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==External links==

*[http://www.lspace.org The L-Space Web] - ''Everything'' about Discworld (including this Wiki.)

==Newsgroups==

* [news://alt.fan.pratchett alt.fan.pratchett] - opens [[alt.fan.pratchett]] in your default mail client
** [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.fan.pratchett alt.fan.pratchett] on [[Wikipedia:Google_(search_engine)|Google Groups]]
* [news://alt.fan.pratchett.announce alt.fan.pratchett.announce]
** [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.fan.pratchett.announce alt.fan.pratchett.announce] on Google Groups
* [news://alt.book.pratchett alt.books.pratchett]
** [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.books.pratchett alt.books.pratchett] on Google Groups
* [news://de.alt.fan.pratchett de.alt.fan.pratchett] - German fan newsgroup
** [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.alt.fan.pratchett de.alt.fan.pratchett] on Google Groups

==Publishers' Websites==

* [http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/ Terry Pratchett] - Bibliography, forums and features from Verlagsgruppe Random House / Doubleday / etc.
* [http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/ Terry Pratchett Books] - A very active forum with members from around the world. Main page also includes current news and information about the books and Terry Pratchett. (HarperCollins)

==Blogs and Discussion==

* [http://www.affordable-prawns.co.uk/planet Planet afp] - A collection of afpers' weblogs.
* [http://www.electric-escape.net/pratchett Terry Pratchett Quotes] - A collection of quotations from Pratchett's novels and stories.
* [http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk Discworld Monthly] - A free monthly newsletter about the Discworld.
* [http://goodomenslexicon.org/index.php The Good Omens Lexicon] - a fan site dedicated to this one book, and worth visiting
* [https://clacksheader.wordpress.com Clacks Header] - A collection of articles, eulogies, fanfiction and other bits and pieces gathered from various sources.

== Conventions ==
* [http://www.dwcon.org/ DWCon] - the International ''[[Discworld]]'' Convention, held in the UK (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014. 2016, 2018, 2022)
* [http://www.discworld-convention.de Dicscworld-Convention.de] - the German ''[[Discworld]]'' Convention (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
* [http://www.ausdwcon.org AusDWCon] - the Australian ''[[Discworld]]'' Convention, "Nullus Anxietas" (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
* [http://www.idwcon.org IDWCon] - the Irish ''[[Discworld]]'' Convention (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
* [http://www.nadwcon.org/ NADWCON] - the North American ''[[Discworld]]'' Convention (2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019)
* [http://www.dutchdwcon.nl/ Dutch DWCon] - "Cabbagecon", the Dutch ''[[Discworld]]'' Convention (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
* [https://www.theineffablecon.org.uk The Ineffable Con] - ''[[TV and Film:Good Omens|Good Omens]]'' fan convention (2019, 2020, 2021); also run smaller events
* [https://llamedosholidaycamp.com Llamedos Holiday Camp] - a Welsh ''[[Discworld]]'' event (2020, 2021, 2022)

== National Sites ==
* [http://www.Ankh-Morpork.de Ankh-Morpork.de] - The German Terry Pratchett Fan Club
* [http://www.discworld.cz www.discworld.cz] - The biggest Czech web page about Discworld
* [http://dreamers.com/mundodisco/ La Concha de Gran'A'Tuin] - A Pratchett fan site in Spanish
* [http://pratchett.org pratchett.org] - a very good Russian-language site for CIS fans of Sir Terry
* [http://www.pratchett.pl/ Pratchett.pl] - a rather comprehensive Polish site that has been hiding from us for some time. Includes a "[http://www.pratchett.pl/pratchettopedia.html Pratchettopedia]"

==Peripherals==

*[http://www.paulkidby.com Paul Kidby's homepage] - Discworld art and news.
*[https://www.discworldemporium.com/ The Discworld Emporium] - creators and vendors of objets de Discworld art.
*[[Discworld MUD]] - A text {{wp|Massively multiplayer online game|MMO}} game started in 1991, based heavily on Pratchett's work. [http://discworld.atuin.net Link to website]
*[http://www.nocturnalsoldier.org/Tealin/xhp/disc/index.html Discworld & Pratchett Paraphernalia], a wealth of illustrations by Tealin.
*[[Micro Art Studios]][http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/ - A Polish miniature manufacturer] - A company making miniatures for RPGs and collecting with a discworld range.
*An archive of [http://web.archive.org/web/20081212000857/http://www.cheerycomic.co.uk/ ''Cheerycomic''] via the Wayback Machine - a good resource for Dwarves and the Watch.
*[[Ankh-Morpork MUSH]] - a text {{wp|Massively multiplayer online game|MMO}} game started in 2019, based on Pratchett's depiction of Ankh-Morpork at the end of the novel series. [http://discworld.mush.website Link to website]

==Forums==

* [http://z6.invisionfree.com/Dungeon_Dimensions Dungeon Dimensions] - A forum dedicated to Discworld. Not very active but a nice community feel.
* [http://z3.invisionfree.com/DWExtended Discworld Extended] - A new forum for Discworld chat, fan fiction, games and roleplay.
* [http://forum.discworldemporium.com/ Discworld Emporium Forum] - Set up by [[Bernard Pearson]], a discussion point for all things Pratchett.
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/ /r/Discworld] - A subreddit (sub-forum) of Reddit, "dedicated to the weird and wonderful Discworld". Reasonably active.

==Mastodon server==

* [http://mendeddrum.org/ The Mended Drum] - A Pratchett fan Mastodon instance.

==Wikis==
* [https://wiki.lspace.org LSpace's Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki] - This wiki.
* [https://pterryfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Discworld_Fanon_Wiki The Discworld Fanon Wiki] - A repository for all things Pratchett fanon. Feel free to use this for inspiration.
* [https://thelongearth.fandom.com/wiki/The_long_Earth_Wiki The Long Earth Wiki] - A great source for information on the Long Earth Series.
* [https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Discworld Wiki] - The Discworld wiki at Fandom.com (previously Wikia).
* [http://www.thediscworld.de DiscWiki] - The German-language Discworld wiki.

==Podcasts==
Moved to their own page: [[Podcasts]].

==Teaching Guides==
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazing-Maurice-Educated-Rodents-Respond/dp/1407160567 ''The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Read & Respond)''], by Eileen Jones, Scholastic, 1st September 2016.
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Summary-Long-Earth-Terry-Pratchett/dp/1388253062 ''Summary of The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett''], WhizBooks, 25th July 2018.
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Omens-Terry-Pratchett-Gaiman-Analysis/dp/2808018886 ''Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman'']], Bright Summaries, 8th April 2019.

