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* EvilMatriarch: Her poor, poor daughters-in-law certainly think so.
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* EvilMatriarch: Her poor, poor daughters-in-law certainly think so. Nanny Ogg sees their primary purpose in life as being to keep her content by cleaning her house -- and she's ''very'' demanding about that -- and providing her with all the food and drink she asks for.
* HardHead: According to Discworld/{{Maskerade}}, where an attempt by [[spoiler: Mrs. Plinge]] to lay her out cold with a full bottle of champagne to the skull merely leaves her woozy for a few seconds. Apparently, there's Dwarf in the Ogg ancestry and that means "a skull you could go mining with".
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* SupremeChef: With a specialty in aphrodisiac dishes, the effectiveness, as Discworld/{{Maskerade}} reveals, being unquestionable.
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* ThroughHisStomach: Publically disdains this saying, commenting that it's lousy advice unless the context is instructions for stabbing someone to death. Despite this, she knows enough aphrodisiac or libido-boosting dishes to publish a cookbook devoted to them.
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* UltimateBlacksmith: The greatest blacksmith in the world, he can shoe anything, even an ''ant''.
''ant''. The catch is, there are certain obligations attached to the distinction... most especially, that Death himself is a regular customer. Jason, for his part, takes this in stride, doing the job blindfolded, working very hard not to think about what's going on, and never, ever using the metal from the horseshoes he replaces for another living creature.
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** In ''Carpe Jugulum'', she manages to place her "self" into [[spoiler:''her own blood.'' Which causes the vampires to become like her, instead of the other way around.]]
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* JackOfAllTrades: He pretty much does every job around the castle that doesn't demand special training, and does them all fairly competently and with roughly the same amount of enthusiasm. He does sometimes get carried away, though.
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* AllWitchesHaveCats: Averted for several books, as Granny dislikes cats -- then played straight in ''Wintersmith'' and beyond, as Tiffany presents her with a white kitten. So she's now the owner of a white cat named You, as in [[HeyYou "Get down from there, You!" or "Stop that, You!"]]
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* FatGirl: She struggles a lot with this trope, particularly in ''Maskerade''. A bit of a {{Deconstruction}}, though, as a large part of her personality is how annoying she finds the stereotype and how hard she works on avoiding it.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Invoked in-story, as she's deliberately brought in by Nanny and Granny to take Magrat's role in the witches' coven. Agnes is actually quite unlike Magrat, though.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Subverted. Though it's seldom openly stated, Granny is actually ''not'' the most powerful witch around, and doesn't have the raw talent of, say, Nanny Ogg. However, she works so hard at being a witch and has become so skilled at using what she's got that she's more than earned her reputation as the greatest witch on the Disc.
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** Even if she isn't as strong in The short story ''The Sea And The Little Fishes'' directly states that of the two, Nanny is the more naturally talented witch and probably has more raw power, her but is still less formidable because she doesn't work as hard as Granny at using what she has. Her highly developed ability to get along with people makes does make her the better witch in most everyday situations (for example she is [[NotHyperbole the best midwife in the entire history of the world]]). Both world]]), and both recognize that they are strongest as a team.
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A fat, likeable old woman with a fondness for free food, [[GargleBlaster strong drink]], [[OrphanedPunchline dirty jokes]], and [[BawdySong dirtier songs.]] Easygoing, bends the rules [[strike: all the time]] when reality gets too boring, gets on well with nearly everyone, given time[[note]]Read: "seconds"[[/note]] to get to know them. Has been married three times ("and that's only the official score") and had fifteen children, and is thus the absolute ruler of [[TheClan a massive extended family]]. Owns an ill-tempered tomcat named Greebo who, despite Nanny's insistence that he's "an old softy," is practically the poster child for CatsAreMean and sires his own expansive clan (though once she admits "just between you and me, he's a fiend from hell."). Nanny has been best friends with Granny Weatherwax for decades, with the result that [[VitriolicBestBuds the two argue frequently.]] Despite her facade of a dim-but-lovable old lady, she hides "a mind like a buzzsaw behind a face like an elderly apple", and [[WordOfGod may]] be even more powerful than Granny.
