[2], Treefrog Games has released two editions of Discworld: Ankh-Morpork beyond the standard version. Lord Downey first appears in Men at Arms, makes his first appearance as Guildmaster in Feet of Clay, and appears again in Hogfather. Pratchett, Terry & Briggs, Stephen (2003). [9] The artwork, by Peter Dennis, Ian Mitchell, Paul Kidby, and Bernard Pearson,[4] was checked by Terry Pratchett and the Discworld Emporium to ensure that each character was faithfully represented. He insists that his last name is pronounced "Te-ah-tim-eh", and gets considerably irritated when people pronounce it in the traditional manner, saying peevishly that "everybody gets it wrong". He succeeded Dr Cruces after his death; before that he was his deputy. The game ends if a player has met the win condition of their personality at the beginning of their turn, or if the deck of cards runs out. When an assassin reaches the end of his final year, he must undertake a "final exam" known as 'The Run', which consists of an oral test, a run through an obstacle course at night in Ankh-Morpork and the targeted killing of a single individual. Certain evidence suggests, however, that he was not always quite as refined or in-control as he is now. They must also give the client (they view the victim as the client) a sporting chance, and thus are forbidden from accepting contracts on those who are unable to defend themselves (though for their purposes, anyone wealthy enough to afford bodyguards is considered able to defend themselves, whether they have actually hired any or not). Warren plays Teatime with an American, and more specifically, a New England accent, partly based on Johnny Depp's version of Willy Wonka (another unpredictable and "childlike" character). The river is semi-solid, the water has a taste, the air is smoggy (the birds cough rather than sing) and following a snowfall the streets are left a muddy slurry. Each player attempts to meet the win condition for the personality that they randomly and secretly selected at the start of the game. A dollar coin is Sequin (coin) sized, and although theoretically made of gold the metal has been adulterated so many times that, according to The Discworld Companion: "There is more gold in an equivalent weight of seawater. Ankh-Morpork is a fictional city-state which prominently features in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. History of Guilds. When he obtains Leonard of Quirm's "gonne" (the Discworld's first gunpowder-fired weapon), he becomes progressively more insane, accidentally killing a clown. [2][5], The game also involves money which is primarily used to buy buildings in one of the twelve areas of the board. He also appears in Night Watch as a student bully, and in Making Money as head of the Assassins' Guild. [10] It has been described as an "absolute joy to play" and praised for being engaging for fans of Pratchett's Discworld and those who have no knowledge of the books. The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld series by the English writer Terry Pratchett.. The Commander has been so difficult to inhume that as of the events of The Fifth Elephant, the last time the Guild was approached, no one stepped forward to accept the contract, despite the six-hundred-thousand dollar fee (p. 131), and by Night Watch he was off the register entirely, preventing any one from taking out a contract on him, an order so powerful that only Lord Vetinari has ever been "struck off" before (though this was largely for political reasons—namely that Vetinari was infinitely preferable to both most of the other Patricians in recent history and any likely alternatives). One current tradition he maintains is inviting certain students to his office for sherry and an almond slice. There are many unknown basements, including an entire "cave network" below Ankh-Morpork made up of old streets and abandoned sewers. The Cloister houses the busts and portraits of famous victims of the guild's various graduates, along with the date of death and the name of the Assassin with whose "assistance" they threw off their respective mortal coils. [9] Wallace's second Discworld-themed board game, The Witches, was released in September 2013. The quarters bear two moneybags, a field of cabbages and the unmarked black field of the Vetinaris. Designed by Martin Wallace and Treefrog Games, the game revolves around the playing of cards and placing minions onto the board. It is said to be the only school of assassination on the Discworld. The primary engines of Ankh-Morpork's economy are the guilds. School houses have their own teams, and the teams compete against one another. this biggest city of Discworld as on the far side of corrupt and polluted, and as subject to outbreaks of comedic violence and brouhaha on a fairly regular basis. Most of the nobility in the city (and beyond) send their children there. This procedure requires not only that the victim be inhumed in an extremely thorough way, but that the victim's associates and employees be also intimately involved, along with the business premises, the building, and a large part of the surrounding neighbourhood, so that everyone involved knows that the man has been unwise enough to make the kind of enemies who can get very angry and indiscriminate. Over the course of time, the Watch has grown