==Criticism, biography, commentary==

*[http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/literature.html ''Terry Pratchett Guilty of Literature'']. The Science Fiction Foundation, 2000, edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn.
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/So-You-Think-Know-Discworld/dp/0340917326 ''So You Think You Know Discworld''] Hodder Children's Books, 2006, by Clive Gifford. Unofficial quiz book unlike the [[Book:The Unseen University Challenge|other]] [[Book:The Wyrdest Link|two]] by Dave Langford which were endorsed by Terry.
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unofficial-Companion-Novels-Terry-Pratchett/dp/1846450012 ''An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett''] Greenwood World Publishing, 2007, Andrew M. Butler.
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terry-Pratchett-Writers-Uncovered-Parker/dp/0431906432| ''Terry Pratchett (Writers Uncovered)''] Heinemann Library, 2007, Vic Parker.
*[http://www.sfsite.com/08a/tm277.htm ''The Turtle Moves'']. Benbella Books, 2008, by American commentator on all things Pratchett, {{wp|Lawrence Watt-Evans|Lawrence Watt-Evans}}
*[http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-The-Wee-Free-Discworld/dp/B004JZWRNA| ''Secrets of The Wee Free Men and Discworld: The Myths and Legends of Terry Pratchett's Multiverse''] by Carrie Pyykkonen and Linda Washington, 2008, St. Martin's Griffin.
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Terry-Pratchett-Fantasy-Craig-Cabell/dp/1843585073 ''Terry Pratchett-The Spirit of Fantasy''] by Craig Cabell, John Blake Publishing, 2011. (£17.99 UK). An entertaining and well-written book about Terry, part unauthorised biography, part literary criticism. Rumour has it this book has landed in remaindered bins at less than a fiver, a fate something as good as this does not deserve. (But see Amazon "customer reviews" for some violent disagreement.)
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1137360151 ''Philosophy and Terry Pratchett''] edited by Jacob Held and James South, 2014, Palgrave Macmillan.
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discworld-Disciplines-Approaches-Pratchett-Explorations/dp/0786474645 ''Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works''] by Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell, 2014, McFarland & Co Inc.
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Memory-Tribute-Sir-Terry-Pratchett/dp/1517603609 ''In Memory: A Tribute To Sir Terry Pratchett''] by Sorin Suciu (editor), 2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Discworld-Philosophy-Popular-Culture/dp/081269919X ''Discworld and Philosophy''] by Nicolas Michaud (editor), 2016, Cricket Books.
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terry-Pratchetts-Narrative-Worlds-Approaches/dp/3319672975 ''Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods''] by Marion Rana (editor), 11th January 2018, Palgrave Macmillan.
*[[Book:The Magic of Terry Pratchett|''The Magic of Terry Pratchett'']] by Marc Burrows, 30th July 2020, Pen & Sword History. [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Terry-Pratchett-Marc-Burrows/dp/1526765500 Link]
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terry-Pratchetts-Ethical-Worlds-Narrative-ebook/dp/B08G3KZ239 ''Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds: Essays on Identity and Narrative in Discworld and Beyond''] by Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leveret (Editors), 5th August 2020, McFarland.

==See also==
*[[Fan fiction]]
*[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Discworld?from=Main.Discworld TV tropes] - a really neat and entertaining site discussing the recurring "tropes", ie literary shortcuts, stereotypes and literary conventions present in TV, literature and art. A lot of space is given over to Pratchett's work, detailing how the tropes, those conventions, hooks and short-cuts present in the universal consciousness of all creative writers, work in the Discworld.

Now introducing:
*[[Fan-Art]]
*[[Fan Films]]

[[Category:Fandom|Fandom]]

Dodger

2018-01-02T04:20:52Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the character. For the book of the same name, see {{DO}}.}}
{{Character Data

|title= Dodger
|photo=
|name= Jack Dodger (formerly Pip Stick)
|age= 16 - 17
|race= Human
|occupation= Tosher
|appearance=
|residence= Seven Dials, London
|death=
|parents= none
|relatives= adoptive "uncle" [[Solomon Cohen]]
|children=
|marital status= Single, for the moment
|books= ''[[Book:Dodger|Dodger]]''
|cameos=
}}

{{stub}}

[[Category:Dodger]]

Lobsang

2018-01-02T04:19:37Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the character in ''The Long Earth''. For the son of Time in the Discworld, see [[Lobsang Ludd]]. For the Abbot of the Listening Monks, see [[Abbot Lobsang]].}}

'''Lobsang''' is a character in ''[[The Long Earth]]''. He is a Tibetan motorcycle repairman... who has been reincarnated as a supercomputer. The reasoning was that several sixth generation computers have tried without success to be named a human, but, if it is said that the computer is actually a human being (albeit in an unusual form) there can be no trouble. Any people who try to argue with the practicality of reincarnation will get some very short shrift from the religious community.
He now part-owns transEarth, a company which studies the various Long Earths, since the founder, Douglas Black, offered him a partnership. He does have a sense of humour, as he frequently disguises himself as a soft drinks dispenser.

==Annotations==
A Tibetan motorcycle repairman who is involved with spirituality - is there an echo of ''[[Wikipedia:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' here?

Given Sir Terry's era, he may also have fallen temporarily under the influence of (or at least read) The Third Eye, published in the late 1960s I think, and supposedly written by the Tibetan monk Lobsang Rampa, who turned out to be a man living in Hinchley Wood*, which sounds like it really ought to be somewhere in Discworld but is actually on Roundworld after all. But it was surprisingly popular and the first of many books by the same author.

* *Having written the above from memory, I thought it best to fact check a little. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa it was the nearby Thames Ditton, which sounds much more firmly rooted on Roundworld. And the original book was from the 1950s, not the 60s.

Lobsang also has shades of the evolved [[Hex]] at his most smug and omniscient.

[[Category:The Long Earth]]
[[Category: Long Earth Characters]]

Dodger

2018-01-02T04:18:50Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the character. For the book of the same name, see {{DO}}''.}}
{{Character Data

|title= Dodger
|photo=
|name= Jack Dodger (formerly Pip Stick)
|age= 16 - 17
|race= Human
|occupation= Tosher
|appearance=
|residence= Seven Dials, London
|death=
|parents= none
|relatives= adoptive "uncle" [[Solomon Cohen]]
|children=
|marital status= Single, for the moment
|books= ''[[Book:Dodger|Dodger]]''
|cameos=
}}

{{stub}}

[[Category:Dodger]]

User:Quiddity

2018-01-02T04:17:46Z

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Ohai.

I'm probably [[wikipedia:User:Quiddity]]. Build the web!

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Hogfather

2018-01-02T04:16:35Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the character. For the book of the same name, see {{H}}.}}

The Hogfather is originally a winter [[god]]. In the deep winters, people of old feared that spring might never again come, so they gave bloody sacrifice of hogs to the Hogfather. Nowadays, the Hogfather is expected to travel in a sleigh pulled by hogs and every [[Hogswatchnight]] to bring gifts to all the children, or at least, those who believe in him; this yields a worshipper range of most of the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]] except for the [[Counterweight continent]] and the [[Klatch (continent)|continent of Klatch]]. Despite this impressive range, crass commercialization of the holiday compromised the belief in Hogfather, and then interference from the [[Auditors of Reality]] severely threatened his existence (chronicled in ''[[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'').

