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| Character | Role |
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Lu-Tze A history monk from the hidden valley near the Hub, disguised as a humble gardener and sweeper in the Citadel. He is small, old and toothless, communicating mostly through nods and smiles, though he can speak when he chooses. He tends bonsai mountains and subtly intervenes in events to keep history on track. | |
The legendary founder of the History Monks at Oi Dong, who first noticed Time as a person and made her his wife; whose Way of Wen the Sweeper underlies the order's whole craft and whose twin sons Lobsang and Jeremy carry his blood into the new millennium.
Rinpo Chief acolyte to the Abbot of the History Monks and effectively the daily business manager of the order; brisk, impatient with novices and convinced that Lu-Tze's old-fashioned methods belong in the broom cupboard he affects to inhabit. |
Soto A History Monks field operative based in Ankh-Morpork, whose long woven hair would be a great inconvenience in field-work were it not separate from his head and entirely happy to be left in an alley as a decoy. |
The Abbot Abbot of the History Monks at Oi Dong, who has reincarnated so many times that the order keeps a fresh body waiting for him each generation; in this book he reincarnates mid-narrative into a baby's body whose attention is mostly on the candied yam. |
Lobsang Ludd A foundling raised by the Thieves' Guild in Ankh-Morpork who possesses an extraordinary natural talent for manipulating time. He becomes Lu-Tze's apprentice at the monastery of Oi Dong. He is the twin son of the personification of Time herself, separated from his brother Jeremy at birth. Together with Jeremy, he has the power to restart the universe. |