World’s 2nd Greatest Lover, finest swordsman, outrageous liar, soldier of fortune and he’s three-feet-nine in his high-heeled boots. Casanunda rejects the work ethic, the reserve, the c…

The current Queen of the Beggars’ Guild. Wears tattered old dresses and, because of the Guild’s charter, a tattered velvet gown. She has hair that Sergeant Angua von Überwald thought of…

Six-feet plus of rippling skin and bone, possibly weighing seven stone in his loincloth. This, along with the thermal undies visible under the obligatory loincloth, tends to spoil the effect of a r…

The Patrician, Havelock Vetinari SI NON CONFECTVS, NON REFICIAT.If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it Havelock Vetinari is the current Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. He has been the supreme ruler…

Somewhere in Ankh-Morpork, on a small square, stands this solitary, wild-growing tree. It quickly became a spot for residents and passersby to rest for a moment after a long workday or to escape th…

Goddess of wisdom among the Discworld gods. She is supposed to carry an owl, but once upon a time a sculptor rather bad at the task made a sculpture of Patina carrying a penguin. Since belief shape…

A.E. Pessimal is one of the Patrician’s inspectors sent to investigate the economics and management of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch to judge how the Watch uses their funds. Pessimal does not s…

My father-in-law passed away last Thursday, and one thing we had in common was a love of books and reading. For example, we both had the entire series of blue Jules Verne covers (Blauwe Bandjes) fr…

Unfortunately, this year has been a quiet one for LEGO. Few new sets were released that were suitable for Brick-Morpork, and there’s been almost no work on the city’s MOCs either. The c…

Daughter of Cohen the Barbarian, Conina wants to be a hairdresser and live a normal life but was blessed with incredible looks, hair and skin from her mother, one of innumerable concubines, freed s…

It’s that time of year again when the Hogfather, assisted by the “elf” Albert, delivers presents to all the sweet little children. Happy Holidays

It’s always a busy place, an inn like this on the Stagecoach route. This postal inn between Ankh-Morpork and Lancre is no different. In these stagecoach stations, everything is always going o…

The room where most of the lectures at the Unseen University take place. It also happens to not exist and exist, leaving the choice upto the person. This is to the mutual benefit of both teachers a…

71-hour Ahmed (called “72-hour Achmed” in The Art of Discworld and sometimes misspelled 71-hour Achmed) is the wali (closest analogy is head policeman) in Klatch, of D’reg origin.…

A Mr McAbre is a senior bledlow, perhaps the most senior, at Unseen University. He has been responsible for the Ceremony of the Keys, held extremely loudly underneath the Bursar’s bedroom win…

I’ve had time to continue with the footnotes in the next, penultimate book. Raising Steam now has included all footnotes at the bottom of the page.

The Upwright family has regained the monopoly on operating the stagecoaches from Ankh-Morpork to other cities. The coaches stop at fixed points along the way, and for a small fee, at any other desi…

Harry “Slugger” Upwright and his twin brother Little Jim “Leadpipe” Upwright are the sons of Big Jim “Still Standing” Upwright. After the collapse of the Ankh-Mo…

Originally from Whalebone Lane, Reg was a one-man cell in the revolution, which revolution was irrelevant. Ignored by the real revolutionaries, he continued more as a city dreamer than in the city …

Mr Josiah Boggis, president of the Thieves Guild, is a slightly sallow, seedy, man in middle age who affects a brown bowler hat, believed to be a badge denoting his professional office. He is not e…

Several lines run from Ankh-Morpork to differrent cities. On the way there is always need for fresh horses and passengers.

Harry King, also known as Piss Harry and King of the Golden River is a businessman in Ankh-Morpork. People pay him to take away unwanted material, and then he can sell the material for more money. …

Not all of the waist from the people of Ankh-Morpork is collected by Harry King. Some of it is just left to flow through the Streets into places unknown, probably the river Ankh. The idea that it c…

Today marks the day of twenty years of Geronimohoorspelen.nl, a (Dutch with English) site about radioplays/ full cast dramatisations run by one of my oldest, best friends. Congratulations. We&#8217…

The Goddess of Negotiable Affection. The patron deity of seamstresses the Disc over. As Brutha discovered, there are some very realistic statues of her in Ephebe, which suggest the sculptor has rea…

Sometime during their adventures Rincewind and Twoflower end up in a Lost Temple somewhere in the jungle. While not being the temple of Bel-Shamharoth there is plenty to worry about. Like one of hi…