His residence is the [[Castle of Bones]] near the hub. The Hogfather is an ancient being, who has seemingly kept his present form for some time; in ''[[Hogfather]]'', [[Albert]] reminisces about his childhood memories of the Hogfather, more than 2000 years ago. The only difference in the Hogfather in that time seems to have been that he did not bring presents, but ''sausages and black puddings if you were lucky. But you always got a pink sugar piglet in the toe''.

He parodies the [[Roundworld]] {{wp|Father_Christmas|Father Christmas}} (the UK version of {{wp|Santa_Claus|Santa Claus}})

In the land of pine trees and deep snow and long winters, when the sun is below the horizon most of the day, in the piercing cold it can become a real question whether or not the sun will rise again in the morning. The voice of reason says it will rise, but there are many unreasonable voices in a person. In response to this question, the [[anthropomorphic personification|anthropomorphic wossname]] called the Hogfather arose. He had many forms throughout the centuries, and the man in the red suit was only the last of them. Susan saw them one after another. His first form was properly speaking porcomorphic, or pig-shaped. It was to this point that he retreated when ambushed by Mr Teatime. Despite his apparent task of distributing presents in the season of goodwill, sustained by the belief of children, on the longest night of the year it is still the role of the Hogfather to ensure that the Sun rises in the morning (comparable to [[Teppic]]’s dynasty). It is no small thing to make the Sun rise. When he was able to resume his role, the Hogfather seemed to salute Death as an equal. He did not thank him. “Ho Ho Ho,” notwithstanding, he was not a personification of many words.

When the Hogfather was attacked, Death, like an expert mechanic hearing a change in the sound of an engine, had heard a harmonic change in the music of the universe. He was able to enter the congruent reality of the Hogfather in a way in which he could not enter the domain of the Tooth Fairy. Death applied first aid to sustain belief in the Hogfather among children, and recruited Susan, even Hex.

When Mr Teatime had failed, the Auditors attacked the Hogfather directly, in the form of hounds. It was necessary for Susan, as a human being, to be the one to act to save him. To do this she had to leave behind her inner babysitter, and be with her belief. It was not simple. At a point where the hog she was riding teetered on an icy ridge, precipitous drops on both sides, she repeated to herself, “He’ll catch me if I fall,” but an older voice within her said, “No, he won’t. If I fall now, I don’t deserve to be caught.” As in the case of Death and Miss Flitworth, an anthropomorphic personification was saved by the self-gift of a human being.

Later Susan said to Death, “The sun would have risen just the same, yes?” “The sun would not have risen,” he said. “A mere ball of flaming gas would have illuminated the world.” It would have been a world of oblivion.

The same human capacity to believe which supports the Tooth Fairy and the Hogfather creates the space for meanings such as justice, mercy and duty, which have no existence in the physical universe, to become. What Hogswatch seems to stand for is not that you will get presents if you have been nice, but that what you have done counts for something, and it is known. It matters. “All things strive...” says Hex. Strange though it may seem, given the general immersion of human and human-like beings in the mere business of staying alive, it is towards this point that all things strive. This very line also appears in [[Tak|Dwarf Lore]].

==Annotation==
Some aspects of the Hogfather suggest the anti-Santa Claus who lives on in some German folklore. Yes, Santa delivers presents to the ''good'' little boys and girls; but the bad ones had better beware the entity known as Schmutzli or Krampus, who at this season has free rein to punish the naughty with pinches, prods, hair-pulling, or a damn good thrashing with chains. Or even a "gift" of bloody bones in a bag... (thanks to Stephen Fry and ''QI'' for information)

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Supernatural entities]]
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Lobsang

2018-01-02T04:15:08Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the character in ''The Long Earth''. For the son of Time in the Discworld, see [[Lobsang Ludd]]. For the Abbot of the Listening Monks, see [[Abbot Lobsang]].a}}

'''Lobsang''' is a character in ''[[The Long Earth]]''. He is a Tibetan motorcycle repairman... who has been reincarnated as a supercomputer. The reasoning was that several sixth generation computers have tried without success to be named a human, but, if it is said that the computer is actually a human being (albeit in an unusual form) there can be no trouble. Any people who try to argue with the practicality of reincarnation will get some very short shrift from the religious community.
He now part-owns transEarth, a company which studies the various Long Earths, since the founder, Douglas Black, offered him a partnership. He does have a sense of humour, as he frequently disguises himself as a soft drinks dispenser.

==Annotations==
A Tibetan motorcycle repairman who is involved with spirituality - is there an echo of ''[[Wikipedia:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' here?

Given Sir Terry's era, he may also have fallen temporarily under the influence of (or at least read) The Third Eye, published in the late 1960s I think, and supposedly written by the Tibetan monk Lobsang Rampa, who turned out to be a man living in Hinchley Wood*, which sounds like it really ought to be somewhere in Discworld but is actually on Roundworld after all. But it was surprisingly popular and the first of many books by the same author.

* *Having written the above from memory, I thought it best to fact check a little. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa it was the nearby Thames Ditton, which sounds much more firmly rooted on Roundworld. And the original book was from the 1950s, not the 60s.

Lobsang also has shades of the evolved [[Hex]] at his most smug and omniscient.

[[Category:The Long Earth]]
[[Category: Long Earth Characters]]

Lobsang Ludd

2018-01-02T04:14:28Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the son of Time. For the character in ''The Long Earth'', see [[Lobsang]]. For the Abbot of the Listening Monks, see [[Abbot Lobsang]].}}
{{Character Data
|title= Lobsang Ludd
|photo=brothersmine.jpg|Lobsang and Jeremy by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= name Newgate Ludd and [[Jeremy Clockson]]
|age= early 20s in appearance
|race= Half [[Humans|human]], half [[anthropomorphic personification]]
|occupation= A thief (Ludd) and a clockmaker (Clockson)
|appearance=
|residence= [[Glass House]]
|death=
|parents= [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= unmarried
|books= [[Book:Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]
|cameos=
}}

'''Lobsang Ludd''' was born as one soul with two bodies from [[Wen the Eternally Surprised]] and [[Time]]. [[Nanny Ogg]] assisted at the birth, and witnessed the two souls being born. This can probably be explained by the whole universe being destroyed and recreated in an instant by Time. The two babies were put on the doorsteps of the [[Clockmakers' Guild]] and the [[Thieves' Guild]]. Naming conventions for the guilds resulted in the surnames Ludd and Clockson.

[[Jeremy Clockson|Jeremy]] became the best clockmaker of [[Ankh-Morpork]] and was chosen by the [[Auditors of Reality|Auditors]] to build the new [[Glass Clock]] which would stop time. A brilliant clockmaker, Jeremy succeeds. His brilliance does come at a price: all he cares about are clocks, he is not strong in social relations and has to take medicine (closely monitored by the guild) to behave in a socially accepted way. His [[Igor]] notices that his extreme sanity and orderliness is just another form of madness.