under the leadership of Commander Samuel Vimes to the most modern police force on the Disc. Treat yourself to a sausage-inna-bun or two with an authentic bag of Discworld coins from the streets and pockets of Ankh-Morpork, presented in a Royal Bank fo Ankh-Morpork money bag! However, assassination began in Klatch, and it is stated in Interesting Times that there is a small, very select guild in Hunghung, in the Agatean Empire. "[10], Ankh-Morpork was twinned with the town of Wincanton in Somerset, in the south-west United Kingdom on the spherical planet Earth (known in the Discworld books as Roundworld) on 7 December 2002. It is never specified what happened to young Jonathan's parents; it is, however, implied that what happened to them was Jonathan. Morporkia! He is a kindly looking, distinguished old gentleman with white hair, eminently professional and seemingly unflappable. The addition of Lance-Constable Carrot was the catalyst for their reformation over the course of the novel Guards! It is home to the Unseen University, a centre of magical learning. However, one personality, Sam Vimes, instantly wins when all the cards have been drawn. The Collector's Edition comes with wooden coins, a larger board, and a custom twelve-sided die. He is always cheerful, sometimes in positions when he shouldn't have been. Vimes has petitioned for the decision to be overturned. In response to huge demand among the aristocracy for their children to receive the well-rounded education the Guild offered, the Guild's charter was expanded to include those intending to gain skills in proper Assassination. The AM$ (Ankh-Morpork dollar) is equal to 100 pennies (pence). Morporkia! Rumours among his associates (somewhat confirmed in the GURPS Discworld RPG sourcebook co-written by Pratchett) imply that the glass eye is in fact a scrying crystal, which might go some way towards explaining his abilities but also means that he implanted notoriously erratic Discworld magic into his own eye-socket. They form a sort of advisory city council, with a system of one man, one vote - the Patrician being the "one man" in question. The Museum contains many noted tools and traps, such as rigged teddy bears, used in successful killings. [citation needed] A hopeless romantic, he dreams of restoring the Ankh-Morpork monarchy; when he discovers that Carrot Ironfoundersson is a descendant of the Ankh-Morpork royal line, he conspires to give him the throne. The most oft-mentioned is Viper House, though Scorpion, Tree Frog, Raven and Cobra Houses have also been mentioned. He is elitist and looks down on the Watch as members of a lower social stratum. [11] The town is home to a shop called "The Discworld Emporium". The Guild of Assassins is located in a light, airy series of buildings next to the Guild of Fools … Fans, however, added stick-on notices to some of the signs. It also tolls to mark the passing of assassins (these can be the same thing). The Library is the largest in Ankh-Morpork outside that of Unseen University, though it probably surpasses the latter in "certain specialist areas".[1]. Given the nature of most Assassins' Guild traditions, this could be seen as a kind of impromptu "pass or fail" examination (see bitter almonds for the reason why). Under Ankh-Morporkian tradition, ten pence can be referred to as a shilling, twenty-five pence as half a ton, and fifty pence as a nob/a ton/half a bar/a knocker. On 9 June 2015, Wallace announced that the license to produce Discworld games had been lost due to changes in the licensing scheme following Sir Terry Pratchett's passing, meaning that Ankh-Morpork and The Witches were out of print permanently. [1] The premise of the game is that the patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Lord Vetinari, has disappeared leaving an opening for somebody to come and take control of the city. [citation needed]. The City Watch is one of the greatest success stories. However, he is usually honourable by his own standards, until d'Eath comes to him with a wild story about the Heir to the Throne, a bag full of evidence, and the stolen "gonne". He was taken into the Assassins' Guild as a child because the administration took pity on him after he lost his parents at a young age. It is implied, though not confirmed, that Oppidans are not included in this. These assignments generally required the student to stalk and simulate an attempted assassination on Commander of the Watch Sam Vimes, an exercise which was generally both futile and highly educational. My thoughts, Ankh-Morpork, are of thee Let others boast of martial dash For we have boldly fought with cash We own all your helmets, we own all your shoes We own all your generals - touch us and you'll lose. This was described by Dr Cruces as "Inhumation with extreme impoliteness", and by Lady T'malia in Pyramids as "Termination with extreme prejudice". The name "Ankh-Morpork" refers to both the city itself, a walled city about five miles (8 km) across, and the surrounding suburbs and farms of its fiefdom. [4], Discworld: Ankh-Morpork is driven by the playing of game cards, with each player taking it in turns to play one of their cards. Each card features zero or more symbols that allow them to perform actions such as place one of their minions on the board, murder an opponent's minion, and