Men at Arms characters

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Captain of the City Watch, hard-bitten and grudgingly staying sober, on the verge of retiring from the force to marry the noblewoman Lady Sybil Ramkin. A natural policeman who distrusts wealth and power even as he prepares to join them.

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The Watch's most popular member, a huge, good-natured young man raised by dwarfs who still treats every citizen as a neighbor and every law as sacred. His plain sincerity gives him a strange authority over people.

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The Watch's stout, cautious sergeant, a comfortable creature of habit who prefers a quiet patrol and a quiet life.

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The Watch's grubby, disreputable corporal, a small scrounger of uncertain ancestry whose instincts run to theft and self-preservation.

Also known as The Patrician, Havelock Vetinari

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The cold, brilliant Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, who rules by balancing every faction against the others. He has no love for the Watch but understands exactly how useful, and how dangerous, it could become.

Also known as Lady Sybil

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Vimes's fiancee, a large-hearted, immensely wealthy noblewoman who breeds swamp dragons and is steadily drawing the reluctant captain into a comfortable, respectable life.

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One of the Watch's new recruits, taken on as the force is broadened to reflect the city's many peoples. A capable, watchful young woman who keeps the details of her background firmly to herself.

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A troll newly recruited to the Watch, previously employed as a nightclub bouncer. Enormously strong and slow-witted in the warmth, he thinks far more clearly when the air turns cold.

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A dwarf recruited to the Watch alongside the troll Detritus, at first wary of his people's traditional enemy. Steady and practical, he brings a dwarf's eye for stone and detail to the work.

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A young, impoverished member of the Assassins' Guild, obsessed with bloodlines and the vanished monarchy of Ankh-Morpork. Convinced the city has been diminished by the loss of its kings, he sets a dangerous plan in motion.

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The head of the Assassins' Guild, master of an institution that teaches killing as a refined profession. Formidable and self-controlled, he takes a close interest when a unique item goes missing from the Guild's museum.

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A unique weapon held in the Assassins' Guild museum, the only one of its kind on the Disc, a device that kills at a distance with terrible ease. It seems to exert a will and a whispering influence over anyone who carries it.