Newgate Ludd grows up entirely different, baffling people with his speed in stealing things, often small objects. On the run from persecutors he falls, but saves his life by performing the ''Stance of the Coyote''. This is noticed by [[Marco Soto]] who sends him to the [[History Monks]] to be trained, where he receives the name Lobsang. Mostly because he has such talents he's a lazy student who gets thrown into the care of sweeper [[Lu-Tze]]. They both head to Ankh-Morpork, supposedly to learn [[The Way of Mrs. Cosmopilite]], but really to find and destroy the Glass Clock. In the aftermath of the stopping of time, Lobsang meets [[Susan Sto Helit]] and together they find his "brother" who got wounded in the events. Their souls get reunited, but Lobsang is his preferred personality. Between him and Susan a romance blossoms.

After restoring the world and the flow of time, Lobsang takes over the job as Time so his parents can enjoy some time off. He meets [[Lu-Tze]] in a duel who beats him with [[Deja Fu]], finishing his education and making him a fully approved [[sweeper]].

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[[Category: Discworld characters|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[Category: Supernatural entities|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[Category: Leading characters|Ludd, Lobsang]]
[[de:Lobsang Ludd]]

Lobsang

2018-01-02T04:13:15Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the character in ''The Long Earth''. For the son of Time in the Discworld, see [[Lobsang Ludd]].}}

'''Lobsang''' is a character in ''[[The Long Earth]]''. He is a Tibetan motorcycle repairman... who has been reincarnated as a supercomputer. The reasoning was that several sixth generation computers have tried without success to be named a human, but, if it is said that the computer is actually a human being (albeit in an unusual form) there can be no trouble. Any people who try to argue with the practicality of reincarnation will get some very short shrift from the religious community.
He now part-owns transEarth, a company which studies the various Long Earths, since the founder, Douglas Black, offered him a partnership. He does have a sense of humour, as he frequently disguises himself as a soft drinks dispenser.

==Annotations==
A Tibetan motorcycle repairman who is involved with spirituality - is there an echo of ''[[Wikipedia:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' here?

Given Sir Terry's era, he may also have fallen temporarily under the influence of (or at least read) The Third Eye, published in the late 1960s I think, and supposedly written by the Tibetan monk Lobsang Rampa, who turned out to be a man living in Hinchley Wood*, which sounds like it really ought to be somewhere in Discworld but is actually on Roundworld after all. But it was surprisingly popular and the first of many books by the same author.

* *Having written the above from memory, I thought it best to fact check a little. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa it was the nearby Thames Ditton, which sounds much more firmly rooted on Roundworld. And the original book was from the 1950s, not the 60s.

Lobsang also has shades of the evolved [[Hex]] at his most smug and omniscient.

[[Category:The Long Earth]]
[[Category: Long Earth Characters]]

Nomes

2018-01-02T04:11:44Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the protagonists of the [[Bromeliad]]. For those sub-miniature humanoids found on the Discworld, see [[Gnomes]].}}

'''Nomes''' are a species of aliens who were forced to land on the earth until they could summon their ship (The [[Starship Swan]]) and leave. At the time of the events in the [[Bromeliad]] the Nomes had reverted to barbarism and what technology they had access to was mainly borrowed from humans.

==Physiology==
Nomes are about four inches tall with a lifespan of around ten years. As a result of this they live and move approximately 10 times as fast as humans. This is the main reason they have escaped detection by humans. Although there has been some contact it is mainly dismissed as fairy stories.

==Technology==
Nomes, before landing on earth, had reached a very high level of technology and had developed space travel and thus colonised space.

==The Thing==
''Main article [[The Thing]]''

The Thing is a highly developed computer. While in the care of [[The Tribe]] it was dormant due to lack of power but once brought to electricity it was activated and then able to direct and assist the nomes to leave the planet.

[[Category:Bromeliad]]
[[Category:Bromeliad characters]]

Mort

2018-01-02T04:10:55Z

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{{hatnote|This article is about the character. For the book of the same name, see {{M}}.}}

Sto Helit Family Motto: ''NON TIMETUS MESSOR''

''Fear Not The Reaper''

His Grace, The Duke of Sto Helit, Lord Mortimer Sto Helit.

{{Character Data
|title= Lord Mortimer, the Duke of Sto Helit
|photo=Mortmine.jpg|Mort by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= Mortimer "''Mort''"
|age=
|race= Human<br>(Briefly became an [[Anthropomorphic personification]])
|occupation= Duke of [[Sto Helit]], formerly apprenticed to [[Death]]
|appearance= Tall, red haired and possessing more than the usual allotment of knees.
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|death= Beginning of {{SM}}, Dead Man's Curve
|parents= [[Lezek]] (father)<br>[[Death]] (father-in-Law)
|relatives= [[Hamesh]] (Uncle)
|children= [[Susan Sto Helit|Susan]] (daughter)
|marital status= Married to [[Ysabell]]
|books= {{M}}
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'''Mort''' (short for Mortimer) is a young boy from the [[Ramtops]], son of [[Lezek]]. He was very thin during his childhood, and he lived at his father's farm until he was old enough to go to apprenticeship, becoming [[Death]]'s apprentice at the stroke of midnight. There he learned about the fabrics of time and space, the thin line between life and death, and how to clean out [[Binky]]'s stable. During the course of his apprenticeship, Mort acquired some of Death's special abilities, such as the ability to see the dead and to walk through walls.

As the book progresses, Mort develops more and more Death-like traits: he learns to speak with {{death|the voice}}and Ysabell is alarmed to notice his brown eyes have turned to Death's icy blue. Correspondingly, Death himself becomes more human, as if the roles are shifting, and for the first and only time, His voice is rendered in lowercase, and with quotation marks.

However, the first time Mort does the job by himself, he saves [[Keli|someone]] instead of collecting their soul, causing a rift in time and space, between what actually happened and what was ''supposed'' to happen. In attempting to maintain the reality that he created, Mort rebelled against his Master, resulting in a swordfight in Death's own home.

Mort lost, but Death changed his mind about killing him, perhaps due to what Mort said, or perhaps Death saw [[Susan Sto Helit|Susan]] witnessing the fight, and realised that it was necessary to keep his apprentice alive. It should be mentioned that during Mort's apprenticeship, his father never knew what Mort was doing; he thought Mort was an apprentice to an undertaker, because of his own subconscious unwillingness to see Death.

Mort married [[Ysabell]] and became the Duke of [[Sto Helit]]. The couple subsequently traveled extensively among the Sto Plains cities, conducting diplomatic visits to discourage wars that the previous Duke - a chance casualty of {{M}} - had originally been destined to suppress by force. Both were killed in a coach accident in ''[[Book:Soul Music|Soul Music]]'', even though Death had offered them an immortality of sorts in his own realm. Their daughter, [[Susan Sto Helit]], inherited the slap-mark-like birthmark that Death had left on Mort's face.

