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Name: Skulldrinker, Lars Gender: f Species/Vital status: dwarf Current rank: Book appearances: foc Background: Watch history: Skulldrinker is one of the three female dwarfs in the Watch that Angua’s sense of smell identified in foc. She once broke up a fight in the Miner’s Arms single-handedly. Name: Slapper Gender: Species/Vital status: Current rank: constable Book appearances: foc Background: Watch history: Slapper has been mentioned once, arriving with Colon at the Patrician’s palace after Vetinari had been poisoned in foc. Name: Spatchcock Gender: m Species/Vital status: human Current rank: Book appearances: nw Background: Watch history: Spatchcock is not a skilled swordsman, tending to drop his sword on his foot. Nevertheless, he stepped ‘over the line’ to join Vimes/Keel’s group of watchmen who kept the peace during the civil unrest in nw. Name: Stronginthearm Gender: Species/Vital status: dwarf (deceased) Current rank: sergeant Book appearances: j, tfe, nw Background: Stronginthearm lived in New Cobblers with his parents. His mother always told him that vitamins could kill you. He was stabbed in the neck and killed by Carcer in Treacle Mine Road while off duty, having just bought a take-away rat pie and chips for breakfast (nw). Watch history: Stronginthearm joined the watch because the pay was good. The second most senior corporal in the Watch after Nobby at the time of j, by tfe Stronginthearm had reached the rank of sergeant. He had quite an eventful time, having an orange thrown at him by Vimes and being knocked unconscious by a clamped troll before becoming annoyed when Colon made speciesist comments and sacked and demoted watchmen. He threatened to move to the Sto Lat Watch but still got useful information from the Assassins’ Guild for Vimes and sent it to him via the clacks. Stronginthearm was once attacked by a man with a club during a riot in Easy Street and saved by Vimes. Name: Swires, Buggy Gender: m Species/Vital status: gnome Current rank: constable Book appearances: tlf(?), j, tfe, nw Background: Swires is somewhere between five inches (j) and six inches (tfe) tall. Like all gnomes, he is belligerent and has an inbuilt resistance to rules. With a bit of work with a pair of scissors he is able to convert a Big Boy sonky into a mackintosh. He or some of his family may have lived in the Forest of Skund, where Rincewind and Twoflower met a gnome called Swires in The Light Fantastic. Watch history: As a copper Swires commands respect, or at least bladder-trembling terror. In j he was a probationary constable attached to the Chitterling Street station and stood on top of Flint’s head to get a good view of Vimes’ speech. A few months later, in tfe, the gnome visited the rubber factory with Shoe to investigate Sonky’s murder, and in nw he had already reached the rank of corporal and had become an expert at aerial reconnaissance. He rides on a heron when he needs to carry equipment but prefers a sparrowhawk for hovering when on traffic patrol. The heron came in useful for carrying the portable semaphore onto the UU roof in nw when the Watch were after Carcer. After experiencing airborne travel himself in nw, Vimes made a note to promote the gnome and buy him a buzzard, so his future in the Watch is looking bright. Name: Thighbiter, Hrolf Gender: m (probably) Species/Vital status: dwarf Current rank: constable Book appearances: foc, tfe Background: Littlebottom believes that Thighbiter is male, since he once asked her out. Watch history: Thighbiter had a tab of two dollars and thirty pence at the Bucket in foc. In tfe he got another mention as the dwarf who found the Scone after it was stolen from the museum. Name: Tilden Gender: m Species/Vital status: human Current rank: captain Book appearances: nw Background: Tilden has a moustache and milky eyes and was nearly seventy years old at the time of nw. Vimes remembered Tilden as having a brass ear and a wooden leg, and smoking like a chimney. His military career with Lord Venturi’s Medium Dragoons was successful if unspectacular. Watch history: Before joining the Watch Tilden was a military man, and was given command of the Night Watch as a kind of pension. He was patriotic and believed firmly in the need to follow orders and to have the men in his command look smart. In his office in the Watch House he kept a faded Ankh-Morpork flag which he was rumoured to salute every day, and a large silver inkstand, presented to him by his regiment. He was given orders to leave the Watch during the civil unrest in nw and was replaced by Captain Rust. Name: Vimes, Sir Samuel, His Grace the Duke of Ankh Gender: m Species/Vital status: human Current rank: commander Book appearances: gg, maa, foc, j, tfe, tt, tlh, nw, mr