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 are listed below.

Wizards and others at Unseen University

The Unseen University is the principal seat of magical learning on the Disc, mostly populated by the wizards.

• Mustrum Ridcully, or Ridcully the Brown; the current Arch-Chancellor of the University
• Galder Weatherwax; the 304th Chancellor of the University
• The Librarian; transformed by a magical accident into an orangutan
• 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
• Ponder Stibbons; formerly a postgraduate student in the High Energy Magic building, now the Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic
• Windle Poons; the Disc's oldest living wizard (and then, for a brief time, the Disc's most mobile dead wizard)
• The Bursar; at some remove from reality, subsists on dried frog pills
• The Chair of Indefinite Studies
• The Dean
• The Lecturer in Recent Runes
• The Senior Wrangler
• Modo, the dwarfish gardener of the Unseen University.
• HEX, the most powerful (and possibly only) computing machine on the Disc

Witches

Many Discworld novels focus on the witches

• the Lancre coven:
  • Granny Weatherwax; possibly the most powerful witch on the Disc
  • Nanny Ogg
  • Magrat Garlick; Queen of Lancre
  • Agnes Nitt
• others
  • Tiffany Aching
  • Miss Tick
  • Lily Weatherwax

Ankh-Morpork City Watch

The City Watch try to protect Ankh-Morpork from all foes

• Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
• Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson, the Disc's tallest dwarf (by adoption), Captain of the City Watch
• Sergeant Fred Colon, a human
• Corporal Cecil "Nobby" Nobbs, probably human
• Sergeant Detritus, a troll
• Corporal Angua, a werewolf
• Corporal Cheery Littlebottom, a female dwarf, and the Watch's forensics expert
• Constable Reg Shoe, a zombie
• Constable Buggy Swires, a gnome
• Constable Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets (Visit for short, often called Washpot by his colleagues) an Omnian human
• Dorfl, a golem
• Igor, an igor

Anthropomorphic personifications

The unreal can become more real on the Discworld through anthropomorphism

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

Associates of Death

Even Death has friends

• the Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker; resembles a rat skeleton in a black robe, carrying a scythe)
• the Death of Fleas
• Binky (Death's steed)
• Quoth the Raven (steed of the Death of Rats)
• Ysabell, Death's adopted daughter
• Mort, Death's apprentice
• Susan Sto Helit, Death's granddaughter (i.e. the daughter of Ysabell and Mort)
• Albert, Death's manservant; formerly a wizard, the founder of Unseen University

Ankh-Morpork society

The high society of the premier city on the disc

• Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork
• Lady Sybil Vimes
• 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 Foul Ole Ron
  • Coffin Henry
  • the Duck Man ("what duck?")
  • Arnold Sideways
  • Altogether Andrews
• Leonard of Quirm, genius inventor
• Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, entrepreneur and seller of street food ("For you, two dollars - and that's cutting me own throat!")
• Chrysophrase, troll gangster
• Mrs Cake, a small medium in a large hat
• Hughnon Ridcully, High Priest of Blind Io

Animals

Some of the animals on the disc have their own personality too

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

Gods and other similar shady characters

The gods play an active role with their worshippers

• Blind Io, leader of the gods
• 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...
• Fate, rival of the Lady
• Nuggan
• Om
• Offler, the crocodile-headed god
• Bilious, Oh-God of hangovers
• Sweevo, God of Cut Timber
• Zephyrus, God of Slight Breezes

Other characters

And the supporting cast

• Verence, King of Lancre
• Hodgesaargh Castle Falconer at Lancre
• Cohen the Barbarian
• Twoflower the imperturbable Tourist
• Casanunda the dwarf - highwayman, liar, and the Disc's second-greatest lover ("I try harder.")
• various bogeymen
• The Luggage
• Lu-Tze, the Sweeper, and other monks

You?

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.