==Annotations==
* The motto of the Sto Helit family is; '''''Non Timetus Messor''''', which is translated in the article concerning links with the [[Roundworld]] heavy rock band [[Blue Öyster Cult]], whose biggest hit record on Roundworld [[wikipedia:(Don't Fear) The Reaper|was....]]
* After the appointment of Mort as the new Duke of Sto Helit, the Sto Helit family [[College of Heralds|coats of arms]] is, mysteriously, (due to their ties with [[Death]],) a shield with pair of scythes crossed against it, and a hourglass where the scythes cross.
On Roundworld,such a shield was the emblem of a unique New York dining club, who set about methodically ridiculing the susperstition that the number thirteen and the day Friday were inherently unlucky, by deliberately dining thirteen to a table on every Friday the Thirteenth. Active between 1881 and the First World War, the Thirteen Club [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteen_Club] and its members suffered no greater ill-fortune than would be attributable to chance, and the club emblem on its menus and letterheads was indeed two scythes crossed in front of an hourglass with the motto ''Morituri Te Salutamus'' (We who are about to die salute you").
[[File:Thirteen Club.JPG]]

* During the events in ''[[Book:The Light Fantastic|In The Light Fantastic]]'', [[Rincewind]] overhears [[Twoflower]] teaching the [[Four Horsemen|Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]], ([[Death]], [[Famine]], [[Pestilence]] and [[War]],) how to play bridge. At one point, War refers to Death as "'''''Mort'''''" but the reader later learns that the only people in the room, (other than Twoflower,) were Death, Famine, Pestilence and War. The name might be a possible reason as to why Death chose Mort as his apprentice. When Death [[Book:Mort|first meets Mort]] and learns Mort's name ('Mort' being the [[Quirm|Quirmian]] word for 'death'), he comments, {{death|What a coincidence.}}

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{{hatnote|This article is about the counting and naming of years and days on Discworld. For the calendar-like-books, like ''Diaries'', see [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]]. For the commercial wall-calendars, see [[Discworld Calendars]].}}

==General==
A Discworld celestial year has 800 days and because of some interesting astronomical facts two of each seasons (two summers, two winters, etc.). This leads to the fact that many people actually do not count the astronomical years, but the half-years with 400 days, often refered to as "common years". The half-year has 13 months, listed below. Each month except Ick has 32 days, Ick has 16 days. Each week has eight days. The eighth day of each week is called Octeday.

There are two main calendars in use on Discworld. The [[Ankh-Morpork Calendar]] counts full years and starts at the founding of [[Ankh-Morpork]], the [[University Calendar]] starts at the founding of [[Unseen University]] (in 1282 AM) and counts in half-years. Oddly enough, while the Imperial Ankh-Morpork calendar offers intellectual purity and mathematical elegance, the general populace tends to use the Weird, Wild, Wacky Wizards' calendar, which happens to correspond to the growing season.

==Years and centuries==
Centuries and years are named. We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy ({{CJ}}). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat ({{MP}}) and even earlier by the Century of the Three Lice, and the [[Djelibeybi|Century of the Cobra]] ({{SG}}).

== Notable past years==

*The [[Kreeblephor|Year of the Lenient Vegetable]] - in which Bishop [[Kreeblephor]] converted a demon to the [[Om]]nian faith;
*The [[Year of the Pensive Hare]] - the events of {{UA}} take place shortly after the New Year celebrations which usher in this year.
* The [[Year of the Astounded Beetle]]‎;
* The [[Year of the Engaging Sloth]];
* The Year of the Hyena (mentioned in {{S}})
* The [[Year of the Notional Serpent]];
* The Year of the Prawn (Common Year 2005; Scholar's Year 1657);
* The [[Cabbage|Year of the Pensive Frog]];
* The Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan (Common Year 2007);
* The Year of the Revolving Crab (mentioned in {{WA}};
* The Year of the Sideways Leech (mentioned in {{H}});
* The Year of the Spinning Mouse (Common Year 2015);
* The Year of the Talking Frog (mentioned in {{H}});
* The [[Year of the Sneezing Panda]] (Common Year 2016);
* The Year of the Intimidating Porpoise (mentioned in ''[[Reaper Man]]'');
* The Year of the [[Backwards-Facing Artichoke]] (Common Year 2017);
* The [[Ee|Year of the Scrofulous Vole]]. (mentioned in {{CDA}});
* The Year of the Justifiably Defensive Lobster (Common Year 2018)

==Months Of The Discworld Year==
Or rather, of the Discworld's ''half''-year. {{TCDA}} clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. Quote:
''This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which emcompasses two common years...''

* [[Ick]] - only has sixteen days
* [[Offle]] - all following months have thirty-two
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* [[Grune]]
* August
* [[Spune]]
* [[Sektober]]
* [[Ember]]
* December

The year commences on Hogswatch Day and ends on the following Hogswatch Eve.

==Special holidays==

* [[Hogswatch]] Eve, the end of the old common year.
* [[Hogswatch]]Day (first of Ick, start of the new common year)
* [[Soul Cake Tuesday]]
* Day of the Lesser Gods (?same as below?)
* [[Eve of Small Gods]], first midsummer day
* Samedi Nuit Mort (celebrated in Genua)
* Creator's Birthday (28th of April)
* Wear a lilac if you were [[Glorious Revolution|there]] day (25th of May)
* Koom Valley Day (5th of Grune)
* [[Crueltide]], half-year point (end of first half-year, start of next)
* [[Alls Fallow]], 3/4 point of 800-day year, the one day when witches and warlocks stay in bed (parodying {{wp|Halloween|Halloween}}), though in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weatherwax, since her arrival may cause people to feel wary rather than jolly.

== Seasons ==

* Spring Prime, first spring
* Summer: mid-point ''Small Gods' Eve''
* Autumn Prime, first autumn
* Winter Secundus aka Spindlewinter: Mid-point ''Crueltide''
* Secundus Spring
* Summer Two: mid-point ''All's Fallow''
* Secundus Autumn
* Backspindlewinter: mid-point ''Hogswatch''

Discworld seasons are 'explained' in one of four paragraphs in the footnote on page 5 of ''The Colour of Magic''. It is written:

"Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference."

==Zodiac==

The Discworld zodiac consists of 64 (8*8) constellations, nebulae or individual stars grouped in thirteen ''Houses''. There may be other constellations that are not part of the zodiac, but it's possible that the Discworld's unusual revolution means that the Discworld sun and/or moon enters all constellations at least once (the "zodiac" is a list of constellations in which the sun or moon [or planets, but there don't seem to be any around Discworld] can be found at some point in time). [[Roundworld]] has 88 constellations (1 of them non-contiguous), 12 of which are in the zodiac (a 13th constellation is also technically in the zodiac, but is not recognized as part of the zodiac). According to research wizard "Numbers" [[Riktor]], who meticulously counted them, there are, or were at the time of counting, 49,873 visible stars in the Discworld heavens. Which is ample raw material for the cosmic Rorschach test that creates constellations.