Background: Sam Vimes was born in Cockbill Street in Ankh-Morpork’s Shades (foc). His family was poor, and he had to wear clothes from the second-hand shonky shop in Clay Lane (nw) or whatever rags could be tied on (foc). He always wanted a puppy when he was a small boy – although anything with meat on it would have done (gg). He was a middle-ranker in a gang of boys as a youth and his childhood games included hopscotch (foc), pretending raindrops falling into gutters were soldiers in an army (j) and begging chippings of pig treacle from the miners (nw). He also listened to old men tell war stories (j). He went to a dame school where he was blackboard monitor (tfe). He lived with his mother as his father, Thomas Vimes (foc), was run over by a cart and killed when he was little – or so his mum told him (nw). Vimes did know his father for a while, however, as he carries with him his father’s words of wisdom: never eat anything that can wink back (j). His mother, who came from the Clamp family (foc) and made an excellent distressed pudding, died about ten years ago and is buried in Small Gods cemetery (nw). He probably had a big family (foc) but his only other known relatives are his grandfather, Gwilliam Vimes (foc), who may have been the one who told him about the former reliability of the post office before such perils as Mrs Cake came along (maa), and his distant ancestor Suffer-Not-Injustice ‘Old Stoneface’ Vimes. Although Vimes’ ancestors were often soldiers led by aristocratic commanders (gg), Old Stoneface rebelled against the ruling classes and overthrew Lorenzo the Kind, the last king of Ankh, personally cutting his head off. Unfortunately this turned out to be an unpopular move and Old Stoneface was then hanged, dismembered and buried in five graves (maa). Old Stoneface was Commander of the City Watch in 1688, and many of his ancestors followed his career path – including Sam Vimes, who has picked up the same nickname (maa, foc, j). The Vimes crest was stripped from the family after Old Stoneface’s actions, but was recently reinstated. It shows a morpork owl perched on an ankh, atop a shield. On the shield is a crown with a dagger through it, a bunch of rods with an axe in it (a fasces), a marble bust and a bunch of grapes (foc). Sam Vimes has the ancestral Vimes profile, but gets his ears from his mother (foc). As a young lance-constable Vimes was skinny and gangly with a big Adam’s apple. A tough twenty-five years as a watchman have left him with scars all over his body and legs tanned from the knees down (nw). He’s somewhere around fifty years old, not very tall (tfe) and by the time of foc has a receding hairline. Over the years he has put on some weight and claims to weigh 160lbs – he could stand to lose a few pounds according to Rosie Palm (nw). He is likely to have a nasty scar over one eye, caused by Carcer’s knife, but he probably doesn’t wear an eyepatch any more. Vimes doesn’t wear rings, takes size eight boots and wears a size seven-and-a-quarter helmet (nw). When we first met him in gg, Vimes lived in a small bare room over a candlemaker’s shop in Wixon’s Alley. By maa he had moved into Pseudopolis Yard, where he had an another bare room: an iron bedstead with a sagging mattress and a sheet of cardboard underneath it, a washstand below a broken mirror, a razor, a broken-seated brown chair and a small chest containing his personal belongings made up the entirety of his furniture. His fortunes have changed, however. During gg he met Lady Sybil Ramkin, the richest woman in the city and a passionate dragon enthusiast, and in maa they were married in the Great Hall of Unseen University. As Lady Sybil settled all her assets on him from the time of their marriage, he personally has upwards of seven million dollars a year. Some of this is brought in from the land he owns, which includes the freehold of the Assassins’ Guild. He now lives with her and his baby son, Sam (nw) in the Ramkin family thirty-four-room mansion on Scoone Avenue in Ankh (foc). His possessions include a custom-made Burleigh and Stronginthearm crossbow which was a wedding present from Sybil, and a sedan chair from the Patrician (foc). While in foc he was rather uncomfortable with his new status, he seems to have settled into the life more recently and now treats his power as a tool rather than a restraint. It isn’t all perks, though, as he became a regular target for the Assassins. There was a price of twenty thousand dollars on his head in foc, and he had to booby-trap his house and office in defence. He buys special convex shaving mirrors from a dwarf in Five And Seven Yard to help him keep an eye out for potential threats while he’s in the bathroom (foc). The price was still twenty thousand dollars in