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A fat, likeable old woman with a fondness for free food, [[GargleBlaster strong drink]], [[OrphanedPunchline dirty jokes]], and [[BawdySong dirtier songs.]] Easygoing, bends the rules [[strike: all the time]] when reality gets too boring, gets on well with nearly everyone, given time[[note]]Read: "seconds"[[/note]] to get to know them. Has been married three times ("and that's only the official score") and had fifteen children, and is thus the absolute ruler of [[TheClan a massive extended family]]. Owns an ill-tempered tomcat named Greebo who, despite Nanny's insistence that he's "an old softy," is practically the poster child for CatsAreMean and sires his own expansive (Granny's kitten You is the only feline in Lancre who is not descended from Greebo from at least one - and usually several - line of descent) clan (though once she admits "just between you and me, he's a fiend from hell."). Nanny has been best friends with Granny Weatherwax for decades, with the result that [[VitriolicBestBuds the two argue frequently.]] Despite her facade of a dim-but-lovable old lady, she hides "a mind like a buzzsaw behind a face like an elderly apple", and [[WordOfGod may]] be even more powerful than Granny.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Her son, Shawn, was born 20 years previous. His father died ''thirty'' years previous. Shawn hasn't noticed, and Ridcully stops Stubbins from pointing it out.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Her son, Shawn, was born 20 years previous. His father died ''thirty'' years previous. Shawn hasn't noticed, and Ridcully stops Stubbins Stibbons from pointing it out.
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A fat, likeable old woman with a fondness for free food, [[GargleBlaster strong drink]], [[OrphanedPunchline dirty jokes]], and [[BawdySong dirtier songs.]] Easygoing, bends the rules [[strike: all the time]] when reality gets too boring, gets on well with nearly everyone, given time[[hottip:*:Read: "seconds"]] time[[note]]Read: "seconds"[[/note]] to get to know them. Has been married three times ("and that's only the official score") and had fifteen children, and is thus the absolute ruler of [[TheClan a massive extended family]]. Owns an ill-tempered tomcat named Greebo who, despite Nanny's insistence that he's "an old softy," is practically the poster child for CatsAreMean and sires his own expansive clan (though once she admits "just between you and me, he's a fiend from hell."). Nanny has been best friends with Granny Weatherwax for decades, with the result that [[VitriolicBestBuds the two argue frequently.]] Despite her facade of a dim-but-lovable old lady, she hides "a mind like a buzzsaw behind a face like an elderly apple", and [[WordOfGod may]] be even more powerful than Granny.
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* NiceMeanAndInbetween: The mean one along with Nanny (inbetween) and Magrat (nice).
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Okay, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold so she's not]] ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold nice]]'' [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold nice]], but she'll go out of her way to help people who genuinely need it and the most she'll ever give people who merely annoy her is some [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] and maybe a warning. That said, threaten children, her friends or anyone from Lancre, and '''[[FateWorseThanDeath nothing can save you]]'''.
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* RetiredBadass: Not so much a badass who retired as a badass who happens to be the age of your grandmother. Granny has heard of the concept of retirement for the elderly; for her, it's something that happens to other people.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Towards Magrat. She saw potential for real witchery in the girl, and was a StealthMentor to her. She was secretly very proud of her, even though she never shows it. She was very upset when Magrat left witching, and was incredibly upset when [[PoorCommunicationKills she thought she'd not been invited to her wedding]]. Still, she was the one who told the Fool to marry her and was secretly very honoured when Magrat named her daughter Esmerelda.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He desperately ''wants'' to be one, and is trying to improve the country through political and social reforms. [[DeconstructiveParodyGiven the general temperament of the The people of Lancre, this isn't going so well]].
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* RunningGag: Her broomstick is [[TheAllegedCar old, made of spare parts, and requires jump-starting]]. This involves holding it and running around like an idiot until the magic "catches."
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* HijackingCthulhu: Granny Weatherwax has the ability to "borrow" the minds of living things. Among other more normal targets, she has used this ability on an entire swarm of bees, and a ''building'' (Unseen University, to be precise, which is a bit of a GeniusLoci due to all the magic). Her pupil Eskarina Smith considered trying it on Great A'Tuin, ''the turtle that carries the world on its back'', but decided against it at the last moment because she didn't think she'd be able to get back.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Okay, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold so she's not]] ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold nice]]'' [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold nice]], but she'll go out of her way to help people who genuinely need it and the most she'll ever give people who merely annoy her is some [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] and maybe a warning. That said, threaten children, her friends or anyone from Lancre, and '''[[FateWorseThanDeath nothing can save you]]'''.
