History Characters / DiscworldOneBookWonders

[[ArcWords Him Diamond.]]

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Trolls in Discworld are made out of metamorphorical rock (a pune, or play on words, upon the terms metaphor and metamorphic). Once in a while a special diamond troll will turn up; these trolls tend to be the kings and leaders of the troll race. This is because diamond trolls are capable of regulating their internal body temperature; troll brains, being silicon-based, work better and faster the colder they get, so diamond trolls are naturally the smartest trolls around

!71-Hour Ahmed

!Conina the Hairdresser

Daughter of the above-mentioned Cohen the Barbarian and one of the many temple dancers he woo'ed through the years. From her mother she inherited gold-tinged skin, white-blond hair, a voice that can make "Good morning" sound like an invitation to bed, and a very good figure. From her father, she inherited sinews you could moor a ship with, muscles as solid as a plank, and reflexes like a snake on a hot tin roof. She also acquired from Cohen suitable heroic instincts (that is, strong urges to fight, kill, and steal) and an ability to [[ImprovisedWeapon use anything as a deadly weapon]]. These traits rather get in the way of the profession she really wants to have: hairdressing. Seen in ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''.

!Coin the Sourcerer

!Lobsang Ludd

!Jonathan Teatime

!Polly/Oliver Perks

!Carcer Dun

!The Amazing Maurice

!Om

!Glenda Sugarbean

!Trevor "Trev" Likely

!Juliet Stollop

!Mr. Nutt

!Pepe

!Madame Sharn

!Mr. Shine

* MemeticBadass: Being a Trollish culture hero, Mr Shine is one of these in-universe.

'''Shine''': "Exactly! Good day, Mr. Vimes."

* {{Expy}}: At first glance, and indeed at second glance, he can come across as one for [[Discworld/MovingPictures Gaspode the Wonder Dog]]; Maurice's OriginStory is similar to Gaspode's second origin (normal stray animals made intelligent from exposure to magical garbage), they're both, on the whole, smarter than the humans they hang out with and use similar tactics in manipulating said humans, and they are both ''masters'' of [[DeadpanSnarker snide and sarcastic comments]]. As the story goes on, however, it turns out that despite similar set-ups and circumstances, the two animals are actually very different when it comes down to it -- where Gaspode is ultimately a pessimist who loves to wallow in self-pity and set himself up as a tragic hero, Maurice has a more positive outlook on life and is a lot more unashamedly a self-centered JerkWithAHeartOfGold -- with a bit of a DarkAndTroubledPast. Although, given how Gaspode mentions that other animals were affected by the magical garbage, the rats' intelligence comes from the same source.

The son of the renegade wizard Ipslore the Red, Coin is in fact Ipslore's 8th son- and since Ipslore was the 8th son of an 8th son, this made him a sourcerer. Unlike wizards, who draw on the magic around them, Coin generates his own power, making him an obscenely powerful magic user. Raised by his father's spirit bound to his staff, Coin takes over Unseen University to take wizards to their (As according to Ipslore) proper station, setting the plot of ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In the end, Coin realizes that [[TooPowerfulToLive he's too powerful to live on the Disc]], and creates his own world to live in.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Becomes Archchancellor by ''incinerating'' his rivals.

* EvilSorcerer: Subverted. Coin's not evil, that's just his father living through him.

* RealityWarper: Unfortunately, this spells bad things for the Disc. Luckily, it means that he's his own ResetButton

-->'''Nutt:''' When I lived in the dark of the forge, I used to lift weights. The tongs at first, and then the little hammer and then the biggest hammer, and then one day I could lift the anvil. That was a good day. It was a little freedom.\\
'''Trev:''' Why was it so important to lift the anvil?\\
'''Nutt:''' I was chained to the anvil.

!Trev Likely

%% * TheCharmer

%% * MeaningfulName

* VerbalTic: "Din't it?"
%% * WorldsMostBeautifulWoman

%% * AwesomenessByAnalysis
%% * BadassAdorable
%% * BadassBookworm
%% * BigEater:
-->'''Nutt:''' I have a fast metabolism --
-->'''Glenda:''' Well, that's all right, as long as you don't show it to anybody.

%% * DarkAndTroubledPast

%% * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

%% * [[spoiler:SuperSoldier]]

%% * AlwaysCamp

The owner of a dwarven fashion house.

%% * VictoriasSecretCompartment

--> Him who mountain crush him no,\\
Him who sun him stop him no,\\
Him who hammer him break him no,\\
Him who fire him fear him no,\\
Him who raise him heart above him head,\\

** When he ''does'' make a physical appearance in the fourth ''Science of Discworld'' book, his presence is less than overwhelming, demonstrating better than ever why he does better as a silent and unseen god.

* MismatchedEyes: One eye is solid black glass, while the other is light blue with only a tiny pinprick of a pupil. According to rumors the glass one is made from magic crystal.

* AllLovingHero: For the Trolls.

%% * TheMessiah
* NamesToTrustImmediately: [[LightIsGood Mr Shine]].

Nobody can seem to decide whether Teatime, the villain of ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', is the personification of NightmareFuel or BadAss. He's one of the Assassins' Guild scholarship boys, taken in because both his parents died when he was young and they felt sorry for him. As Lord Downey put it, "[[SelfMadeOrphan Perhaps we should have wondered a bit more about that]]."