foc but Dr Downey (as he was then) felt it should be increased after a personal run-in with the commander. In tfe the price was sixty thousand dollars but last time a contract was offered, no one took it up. By nw the price was in abeyance and the guild was no longer accepting contracts on him, although finding their way through the ingenious defences around his house had become a practise exercise for students too sure of their own abilities. The assassins frequently targeted him not for fun, but because of his power: by nw he was reckoned the second most powerful man in Ankh. He is good at making the kind of rich enemies who can afford assassins (foc) and in fact appreciates this fact as a mark of his own effectiveness (nw). He seems popular with the man who probably beats him to the top of the ‘most powerful’ list, however, as the patrician keeps on promoting him. This was firstly through the ranks of the Watch, making him Commander of the Watch in maa, and later carried the commander into the aristocracy. He was made a knight at the end of maa and a duke in j. Although he is now Lord Vimes, the aristocracy is still high up on his list of dislikes, together with magic, kings, garlic, accordion players (mr), the undead in general (at least in maa) and vampires in particular (nw). He isn’t exactly an atheist but doesn’t like gods very much (maa). The things he does like include badly-cooked meals, in particular all-day breakfasts with brittle bacon, burnt sausages and rubbery fried eggs. He was a regular at Harga’s House of Ribs in maa and often buys take-aways in Mundane Meals. A soft-boiled egg and toast cut into soldiers is also a firm favourite. Sadly, another favourite is Bearhugger’s Whisky. Colon believes Vimes was born with less natural alcohol in him than most people, and whether that’s the case or not it’s certainly true that in gg he was a drunkard. He drank to forget, although couldn’t remember what he was trying to forget after a while and in the end drank to forget about drinking. He kept a bottle of alcohol in his bottom desk drawer, which was still there in maa despite the fact he didn’t buy another bottle after he was married. He had removed the bottle by the time of foc but his fingers still reached automatically for the drawer when he was worried. Sybil was weaning him off alcohol and onto cigars in maa, and he hadn’t touched a drop for months when he relapsed after being removed from duty by the Patrician. Pantweed’s Slim Pantellas are his cigars of choice (foc, nw). He used to keep them in his helmet (j) but later carried them in an inscribed silver cigar case given to him by his wife (nw). Vimes’ life now varies between the extremes of a street cop and a high-ranking diplomat. He is not good in forests (tfe) but is excellent as a city copper: an instinctive, dirty street fighter (nw) with a patented elbow-in-the-throat move called the Vimes Elbow, he was once stabbed and would have bled to death if Angua hadn’t found him in time (nw). His clothes often have blood on them when he comes home from work (j). He is never happier than when patrolling the streets (nw), often throwing his sword up and catching it when he is thinking (j). The cobbles on the street, felt through the soles of the boots he buys from Plugger in New Cobblers, tell him where he is in the city (foc). He looks like a watchman, not a duke (mr) and to William de Worde’s eyes he appears badly-spoken, badly-educated and badly in need of a drink (tt). On the other hand, his job has a lot of ceremonial and administrative aspects to it. His position as commander has about doubled the Watch’s production of paperwork (nw) and his desk is buried in the stuff, a deep layer of which is fast becoming peat (j). He has been an ambassador and a special envoy to foreign countries and is expected to mingle and make polite talk at official functions. He owns an axe given to him by the Low King of the dwarfs (tfe) and has to be aware of the political situation in distant countries (nw). A combination of deskwork and increasing age is probably what has led to his decreased fitness: he now gets out of breath after a run which would have been nothing to him a few years ago (j), and he has a pain in his chest he’s worried about but hasn’t told anyone about (nw). A characteristic of his is his anger: when he’s on form he radiates a field of angered innocence which Sybil believes is part of his essential Vimesness (j). He has also been known to vibrate with the internal anger of a man who wants to arrest the gods for not doing it right. He gets livid with rage with The Times about once a week. His essential honesty and honour means he comes down very hard on any suggestion of corruption or bribery among his men, and he pays his taxes (j). He