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Vetinari, Leonard of Quirm, Colon, and Nobby end up in Leonard's " Going-Under-the-Water-Safely Device " and discover that Leshp is actually floating on top of a huge bubble of gas ( suggested to be methane or some other poisonous gas ), and that the gas is escaping from said bubble, meaning that Leshp will, ultimately, sink back under the sea again.
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Vetinari and Leonard
Meanwhile, Nobby and Sergeant Colon have been recruited by Vetinari and his pet inventor, Leonard of Quirm, on a secret mission of their own, unknown to Vimes.
Vetinari recruits Leonard of Quirm to design the Discworld's second known spacecraft to slingshot under the Discworld and back around the top, landing on Cori Celesti.
Vetinari and Colon
To help blend in, Vetinari, Nobby and Fred Colon get hold of some Klatchian clothing, though Nobby ends up wearing the costume of a dancing girl and gets in touch with his feminine side.
Vetinari and Nobby
* a 6-episode serial on BBC Radio 4 ( 23 Nov .-28 Dec. 1992 ) dramatised by Michael Butt and starring John Wood ( Vimes ), Melvyn Hayes ( Nobby ), Robert Gwilym ( Carrot ), Crawford Logan ( Vetinari ), Helen Atkinson-Wood ( Lady Ramkin ), Brett Usher ( Supreme Grand Master ), Martin Jarvis ( narrator ).
The fact that the Watch now has a werewolf has become common knowledge throughout Ankh-Morpork, but that hasn't affected Angua's privacy substantially, as, for obvious reasons, it is generally assumed to be Nobby Nobbs ; Carrot, Vimes, Vetinari and Angua herself all play along, mostly rather amused.
Vetinari and end
In the end, Vetinari has recovered completely, Dorfl is sworn in as a watchman, Vimes gets a pay rise, and the watch house gets a new dart board.
Vetinari and up
The Wizards of Unseen University explain to Lord Vetinari that blowing up Cori Celesti will destroy the Discworld by temporarily disrupting the Disc's magical field — the only thing holding the Disc together — so Vetinari organises an effort to stop the Horde.
Lord Vetinari's genius political thinking and his running of the city can be summed up by his belief that what people wish for most is not good government, or even justice, but merely for things to stay the same ; the Vetinari family motto is, after all, Si non confectus, non reficiat (" If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
His family coat of arms is a plain, simple sable shield, and therefore does not show up against the black coach in which Vetinari travels —- black on black, ( upon which Moist von Lipwig in Going Postal comments that " you had to admit that the bastard had style.
As seen in the book, during his imprisonment, the rats have trouble with specific wording and Vetinari ends up with a book on lacemaking in place of the one he desires.
When Lipwig woke up, Vetinari offered him a job as Ankh-Morpork's Postmaster General which Lipwig could take or reject of his own free will ( the alternative being, essentially, death, again of his own free will ).
Vetinari and Leshp
Vetinari is returned to Ankh-Morpork, under arrest and in disgrace, but as Leshp has vanished back under the sea again, the treaty was to be signed in a non-existent territory and thus the charge of treason is invalid.
Vetinari and is
Sam Vimes is informed that Vetinari has been " reminded " that the old rank of Commander was the same as the old rank of Duke.
Since Carrot is, of course, very much not the King of Ankh-Morpork his reminding of Vetinari is all that is required for Vimes to get his new position and rank.
Vetinari is able to work out that a letter addressed " Duzbuns Hopsit pfarmerrsc " is intended for a baker opposite a pharmacy on Pigsty Hill who " does those rather good curly buns ".
Though he sometimes has to call in a plasterer when Vimes is particularly angry, Vetinari doesn't worry about it — a sign that he intentionally angers Vimes so as to goad him into a desired action.
Havelock Vetinari, Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a series of over thirty books describing a parallel universe whose main world has reflections of-even more or less subtle jokes about-our ' Roundworld ' or Earth.
Vetinari is sometimes said to have been based on the Italian statesman and diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli, but in fact favours a subtly different ( though equally pragmatic ) form of statecraft.
Vetinari later journeyed to Überwald on what is known as the Grand Sneer ( a parody of Grand Tour ); travels of the younger members of rich families to backward areas to see at first hand how inferior they are.
Morporkians are, however, in no doubt that Vetinari is firmly in charge of the city ; the political system of Ankh-Morpork is described as " One Man, One Vote ," in which Vetinari alone is the Man, and he has the Vote.
Vetinari is broadly tolerant of individual rights, but highly intolerant of people who place their own interests above those of the city.
