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...you know that we have just launched the new website, and ticket sales, for the 2021 Australian Discworld Convention, Nullus Anxietas 7a. The theme is "Ankh-Morpork: Citie of 1000 Surprises". You can find out more, read some words from Lord Vetinari, and buy tickets here...

Ebony cane, belonging to Lord Vetinari => Inigo Skimmer

Mad Lord Snapcase => Ebony cane, belonging to Lord Vetinari ;)

Whoops, I forgot about the clacks introduction in TFE. Even further back, then. ;) I am not sure that Vetinari is a proponent of anything. A proponent is "a person who advocates a theory, proposal, or course of action". Vetinari doesn't advocate or suggest any of these things, but he is shrewd...

The clacks was introduced in The Fifth Elephant, and there's no evidence that Vetinari himself was involved in anything other than approving the idea. But from, say, Thud! on, Vetinari does seem to be a proponent of rapid changes in technology and the adoption of new economic ideas that create a...

If the villain in Snuff is the social structure, then that implies that Vetinari is a villain too, since he is part (even a major part) of that structure. But he earnestly wishes that he wasn't - and that he had the freedom to act like Vimes (i.e. take the villain prisoner, and all that jazz)...

...then in the event of an emergency (such as a magistrate trying to eradicate the goblins), they can climb the tower and send an SOS to Lord Vetinari. Right? :) So that means that the local magistrates of the Shires - if they even exist any more (I thought Vimes got rid of them?) - are now, in...

Explaining a little further...

...some of his relatives temporarily, but he is a wannabe. He wants to be a villain. He wants to be the top villain in Ankh-Morpork: Lord Vetinari. The plot of MM is how Moist manages to get out from under Vetinari's thumb. Cribbins is similar to Vetinari in that he also holds the secret of...

...than any of the real-life railroad barons like Jay Gould, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose business practices included mass discrimination, working their employees to death, and paying them pitiful wages. Alas, there was no Lord Vetinari there to keep them on the leash. :(

...a "panto-Captain-Hook"). Terry's Reacher Gilt was a schemer whose plots bankrupted several businesses and who seemed almost on par with Lord Vetinari. I'm sorry, but David Suchet didn't seem to me to be suitable to play Reacher Gilt; I hear his voice and keep thinking of Hercule Poirot. :)...

I agree. Vimes has been a favourite character of mine for some years, so I'm afraid this will be a little long (sorry!) :) I think Vimes's development began when the Watch started to become bigger, after the conclusion of MAA. (I haven't read MAA in some time, and I know G!G! much better, so...

...Pessimal) separating them to the firebombing of the Goriff's eatery, these events have negative consequences, and it seems to me that Lord Vetinari, very subtly, and Commander Vimes, more bluntly, see to it that the original guilty party is made to see the error of his ways, and the city...

I remember reading that Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" books were a metaphor for the loss of the bucolic ways of Olde England to the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Terry, on the other hand, seems to embrace the industrialisation of his world. Moist plays a huge part in that. He's...

Hmm - will anyone share their opinions of Lord Vetinari? Don't be shy! :)

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...that his enlightened tyranny is - paradoxically - far more transparent than many modern democracies I'd care to mention. I'd rather put Lord Vetinari in charge of Australia than any of the Prime Ministers we've had since John Howard's retirement in 2007, and that's saying something...

...seems to have evolved from an early possible version in the very first books, to the complete (?) person he is in the final books. Unlike Carrot, for example, he's grown to perfection while having negative character traits, making him a far more interesting person. Here's his Wiki Lord Vetinari

These links will take you to the first page of each of the character discussions. The discussions are ongoing, so don't worry about resurrecting a thread. Rincewind Ridcully Nanny Ogg Havelock Vetinari Moist von Lipwig Tiffany Aching Esmeralda "Granny" Weatherax Ponder Stibbons Queen Magrat of...

Vetinari has always had moments of over-confidence - especially in "Men at Arms". Sadly, I don't think we'd see a Lewton cameo in a Discworld book. Anyone who hasn't played Discworld Noir for whatever reason (lack of funds? Game not available in the country? Lack of interest? Etc.) wouldn't...