===The Houses of the Zodiac and their 64 Elements:===
:as described by the well-known mages and scholars Pratchett of Sarum and Pearson of Wincanton

*'''The First House''' - The House of Io
**The Eye of Io
** The Crab
**The Cow of Heaven
**The (Knotted) String
**The Celestial Parsnip

*'''The Second House''' - The House of the Gate
**[[Wezen (the double-headed kangaroo)]]
**The Two Fat Cousins
**The Perhaps Gate
**Scarab's Claw
**[[Mubbo the Hyena]]

*'''The Third House''' - The House of the Bull
**Silicarous's Gift
**The Bull
**Hast's Trumpet
**[[Cubal's Flame]]
**The Void

*'''The Fourth House''' - The House of Melok
**Melok
**Old Toesy
**Vut the Evenstar
**Mr Williams
**Occasional Paddles

*'''The Fifth House''' - The House of the Bright Cabbage
**Blic-Blick
**[[Spune|The Bright Cabbage]]
**The Starfish
**Old Dog
**[[Crabbus]]

*'''The Sixth House''' - The House of the Plow
**Pashmina
**The Flying Moose
**The Pitcher (or Bucket)
**Plough Handle
**Okjock the Salesman

*'''The Seventh House''' - The House of the Star
**The Faint Star Major
**The Faint Star Minor
**The Little Turtle
**The Flagon
**Ket's Knife

*'''The Next House''' - The House of Woldar
**Woldar
**Evar's Footprint
**The Ram's Horn
**Two Rivers
**Young Faithful

*'''The Ninth House''' - The House of the Ram
**The Jumping Ram
**[[Khefin]]'s Eye 1
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 2]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 3]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 4]]

*'''The Tenth House''' - The House of Trabnor
**Trabnor
**The Lanthorn
**The Wicket
**Turnip's Tail
**The Snipe

*'''The Eleventh House''' - The House of the Horse
**Teg the Horse
**The Miller's Pocket
**[[Astoria's Flame]]
**The Cradle
**The Sleeping Dog

*'''The Twelfth House''' - The House of Fore and Aft
**Young Harry
**Forward
**Aft
**Vut's Candle
**Silur the Catfish

*'''The Thirteenth House''' - The Dread House
**Old Faithful
**The Scythe
**The Coffee Cup
**[[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]

===Annotations===

* Wezen the Doubleheaded Kangaroo: the first constellation (interesting because the wizards don't seem to recognize a kangaroo when they see it in {{TLC}}-- perhaps because it was flattened and had only one head? Although in fairness you couldn't recognize anything else from it's constellation either, and it's never really obvious what is mythical and what isn't!)
* The Two Fat Cousins: possible reference to Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
* The Flying Moose: possible reference to Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose
* [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]]: Rincewind's birth sign, usually not a wizard's sign. Was much brighter thousands of years ago when the Disc was closer to it (according to {{TLC}}), so it's not clear why the ancients called it "faint"; perhaps they knew the Disc would move away from it long-term?
* The Knotted String: possible pun on "I'm a frayed knot" jokes
* [[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]: the last constellation (now if we could only find that whale)
* the Triangle, mentioned in {{TLC}}, possibly not part of the zodiac

==Related pages==
* [[Discworld Timeline]]
* [[:category:Discworld Timeline|Discworld timeline category]]

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[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

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{{hatnote|This article is about the Discworld based calendars that were sold commercially. For the days and years of The Discworld, see [[Discworld calendar]]. For the calendar like books, the ''Diaries'', see the [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]].}}

Collectors edition calendars featuring illustrations of [[Terry Pratchett|Terry Pratchett's]] Discworld by various artists.

There are three types of Discworld Calendar that were produced:
*Collectors Edition Calendar: the bulk of the calendars are these ordinary calendars with illustrations.
*Collectors Edition Mini Calendar: the same as above but smaller, only one was produced.
*Day to Day Calendars: Small calendars with rip-off pages, one for each day. Each page featured an illustration by [[Paul Kidby]] along with text about the featured character, the information was taken from {{DC}}. Two of these were produced.

=The Calendars by Year=
==1997==
[[File:Cal1997.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
Mortality Bytes Calendar 1997. This mini calendar was released with special editions of the US version of the game [[Game:Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?|''Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?'']] and is illustrated with images from the game.

==1999==
[[File:Cal1999.JPG|thumb|200px|right]]
[[File:DTD1999.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 1999
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

Terry Pratchett's Collectors' Edition Discworld Day-to-Day Calendar 1999
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

==2000==
[[File:Cal2000.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[File:Calmini2000-.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[File:DTD2000.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2000
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Mini Calendar 2000
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Day-to-Day Calendar 2000
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

==2001==
[[File:Cal2001.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2001
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]], [[Paul Kidby]], Graham Higgins, Colin MacNeil and Jay Hurst.

==2002==
[[File:Cal2002.JPG|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2002
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

==2003==
[[File:Cal2003.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2003
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], Les Edwards, Jim Burns, David Wyatt, [[Josh Kirby]], Fred Gambino, Jon Sullivan, John Howe, and Douglas Carrel.

==2004==
[[File:Cal2004.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2004
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], David Wyatt, Mark Edwards, Sandy Nightingale, Gino D’Achille, Angelo Rinaldi, Les Edwards, Jackie Morris, Stuart Williams, and David Frankland.

==2005==
[[File:Cal2005.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2005
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], Les Edwards, David Frankland, Angela Rinaldi, John Howe, Edward Miller, Stuart Williams, Sandy Nightingale, David Wyatt, Jackie Morris, and Jon Sullivan.

==2006==
[[File:Cal2006.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2006
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], David Wyatt, Dominic Harman, [[Stephen Player]], Jackie Morris, Sandy Nightingale, Melvyn Grant, David Frankland, and Jon Sullivan.

==2007==
[[File:Cal2007.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Discworld Calendar 2007
*Illustrated with stills from [[TV and Film:Hogfather|''Terry Pratchett's Hogfather'']].

==2008==
[[File:Cal2008.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2008
*Artwork by David Frankland, Jon Sullivan, Jackie Morris, [[Stephen Player]], [[Paul Kidby]], Melvyn Grant, Edward Miller, Sandy Nightingale, Les Edwards, and Dominic Harman.

==2009==
[[File:Cal2009.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2009
*Artwork by Edward Miller, Les Edwards, [[Stephen Player]], Angelo Rinaldi, Jon Sullivan, David Frankland, Dominic Harman, [[Paul Kidby]], Jackie Morris, Sandy Nightingale, and Melvyn Grant.