collect money. The Assassins' Guild lists him as having vanished without trace since the events in Hogfather, though they have named a "Teatime Prize" in his honour, which is given annually to the student who devises the most creative, but technically accurate, hypothetical inhumation, preferably complete with maps and a proposed route that avoids or disables any guards. The Watch, its growth and development, and its inner workings are explored through a series of eight fantasy novels and one short story. The Bell Tower houses the Inhumation Bell, which marks not only the hours (though fashionably late) but also the successful completion of an assassin's contract. This sign was designed by the Cunning Artificer himself, Bernard Pearson (of the Discworld Emporium). Baking hot in summer, cold and snowy in winter, Ankh-Morpork has a "despotic ruler" (some say) who has succeeded in so thoroughly organizing crime that it is self-regulating. [3] Most of the goals refer to the number of minions on the board, the amount of trouble markers in play, or the attainment of a certain amount of money. It is located in Ankh-Morpork, the largest city on the Discworld, and is widely considered by the elite to be the best option for a well-rounded education anywhere. He is a genius, but also evil to an astonishing degree. Pratchett suggests this is probably because he is very good at his job. While ethnic riots and feuds are common, Ankh-Morpork is still the place where everybody wants to live. Control the comic fantasy city peopled by iconic characters menaced by wizard magic. the Ankh-Morpork Civil War, as a result of which the monarchy was overthrown). These novels generally feature as the protagonist, the Watch Commander Sam Vimes, and take on the general … Guards!. The Assassins have not, as yet, been known to operate in the Counterweight Continent or FourEcks). The Assassins' Guild was founded on 27 August AM1512 by Sir Gyles de Munforte as the de Munforte School for Gentlemen Assassins. Like a British public school, it is divided into houses, often named for a deadly animal. Several streets in a new housing development in Wincanton have been named after Ankh-Morpork Streets, including Peach Pie Street and Treacle Mine Road. His first name is unknown, but he is mentioned by the initials D.Downey in the Assassin's Guild Yearbook, when discussing edificeering. The current head of the Assassins' Guild. His mind has been compared at times to both a corkscrew and a shattered mirror (i.e. A Klatchian warrior who accompanies the Klatchian envoy Prince Khufurah on a diplomatic journey to Ankh-Morpork in the novel Jingo. The guild is currently headed by Lord Downey. After an inhumation they must by law always leave a receipt. One is grey glass (black in the film adaptation) and the other is off-white, with a tiny, pinhole-sized pupil. The 'Royal' was dropped after the 'events' of AM1688 (i.e. It is accepted that an Assassin may find it necessary to inhume bodyguards, including other Assassins, while on a commission. The Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild is a professional organisation and school for assassins in Terry Pratchett's long-running Discworld series of fantasy novels. He speaks with a heavy accent and has a penchant for chewing on cloves. Bag of five! Ankh-Morpork has over 300 guilds.. Ankh-Morpork, Ankh-Morpork, the city so good they called it Ankh-Morpork. Discworld: Ankh Morpork is a board game set in the largest city-state in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Each one is unique and features a character, organisation, or location from the Discworld books. 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Some guilds have been in existence for centuries, and some guilds are modern forms of ancient syndicates. These students are known as Oppidans, from the Latatian for "town" (see Town and gown). Patricians have been known to resign, but this is very much the exception. Initially a purely male institution, it has recognised female students as being at least equal to their brothers in the matter of inventive killing, and has opened Black Widow and Mantis Houses for girls. Mr Jonathan Teatime appears in Hogfather. Most of the time, Mr Teatime seems a pleasant, albeit odd young man. The rules of Assassination are so utterly formalised and strict that anyone with a strategic mind, a decent budget, and a firm knowledge of their code can usually avoid death at their hands, as Commander of the City Watch Sam Vimes has proved many times. Also, the fact that he managed to get on Vetinari's bad side may have something to do with it. [9], The game was well received, winning the 2011 UK Games Expo Best New Boardgame. De Schijfwereld is bedacht door de Engelse schrijver Terry Pratchett.De reeks Schijfwereld-boeken bevat inmiddels vierendertig delen waarin Ankh-Meurbork een meer of … Lord Vetinari appears as a student assassin in Night Watch but is apparently no longer practising. Bagoly (heraldika).PNG 40 × 59; 6 KB. Power is, to some degree, shared with the many Guilds (see below) and the surviving nobility. The Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild is a professional organisation and school for assassins in Terry Pratchett's long-running Discworld series of fantasy novels. Owning an area gives the player additional