is also generous: before the widows and orphans fund was set up at the end of maa, Vimes gave away fourteen dollars a week – nearly half his pay – to support the families of dead watchmen. He has a smattering of languages, and can get by in street dwarfish and at least say ‘Put down that rock, you’re under arrest,’ in troll. He can decipher Latatian but is bad at Borogravian. Watch history: Vimes joined the Treacle Mine Road watch house around twenty-five years ago as a lance-constable in the year of the Dancing Dog because his friend Iffy Scurrick, who joined the year before, recommended it as a career (nw). He had a big shining breastplate and big hopes (gg) but didn’t know how to use a sword when he first started, and began to pick up the art of bad policing from Knock, Quirke and Colon. Luckily John Keel joined the force a short time later and gave young Vimes a crash course in honest policing and dirty fighting which he believes was instrumental in keeping him alive to the present day (nw). After Vetinari came into power and started the guild system the Watch’s importance and size reduced dramatically. When we met Vimes in gg he was the drunkard captain of a body of men comprising Colon and Nobbs. According to Nobby, it was saying to the patrician that the Thieves’ Guild were a bunch of thieves which got Vimes that particular job, and Vimes admits to himself he ended up in his despised position due to a tendency to speak his mind and say the wrong thing – usually simultaneously (gg). In gg Vimes was dismissed from his post for the first time – but certainly not the last. During the course of his investigation he also was imprisoned in the palace cells, protected a dragon that was terrorising Ankh-Morpork and rescued a noblewoman. At this point he earned nine dollars a month, plus an optional two dollars plumes allowance which he never claimed. In maa Angua described him as looking very disgruntled: probably a mixture of his imminent retirement and the fact that the Watch had been forced to take on ethnic minority recruits. He didn’t speak a word all day when he heard they had to take on a troll. During his investigation into the stolen gonne he was once again dismissed from duty - this time by the Patrician as a motivating tactic. After successfully capturing the murderer he retired to get married, but almost immediately returned to the Watch as Commander. A new problem arose in foc, this time involving golems, and once again Vimes was key in solving the mystery, although he somehow avoided being dismissed from duty in a strange break with tradition. Not to fear, though: in j Lord Rust sacked him. Taking this in his stride, Vimes travelled to Klatch to save Angua and avoid a war and was rewarded with promotion to duke. In tfe the patrician used this to his advantage, sending the commander to Uberwald as an ambassador where he solved the mystery of the stolen Scone of Stone. He may have received a Watch Medal or commendation for his actions in tt. The past is foreign country, we are told, and after a brief trip there in nw Vimes was off abroad again, this time to Borogravia (mr) as special envoy. To get there he spent two weeks travelling 2,300 miles on broomstick, barge and coach (mr). He was known there as Vimes the Butcher and people believed he ate raw meat. He instructed there should be no magic used in the war and had guards flogged for ‘taking liberties’ with the women. Vimes’ clothes have varied little over his time in the Watch. His uniform in gg included a ceremonial breastplate and helmet, a red cloak and a copper badge which reads AMCW No.177. He also carried a regulation seven-foot-long pike. Much of the uniform has not changed, and he still wears sandals in the summer and boots in the winter. Until he married Sybil he had never worn any headgear not hammered out of a single sheet of metal, and had worn his Watch uniform most of his adult life (maa). His promotion to commander brought with it a new dress uniform: a red shirt with baggy sleeves, red tights, puffed shorts, feathers in his hat, fancy tights, a velvet cloak and a shiny breastplate – all of which he discards whenever possible (j). His breeches have a special pocket sewn into them to carry his official truncheon, which is rosewood and Llamedos silver and has a shield on it reading Protecter of thee Kinge’s Piece (j). His everyday Watch uniform strikes Polly as old-fashioned in mr. The relationship between the Patrician and Vimes was originally very antagonistic but their mutual understanding has deepened over time. In gg Vetinari appeared crazy and unfathomable to Vimes when the pair shared a cell, and it went through Vimes’ mind to let the Patrician be killed by Wonse. The Patrician, for his part, knew Vimes mainly as an