==2010==
[[File:Cal2010.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2010
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], Jon Sullivan, Edward Miller, Melvyn Grant, Jackie Morris, [[Stephen Player]], Les Edwards, Angelo Rinaldi, Sandy Nightingale, Dominic Harman, and David Frankland.

==2011==
[[File:Cal2011.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2011
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

==2012==
[[File:Cal2012.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2012
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

==2013==
[[File:Cal2013.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2013
*Artwork by Marc Simonetti.

==2014==
[[File:Cal2014.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2014
*Artwork by Marc Simonetti.

==2015==
[[File:Cal2015.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2015
*Artwork by [[Stephen Player]].

==2016==
[[File:Cal2016.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2016
*Artwork by Joe McLaren.

==2017==
[[File:Cal2017.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2017
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

==2018==
[[File:Cal2018.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2018
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]] and [[Paul Kidby]].

[[Category:Peripherals|Discworld Calendars]]

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Discworld Calendars

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:''This article is about the Discworld based calendars that were sold commercially. For the days and years of The Discworld, see [[Discworld calendar]]. For the calendar like books, the ''Diaries'', see the [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]].''

Collectors edition calendars featuring illustrations of [[Terry Pratchett|Terry Pratchett's]] Discworld by various artists.

There are three types of Discworld Calendar that were produced:
*Collectors Edition Calendar: the bulk of the calendars are these ordinary calendars with illustrations.
*Collectors Edition Mini Calendar: the same as above but smaller, only one was produced.
*Day to Day Calendars: Small calendars with rip-off pages, one for each day. Each page featured an illustration by [[Paul Kidby]] along with text about the featured character, the information was taken from {{DC}}. Two of these were produced.

=The Calendars by Year=
==1997==
[[File:Cal1997.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
Mortality Bytes Calendar 1997. This mini calendar was released with special editions of the US version of the game [[Game:Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?|''Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?'']] and is illustrated with images from the game.

==1999==
[[File:Cal1999.JPG|thumb|200px|right]]
[[File:DTD1999.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 1999
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

Terry Pratchett's Collectors' Edition Discworld Day-to-Day Calendar 1999
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

==2000==
[[File:Cal2000.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[File:Calmini2000-.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[File:DTD2000.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2000
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Mini Calendar 2000
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Day-to-Day Calendar 2000
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

==2001==
[[File:Cal2001.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2001
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]], [[Paul Kidby]], Graham Higgins, Colin MacNeil and Jay Hurst.

==2002==
[[File:Cal2002.JPG|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2002
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

==2003==
[[File:Cal2003.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2003
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], Les Edwards, Jim Burns, David Wyatt, [[Josh Kirby]], Fred Gambino, Jon Sullivan, John Howe, and Douglas Carrel.

==2004==
[[File:Cal2004.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2004
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], David Wyatt, Mark Edwards, Sandy Nightingale, Gino D’Achille, Angelo Rinaldi, Les Edwards, Jackie Morris, Stuart Williams, and David Frankland.

==2005==
[[File:Cal2005.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2005
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], Les Edwards, David Frankland, Angela Rinaldi, John Howe, Edward Miller, Stuart Williams, Sandy Nightingale, David Wyatt, Jackie Morris, and Jon Sullivan.

==2006==
[[File:Cal2006.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2006
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], David Wyatt, Dominic Harman, [[Stephen Player]], Jackie Morris, Sandy Nightingale, Melvyn Grant, David Frankland, and Jon Sullivan.

==2007==
[[File:Cal2007.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Discworld Calendar 2007
*Illustrated with stills from [[TV and Film:Hogfather|''Terry Pratchett's Hogfather'']].

==2008==
[[File:Cal2008.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2008
*Artwork by David Frankland, Jon Sullivan, Jackie Morris, [[Stephen Player]], [[Paul Kidby]], Melvyn Grant, Edward Miller, Sandy Nightingale, Les Edwards, and Dominic Harman.

==2009==
[[File:Cal2009.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2009
*Artwork by Edward Miller, Les Edwards, [[Stephen Player]], Angelo Rinaldi, Jon Sullivan, David Frankland, Dominic Harman, [[Paul Kidby]], Jackie Morris, Sandy Nightingale, and Melvyn Grant.

==2010==
[[File:Cal2010.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2010
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]], Jon Sullivan, Edward Miller, Melvyn Grant, Jackie Morris, [[Stephen Player]], Les Edwards, Angelo Rinaldi, Sandy Nightingale, Dominic Harman, and David Frankland.

==2011==
[[File:Cal2011.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2011
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

==2012==
[[File:Cal2012.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2012
*Artwork by [[Paul Kidby]].

==2013==
[[File:Cal2013.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2013
*Artwork by Marc Simonetti.

==2014==
[[File:Cal2014.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2014
*Artwork by Marc Simonetti.

==2015==
[[File:Cal2015.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2015
*Artwork by [[Stephen Player]].

==2016==
[[File:Cal2016.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2016
*Artwork by Joe McLaren.

==2017==
[[File:Cal2017.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2017
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]].

==2018==
[[File:Cal2018.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2018
*Artwork by [[Josh Kirby]] and [[Paul Kidby]].

[[Category:Peripherals|Discworld Calendars]]

Discworld calendar

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Quiddity: /* Notable past years */ add "Year of the Justifiably Defensive Lobster" per https://twitter.com/Discworld_com/status/947618544052817920

''This article is about the counting and naming of years and days on Discworld. For calendar books like the {{AGD}} see [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]], for the commercial items see [[Discworld Calendars]].''

==General==
A Discworld celestial year has 800 days and because of some interesting astronomical facts two of each seasons (two summers, two winters, etc.). This leads to the fact that many people actually do not count the astronomical years, but the half-years with 400 days, often refered to as "common years". The half-year has 13 months, listed below. Each month except Ick has 32 days, Ick has 16 days. Each week has eight days. The eighth day of each week is called Octeday.

There are two main calendars in use on Discworld. The [[Ankh-Morpork Calendar]] counts full years and starts at the founding of [[Ankh-Morpork]], the [[University Calendar]] starts at the founding of [[Unseen University]] (in 1282 AM) and counts in half-years. Oddly enough, while the Imperial Ankh-Morpork calendar offers intellectual purity and mathematical elegance, the general populace tends to use the Weird, Wild, Wacky Wizards' calendar, which happens to correspond to the growing season.

==Years and centuries==
Centuries and years are named. We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy ({{CJ}}). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat ({{MP}}) and even earlier by the Century of the Three Lice, and the [[Djelibeybi|Century of the Cobra]] ({{SG}}).

