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Mary Loquacious

2010-10-13T06:43:48Z

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Sister Mary Loquacious was the inept Nun of the [[Chattering Order of St. Beryl]] who managed to fumble the switch of the antichrist with a human baby, managing to place the Spawn of Satan with the [[Young]] family of Lower Tadfield, Herts. instead of with the American Ambassador as had been demoniacally planned for millennia. The [[Adam Young|antichrist]] himself grew up with no demonic or angelic interference, and was a bit too human for the apocalypse to deal with.

Eleven years later she has reinvented her self as Mary Hodges, running the old nunnary as Tadfield Mannor, hosting Corporate Training and team building events.

[[Category:Good Omens characters|Loquacious, Mary]]

Shatta

2010-10-01T15:02:19Z

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A Dwarven shop in an unlikely location (the [[Maul]]), owned and run by an extremely unlikely pair, Mandame [[Sharn]] and [[Pepe]] and the unwitting birthplace of [[Jewels]].
In dwarfish this apparently translates to "A Wonderful Surprise" however it sends two signals to speakers of Morporkian: one resonating with "Shatter" and one less salubrious and a bit more scatological...

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Rowing Brown

2009-12-17T11:29:06Z

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Burns

2009-11-16T14:04:53Z

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Captain Burns appears in {{NW}}, as the quietly competent cavalry captain who with a completely straight face, assures [[Samuel Vimes]] that anyone singing the national anthem and waving the flag doesn't class as a rebel, despite the fact they've built what looks like a barricade but is probably just people's furniture, moved out into the street to facilitate spring cleaning, as can be expected in the month of May. He then salutes Vimes - the salute is returned with equal respect - and departs. Although he reports to Major [[Clive Mountjoy-Standfast]], his commanding officer, that this Keel person is more than just a Watch sergeant - he's used to ''serious'' command.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Burns]]
[[Category:Human characters|Burns]]

Fundall the Forgetful

2009-11-16T13:57:02Z

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A [[Wizard]] who devised a spell to make an entire tree disappear. He just forgot he was sitting in it at the time. His sad demise offered a clue to [[Ponder Stibbons]] as to the underlying syntax of magical [[Spell|spell]]s (used to program [[Hex]] as its equivalent of a computer language), as it was noted that Fundall's despairing scream of "Not THIS bit!" was not accepted by the syntax of his spell as a valid sub-set of "Make this tree disappear!"

This is evidently the equivalent of "Bad command or syntax" in spellcasting.

This occurs in {{SOD1}}.

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Ralph Gibbons

2009-11-11T13:43:13Z

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Ralph "Grumbling" Gibbons was quite possibly [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s greatest artist in wood, responsible among other things for the creation of the exquisite carved wooden doors of the [[Thieves' Guild]] headquarters on the corner of [[Broadway]] and the [[Street of Alchemists]].

The Guild's gallows, these days more ornamental rather than functional (although unlicenced thieves are wise not to try and push their luck) is also described as a riot of rococo carving by Gibbons.

Sadly, after finishing his commission for the Guild, Gibbons, described as "not a happy man", committed quite a messy suicide using a spokeshave.

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Another grimace name substitution from the RoundWorld. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinling_Gibbons Grinling Gibbons](1648 - 1721) was a master carver, some say the master carver, discovered by John Evelyn. Gibbons' work can be seen at St Paul's Cathedral, Petworth House and elsewhere.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Gibbons,Ralph]]

Chubby

2009-11-07T08:40:57Z

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A [[Swamp dragon]] mentioned briefly in {{MAA}}. Chubby was owned by a blacksmith in [[Easy Street]], who was using him as a forge, to the ''great displeasure'' of [[Sybil Ramkin]]. He was brought to the [[Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons]], but when he seemingly escaped from his pen, Lady Sybil asked Captain [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] and the rest of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]] to keep an eye out.

Chubby had not liked the Sanctuary- the blacksmith had not been an unkind man, and he had gotten all the coal he could eat. But in the Sanctuary, there were lots of other dragons, and people had given him unfamiliar coal. Therefore, when [[Edward d'Eath|someone]] had taken him out of the Sanctuary in the middle of the night, he had assumed he was going back to the blacksmith. But d'Eath placed him in a box with a mirror right next to the [[Assassins' Guild]]'s museum. The dragon, seeing an enemy in the mirror, and flamed at it until he exploded. The destruction blasted the walls of the museum apart and allowed [[Edward d'Eath]] to steal the [[Gonne]].

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