capabilities in their turn including the ability to place additional minions and collecting more money. He is considerably impressed when Death, addressing Teatime shortly after the latter's demise, uses his preferred pronunciation. Each player attempts to meet the win condition for the personality that they randomly and secretly selected at the start of the game. Ankh-Morpork is built on black loam, broadly, but is mostly built on itself; pragmatic citizens simply built on top of the existing buildings rather than excavate them out as the river flooded and the sediment grew too high. [11] The game has been released with a new Victorian/Holmsian theme as Nanty Narking. He has a certain, and in some places 'scary' way of speaking; The content didn't match the tone. [3][10] The artwork also impressed with the cards being described as "hilarious and beautifully illustrated".[3]. Sinister two croix d'or on a sable field. Lying approximately equidistant from the cold, mountainous Hub and tropical Rim, Ankh-Morpork is in the Discworld's equivalent of the temperate zone. In The Art of Discworld Pratchett explains that the city is similar to Tallinn and central Prague, but adds that it has elements of 18th-century London, 19th-century Seattle and modern New York City. The very much down-market rival of the Ankh-Morpork Times.. In the Sky One adaptation of Hogfather, Mr Teatime is played by Marc Warren. something brilliant, sharp, and dazzling, but also fundamentally and irrevocably twisted/broken and very dangerous to handle). The Assassins' Guild has a strict code of conduct. [6] The Deluxe Edition includes the same but has resin minions, buildings, trolls, and demons. He did so for reasons that would not be beyond Vimes' own way of thinking; he was getting the jump on a man who would not hesitate to attack him the instant custom allowed. He got his nickname after killing a man (guilty of poisoning a well, and killing a number of villagers and very valuable camels) one hour before the traditional D'reg three days of hospitality, during which even your greatest enemy should be shown respect, would have run out. Pratchett, Terry & Pearson, Bernard (2004). Allegedly, Lord Downey's preferred method of inhumation is poisoning, though no deaths have yet been attributed to him. Ankh-Morpork is a fictional city-state which features prominently in Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels. Ankh-Morpork. Arms of Joseph Stacey.svg 450 × 541; 124 KB. As cities go, it is on the far side of corrupt and polluted, and is subject to outbreaks of comedic violence and brou-ha-ha on a fairly regular basis. He and Vimes eventually develop a wary respect for each other, mostly based on both of them being basically honest cops in unenviable positions. The AM$ is reputedly the hardest currency outside of the Agatean Empire. They must always dress stylishly in black (which, although not the best colour for being unseen at night, is the correct colour for being an Assassin) and must always seem vaguely bored and, if possible, slightly foreign. Also, it is apparent that the Guild will only accept one contract per client (who would be relieved to know that only one Assassin is planning to kill them), as mentioned in Making Money. 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He was at school with Havelock Vetinari, where he was a bully and something of an imbecile, with a propensity for calling everyone 'scags', including Vetinari, whom he also referred to as dog-botherer. It also turns out his obsessive clove-chewing and broken Morporkian are in fact a disguise meant to delude foreigners into falsely assuming he is nothing but an uncivilized barbarian. The game is based in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe and features a large number of characters from his novels. Ankh-Morpork (Modern Morporkian) Ankhius et Morporkia (Latatian, the Old Language)  Coat of arms: A shield, quartered by a river (the Ankh) and tower (the Tower of Art). He is boyishly handsome, with curly hair and a ready smile, but these features are ruined by his eyes. The code also demands Assassins never reveal the source of the contract. Head of the Assassins' Guild in Men at Arms. He also stated that since the creation of The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, he tried to ensure that the descriptions of character movements and locations in the books matched the Ankh-Morpork map; this allowed him, and fans of the series, to visualise the story more clearly. There are hundreds of guilds, for every conceivable profession, from clowns to butchers, and each has its own strictly maintained laws and trading practices. It is located in Ankh-Morpork, the largest city on the Discworld, and is widely considered by the elite to be the best option for a well-rounded education anywhere. [1][2] There are 101 cards that players draw from during the game. Ankh-Morpork now has the largest dwarf population outside of Überwald and i… Ankh-Meurbork (Engels: Ankh-Morpork) is een imaginaire stad op de al even imaginaire Schijfwereld (Discworld). His main problem seems to be that he 'sees things differently from other people, in that he sees other people as things'. "Discworld: Ankh-Morpork" was published as a board game in 2011. Blason ville fr Batsère (65).svg 600 × 660; 25 KB. In the Sky