incompetent drunkard. By maa Vetinari had realised Vimes’ usefulness and dealt with him personally rather than letting his secretary pass on his orders. He manipulated Vimes by using reverse psychology – telling him to ignore cases he really wanted him to devote his time to – and could measure to what point Vimes was upset by the fierceness with which the captain hit the wall outside the Oblong Office after their interviews. During his time with the Patrician Vimes always remained standing and fixed his gaze on a point one foot above and six inches to the left of the Patrician’s head. In foc Lord Vetinari was still playing with Vimes somewhat by pretending he didn’t know how he was being poisoned before the commander worked it out – but Vimes’ comments suggested he realised this for himself. Their deeper understanding allowed them to communicate in almost coded phrases about the events of the book, and Vimes even contradicted Lord Vetinari outright over the hiring of Dorfl. They were firmly on the same side in j, and Lord Vetinari sent Vimes a clue on how to proceed after he was removed from duty. By this point Vimes had gained the nickname of ‘Vetinari’s Terrier’ and he was very reluctant to arrest the patrician on their return from Klatch. The patrician still had the upper hand in their final interview, however. There was not much interaction between them in tfe but by the end of nw the relationship had deepened into what seemed like true understanding and equality. Vimes no longer called the patrician ‘sir’. Vetinari’s confidence in the commander was shown indirectly in mr when he trusted him to oversee an army and the successful, peaceful resolution of the war in Borogravia. Old-fashioned detective methods are still the best in Vimes’ opinion, and he took to surreptitiously carrying around a notebook in gg to jot things down, a practice he still employs today despite the three-hundred-dollar, fifteen-function imp disorganiser bought for him by his wife (foc, j). He believes being a copper is mainly about walking and talking and he instinctively distrusts clues (foc). He’s also very strongly opposed to corruption and bribery in the watch, and is known even to some senior Klatchian politicians as unbendingly honest and thorough. The last person who tried to bribe him still doesn’t have full use of one of his fingers (tt). He will fight dirty but only kills when there is no other option. Weapons are, in his opinion, not primarily made for hurting people but for being on display so you don’t have to put them to use. He gets very upset if anyone calls him a military man. He strongly dislikes the press. Vimes’ office is upstairs in Pseudopolis Yard and he keeps the window open all the time to let the outdoor air in. His desk is cluttered with paperwork which he doesn’t touch until someone is shouting (j). Somewhere amid the piles there is a sign reading ‘Commander Vimes’ (tt). His office features a tube connecting to the pneumatic message system but he mistrusts it and prefers to open the door and shout rather than use it. One of his jobs is to sign the wage bill every month. He has banned watchmen from carrying the traditional bell (nw). Although not an expert on the regulations, he knows the oath off by heart (nw). He is referred to by members of the Watch as Mister Vimes or, behind his back, Old Stoneface. Name: Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets (aka Visit-The-Ungodly, aka Visit, aka Washpot) Gender: m Species/Vital status: human Current rank: lance-constable? Book appearances: foc, h, j, tfe Background: A devout Omnian, Visit takes an evangelical approach to his religion, spending his days off ringing doorbells with his co-religionist and rare friend Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments to spread the word of Om. His weapons in this quest include the leaflets Unadorned Facts and Battle Call, although he has failed to make even one convert and the only watchman ever to ask for more pamphlets was Dorfl. He spends all his wages on pamphlets and even has his own printing press. When he first appeared in foc Visit was very keen to have Vimes call him by his full, lengthy name, but has since become happy or at least resigned to being called simply Visit, or by his odd nickname of Washpot which was first used in h. