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The Patrician is reinstated as ruler of Ankh-Morpork, and offers the Watch anything they want as a reward. They ask only for a modest pay raise, a new tea kettle, and a dartboard. However, since the Watch's original station house was destroyed by the dragon, Lady Ramkin donates her childhood home at Pseudopolis Yard to serve as the new one.
The Watch primarily functions out of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, but some stories do include members of the watch elsewhere in the world. The watch and its members are the primary topic of 8 novels and one short story, listed below in order of publication. Guards! Guards! (1989); "Theatre of Cruelty" (1993) (short story); Men at Arms ...
His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Vimes is depicted in the novels as somewhere between an Inspector Morse-type 'old-school' British policeman, and a film noir-esque grizzled detective.
A leather watch strap with a butterfly closure Four analog wristwatches for men with variants of the widespread metal watch strap made from stainless steel, the two in the middle being of the most common type. A watch strap, watch band, watch bracelet or watch belt is a bracelet that straps a wrist watch onto the wrist. [1]
The Fifth Elephant was a finalist for the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. [1]At the SF Site, Steven H Silver judged it as "not, unfortunately, a good starting place" for readers unfamiliar with Discworld and said that it "may be the weakest of the books featuring the City Watch", with the subplots involving Carrot and the officers back in Ankh-Morpork being "more entertaining than the ...
Men at Arms is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 15th book in the Discworld series, first published in 1993. It is the second novel about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch on the Discworld.
A guard tour patrol system is a system for logging the rounds of employees in a variety of situations such as security guards patrolling property, technicians monitoring climate-controlled environments, and correctional officers [1] checking prisoner living areas. It helps ensure that the employee makes their appointed rounds at the correct ...
At this point, Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, resigns and Lord Rust takes command of the city. Vetinari refused to become involved in the war with Klatch since Ankh-Morpork does not have an army , but Rust declares martial law and orders the city's noble families to revive their old private regiments.