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* MundaneSolution: At least once a book she will get by a problem she can't handle herself by just asking someone for help, which would explicitly never even occur to the other witches (especially when it's a man).
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her unfortunate name is due to the fact that her mother couldn't spell "Margaret" on her birth certificate. When Magrat names her own daughter Esmerelda, she adds a "Note spelling" to the christening card. This doesn't turn out all that well.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her unfortunate name is due to the fact that her mother couldn't spell "Margaret" on her birth certificate. When Magrat names her own daughter Esmerelda, she adds a "Note spelling" to the christening card. This doesn't turn out all that well.
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A stern, skinny old woman who walks just on the "good" side of the thin line between good witch and bad witch. Thinks she knows what's best for people, and is usually right. Not well-liked, but well-respected, and that's usually good enough for her. Lives in the mountain kingdom of Lancre, and as far as she's concerned she and her fellow witches are the ones who really run the place. Tends to avoid using actual witch-magic unless she actually has to, preferring to use "headology" - her own personal version of psychology - something she is very, very, ''very'' good at. She is widely considered to be the most powerful witch on the Disc -- even the Feegles call her "The Hag O' Hags."
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!Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax
->''I can't be having with this.''
A stern, skinny old woman who walks just on the "good" side of the thin line between good witch and bad witch. Thinks she knows what's best for people, and is usually right. Not well-liked, but well-respected, and that's usually good enough for her. Lives in the mountain kingdom of Lancre, and as far as she's concerned she and her fellow witches are the ones who really run the place. Tends to avoid using actual witch-magic unless she actually has to, preferring to use "headology" - her own personal version of psychology - something she is very, very, ''very'' good at.
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* AntiHero: Custom made to be bad, but when her sister left she was forced to be the good one.
* AntiVillain: In her own opinion.
* BeingGoodSucks: Practically the postergirl for this trope.
* BrainwashResidue: The shapeshifting variety. For example, she stopped using owls to see at night because "You ends up for days trying to twist your head right round," and after she's borrowed an entire beehive, she declares, "I wantzzz a bunzzch of flowerzz, a pot of honey, and someone to szzzting."
* CatchPhrase: "Blessings be upon this house!", "I can't be having with this.", "I (still) aten't dead."
* CelibateEccentricGenius: a RareFemaleExample.
* ChildHater: Combined with WouldntHurtAChild. Yes, she has that combination. She will loudly (and repeatedly) complain about children and threaten them with over-the-top punishments, but she would never act on any of them.
* [[spoiler:CelibateHero]]: This amazes [[spoiler: her former suitor]] Ridcully when he finds out.
* CutenessProximity: With [[HeyYou You]] the kitten.
* TheDreaded
* GoodIsNotNice: She never wanted to be the good one, and is somewhat grumpy as a result.
* IcyBlueEyes: Much attention is given to her piercing, diamond-blue eyes.
* IHaveManyNames: At one point, Nanny brings up that her name among the trolls translates as "She Who Must Be Avoided" and the dwarfs know her as "Go Around The Other Side Of The Mountain".
* InSeriesNickname: Nanny Ogg calls her "Esme".
* InsufferableGenius: But they suffer her anyway, because it's ''way'' better than the alternatives.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnightInSourArmor: Insists she "ain't got no romance in her soul." (Though that suspiciously dramatic streak persists.)
* LethalChef:
* MemeticBadass: In-universe, Sam Vimes is the only one who comes close to her in this territory.
* NayTheist: The quote at the top of the trope page belongs to her.
* NeverMessWithGranny: '''''Ever.'''''
* NiceHat
* NoSenseOfHumor: Is famed for it.
* PimpedOutDress: She's forced into one in ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', and again in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'', in order to pose as an upper-class lady. She would never admit to liking it, of course, or the midnight black velvet cloak Tiffany gifts her.
* {{Pride}}: Nanny Ogg describes her as 'proud' in the same sense that 'the sea is full of water'. She isn't a proud person, her existence ''is'' pride.
* PrimAndProperBun: She wears her hair in a "tight bun that could crack rocks."
* RetiredBadass: Not so much a badass who retired as a badass who happens to be the age of your grandmother. Granny has heard of the concept of retirement for the elderly; for her, it's something that happens to other people.