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of religion, including non-Omnian faiths. He is a teetotaller and disapproves of the commercialism of Hogswatch. Watch history: Visit has earned Vimes’ highest praise: the Commander refers to him as a good copper. He was the watchman who found the body of Father Tubelcek in foc and translated the words found in the priest’s mouth. In h he visited Mr Crumley’s department store with Nobby when the storekeeper complained about the fake Hogfather in the grotto. Visit was next seen when he accompanied Detritus to the scene of the riot outside Mundane Meals in j and helped the troll to read the Riot Act. He travelled to Klatch with Vimes and the other watchmen. At the time of tfe it was Visit’s turn as communications officer, a job which he has been assigned with increasing frequency and which he enjoys since he can preach to the pigeons. He had to buy Colon a new cup and saucer, and was later demoted to lance-constable. He went on strike with the watchmen and marched with a sandwich-board, and was one of the few watchmen left when Carrot returned from Uberwald. It is unknown whether he regained his previous rank of constable with the captain’s return. Name: von Uberwald, Delphine Angua (aka Angua) Gender: f Species/Vital status: werewolf Current rank: sergeant Book appearances: maa, foc, j, tfe, tt Background: Angua comes from an aristocratic family in Uberwald. Her father is the bloodthirsty Baron Guye von Uberwald, also known as Silvertail, and her mother is the Baroness Mme Serafine Soxe-Bloonberg, also known as Yellowfang, who originally comes from Genua (foc). Her siblings are Wolfgang, a bimorph and vicious murderer who was killed by Vimes, and Andrei and Elsa, yennorks (werewolves that don’t change shape). Elsa always appeared human and was killed by Wolfgang, and Andrei always appears a wolf and is currently a sheepdog in Borogravia. Angua was always able to beat Wolfgang in fight and the two disliked each other. She left when she decided her lifestyle was not right, although she has told Cheery that she never actually ate anyone, and never speaks of her family. They are not happy about her leaving and she hates their way of life, meaning her relationship with them is frosty. Her other Uberwaldian relatives include her Aunt Hilda, Uncle Ulf, and miscellaneous relatives Magwen, Nancy and Unity. Able to appear both fully human or fully wolf, Angua is a classic bimorph werewolf. When in her human shape she has masses of ash-blond hair and is very attractive, and as a wolf she resembles a pedigree Ramtop Wolfhound (maa) or a Klatchistan hunting dog (j) and has jaw muscles strong enough to sever someone’s neck. When she is in wolf form Angua’s senses are dominated by smells which she remembers in human form as colours and sounds. When she is in her lupine form she is very intelligent for a wolf but that is a lot less intelligent than she is as a human, and she remembers the experience as like being drunk. After spending some time in either form she loses the talents of the other. For around twenty minutes after she changes back to human she has a heightened sense of eyesight and hearing as well as of smell, although that sense is always very good – especially when it comes to blood. She always looks poised to make a movement, and to her a physical weapon is always a second choice. She can speak to dogs and wolves even in her human shape. Angua only has to change into a wolf when she is in the light of the full moon; at other times she can change at will by concentrating. Anger and the smell of blood can almost make her change against her will, however. The change itself feels like a whole-body sneeze, and she has a ‘thing’ about being seen as she changes between forms. When she is angry she can find her gaze fixating on people's jugular veins. During moonlit nights she prowls the city and sometimes eats chickens, but always goes back the next day to leave money to pay for them - she is a vegetarian when in human form, however. Like all werewolves, she can only be killed by fire or silver. Silver also burns her and makes her feel weak (foc, j). She shares the undead’s dislike of golems although she may well have changed her mind about Dorfl. Whichever form she takes, she has a power over other animals, who try to avoid her and also to look inedible. Before moving to Ankh-Morpork Angua lived in other towns, including Pseudopolis and Quirm, where she had problems with her relationships with men. When she lived in Uberwald she became close to a wolf, Gavin, who saved her when she fell into a pit trap and was threatened by wolves. Gavin died fighting her malicious brother Wolfgang. She has now forged a relationship with Carrot which seems fairly stable, although she has considered leaving him several times because she finds it stressful being a wolf living in a big city, and also knowing the atrocities she and her family are capable of. Since she formed her relationship with Carrot she has learned to read and speak some dwarfish. Living at Mrs Cake’s boarding house is ideal for Angua as Mrs Cake is very understanding about the needs of werewolves as well as providing clean, cheap lodgings. Angua’s lycanthropy leads