History Characters / DiscworldOneBookWonders

* CunningLinguist: He's casually multi-lingual, thanks to an Assassin's Guild education.

[[folder:Ronnie Soak]]

A milkman in Ankh-Morpork who has the uncanny ability to always deliver his wares at the exact same time for ''everywhere''.

In fact, Ronnie is actually [[spoiler:Kaos, the ''Fifth'' Horseman, who quit before they were famous.]]

%%* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother to Her Girls]]: [[spoiler:Becomes this, if the epilogue is anything to go by]].

* [[spoiler:[[AFatherToHisMen A Mother to Her Girls]]]]: Becomes this, if the epilogue is anything to go by.

** DefusingTheTykebomb: ... but starts to change after encountering Rincewind, being intrigued by the way that Rincewind (who's no threat to him in any way, shape, or form) challenges him not with any great magical spells or artefacts, but with half a brick in a sock.

* BigBadWannabe: He's not the BigBad of ''The Last Hero'', he's not even a threat, and a description of his career provides illumination: He's ''crap'' at being a threat. He is to villainy as Dibbler is to free enterprise.

** It's more than hinted that she got this character trait from her own mother, and part of her CharacterDevelopment is to overcome this part of herself.

* BenevolentBoss: He's noted as being a decent boss -- while he doesn't do much in the way of actual work, but he's kind to his subordinates, who, truthfully, probably need kindness more than supervision.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's very protective of Nutt, even going out of his way to teach him elocution at the start of the book. Glenda is initially baffled by this, since Nutt is [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness very well-spoken]] and Trev has the vocabulary and diction of a working class ex-street kid, then realises that Trev's actually doing it to protect Nutt from those who might react badly to a posh accent and long words -- something shown to be a warranted fear.
* BookDumb: Not learned or intellectual, but he's fairly intelligent, has a good amount of street smarts, and has picked up surprising random facts.

* SmarterThanYouLook: He's a good deal more intelligent than he seems, especially in terms of street smarts and reading people (though considering that he's spent a fair amount of time around Andy, this is probably a matter of survival).

Azrael is one of the Old High Ones of the Universe, he's possibly ''the'' Universe itself. He is the Death of the Universe, Death of the Discworld is merely an aspect of himself as are all lesser deaths. He's only appeared in one book ''Reaper Men''.

* ImmortalityImmaturity: Just a bit human in his actions. Lu-Tze, long used to handling these sorts of personalities, gets him into a massive strunt when he figures out his identity.

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: Well, he didn't get a horse. He got a chariot. And he quit the band long ago, before they hit the big time.

* SdrawkcabName: Soak is just his actual name backwards.

[[folder:Lobsang Ludd]]

A foundling raised in the Guild of Thieves until a chance meeting with a history monk resulted in him being wiped from the Guild's collective memory and taken to be trained in the mountains in abilities he was only barely aware he had. However, Lobsang is apparently "a smart boy" and there's no teaching a smart boy. Compared to other characters in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' (and Pratchett characters in general), Lobsang is rather a blank slate. Of course then you discover that [[spoiler:he's actually half of a whole person who is also the son of the personification of time and ends up ''becoming'' Time itself in the end]], and suddenly he doesn't seem quite so standardised any more.

* SplitAtBirth: [[spoiler:Him and Jeremy Clockson, a socially inept and supersane (which is just as bad as being crazy) individual, are the same person, born twice because their/his/whatever mother freaked out a little bit during childbirth, and when Time herself freaks out ''strange'' things tend to happen. It comes out to the same thing in the end, and after they merge, the result is more Lobsang with more depth than a true composite -- this being explained InUniverse as being because Jeremy had a pretty miserable life.]]

* BrainlessBeauty: Though she eventually learns to make a decent pie.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Before her formal training, she (mostly through her staff) performs some pretty impressive tricks, like turning ale into milk, and then milk into apple brandy.

* BodySurf: She learns how to Borrow animals from Granny Weatherwax, but discovers the hard way that if she stays in one body too long, she can't return to her body, the animal's mind starts to reassert itself and she eventually [[NightmareFuel forgets that she's a girl]].

* TheSmartGuy: Long before Ponder Stibbons, there was this guy. He's so smart there aren't words for the things he describes, because they haven't been invented yet, or because they're things that can't be put in words. Even wizards, who look down on discover as a gross discourtesy and something that Shouldn't Be Done, are amazed and impressed by him, even if they have no idea what the hell he's talking about.

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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Becomes Archchancellor by ''incinerating'' his rivals.

* TheGoodKing: He tries, somewhat ineffectually, to be a good reformist King. Unfortunately, the very nature of Djelibeybi resists change until the titular pyramids are destroyed, most of the common people aren't entirely comfortable with Teppic's attempts to Take An Interest and Set Them At Their Ease, and everyone's too scared of/too used to listening to Dios' 'interpretations' of royal proclamations that nothing he sees really sinks in. He is also utterly determined to get back into Djelibeybi after it vanishes to save it, even though he hates the place, out of a sense of duty.

* ThouShaltNotKill: He can't bring himself to kill the presumed victim in the final exam of the Assassin's Guild (but his attempt to fail with flair ends up as a trick shot which pierces what turns out to be a dummy), and while he's a capable fighter, he's rather opposed to killing. Ironically, he ends up with what is probably the highest kill count in the series, taking out approximately 1300 undead ancestors [[MercyKill (to their great relief)]] and an entire pantheon of gods.
* NiceGuy: For a fully trained assassin, he's very good-natured (and somewhat squeamish), and genuinely wants to be TheGoodKing (though he's not particularly happy about being King in the first place.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Either she's deeply tanned or naturally dusky.

* PragmaticHero: Like Vimes, he's zealously dedicated to the pursuit of justice. Unlike him, however, he doesn't follow ThouShaltNotKill rule and is willing to break SacredHospitality. See also ShadowArchetype below.

* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: He went to the Assassins' Guild school, basically a posh British-style boarding school "with all the knobs turned UpToEleven, especially the one marked 'violence'", which takes a lot of international students. As he dryly observes, after seven years at a school for young gentlemen, life among the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy D'regs]] held no fears for him. Vimes is surprised despite himself when Ahmed mentions it. The thickly-accented Morporkian that Ahmed spoke when first introduced turns out to be just part of his act.

* KnifeNut: He doesn't usually use weapons, but he's a dab hand with blades when needs be [[spoiler:as Andy finds out to his cost at the end of the book]].