One adaptation of Hogfather Downey was played by David Warner. With this in mind the Guild strongly disapproves of firearms (which are, in any case, extremely uncommon on the Disc), and also of most (but not all) other mechanical (beyond bows and crossbows) or chemical weapons (beyond poisons applied to implements or comestibles). [12] However, due to legal reasons, the twinning was not officially displayed on the road sign. Following an attempt on the prince's life by an unknown assassin, he is suspected of killing the Watch's prime suspect, provoking Vimes and other Watch members to pursue him back to Klatch (particularly after he captures Angua in werewolf form). In very rare cases, usually of personal offence, the head of the Assassins' Guild may stretch some of those rules, if only to make a statement. Guild graduates can be expected to be at home in any company, and to be able to play at least one musical instrument. An Assassin must always act with style. If the deck is finished the game has a points-based system to determine the winner. BattishillArms.png 923 × 1,064; 198 KB. In the beginning, it consisted of the Day Watch, popinjays headed by Captain "Mayonnaise" Quirke (rich, thick, oily, and smelling slightly of eggs) and the Night Watch, three unemployable men; then-Captain Vimes, who was a drunk, Sergeant Colon, whose idea of major crime would be the theft of a bridge and Corporal Nobbs, who has a certificate to prove that he's probably human. Morporkia owns the day! In AM1576 the school was elevated to the status of a Guild and the name was changed to the Royal Guild of Assassins. Thirty years' passage seems to have improved him. After an "accident" in which a dwarf artifacer is killed by the jealous gonne, which fears he will make more, a frightened d'Eath takes his evidence to Dr. Cruces, who listens quite kindly until he touches the gonne and kills young Edward. Many details of Ankh-Morpork appear to have been inspired by Fritz Leiber's fictional city Lankhmar (although Pratchett has said "I didn't – at least consciously, I suppose I must say – create Ankh-Morpork as a takeoff of Lankhmar"[15]); John D. Rateliff notes that Leiber's characters "the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd guest-star in the very first Discworld story, The Colour of Magic, under the pseudonyms of The Weasel and Bravd". A shield, bisected by a bend sinister et purpure. Dexter a poignard d'or, draped with a masque en sable, lined gris on a field gules. He confounds Vimes by his fond memories of Ankh-Morpork, and even Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler. It is considered absolutely unforgivable for an Assassin to kill (or as they refer to it, "inhume") for any reason other than being paid to do so. Apart from belonging to a vicious but honorable warrior clan known as the D'regs, he is later revealed to be the wali of Klatch, a Klatchian equivalent of a watchman on a par with Vimes. His special recipe for humbugs, submitted to Nanny Ogg, calls for "arsenic to taste", though, since arsenic is actually very traceable, this is likely a slight bit of misinformation on his part. Like many privileged foreigners, he was sent to the Assassins' Guild as a child on the assumption that he would get an excellent education. He reveals the truth of Carrot's ancestry, and Carrot executes him for treason. Players each take on the role of one of seven different Discworld characters and try to meet their individual goal to win the game. [2][3], The game takes place on a map of Ankh-Morpork, with players trying to place minions and buildings through card play. The board is divided up into twelve areas and much of the gameplay involves taking control of these locations by having more of your minions/buildings there than any other player. Pratchett describes this biggest city of Discworld as the corrupt mercantile capital of the Discworld. Senior assassins regarded him as a young man to watch, preferably from a distance. Furthermore, a school sport is edificeering—the climbing of buildings, often done on unusual/notable buildings in the city itself, with each major building having a rating out of 10 representing how difficult it is to climb (as noted in Pyramids). The city itself lies on the River Ankh, the most polluted waterway on the Discworld, which divides it into the more affluent Ankh and the poorer Morpork (including the slum-like "Shades".) However, those who do not graduate are generally never seen again; as noted in Wyrd Sisters, the Guild is fond of competitive examination, and Pyramids mentions that the Guild is "easy to get into and easy to get out of; the trick was to get out upright". Beischlagkopf Oberdörffer Apotheke, MHG, Hamburg, Deutschland IMGL1399 edit.jpg 3,672 × … Appears in the, Kompt de Yoyo: Teaches modern languages and music in, Honorable Eustace Bassingly-Gore: Mentioned in. The succession of the Patrician occurs normally by either assassination or revolution. Pratchett, Terry & Briggs, Stephen (1993). It is also the case that the rules may be relaxed if the Assassin is "outside civilisation" (the Überwald area is considered outside civilisation, as are the more remote areas of Klatch. The Assassins' Guild is known for providing the best education in Ankh-Morpork.

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