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Vimes then recruits the Watch into his own private army regiment, reasoning that, as an official noble, he is entitled to do so by law and by Lord Rust's command, with the group remaining independent as knights legally fall under command of the king or his duly-appointed representatives, neither of which exist in Ankh-Morpork.
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His mum told him that the man had been run over by a cart, but Vimes suspected that if this were true at all, then it was probably a brewer's cart, which had ' run him over ' a bit at a time for years.
Later, he fought alongside the remnants of Samuel Vimes ' ( then known as John Keel ) Night Watch against the remnants of the Cable Street Particulars ( colloquially known as the Unmentionables ), the late Lord Winder's secret police.
Vimes then returns to the office, time restarts and he convinces the captain that he is Keel.
He was a corporal in the Watch at the time Samuel Vimes first joined, and subsequent to this spent some time in the army ( the Duke of Quirm's Middleweight Infantry and then the Duke of Eorle's First Heavy Infantry ), before returning to the Watch.
His only absence from this employment was during the events in Jingo when he joined the army during the war against Klatch, during which he was known to alternate between violently yelling at his men for showing disrespect and then politely apologising to Vimes for their actions.
Vimes and Watch
He also gets along with Watch Commander Samuel Vimes, despite the latter's legendary dislike of magic, as both of them share the belief that the most important thing about magic is knowing when not to use it.
The Librarian served a brief stint in the City Watch during the reign of terror caused by the dragon of Ankh-Morpork, where he helped to rescue Sam Vimes from the Patrician's cell.
Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, begins investigating the crime, originally suspecting both a Klatchian named 71-Hour Ahmed and a senior Morporkian peer, Lord Rust, of being involved.
Vimes, refusing to follow Rust ( whom he considers to be a pillock ) stands down as Commander of the Watch.
Vimes is the Commander of the City Watch, the burgeoning police force of the Discworld's largest city, Ankh-Morpork.
She died some point between the events of the " Glorious 25th of May " ( she was alive during the events of Night Watch ) and ten years prior to the " present-day " events in that novel ( before Vimes ' first appearance in Guards!
The City Watch apparently runs in the Vimes family.
It has been suggested that Sam's father was a watchman in Jingo and he is a descendant of Suffer-Not-Injustice " Old Stoneface " Vimes, the Watch Commander who instigated the rebellion against, and subsequently beheaded, Lorenzo the Kind, the last king of the city ; a sadistic torturer described as " very fond of children.
Vimes was sixteen when he joined the Watch.
As Lu-Tze explains to Vimes in Night Watch, both pasts are true and there was a real John Keel.
As noted above, Night Watch states that Vimes was sixteen years old when he joined the City Watch.
It is mentioned in Men at Arms that Vimes has been in the Watch for 25 years, making him 41 at the time of that novel.
The main events of Night Watch, set only a few weeks after Vimes joined the Watch, are stated as occurring more than thirty years prior to the present from which Vimes came, this makes Samuel Vimes at least 46 years old at the time of the events of that book.
gives the age of Vimes ' son, ( also named Sam ), born during the climax of Night Watch, as being fourteen months, which would put Vimes at a minimum of 47 or 48 years old during the events of the book, however when Vimes discusses his time as a blackboard monitor, he thinks about it being " more than 45 years ago " and that he was six years old at the time, putting his age at least 51 years.
During the first 25 years of his term in the Watch, Vimes rose to Captain of the Night Watch, a position that he attained about ten years prior to the events of Guards!
Vimes and into
Vimes was made aware of this by a young female student from the guild, who had been tasked with merely getting a glimpse of Vimes at his home ( after she had fallen into one of the " eventually lethal " traps ).
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.
While the Summoning Dark had trespassed into his mind, needing a host in-order-to track-down the Deep-Downer Dwarves, would try to enter through one of the doors that opened when Vimes became angry, only to be pulled away at every time.
The Watch foil his attempt on the Patrician's life, losing Cuddy in the process, and Vimes and Carrot Ironfoundersson tail him into the sewers.
In Uberwald, Vimes extends his activities to include an unofficial investigation into the theft of the real Scone of Stone.
It is stated that the event which caused Vimes and Carcer to be sent into the past was a major temporal shattering.
The remains of the Day Watch were incorporated into a new City Watch, commanded by Samuel Vimes.
His father was abusive, and broke his leg at least once ( Vimes notes in Night Watch that Nobby used to have his arms broken by his father too — and in Hogfather, Nobby claims that he never got anything in his stocking ... except once, when his father vomited into it ).
In a fit of his particular brand of omnidirectional anger, Vimes veers off into the mine where he cuts himself, he supposes, on a locked door.
It was said that if Vimes looked deep into Carcer's eyes, he could see the demons looking back.
He therefore attempts to rework the story into what he calls the ' Vimes street version ', about a search for " daddy " through the city, encountering such characters as Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, Foul Ole Ron, and the Patrician.
Vimes and own
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.
In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explains that Vimes protects himself from the Beast with the symbol of his own badge, which prevents him from becoming the criminal he despises, at least in his own mind.
" This, along with the Discworld habit of pushing any theory as hard as it goes, appears to have culminated in Vimes ' psyche creating its own ' internal policeman ' to " Guard the Guardsmen ", ( cf.
), and Vimes ' own sense of justice being so strong that, in Thud !, it was even able to fend off the attempts to possess him by a ' quasi-demonic thing of pure vengeance '.
It is later revealed that the force that was preventing the Summoning Dark from making any progress in possessing Vimes was Vimes ' own ' inner guardsman ', who patrols the streets of his mind.
Vimes is, much to his own horror, becoming a politician.
Characteristically, he continued to fake both the symptoms and the evidence of it until the City Watch found out, thus exposing the conspiracy behind the method while allowing Vimes to be – in his own words – Vimes.
He was arrested by his own Commander of the Watch ( Samuel Vimes ) for attempted murder, and spent part of the book incarcerated.
Nobby proved less tractable than the conspirators had expected, turning down a cushy life as figurehead ruler of Ankh-Morpork largely, by his own account, for fear of what Vimes would have to say — or more importantly, do — when he found out given his and his infamous ancestor's opinions on royalty.
One of these dwarves used his own blood to scrawl yet another mysterious rune on the back of a door in the mine — the same door that Commander Vimes accidentally ' cut ' himself on the other side of.
Vimes acquired the Summoning Dark when he touched the cursed door in the city mine, but his own internal watchman proves stronger than it is.
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