Discworld characters

The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett is a comic fantasy work and includes a cast of several hundred characters. Some of the best-known inhabitants of the Discworld include:

• Wizards and others at Unseen University, the principal seat of magical learning on the Disc:\n** Mustrum Ridcully, or Ridcully the Brown; the current Arch-Chancellor of the University\n** Galder Weatherwax; the 304th Chancellor of the University\n** The Librarian; transformed by a magical accident into an orangutan\n** Rincewind the Wizzard (sic); after a lifetime of running away that has taken him to the far regions of the Disc, he is now the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography\n** Ponder Stibbons; formerly a postgraduate student in the High Energy Magic building, now the Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic\n** Windle Poons; the Disc's oldest living wizard (and then, for a brief time, the Disc's most mobile dead wizard)\n** The Bursar; at some remove from reality, subsists on dried frog pills\n** The Chair of Indefinite Studies\n** The Dean\n** The Lecturer in Recent Runes\n** The Senior Wrangler\n** Modo, the dwarfish gardener of the Unseen University.\n** HEX, the most powerful (and possibly only) computing machine on the Disc
• Witches:\n** the Lancre coven:\n*** Granny Weatherwax; possibly the most powerful witch on the Disc\n*** Nanny Ogg\n*** Magrat Garlick; Queen of Lancre\n*** Agnes Nitt\n** others\n*** Tiffany Aching\n*** Miss Tick\n*** Lily Weatherwax
• Members of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (which has an active policy of recruiting amongst ethnic minorities):\n** Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch\n** Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson, the Disc's tallest dwarf (by adoption), Captain of the City Watch\n** Sergeant Fred Colon, a human\n** Corporal Cecil "Nobby" Nobbs, probably human\n** Sergeant Detritus, a troll\n** Corporal Angua, a werewolf\n** Corporal Cheery Littlebottom, a female dwarf, and the Watch's forensics expert\n** Constable Reg Shoe, a zombie\n** Constable Buggy Swires, a gnome\n** Constable Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets (Visit for short, often called Washpot by his colleagues) an Omnian human\n** Dorfl, a golem\n** Igor, an igor

\n* Anthropomorphic personifications:\n** Death (the Grim Reaper; resembles a skeleton in a black robe, carrying a scythe)\n** Time\n** Ronnie Soak, the milkman\n** War (and possibly also Mrs. War and their children Terror, Panic, and Clancy)\n** Famine\n** Pestilence\n** The Auditors of Reality\n** The Hogfather\n** The Tooth Fairy\n** Old Man Trouble

• Associates of Death\n** the Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker; resembles a rat skeleton in a black robe, carrying a scythe)\n** the Death of Fleas\n** Binky (Death's steed)\n** Quoth the Raven (steed of the Death of Rats)\n** Ysabell, Death's adopted daughter\n** Mort, Death's apprentice\n** Susan Sto-Helit, Death's granddaughter (i.e. the daughter of Ysabell and Mort)\n** Albert, Death's manservant; formerly a wizard, the founder of Unseen University
• Ankh-Morpork society\n** Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork \n** Lady Sybil Vimes\n** The heads of the various guilds, most notably Mr. Boggis of the Thieves' Guild, Lord Downey of the Assassins' Guild, Mrs. Palm of the Seamstresses' Guild, Queen Molly of the Beggars' Guild and Mr Slant of the Lawyers' Guild.
• Other inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork\n** The Canting Crew: Foul Ole Ron, Coffin Henry, the Duck Man ("what duck?"), Arnold Sideways, and Altogether Andrews; five beggars even the Beggars' Guild will have nothing to do with\n** Leonard of Quirm, genius inventor\n** Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, entrepreneur and seller of street food ("For you, two dollars - and that's cutting me own throat!")\n** Chrysophrase, troll gangster\n** Mrs Cake, a small medium in a large hat\n** Hughnon Ridcully, High Priest of Blind Io

\n* Animals\n** Great A'Tuin, the gigantic turtle that carries the four elephants, Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen that carry the Disc\n** Gaspode (Foul Ole Ron's Thinking Brain Dog)\n** Laddie (the Disc's first canine film star)\n** Greebo (Nanny Ogg's cat)\n** You Bastard, a camel and the greatest mathematician alive.

• Gods and other similar shady characters\n** Blind Io, leader of the gods\n** The Lady. Not really a goddess, but very powerful all the same because almost everybody believes or hopes that she exists. She disappears when one says her name and sometimes appears when least expected; not in any sense the patron goddess of gamblers...\n** Fate, rival of the Lady\n** Nuggan\n** Om\n** Offler, the crocodile-headed god\n** Bilious, Oh-God of hangovers\n** Sweevo, God of Cut Timber\n** Zephyrus, God of Slight Breezes
• Other characters\n** Verence, King of Lancre\n** Cohen the Barbarian\n** Twoflower the imperturbable Tourist\n** Casanunda the dwarf - highwayman, liar, and the Disc's second-greatest lover ("I try harder.")\n** various bogeymen\n** The Luggage\n** Lu-Tze, the Sweeper, and other monks

It is even possible to get a character in one of the future Discworld books named after yourself. Usually people appear in the books by bidding for the privilege in charity auctions. Category:Discworld