Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! 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!Guards!, as it dwindled to a tiny stub - while the power of the Thieves' Guild grew.This insult to Vimes' sense of justice, together with his being naturally knurd and other events, (it has been claimed he was . Only a decade late on this, master of . Sometimes this darker side comes out when Vimes loses control of his anger and he effectively 'goes spare'. In spite (or perhaps because) of her wealth, Sybil engages in certain 'housewife'-like activities such as repairing socks and preparing meals. In every book in the series, the fee for his assassination has risen until he has been removed from the Guild register, meaning that contracts on his life are no longer accepted (this was initially literal, as no assassin wanted to take the contract). Havelock goes to visit Sybil and Sam after the birth of their son and Vimes has some feelings. Sam Vimes's full title of record is "His Grace, His Excellency, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes." Samuel Vimes was born in Cockbill Street, the Shades, Ankh-Morpork into a poor family. As Commander and top officer of the Watch, Vimes' job is to oversee its operations and has to deal with a lot of paperwork, a job which he hates but accomplishes adequately. In his later life Sam is often compared to his ancestor, in both his personality and his appearance. He insists on shaving himself as he dislikes other people putting a razor blade, (or indeed any sort of sharp edge) to his throat, and attempts to wear cheap boots with cardboard soles. Terry Pratchett's daughter, Rhianna, told The Guardian: "Vimes's musing on how expensive it is to be poor via the cost of boots was a razor-sharp evaluation of socio-economic unfairness. His rise from drunk policeman to respected member of the aristocracy, and the simultaneous growth and development of the Watch under his command, have together been one of the major threads of the Discworld series. Vimes, who was about to retire following his marriage to Lady Sybil, was given the resurrected rank of Commander, putting him in charge of the Night Watch and the Day Watch. His full name and title is His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Samuel Vimes Description Mid forties or possibly early fifties (due to temporal anomalies). For instance, people who eat healthy food and get good regular medical care are generally healthier than people who do not. In Thud!, after years of nighttime patrols, Vimes's mindscape is described as the city of Ankh-Morpork, streets and all, in the dead of night, with the rains bucketing down over your head. Sam Vimes is the central character in Guards! Vimes' involvement in preventing a pointless war with Klatch in the novel Jingo led to his being once more rewarded with an unwanted title, in this case, Duke of Ankh. Guards! [15] This meant that when he hadn't been drinking, he was beyond sober - he was "knurd". When he finds younger Assassins failing their attempts on him, for example, he lets them go with only minor wounds; older Assassins, on the other hand, have been known to be painted and tied up left in public, or even chained up and sent on a sea voyage all the way to the other end of Klatch. His drive to keep this promise is so strong in fact that he still manages to fulfil it despite the problem of both being ten miles apart from his son and being attacked by dwarfs. So far, Vimes hasn't been even injured by any Assassin. Male His body does not produce any "natural . He has been walking the city in such boots for decades, and he likes being able to feel the different types of cobblestones so that he can tell which street he is on. His chronic alcoholism may be partially due to his natural state of extreme sobriety, known as being knurd. This horrifying state of mind would cause Vimes to try to balance it out, but . Ironically, the one title Vimes holds with genuine pride (as of Snuff), aside from Commander, is "King" .. as in, "King of the River", an honorarium awarded in recognition of his role in saving the riverboat Wonderful Fanny from piracy and flood. Samuel "Sam" Vimes is the Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. He can barely restrain himself from the Gonne's temptations. Discussing Pratchett's legacy in The Guardian, Andrew Brown wrote that Vimes "may be the most fully realised decent man in modern literature,"[20] while the Hollywood Reporter has described him as "Inspector Morse-meets-Humphrey Bogart-esque". It was so poor that there was little crime, though Sam was part of a street gang (The Cockbill Street Roaring Lads) with Lupine Wonse (who later became secretary to Lord Vetinari). A notable exception is his explicit dislike of vampires. Guards! In Feet of Clay, he still has the habit to reach in stress situations for the bottom desk drawer, where his bottle used to be. Submit your writing A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper - an important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. To put it very simply, he tries to look after those who have nobody else looking after them. Why, that would be Captain Samuel Vimes, of course! # sam vimes # havelock vetinari # this is patching over my dnd/larp hiatus nicely # my art # slapped this together graphic design is my passion; 2150 Anonymous asked: I'm so embarrassed, I knew knurd is the opposite of drunk from the books but I just realized it's literally OPPOSITE of drunk. In the original timeline, Vimes was mentored by Sergeant John Keel. His role as Duke of Ankh largely involves diplomacy (his visit to berwald in The Fifth Elephant for example), in fact, his rough and ready upbringing has given him some unexpected advantages in this field (He once, after a bad day at work, threatened to personally send an opposing diplomat "home in an ambulance," an act that caused the man to order a troop withdrawal). Though he finds it to be annoying, Vimes takes these continued attempts on his life as a sign that he's angering somebody, and so must be doing something right. He promotes Watch officers according to merit and ability, regardless of gender, species, or seniority. Vimes is far from being perfect, and he knows the fact better than anyone. Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,701 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jul 8, 2021 - Vetinari, Sam Vimes, Death, Susan Sto Helit - Complete. Sam Vimes - Character Character Vimes is a very conflicted character: An incorruptible idealist with deep beliefs in justice and an abiding love of his city, he is also a committed cynic whose knowledge of human nature constantly reminds him how far off those ideals are. Sybil maintains a number of close (female) social contacts from her schooldays, who, thanks to the kind of school she went to (The Quirm College for Young Ladies), are now all strategically placed in the highest levels of power across the Sto Plains and often more powerful than Ankh-Morpork Guild leaders. Vimes's ranks and titles rise over the course of the series: This is not the full list; he almost certainly had others during his early Watch career, and he had none prior to joining the Watch. His "Blackboard Monitor" epithet is used like a title in Snuff, implying it may actually have been accorded some official weight by the Low King of the dwarfs. 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. It is clear that Vimes loves his wife dearly; indeed, when he was trapped in the past during the events of Night Watch, alone in a world he no longer recognised, the History Monks gave him a silver cigar case his wife had bought him to inspire him to continue with his mission. In 2022, the Terry Pratchett Estate authorized Jack Monroe to use the "Vimes Boots Index" as the name of a price index she devised to document inflation in prices of basic necessities. Young Sam is Vimes' son and about fourteen months old by the time of Thud!. In the course of his mission to berwald as ambassador, he was disgusted to learn that he was also entitled to be addressed as "His Excellency". Captain Carrot quotes Vimes's ideas about social justice, and tries to make them a reality. Vimes' firm grasp of basic human nature, and of the Ankh-Morpork psyche in particular, led to him spending some years as a drunk, and the Watch believe that this was because his body didn't produce any "natural" alcohol. --. According to Detritus, when Vimes found a child-killer who has kept a "memento" of his deed, it was all the troll could do to prevent him from killing the perpetrator. Vimes's immediate reaction is 'Me'. This may be because he is somehow vital to the running of the city, as Lord Vetinari is, or it may be because no sensible Assassin will volunteer for the task anyway. The conflict within Vimes is between his virtuous nature ("the Watchman") and what he calls "the Beast". The whole series of events forced Vimes to sober-up long enough to uncover who was responsible for summoning the Dragon, after which the changes in his personal life led to him coming off of the drink and switching to smoking cigars, and occasionally, taking snuff. to him, an obligation that supersedes crime, conspiracy or international negotiationshis thinking being that if he ever missed it for a good reason, he might miss it for a bad reason, and that this might apply to everything he does, such as employing less-than-ethical methods in the pursuit of crime".[12]. Vimes also reflects on killing a werewolf in Night Watch[13] and Vetinari mentions him killing a werewolf in Thud!. As of Snuff, even his smoking has been barred from the house (likely for Young Sam's sake), and he sates his cravings with non-alcoholic mixers whipped up by Willikins. The Vimes spot shows the aforementioned Night Watch captain struggling to get through a hard day's work, while the Sybil promo highlights her passion for justice. As part of an equal-opportunities drive required by the Patrician, the Watch under Vimes eventually took on extra staff in the form of a werewolf, a dwarf and a troll (and later a gargoyle, a gnome, a golem, an Igor, a zombie, and a vampire). While no detailed description of his physical appearance shows up in any of the Discworld novels, Pratchett says in the companion work, The Art of Discworld, that he has always imagined Vimes as a younger, slightly bulkier version of late British actor Pete Postlethwaite. On one side, there is Vimes, however rough and pessimistic he may seem, defender of law and order, and the other side is a Vimes who would kill for revenge and make his own law. Vimes was educated at a dame school, where he was once blackboard monitor for a whole term, before he had to drop out and concentrate on learning about life out on the streets. In the newest stories, Keel is Vimes himself transported back in time by thirty years. ), and Vimes' own sense of justice being so strong that, in Thud!, it was even able to fend off an attack by a 'quasi-demonic thing of pure vengeance'. Equally, he is known to be an angry person. His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The Rules: 1. There is absolutely nothing that takes precedence over this; Vimes believes that if he misses it even once for a good reason, the next time he might miss it for a bad one, and eventually this attitude might spill over into the rest of his life. The irony of the situation, coupled with the character's own distaste for the wealthy and general cynicism, make the phrase a particularly effective and vivid evocation of the concept for those familiar with the Discworld novels, hence its becoming part of the vernacular in that subculture. Vimes was played by Paul Darrow, best known for his role in Blake's 7. Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a policeman from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. They estimated that Vimes was about two drinks below par. Set in Lancre, a long time before the present, with three suspiciously familiar Witches who may be Ancestors. In Thud!, he nearly gives in entirely to those of the Summoning Dark. Longtime collaborative artist Paul Kidby, who has worked with Pratchett on several works, portrays him instead as resembling Clint Eastwood. It is also mentioned in Night Watch, that at the time of the "Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May", both Sam Vimes and Havelock Vetinari were 16 years old, meaning that they are both the same age. After marrying Lady Sybil Ramkin, he quit drinking and smoked cigars instead. A human raised by dwarfs, Carrot joined the Watch and set out to help the city. Despite her high-class upbringing, she has displayed a resourcefulness ("in an outdoorsy kind of way") that first attracted Vimes's attention. His mother would go on to tell young Sam that his father was 'run down by a cart when he was crossing the street'. Keel taught Vimes several important lessons, such stopping him from taking bribes at a time when such behaviour was widespread in the Watch. Vimes used to attempt to cure this by drinking heavily; unfortunately he often over-dosed himself, and became an alcoholic. 5,630 notes. At the end of the events of Snuff, Vimes was also genuinely amazed to learn that a new book, "Pride and Extreme Prejudice", had been dedicated to him. Vimes is all but shocked at Vetinari's disturbingly cynical (and probably disturbingly accurate) view of the world, he in turn has been called "the most cynical bastard that ever walked under the sun" (in I Shall Wear Midnight). He does not tolerate the "Mister" from outsiders. He is promoted to being the Commander of a reunified City Watch at the end of its sequel Men at Arms, and presides over the Watch's transformation into a modern police force. Revealed in the events of Thud!, after years of night-time patrols, Vimes' mindscape is described as the city of Ankh-Morpork-itself, streets and all, in the dead of night, whilst the rains are bucketing down over your head. As a consequence, the Vimes family was stripped of its nobility. His rise from alcoholic policeman to respected member of the aristocracy, and the growth and development of the Watch under his command, have together been one of the major threads of the Discworld series. He had the smallest tuft of brown hair. In Snuff, Sybil forces Vimes to take a vacation to their countryside estate, Crundells. and busting a goblin slavery network in Snuff. Samuel Vimes has always been my favorite character in the series. He is capable of accepting specific individuals. For three centuries afterwards, the memory of "Old Stoneface" has lived on in infamy and, as his descendant, Vimes has frequently endured suspicious mutterings from the aristocracy. sam vimes knurd grown ups 2 ronnie . was adapted for BBC Radio 5 in 1992 and starred John Wood as Vimes. Samuel Vimes He is a deeply conflicted man who rose from the meanest of beginnings as a punk street gang member to become one of the. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and. Vimes gave up alcohol after his marriage to Sybil, and now smokes foul-smelling cigars instead. In Night Watch Sam remembers that his mother made 'the very best' Distressed Pudding. Vimes has also beaten off and "killed" part of a pack of werewolves in "the game"; a chase back to civilization that humans did not often win during a period when it was organised by Angua's brother Wolfgang. Although in the short run it costs more to provide medical check ups, wellness programs, and so forth, in the long run, those rich enough to afford them will not only spend less overall on medical care, they will have a higher quality of life. Born into poverty, he is now a highly reluctant member of the nobility, having been made both a knight and a duke. As Lu-Tze explains to Vimes in Night Watch, both pasts are true and there was a real John Keel. Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. His current full title is His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Example. However, the Watch declined in importance during this time, particularly after Lord Vetinari legalised the Thieves Guild. This can be illustrated by the fact that when asked 'quis custodies ipsos custodes' ('Who watches the watchmen?') Guards!, she is a rather imposing Wagnerian aristocrat, but also a kind-hearted and compassionate person, embodying the positive aspects of aristocrats, who are otherwise depicted unflatteringly in Ankh-Morpork's population. Whatever happened to him, she raised the young Sam on her own. Dormer's character, Sam Vimes, is the captain of the city's police force that's known as the titular Watch. In Feet of Clay, Corporal Nobby Nobbs refuses the position of Earl of Ankh, terrified that Vimes would 'go spare' when he found out. Family information Pessimal). Something deep inside Havelock clicked into place and he sighed. He is a secondary character in The Truth and Monstrous Regiment and has cameos in The Last Hero, Going Postal, Making Money, Unseen Academicals, I Shall Wear Midnight and Raising Steam. [21], The Cretaceous conifer species Pseudotorellia vimesiana is named after Sam Vimes.