Death, as you can imagine, is a complicated and very unusual person to write for. He isn’t really a person, when you get down to it. He is more of the End. Not the end like the end of a piece of music, but the end of everything that is. It is his job and his one true specialty in life.
As he exists on the planet upon the back of four elephants upon the back of a turtle that is Discworld, Death is usually regarded with resentment at the worst of times, respect at the best, and generally gets treated as someone who is to be neither trifled with nor ignored. He makes his rounds usually by collecting and sending off the souls of people, but has been known to collect the souls of animals. And, as far as animals are concerned, he has a soft spot for kittens and his beloved steed, the pale horse Binky.
Those who find themselves able to speak to Death (as a client or otherwise) usually note that he has a peculiar way of using tenses and referring to things that have not strictly happened yet. It is partly to do with the fact that Death can see the past, present, and future all at once, and thus sometimes finds himself having a chuckle over the confusion in his conversational partners. Aside from that, he is probably one of the more amicable people to talk to in the entirety of Discworld. He harbors an intense compassion for humanity and considers it to be far more beautiful than anyone might think. He rarely ever loses his temper, but when he does…well, you best make your peace quickly. Death is nothing if not absolute, and when he is absolutely pissed off, something will very likely die to rectify that.
Another thing that sets Death apart from others who have used his name is that he has occasionally taken it upon himself to try and adopt a habit of humanity. Whether he does so for curiosities sake (such as with Isabelle or Mort) or for more personal reasons (like in Soul Music), the results are usually mixed and tend to leave his business in disarray. He always manages to come back to his job, of course, but the things he learns as part of his experiments with human ways have left their mark. Ysabel (pronounced like Isabelle) and Mort are perhaps his two greatest accomplishments in this regard.
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Death, as you can imagine, is a complicated and very unusual person to write for. He isn’t really a person, when you get down to it. He is more of the End. Not the end like the end of a piece of music, but the end of everything that is. It is his job and his one true specialty in life.
As he exists on the planet upon the back of four elephants upon the back of a turtle that is Discworld, Death is usually regarded with resentment at the worst of times, respect at the best, and generally gets treated as someone who is to be neither trifled with nor ignored. He makes his rounds usually by collecting and sending off the souls of people, but has been known to collect the souls of animals. And, as far as animals are concerned, he has a soft spot for kittens and his beloved steed, the pale horse Binky.
Those who find themselves able to speak to Death (as a client or otherwise) usually note that he has a peculiar way of using tenses and referring to things that have not strictly happened yet. It is partly to do with the fact that Death can see the past, present, and future all at once, and thus sometimes finds himself having a chuckle over the confusion in his conversational partners. Aside from that, he is probably one of the more amicable people to talk to in the entirety of Discworld. He harbors an intense compassion for humanity and considers it to be far more beautiful than anyone might think. He rarely ever loses his temper, but when he does…well, you best make your peace quickly. Death is nothing if not absolute, and when he is absolutely pissed off, something will very likely die to rectify that.
Another thing that sets Death apart from others who have used his name is that he has occasionally taken it upon himself to try and adopt a habit of humanity. Whether he does so for curiosities sake (such as with Isabelle or Mort) or for more personal reasons (like in Soul Music), the results are usually mixed and tend to leave his business in disarray. He always manages to come back to his job, of course, but the things he learns as part of his experiments with human ways have left their mark. Ysabel (pronounced like Isabelle) and Mort are perhaps his two greatest accomplishments in this regard.