to some odd habits: she buys dog shampoo for her hair and knows every brand of flea powder they sell in Ankh-Morpork. She buys herself dog biscuits and has a flap in the door (j) and a basket to sleep in (tfe). Angua doesn’t do cookery (j) and is very meticulous about cleanliness. She drinks at Biers, the bar for the undead, as well as at the Watch pub and is fond of a gin and tonic (foc). She has become very important and respected in the werewolf community. Angua has excellent fighting skills both as a human and a wolf. Another, less expected skill is that of fashioning impromptu clothes out of whatever is to hand. Watch history: Angua joined the Watch as a representative member of the undead community in maa. She applied for the job because she needed money, and it was a choice between watchman and seamstress. At first she had no breastplate as one could not be found that would fit her chest. When she first joined Angua investigated the explosion at the Assassins’ Guild and met Gaspode, with whom she struck up a friendship. She was shot four times by the gonne but survived. Angua wore her Watch badge on a collar round her neck by the time of foc, at which point she was a constable. She helped investigate the golems’ actions and fought the king golem. In j Angua had become a corporal and she was taken hostage at a diamond warehouse, helped to smell out Snowy Slopes in the library and infiltrated Ahmed’s ship. By tfe she was a sergeant. It proved a stressful time for her when she heard of her family’s plot to cause chaos among the dwarfs and she travelled to Uberwald to stop them. Events there led to the death of her brother Wolfgang. In tt Angua met William of The Times and was assigned to follow him, but was stopped in her tracks by an extremely potent stink bomb. Angua has a messenger pigeon called Wilhelmina (tfe). Name: Waddy Gender: m Species/Vital status: human Current rank: constable Book appearances: nw Background: Waddy grew up in Ankh-Morpork and knows how to steal carts. Watch history: Waddy was first seen protesting about Vimes/Keel's new regime in the year of the Dancing Dog by following his orders to the letter and bringing in four people breaking curfew. He later turned up driving the hurry-up wagon in response to Vimes/Keel's bell, then participated in the ginger beer trick down in the cells. He 'crossed the line' to join Vimes/Keel's band of men, and went with Colon and Nancyball to steal carts to construct barricades. Name: Wee Mad Arthur Gender: m Species/Vital status: gnome Current rank: special constable Book appearances: foc Background: Wee Mad Arthur kills rats and sells them to dwarf cafés, although he isn’t fond of dwarfs. In foc he inadvertently sold poisoned rats to Gimlet’s Delicatessen. He never uses poison to kill rats, instead shooting them with a miniature crossbow or headbutting them to death. He doesn’t belong to the Rat-Catchers’ Guild but sets his own low fees for his extermination jobs. Arthur wears ratskin trousers and is bare above the waist apart from bandoliers crossing his chest. He has no friends and is frequently drunk. He has a grandfather who once twisted the horn off a bull who trod on him. Watch history: Colon swore Wee Mad Arthur in as a watchman for the evening when the gnome helped him to escape from the candle factory where he was being held prisoner, for which he was paid a dollar. Name: Wiglet, Bill (aka Billy) Gender: m Species/Vital status: human (deceased) Current rank: constable Book appearances: nw Background: Before he was a Watchman, Wiglet was a fruit porter in Ankh-Morpork's marketplace, but got a bad back and bad chest due to working in the cold morning air. He has a brother called Wally, who is not very bright and was only allowed to become a soldier after someone painted L and R on his boots. Watch history: Although he originally rebelled against Vimes/Keel's new rule in the year of the Dancing Dog, bringing in excessive numbers of curfew-breakers, Wiglet came to his aid later. Unfortunately he revealed young Sam's identity to Carcer as he did so. He had been in the Watch for two years when he was killed by an arrow fired by one of Carcer's men on 25th May. Name: Wimbler Gender: m Species/Vital status: human (deceased) Current rank: sergeant Book appearances: maa Background: Watch history: Wimbler was the sergeant who instructed Colon on his first day in the Watch. Colon remembered him as having a tongue like a whiplash for the new recruits. Name: Wooden dummy Gender: n/a Species/Vital status: inanimate Current rank: Book appearances: maa Background: Watch history: Detritus, on his crusade to recruit new watchmen, swore in the wooden dummy from outside Corksock’s Natty Clothing Co.

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