* RunningGag: Her broomstick is [[TheAllegedCar old, made of spare parts, and requires jump-starting]]. This involves holding it and running around like an idiot until the magic "catches."
** Or [[spoiler: JUMPING OFF A ''ROOF''.]]
** Another one: Granny is such an expert at "Borrowing" (or casting her mind into animals while in a trance) that she has to carry a card with the words "I ATEN'T DEAD" on it to stop people from burying her. This turns out to be an astonishingly long range RunningGag that pays off in ''Carpe Jugulum'' where after fighting off vampires for the entire book she [[spoiler: ends the book lying on her bed clutching a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome card]] saying I STILL ATEN'T DEAD]]
* ShoutOut: lots of her lines.
* {{Transplant}}, [[{{Mentors}} Mentor]] and (arguably) one-woman SpotlightStealingSquad: In the Tiffany Aching books.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She can't talk to Nanny for more than a few minutes without them starting to fight.
** As said in ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', Granny "really couldn't be having at all with Nanny Ogg, who was her best friend."
** And in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' Nanny Ogg muses how they need to have a third, younger girl in the group to boss around or they'll just end up getting on each other nerves, while as a trio they can get on the nerves of the rest of the world, which is much more fun.
* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Despite the abundance of witches, they don't have [[IncrediblyLamePun spelling]] in the mountains.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Towards Magrat. She saw potential for real witchery in the girl, and was a StealthMentor to her. She was secretly very proud of her, even though she never shows it. She was very upset when Magrat left witching, and was incredibly upset when [[PoorCommunicationKills she thought she'd not been invited to her wedding]]. Still, she was the one who told the Fool to marry her and was secretly very honoured when Magrat named her daughter Esmerelda.
* WouldntHurtAChild: To the degree that when [[spoiler:she ends up infecting a clan of vampires with herself, they become unable to harm children as well.]] She insists this isn't the case, though.
--> '''Nanny:''' But they know you wouldn't do those things either, Esme.
--> '''Granny:''' No, they just know I ain't done it ''yet''.
!Gytha "Nanny" Ogg
A fat, likeable old woman with a fondness for free food, [[GargleBlaster strong drink]], [[OrphanedPunchline dirty jokes]], and [[BawdySong dirtier songs.]] Easygoing, bends the rules [[strike: all the time]] when reality gets too boring, gets on well with nearly everyone, given time[[hottip:*:Read: "seconds"]] to get to know them. Has been married three times ("and that's only the official score") and had fifteen children, and is thus the absolute ruler of [[TheClan a massive extended family]]. Owns an ill-tempered tomcat named Greebo who, despite Nanny's insistence that he's "an old softy," is practically the poster child for CatsAreMean and sires his own expansive clan (though once she admits "just between you and me, he's a fiend from hell."). Nanny has been best friends with Granny Weatherwax for decades, with the result that [[VitriolicBestBuds the two argue frequently.]] Despite her facade of a dim-but-lovable old lady, she hides "a mind like a buzzsaw behind a face like an elderly apple", and [[WordOfGod may]] be even more powerful than Granny.
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* BawdySong: The dreaded "Hedgehog Song" and "A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End".
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example.
* CoolOldLady
* DirtyOldWoman
* EvilMatriarch: Her poor, poor daughters-in-law certainly think so.
* FluffyTamer: Where Greebo is concerned, anyway.
** And possibly the Nac Mac Feegle.
* GoodIsNotDumb: She's smart enough to keep ''Granny Weatherwax'' in check.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: She smokes a pipe.
* HiddenDepths: [[WordOfGod Terry Pratchett has hinted]] that she may be more powerful than Granny. This is rarely noticeable, but briefly comes up in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}''.
** Even if she isn't as strong in raw power, her highly developed ability to get along with people makes her the better witch in most everyday situations (for example she is [[NotHyperbole the best midwife in the entire history of the world]]). Both recognize that they are strongest as a team.
* IWasQuiteALooker
* MyBelovedSmother: Or just plain EvilMatriarch to her daughters-in-law.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: So much so that she's even got ''Granny'' fooled.
* ReallyGetsAround: Her son, Shawn, was born 20 years previous. His father died ''thirty'' years previous. Shawn hasn't noticed, and Ridcully stops Stubbins from pointing it out.