* [[BroughtDownToNormal Brought Down To Tortoise]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: If you know the story behind it, his name is. He got his name because, while his tribe are supposed to give anyone three days (72 hours) of hospitality, he killed a man who poisoned a well one hour before the time was up. It's implied that waiting the full 72 hours would have given the man the chance to get away.
** An alternate interpretation is that after 72 hours he could have done what he wanted to the man with impunity. After discovering the man's guilt at 71 hours, he was [[HonorBeforeReason unwilling to wait even an hour]] to bring justice to the man.

* CrazyPrepared: He spends his free time working out how to kill mythological figures, which comes in handy.
* DoubleJump: Somehow.

* StupidEvil: Teatime ''immediately'' kills anyone who stops being of use to him, with no thought to the long-term consequences or even whether or not this person might become useful again later. If he'd survived the mission, the Assassins and Thieves would likely have had him killed just because of all the incredibly valuable experts he went through.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde
* IJustWantToBeNormal

* [[spoiler:AnthropomorphicPersonification]]

* PsychoForHire
* PsychopathicManchild

* AxCrazy: He'd kill you for you watch rather than ask you the time.
* CombatPragmatist
* CrazyPrepared

* SerialKiller

* AntiHero
* CatsAreMean
* JerkassFacade
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* TalkingAnimal

* MamaBear

* TheCharmer
* IGaveMyWord: Not to play football.

* MeaningfulName
* TooDumbToFool

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman

* AwesomenessByAnalysis
* BadassAdorable
* BadassBookworm
* BigEater:

* DarkAndTroubledPast

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

* SpockSpeak
* [[spoiler:SuperSoldier]]

* AlwaysCamp

* RealMenWearPink

* BreastPlate

* LadyDrunk
* VictoriasSecretCompartment

* TheMessiah
* NamesToTrustImmediately

** DefusingTheTykebomb: ...but starts to change after encountering Rincewind.

Om is the god of Omnia, a state somewhere in Discworld's hot desert regions. He starred in ''Discworld/SmallGods'', and was an example of what happens to gods when people stop believing in them (even if they're still practicing the official religion). In his official form, Om is a great big mighty golden thing with horns, but he spends [[spoiler:most of]] the story as a powerless, petulant, sarcastic tortoise with a lot of natural enemies (including eagles, other small gods, and his own In...uh, '''''Ex'''''quisition), because his religion has grown so bureaucratic that he's down to his very last believer. Said believer is an initiate named Brutha, who has faith like stone and roughly the brains of one, too (which is to say, [[GeniusDitz engraved stone]]-it's actually more challenging for him to forget things).

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When he finally gets upset enough to intervene... [[spoiler:he [[EyeScream deals with]] Andy. Permanently.]]

Om is the god of Omnia, a state somewhere in Discworld's hot desert regions. He starred in ''Discworld/SmallGods'', and was an example of what happens to gods when people stop believing in them (even if they're still practicing the official religion). In his official form, Om is a great big mighty golden thing with horns, but he spends [[spoiler:most of]] the story as a powerless, petulant, sarcastic tortoise with a lot of natural enemies (including eagles, other small gods, and his own In...uh, '''''Ex'''''quisition), because his religion has grown so bureaucratic that he's down to his very last believer. Said believer is an initiate named Brutha, who has faith like stone and roughly the brains of one, too.

* DeadpanSnarker: It's just something about being a tortoise. They're naturally deapan.

! Chrysophrase the troll

Ankh-Morpork's most famous [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub "Legitimate Businessman"]]. Is mentioned several times but doesn't make a real appearance until ''Thud!''. Known to take an interest in horse racing and has recently gotten out of the drug trade business.

* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'', Rincewind encounters a troll named Krysoprase. ''The Discworld Companion'' states that this is Chrysophrase before he came to Ankh-Morpork, the name difference attributed to a troll's bad spelling.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Chrysophrase helps Vimes prevent riots on Koom Valley Day by revealing a drug lab, because the drug manufactured there would cause homicidal insanity, and later death. Chrysophrase wants stable business, which is rather hard with dead customers.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Most trolls are not known for their intelligence, but Chrysophrase, even without the benefit of cold-enhanced thought processes, is smarter than most human criminals in the city. He intentionally uses HulkSpeak to throw people off their game even though he's fully capable of speaking normally.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Two of his henchmen attempt this on Vimes, but Chrysophrase later assures him that it was entirely their own idea and gives Vimes a box of gravel that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial couldn't possible contain an]] ''[[YouHaveFailedMe entire]]'' [[YouHaveFailedMe troll]].
* ShoutOut: To Meyer Wolfscheim from ''TheGreatGatsby'', as both wear cufflinks made of teeth (respectively human and troll)- the joke being that troll teeth are made of diamond.


!Glenda Sugarbean

The head of Unseen University's Night Kitchen, a practical and down-to-earth young woman who bakes [[SupremeChef the best pies in the world]]. Also has repressed anger issues and a habit of unleashing it on ''anyone'' who earns her wrath, up to and including Lord Vetinari.
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* MismatchedEyes: One eye is solid black glass, while the other is light blue with only a tiny pinprick of a pupil.

* UhOhEyes

A "goblin" employed downstairs at Unseen University at the bequest of Lord Vetinari, who is keeping him safe for Lady Margolotta. A fast learner and extremely skilled and diligent at everything he does and talks [[strike:as]] ''[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness more]]'' "nobby" than the wizards upstairs.