Admires Vimes. Appears in Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms and Feet Of Clay, mentioned in Soul Music

Ishkible
One of the seven prophets of Omnianism. Casted out spirits. Quote: A man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride to hell on his own tongue. Mentioned in Small Gods

Ixolite
Discworld's last surviving banshee. Has a speech impediment. Gets around a lot -- he's a member of the Fresh Start Club in Ankh-Morpork and knows Granny Weatherwax in Lancre. Appears in Reaper Man, mentioned in Lords and Ladies

J

Jack Frost
The entity responsible for frost pictures on the windows. Old, spiky. Likes ferns. Proud of his art. Appears in Hogfather

Jackson, Les
Son of Solid Jackson. Much more reasonable and broad-minded than his father. Appears in Jingo

Jackson, Solid
Ankh-Morporkian fisherman, speciality: Curious Squid. Typical Morporkian mentality: They are always worse than Us, what is not nailed down is mine, etc. Has a son called Les. Mortal enemy to Greasy Arif. Appears in Jingo

Jade, Princess
Pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies and friend of Susan Sto Helit. Daughter of a king of an entire mountain. Bad eyesight. Appears in Soul Music

Jahmet
One of the servants who found Teppicymon's body. Appears in Pyramids

Janil
Son of Goriff. A typical thirteen-year-old and Klatchian to boot. Appears in Jingo

Jape, Brother
Teacher of Juggling at the Fools' Guild. A man with "a soul like a cold boiled string". Mentioned in Wyrd Sisters

Jasper
One of the trolls Rincewind met in the valley. A pebble - young troll. Appears in The Light Fantastic.

Jasper from "Amber and Jasper"
Troll love story protagonist. Not too faithful to Amber. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Jeht
Boatman of the Solar Orb in the Djelibeybian pantheon. Appears in Pyramids

Jimbo
Bass guitarist of the Band Formerly Known As Insanity. Appears in Soul Music

Jimi God of Beggars. Mentioned in Men At Arms

Johnson, Bergholt Stuttley (Bloody Stupid)
Ankh-Morpork's most inventive and least successful creator. Known creations include The Colossus of Morpork, an ornamental cruet set (five families live in the salt shaker), the Patrician's gardens, the Quirm memorial, , various organs (Unseen University, Opera House and Don'tgonearthe Castle among others) and a bathroom in the Unseen University. Also invented the recipe for the Individual Fruit Pie (included in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook). Mentioned in many Discworld books which take place in Ankh-Morpork and a few that don't.

Jones, Sweeney
A barber in Gleam Street, so bad at shaving that finally the Watch had to arrest him for manslaughter with a razor. Mentioned in Jingo

Juf
Djelibeybian Cobra-headed God of Papyrus. Mentioned in Pyramids

K

Kck!
Second cousin of M'Bu. Mentioned in Moving Pictures

Keeble, Liona
Ankh-Morpork job broker. Thin, young. Appears in Mort, mentioned in Reaper Man

Keli
See Sto Helit, Kelirehenna

Ket
Djelibeybian Ibis-Headed God of Justice. Obvious inspiration: Thot. Mentioned in Pyramids

Khefin
The Two-Faced God of Gateways in the Djelibeybi religion. Mentioned in Pyramids

Khufurah, Prince
Prince of Klatch, younger brother and sometime diplomatic envoy of Prince Cadram. Tall, bearded, bit overweight, intelligent eyes. Said to be bribable. Appears in Jingo

Klopstock
An acquaintance of Dibbler. Can be found at the Bull Pit in Pseudopolis. Mentioned in Soul Music

Koomi, Hoot
High Priest of Khefin. Very close resemblance to a sacred crocodile. A typical High Priest. Not too smart. Appears in Pyramids

Koomi of Smale
A religious philosopher whose views corresponded with those of Gnostics. His book Ego-Video Liber Deorum earned him fame with philosophers and a customized torture procedure complete with quartering with the Omnian Quisition. Mentioned in Small Gods

Kreeblephor
An Omnian bishop who converted a demon by the power of reason alone in the Year of the Lenient Vegetable. Mentioned in Small Gods

Krysopraze
One of the trolls Rincewind met in the valley. Appears in The Light Fantastic. Possible alter ego: Chrysoprase.

Ksandra
A maid at the Unseen University. Appears in Equal Rites and Moving Pictures

Kwartz
One of the trolls Rincewind met in the valley. Husband of Beryl. Appears in The Light Fantastic.


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