He Who Must Not Be Named: - Inverted with Lady Luck, the only goddess who must depart if her name is spoken. Especially when most of the lyrics are "gold". Temporarily banished from a dorm room say crossword answer. Unlike his more sympathetic — if tragically misguided — co-conspirator, his reasons for this are purely for his own amusement. In The Compleat Discworld Atlas, the plethora of small countries and states in the Far Überwald area are explicitly likened to the states that emerged after the fall of the USSR as a sort of "Russian Confederation", and are seeking to form a common economic and trading area. Not that it bothers them at all.
The Good King: Shows up rather often: King Verence of Lancre, Rhys Rhysson the Low King of the Dwarfs, and Mr Shine the Diamond King of the Trolls all care for their people and want what's best for them. Freudian Trio: The Lancre witches (Magrat: ego, Granny Weatherwax: superego, Nanny Ogg: id. Temporarily banished from a dorm room say crossword puzzle. Then again, fairies also exist in Terry Pratchett's Elf-realm. His story heads straight into Crosses the Line Twice territory when the narrator says that the despair of people laughing at him even as he begged them to stop eventually drew him to commit suicide. The ping and richochet of the 0.
The Discworld Almanack (with Bernard Pearson) (2004). Aerith and Bob: Unusual names like Rincewind, Havelock and Eskarina exist besides "normal" ones like Sam, Henry and Tiffany. Unresolved Sexual Tension: If you're a major character with a potential love interest in a Discworld novel this is pretty much the only alternative to becoming an Official Couple after your first book. Examples are the Wyrmberg and Guards! But, for example, Mrs Beddowes' House appears to be exclusively for the sons of the nobility, and maintains the old exclusivity of the Guild, in the face of a more egalitarian era and an enforced co-education. Phrase Catcher: The Auditors tend to provoke talk of "malignity". Temporarily banished from a dorm room say crossword puzzle crosswords. The Death of Rats: Squeak. Its neighboring "Foggy Islands" evoke the Maori name for New Zealand, "the land of the long fog".
Sacred Scripture: There are many: The Book of Om, The Vengeful Testament of Offler, The Cenotine Book of Truth, The Scrolls of Wen the Eternally Surprised, and The Living Testament of Nuggan (the only holy book to be published in a ring binder for frequent updates). Thief of Time has a scene where pictures of particularly dangerous entities are shown. Mort (1987 — Death). Cerebus Rollercoaster: The series has gotten darker and more mature over the years, all without quite losing its sense of humor. A bolt of lighting lanced through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. In Night Watch Reg Shoe is the only believer in the idea of the revolution actually changing anything. Training the Gift of Magic: This trope is at least strongly implied to be highly active in the series: - In the earliest books, wizards (and presumably witches) are said to be able to see "octarine", the eighth color of the spectrum, the "color of magic". City of Adventure: Ankh-Morpork, the various maneuvering of the Guilds, Wizard experiments, various non-sanctioned criminal enterprises, most recent group of invaders coming in and whatever the nobility goes through to try and keep power causes all types of shenanigans. One of them has a pet dog made up of the pieces of many other pet dogs; though he's very upset when Scraps gets killed off, he consoles himself that it's only a matter of time until the next thunderstorm. Incredibly Lame Fun: Trolls gamble by tossing something up and then betting on whether or not it will come down. Despite Omnia being a theocratic state that is strictly monotheistic and worships the great god Om, Om is shocked to find that nobody actually believes in him.
The Truth (2000 — standalone, The City Watch cameo). The Discworld has eight seasons and eight-day weeks, and its spectrum has eight colours (though only magically gifted people can see octarine). A young Granny Weatherwax "might have been called handsome by a good-natured liar". The floor of the temple of the Ichor God Bel-Shammaroth is covered in perfectly tessellating octagons, something which is impossible in any universe which adheres to euclidian or euclidian-adjacent conventions of geometry. It is noted that in the bad old days, "the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'". ) Girls with Moustaches: All dwarfs, openly female or not, have long, flowing beards.
A few wrong steps after getting into Ramkin Manor, she ends up treading what is mainly water in the septic tank. What he wanted was a painkiller. There are yennorks, who are naturally born werewolves who are stuck permanently in one shape or the other. An eighth son of an eighth son becomes a wizard, and wizards themselves must never speak that number's name aloud for fear of extradimensional payback. Does This Remind You of Anything? It also turns out he couldn't do it if he wanted, such as when his adopted daughter and son-in-law die in a carriage crash: he cannot create life, only grant an extension by taking them to his realm where they don't age (his daughter was sixteen for more than thirty years). For example the book gives the impression that castle guards number in the dozens. Followed by the moderately lighthearted Making Money followed by the even more lighthearted Unseen Academicals followed by the pitch black I Shall Wear Midnight... - Chalk Outline: Invoked rarely, and only for laughs.
2005 — The City Watch). The Hecate Sisters: The typical arrangement of a group of Witches (which is not a hard and fast rule — some operate alone, and Nanny Ogg states they can operate in up to groups of four or five. One of the few examples of this trope in a universe where Gods Need Prayer Badly. The dragon featured in Guards! Literal-Minded: Most, if not all, books will have one or more of these characters, useful for hanging lampshades on metaphors and similes. Subverted in the case of dwarfs, as they tend to keep tidy homes no matter what sex (if any) they admit to being. As indeed does the sea, but the Discworld Companion says "arrangements are made" to prevent it all draining away. Gargoyles are a subspecies of Troll. There are plenty of Psychos For Hire, and if they're titled at all, they're just plain old "killers". In these cases, history in the Discworld is surprisingly resilient (see Mort).
The Agatean Empire, the dominant government of the Counterweight Continent (no doubt that's just the Morporkian name for it) is the Far East (mostly Japan during the late Edo period and dynasty-era China), although Thailand and its food gets a honorable mention, and a Discworld Expy of Korea sneaks into the last couple of books. — has some kind of bone-and-skull motif to it. Of particular note are Granny Weatherwax, who put a demon in his place with a few threats, and Mrs. Cake (a medium, bordering on small), whom High Priest Ridcully compares to the things from the Dungeon Dimensions. They tolerate being described as Pictsies, but Gods help anyone who calls them "fairies". Thus he became too tall. Epidity, God of Potatoes, lord of a Potato Cult. Master Poisoner: Lord Downey, head of the Assassins' Guild, is rumoured to be this. We find out in Feet of Clay that the full names of her parents are Baron Guye von Uberwald, aka (Silvertail), and Seraphine Soxe-Blumberg, aka (Yellowfang). Being hired makes you a servant, and Assassins are gentlemen and no-ones servant. Magrat married Verence, the muggle king of Lancre. Even one of the latter can potentially invert this trope. Most go by the first word in their name, though.
Villains have included sociopathic geniuses, Eldritch Abominations, and the Auditors of Reality, cosmic bureaucrats who consider life too untidy to be tolerated. It is noted on several occasions, as recently as Snuff, that Sybil is descended from the kind of old aristocracy that kept its place by being more than able to defend themselves. Their jaws are permanently stuck open, and they like to hang out on tall buildings as their primary foodstuff is pigeons (unlike regular trolls, who eat rocks). Can't blame a mother for being proud.