[22]. Night Watch states that Vimes was sixteen years old when he joined the City Watch. He hates many kinds of people and many things, and he has quite good reasons to. It had been her childhood home, and in Thud! He regards being the Duke of Ankh as a job title and always prefers "Commander" or "sir" to any of his other titles, which include "His Grace," "His Excellency" and "his blackboard-monitorship" (The Fifth Elephant and Thud!). He describes this as The Samuel Vimes 'Boots' Theory Of Socio-Economic Injustice. The Night Watch were reduced to patrolling the streets, ringing their bells at night and half-heartedly chasing criminals. Vimes is considering appealing the decision. He seems curmudgeonly at . "There's a lot of me in Sam," says Dormer. Philip Jackson from the British Robin of Sherwood TV series provides the voice for Vimes in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Night Watch. He now finds himself in the awkward position of continuing to despise the ruling classes of the city, while actually being a member of them. Assassin must be their main job title. During his first appearance in Guards! As the aforementioned John "Mad Jack" Ramkin is also hailed as the 3rd Earl Ramkin, this reveals that the Ramkin estate is an earldom, and that Lady Sybil was already a countess (provided that the title wasn't entailed) before her husband, Sam Vimes', elevation to Duke at the end of Jingo. Guards!, Vimes has become a Captain of a Night Watch that had dwindled to just four people: himself, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs and the new recruit Carrot Ironfoundersson. Vimes is depicted in the novels as somewhere between an Inspector Morse-type 'old-school' British policeman, and a film noir-esque grizzled detective. Group Affiliation: The Night Watch. "I decided in my head that he's three. This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 19:55. sam vimes knurd home > sam vimes knurd. Family members His appearances throughout the Discworld sequence show him slowly and grudgingly rising through the ranks of both police force and society. he refused to have a vampire.). There are some unfortunate individuals (for example, Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch) whose body does not make enough natural alcohol, and is consequently slightly knurd all the time until he has had a drink. When Vimes was temporarily relieved of command in Men at Arms, the fact that Vimes didn't pound the wall led Vetinari to realize that he 'may have gone too far'. Guards!. Title(s) [14] In The Fifth Elephant, Vimes managed to evade, fight off, and 'kill' part of a pack of werewolves in "the game", a werewolf tradition of chasing a human back to civilization that humans did not often win. Sam Vimes, short for Samuel Vimes, is a character who appears in the BBC America TV show, The Watch. In Thud!, after an attempted assassination of his family, Vimes becomes very angry at the 'deep-down dwarves,' a problem only made worse by the presence of a dark entity of pure vengeance within his mind. In Jingo, Vimes finds himself in a difficult and tense situation where he is holding the Klatchian Prince Cadram at bowpoint, and is prepared to kill him because (tenuous) evidence links him to a conspiracy to kill Prince Khufurah, but there is no court which would try the case. However, he remains a copper in his soul. Definitions of Sam Vimes, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of Sam Vimes, analogical dictionary of Sam Vimes (English) Vimes took a great interest in the restructuring of the Watch, placing new Watch Houses where they were needed and supervising the creation of both a Watch Academy and a forensics section. He went to the local school, where he was taught by Dame Slightly for 9 months and became blackboard monitor. it is revealed that some of her family's possessions are still stored in the attic of the building in this instance they retrieved a copy of Methodia Rascal's Koom Valley painting, made by Sybil as a child, after the original is stolen. In the course of his mission to berwald as ambassador, he was disgusted to learn that he was also entitled to be addressed as "His Excellency", although he learns to wield it for practical clout, especially when perusing investigations where his status as an officer is unknown or ignored. The best caption for Sam Vimes would probably be "Dirty Harry gone to seed".He is cynical, stubborn, rude and with an almost religious contempt for authority.He is also a closet idealist (albeit a disillusioned one) and a reluctant diplomat and nobleman.. Vimes' relationship with Vetinari is completely symbiotic - the conflict between them is what move the plots of the books as well as in . Despite having competent subordinates, including Captain Carrot and Sergeants Angua and Detritus, Vimes finds it difficult to delegate, and is frustrated by the fact that the growth of the Watch has left him with less and less time for actual policing. She is a deeply gracious lady, able to like almost anyone (even Nobby Nobbs). Vetinari stood beside him and looked down. Known Relatives: None. At some point during his ambassadorship, things went very wrong. In attempting to carry out justice, Vimes has arrested sons of Ankh-Morpork nobles as well as city dignitaries, all the way up to Lord Vetinari. [12] He eventually did actually kill Wolfgang (with a firework, it having been previously established that werewolves can be killed by fire as well as silver.). His role as Duke of Ankh largely involves diplomacy (his visit to berwald in The Fifth Elephant for example), and his rough and ready upbringing has given him an obliquely effective approach to this field. In his expanding international and diplomatic role, Vimes appreciates the fact that police officers from Sto Lat to Genua have been trained to salute him, and remain in unofficial contact across the Disc. Later adventures include a journey to berwald in The Fifth Elephant, a journey back to the days of the Glorious Revolution in Night Watch, making peace between dwarfs and trolls in Thud! 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