Margolotta
| Lady Margolotta | |
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| Name | Margolotta Amaya Katerina Assumpta Crassina Von Uberwald (this being the thus far revealed short form, the long form requires 4 pages) |
| Race | Vampire |
| Age | unknown; probably the vampire equivalent of late 30's |
| Occupation | Noblewoman |
| Physical appearance | not particularly tall ,attractive (in a slightly fussy sort of way) with dark hair. |
| Residence | Bonk, Überwald |
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| Marital Status | single (as far as we know) |
| Appearances | |
| Books | The Fifth Elephant, Unseen Academicals |
| Cameos | (mention) The Truth , Going Postal , Making Money ,Snuff |
Lady Margolotta, on her first meeting with Vimes, as envisaged by Woschaebedip on deviantArt. A link to Woschaebedip's pages with lots more Discworld art is here:-
http://woschaebedip.deviantart.com/
This artwork appears here with the express permission of its creator. Thank you!
Lady Margolotta is a wealthy noblewoman living in an appropriate castle near Bonk, in Überwald. Oh, and she's a vampire, a Black Ribboner and a member of the Überwald League of Temperance (she is in fact one of the founding members). She generally sports a pink jumper (with embroidered bats), though if the remarks of Nutt are accurate she also owns a dress made largely of leather and rubber, and owns a small dog that looks more like a rat. Her coach is entirely black, with black glass in the windows, black horses with black plumes, and no driver. Vimes also notes that she "looked like someone's mother", (though if that was the case you probably wouldn’t want to meet the someone).
The castle where she lives has architecture best descibed as "being influenced by fairytales and the more decorative form of cake" and is probaby a parody of Roundworld's Neuschwanstein castle[1], (the building of which drove a King of Bavaria to insanity and bankruptcy).
She seems to be a leading political influence across the empires, nations and city-states of the Discworld. Lord Vetinari, Ankh-Morpork's current Patrician, spent some time with her during his Grand Sneer (and escape from Snapcase's Ankh-Morpork) apparently laying most of the groundwork for his own rise to power. Margolotta seems to have learned a lot, especially about manipulation, from Vetinari who had graduated from the Assassins' Guild some time before starting on his trip.
Margolotta was a patron of William de Worde's newsletter before he founded the Ankh-Morpork Times and she apparently maintains many such sources around the Disc. With a Vampire's power of persuasion and attention to detail, she's always on top of the political situation, at least across Überwald and the Sto Plains, influencing it subtly and slowly (Vampires have lots of time.) We know that Black Ribboners "switch" their craving for blood to something else and Lady Margolotta now craves control over people. You have been warned.
She appears to be an older and distinguished vampire, having 4 pages in Almanack de Gothic.
Lady Margolotta appears in The Fifth Elephant and Unseen Academicals, and is casually mentioned by Vetinari several times in the novels between the two.
It is rumoured that Lady Margolotta has a ... relationship with Lord Vetinari.