== Notable past years==

*The [[Kreeblephor|Year of the Lenient Vegetable]] - in which Bishop [[Kreeblephor]] converted a demon to the [[Om]]nian faith;
*The [[Year of the Pensive Hare]] - the events of {{UA}} take place shortly after the New Year celebrations which usher in this year.
* The [[Year of the Astounded Beetle]]‎;
* The [[Year of the Engaging Sloth]];
* The Year of the Hyena (mentioned in {{S}})
* The [[Year of the Notional Serpent]];
* The Year of the Prawn (Common Year 2005; Scholar's Year 1657);
* The [[Cabbage|Year of the Pensive Frog]];
* The Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan (Common Year 2007);
* The Year of the Revolving Crab (mentioned in {{WA}};
* The Year of the Sideways Leech (mentioned in {{H}});
* The Year of the Spinning Mouse (Common Year 2015);
* The Year of the Talking Frog (mentioned in {{H}});
* The [[Year of the Sneezing Panda]] (Common Year 2016);
* The Year of the Intimidating Porpoise (mentioned in ''[[Reaper Man]]'');
* The Year of the [[Backwards-Facing Artichoke]] (Common Year 2017);
* The [[Ee|Year of the Scrofulous Vole]]. (mentioned in {{CDA}});
* The Year of the Justifiably Defensive Lobster (Common Year 2018)

==Months Of The Discworld Year==
Or rather, of the Discworld's ''half''-year. {{TCDA}} clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. Quote:
''This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which emcompasses two common years...''

* [[Ick]] - only has sixteen days
* [[Offle]] - all following months have thirty-two
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* [[Grune]]
* August
* [[Spune]]
* [[Sektober]]
* [[Ember]]
* December

The year commences on Hogswatch Day and ends on the following Hogswatch Eve.

==Special holidays==

* [[Hogswatch]] Eve, the end of the old common year.
* [[Hogswatch]]Day (first of Ick, start of the new common year)
* [[Soul Cake Tuesday]]
* Day of the Lesser Gods (?same as below?)
* [[Eve of Small Gods]], first midsummer day
* Samedi Nuit Mort (celebrated in Genua)
* Creator's Birthday (28th of April)
* Wear a lilac if you were [[Glorious Revolution|there]] day (25th of May)
* Koom Valley Day (5th of Grune)
* [[Crueltide]], half-year point (end of first half-year, start of next)
* [[Alls Fallow]], 3/4 point of 800-day year, the one day when witches and warlocks stay in bed (parodying {{wp|Halloween|Halloween}}), though in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weatherwax, since her arrival may cause people to feel wary rather than jolly.

== Seasons ==

* Spring Prime, first spring
* Summer: mid-point ''Small Gods' Eve''
* Autumn Prime, first autumn
* Winter Secundus aka Spindlewinter: Mid-point ''Crueltide''
* Secundus Spring
* Summer Two: mid-point ''All's Fallow''
* Secundus Autumn
* Backspindlewinter: mid-point ''Hogswatch''

Discworld seasons are 'explained' in one of four paragraphs in the footnote on page 5 of ''The Colour of Magic''. It is written:

"Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference."

==Zodiac==

The Discworld zodiac consists of 64 (8*8) constellations, nebulae or individual stars grouped in thirteen ''Houses''. There may be other constellations that are not part of the zodiac, but it's possible that the Discworld's unusual revolution means that the Discworld sun and/or moon enters all constellations at least once (the "zodiac" is a list of constellations in which the sun or moon [or planets, but there don't seem to be any around Discworld] can be found at some point in time). [[Roundworld]] has 88 constellations (1 of them non-contiguous), 12 of which are in the zodiac (a 13th constellation is also technically in the zodiac, but is not recognized as part of the zodiac). According to research wizard "Numbers" [[Riktor]], who meticulously counted them, there are, or were at the time of counting, 49,873 visible stars in the Discworld heavens. Which is ample raw material for the cosmic Rorschach test that creates constellations.

===The Houses of the Zodiac and their 64 Elements:===
:as described by the well-known mages and scholars Pratchett of Sarum and Pearson of Wincanton

*'''The First House''' - The House of Io
**The Eye of Io
** The Crab
**The Cow of Heaven
**The (Knotted) String
**The Celestial Parsnip

*'''The Second House''' - The House of the Gate
**[[Wezen (the double-headed kangaroo)]]
**The Two Fat Cousins
**The Perhaps Gate
**Scarab's Claw
**[[Mubbo the Hyena]]

*'''The Third House''' - The House of the Bull
**Silicarous's Gift
**The Bull
**Hast's Trumpet
**[[Cubal's Flame]]
**The Void

*'''The Fourth House''' - The House of Melok
**Melok
**Old Toesy
**Vut the Evenstar
**Mr Williams
**Occasional Paddles

*'''The Fifth House''' - The House of the Bright Cabbage
**Blic-Blick
**[[Spune|The Bright Cabbage]]
**The Starfish
**Old Dog
**[[Crabbus]]

*'''The Sixth House''' - The House of the Plow
**Pashmina
**The Flying Moose
**The Pitcher (or Bucket)
**Plough Handle
**Okjock the Salesman

*'''The Seventh House''' - The House of the Star
**The Faint Star Major
**The Faint Star Minor
**The Little Turtle
**The Flagon
**Ket's Knife

*'''The Next House''' - The House of Woldar
**Woldar
**Evar's Footprint
**The Ram's Horn
**Two Rivers
**Young Faithful

*'''The Ninth House''' - The House of the Ram
**The Jumping Ram
**[[Khefin]]'s Eye 1
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 2]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 3]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 4]]

*'''The Tenth House''' - The House of Trabnor
**Trabnor
**The Lanthorn
**The Wicket
**Turnip's Tail
**The Snipe

*'''The Eleventh House''' - The House of the Horse
**Teg the Horse
**The Miller's Pocket
**[[Astoria's Flame]]
**The Cradle
**The Sleeping Dog

*'''The Twelfth House''' - The House of Fore and Aft
**Young Harry
**Forward
**Aft
**Vut's Candle
**Silur the Catfish

*'''The Thirteenth House''' - The Dread House
**Old Faithful
**The Scythe
**The Coffee Cup
**[[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]

===Annotations===

* Wezen the Doubleheaded Kangaroo: the first constellation (interesting because the wizards don't seem to recognize a kangaroo when they see it in {{TLC}}-- perhaps because it was flattened and had only one head? Although in fairness you couldn't recognize anything else from it's constellation either, and it's never really obvious what is mythical and what isn't!)
* The Two Fat Cousins: possible reference to Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
* The Flying Moose: possible reference to Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose
* [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]]: Rincewind's birth sign, usually not a wizard's sign. Was much brighter thousands of years ago when the Disc was closer to it (according to {{TLC}}), so it's not clear why the ancients called it "faint"; perhaps they knew the Disc would move away from it long-term?
* The Knotted String: possible pun on "I'm a frayed knot" jokes
* [[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]: the last constellation (now if we could only find that whale)
* the Triangle, mentioned in {{TLC}}, possibly not part of the zodiac

==Related pages==
* [[Discworld Timeline]]
* [[:category:Discworld Timeline|Discworld timeline category]]

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