Terry Pratchett's main characters

[NiceguyEddie]

The two I've read to date are Thud! & Guards! Guards!

 

I've just started interesting Times which has had me chuckling a few times already, but I wondered if anyone could outline the main characters that keep recurring. In the first two I've read it's been The Watch, with Vimes et al. The new one is Rincewind and it's clear he's been featured before.

 

Who are the other main ones?

[wrathofkublakhan]

Death is kinda fun.

[Kell]

I'd say that the main sets are:

 

The City Watch (Vimes, Carrot, Angua, Colon & Nobby Nobbs, etc)

The Witches (Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg & Magrat)

The Wizards (Rincewind etc)

Death

 

Most of the books can be divided into those groups, but there are some that stand alone, such as Pyramids (which, I suppose, could be included peripherally in the City Watch books, as it starts in Ankh Morpork and the main character is an assassin, but it veers off to a place with pyramids that is eerily familiar).

 

Some of the most recent ones have also been offshoots with Coty Watch characters briefly appearing in them, such as Monstrous Regiment, The Truth, Going Postal and it's sequel (soon to be published), Making Money. The first one is NOT set in Ankh Morpork, but Vimes shows up for a cameo appearance. The others are set in Ankh Morpork but the main characters are not in the City Watch (although there are a couple of them lurking about on the sidelines trying to shove their way to the front occasionally).

 

There are, of course, many others, but I'm just trying to give a brief flavour of what you can expect.

 

Incidentally, Rincewind was the original star of the show and was the main character in the first two Discworld novels, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, neither of whiich are, in my opinion, all that good, but give a good background to his character, and also that of Twoflower.

[NiceguyEddie]

Thanks for that. The problem is that I'm reading them out of sequence & it's obvious that Rincewind had left a trail of destruction in his previous appearance.