--> '''Ridcully:''' They do things differently in the mountains. And more often.
* VitriolicBestBuds: with Granny.
!Magrat Garlick
Third witch in a small [[TheHecateSisters coven]] consisting of herself ("The Maiden"), Nanny Ogg ("The Mother") and Granny Weatherwax ("The... Other One"). Initially a naive young woman who tries a little too hard to be nice to everyone, and who [[GranolaGirl believes in the healing power of nature and all that other hippie rubbish]]. Magrat is a romantic soul with an open mind... so open, in fact, she's always letting in ideas before she can really think about them. However, she's quite skilled and quite dangerous when [[LetsGetDangerous she gets her act together]]. She eventually goes on to marry Verence II, the King of Lancre.
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* ACupAngst
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* GranolaGirl
* LetsGetDangerous: Magrat usually turns badass at least one time per book where she appears. It tends to be [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome spectacular]].
* MamaBear
!Agnes Nitt
AKA "that Agnes who calls herself Perditax", Agnes is the [[TheHecateSisters third witch]] after Magrat leaves, and indeed ''{{Discworld/Maskerade}}'' is about Nanny and Granny coming to Ankh-Morpork specifically to get her. Agnes is a shy, helpful, insecure fat girl who's sick and tired of being a shy, helpful, insecure fat girl (and people trying to reassure her by saying she's got good hair and a wonderful personality), and has thus developed a bit of an edge to her personality. She's able to sing in harmony with herself, thanks to a little quirk in her psychology that's exacerbated by her natural leanings towards witchcraft: she has a complete alternate personality that she unknowingly created herself. Naming it [[AwesomeMcCoolname Perdita X Dream]], it's the snarky inner monologue that comes out to make a mess of Agnes' life when she least expects it, but also helps her out a few times. She eventually learns to control Perdita, and falls in (and out) of love with a handsome young vampire in her second starring book.
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* BrawnHilda: Especially since her appearance in ''{{Discworld/Maskerade}}'' has her play the part of the large operatic singer.
* BrotherChuck: Has not been seen since ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', and most of the young witch-in-training focus has [[AbortedArc shifted]] to Tiffany Aching.
* DeadpanSnarker: Perdita
* {{Gainaxing}}: She's so fat she does it with her entire body. This is one of those things that's either massive FanDisservice or FetishFuel with little room for middle ground.
* GentleGiant
* MusicalAssassin: The top of her impressive vocal range has occasionally been used for tricks such as breaking glass, while the bottom end [[BrownNote affects people's bowels]].
* [[AwesomeMcCoolname Perdita X Dream]]: (Former) TropeNamer
* SplitPersonality
* StoutStrength
!Verence of Lancre
->''He'd always slept in front of the door to his master. And now he was king, he slept in front of the door to his kingdom.''
His initial appearance in ''Wyrd Sisters'' was as the court Fool, and his name was unknown until Magrat used magic to find it out. He ended up on the throne of Lancre after the usurper Duke Felmet, more or less because no one else was better qualified or interested in the job, and possibly something to do with that mysterious ''droit de signeur'' business. Verence is small, shy and unassuming, and his subjects are amiably indifferent to him, provided he looks appropriately kingly at ceremonies and doesn't interfere with their lives too much. He eventually married Magrat in ''Lords and Ladies.''
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Normally Verence is a wimp, but watch what happens when the Pictsies give him some of their brew...
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Because of his background from the Fool's Guild, he hates custard pie. He even made custard illegal in Lancre.
* RagsToRoyalty
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He desperately ''wants'' to be one, and is trying to improve the country through political and social reforms. [[DeconstructiveParody Given the general temperament of the people of Lancre, this isn't going so well]].
* StraightMan
* TheWisePrince
!Jason Ogg
Nanny Ogg's eldest son, a blacksmith and master farrier ([[AC:And we mean 'Master']]). A big gentle soul, he's slow of thought, but it's best not to get him annoyed, because he's quite capable of picking up a pair of struggling men by the scruffs of their necks.
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* TheBlacksmith.
* UltimateBlacksmith.
!Shawn Ogg
Nanny Ogg's youngest son, a helper at Lancre Castle with a multitude of roles including captain of the guard, the guard, and about a dozen other jobs, including the butler on occasion.
* OneManArmy: He is the entirety of Lancre's standing army.
** Except when he's lying down.