Vetinari and actually
Ironfoundersson is noted by Vimes to be one of the few people who actually like the Patrician, and Vimes, while adamant that he doesn't, shares the dedication to the city felt by Vetinari and Ironfoundersson.
Whilst one may speculate that while Vetinari basically has a watchmaker's vision of the state, with everything in perfect balance and needing only the occasional drop of fine oil, he is actually pragmatic enough to appreciate that it requires to be kept in trim with a heavy hammer, aka Samuel Vimes.
The Throne remains untouched despite being allegedly made of gold, but Vetinari reveals to Captain Carrot that it is actually merely gold foil over now-rotten-through wood.
It is said that Wuffles is the only living creature Lord Vetinari actually cares about ( unless Ankh-Morpork is considered a living creature ).
Vetinari and on
" Vimes also reflects on killing a werewolf in Night Watch and Vetinari mentions him killing a werewolf in Thud !.
Lord Vetinari was born into the extremely powerful Vetinari family ( a pun, or play on words, on the real-life family of the Medici and on the word " veterinary ") and raised by his aunt, Lady Roberta Meserole.
The effect Keel has on Vetinari and the events of the 25th of May clearly shape Vetinari's views on the effective way of running the city.
For example, Vetinari still maintains an ancient department of the Ankh-Morpork government responsible for ensuring all figures of speech have a basis in fact, on the basis that people who seek this kind of employment must be kept busy, or else they just might do anything.
In essence, this amounts to Carrot Ironfoundersson and Samuel Vimes, respectively the captain and commander of the City Watch, and hence used to keeping Vetinari alive – on the grounds that they would be ' on top of the pile ' if the city collapsed, as the city's rightful heir to the throne and the highest ranking noble respectively.
Vetinari has created, ( or at least continued, though he denies it ) the use of a team of clerks, sometimes called the ' Dark Clerks ', who bring him information on just about everything ; they serve, among other functions, as accountants, forensic auditors, and a domestic intelligence service.
Vetinari's rule over the city seems to be cemented by the general acknowledgement that very little goes on in the city that Vetinari does not know about.
All that was on the outside was a single lock, a key to which Vetinari had hidden in the cell.
Some time later, Vetinari was framed for assault ( on Drumknott ) and theft from the city treasury.
There have also been numerous attempts on his life by Assassins retained by other parties ; the universal failure of these attempts ( as well as the insight that the city ruled by him is slightly better than it is without him ) led to the Guild's refusal to accept further contracts on Vetinari.
Vetinari and suggested
It has been suggested that Vetinari may not be entirely human, though this is primarily because of his methods and personality, as opposed to any sort of physical proof ( although in The Fifth Elephant, Lady Margolotta was surprised at his lack of aging ).
Vetinari and be
Although widely differing characters, Vimes and Vetinari can be called similar in that they both have very cynical worldviews, but fairly idealistic aims.
Thus, when a visitor stands in audience with the Patrician, they can be assured that Vetinari knows exactly why they're there, even if the visitor-him / herself does not.
He first becomes suspicious when it occurs to him that if Vetinari had wanted Drumknott dead, would Drumknott really still be alive?
However, it is unclear whether even the well-informed Vetinari was aware of the last, though it would be unwise in the extreme to assume ( and it was hinted at ) that he was not.
Lord Vetinari lives and works in the Patrician's Palace, which used to be the Royal Winter Palace.
Compared to the previous Patricians of the city, Vetinari appears to be remarkably normal.
Vetinari admits to being " drunk as a skunk " after a banquet at Unseen University, but continues to be startlingly lucid and eloquent, although Drumknott describes him as seeming " unusually talkative ".
To date, there are two people in Ankh-Morpork known to have had contracts refused on, and no longer be available for assassination-Lord Vetinari and Commander of the Watch, Samuel Vimes.
It should be noted that Lord Vetinari, while not being a king or duke and being definitely not a petty ruler, appears to be Fool-less.
In addition, Vetinari mentions receiving only good reports about him from Vimes, though this may be related to the fact that Vimes believes complaints prove that you're doing the job right.
The protagonist of the story is Moist von Lipwig, a skilled con artist who was to be hanged for his crimes, but saved at the very last moment by the cunning and manipulative Patrician Havelock Vetinari, who has Moist's death on the scaffold faked.
* The Discworld novel Making Money features a character who believes himself to be Lord Vetinari, imitating Vetinari's mannerisms and entertaining delusions of grandeur.
The change in Patricians did not lead to an improvement in perceptions of the Watch, and when Lord Vetinari replaced Mad Lord Snapcase, and even theft was legalised, there seemed to be no point to them at all.
Lord Vetinari chooses Angua to be a member of the Watch team that will accompany him, but Angua has already left for Überwald on business of her own.
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