—Huérfano, señor. Muy triste todo. Nos lo mandaron del orfanato de las Hermanas de Offler, señor. Sus padres murieron los dos contagiados en una epidemia de mosquito en su granja del monte, señor, y a él lo criaron los guisantes.
—¿Quiere decir que lo criaron a base de guisantes?
—Los guisantes, señor. Un caso muy poco habitual. Es buen chaval cuando no pierde los nervios, pero tiende a torcerse hacia el sol, señor, ya me entiende.
—Ejem…tal vez —
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They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that. (Feet of Clay)

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' Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.

It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees. '

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"And then one day a man said 'No more kings!' and we rose up and we fought the bloody nobles amd we dragged the king off his throne and we dragged him into Sator Square and we chopped his bloody head off! Job well done!" --#TerryPratchett #NoKings

On Brologue this week: this writer crosses over to the anthropology aisle to see what one David Graeber has to teach about characterisation. He never wrote any fiction (that I know of), but there's a couple of ideas he left behind that I think we could put to use...

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“The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #3: Characterisation

https://brologue.net/2026/03/29/characterisation-workshop/

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‘Well, it just reeks ambience.’
‘Oh.’
‘What’s ambience?’ said Swires, sniffing cautiously and wearing the kind of expression that said that he hadn’t done it, whatever it was.
‘I think it’s a kind of frog,’ said Rincewind.
(The Light Fantastic)

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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

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For wolves and pigs and bears, thinking that they’re human is a tragedy. For a cat, it’s an experience.
(Witches Abroad)

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Oh, you know how it is with wizards. Half an hour afterwards you could do with another one, the dragon grumbles.
(The Colour of Magic)

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‘I shall deal with the matter momentarily,’ he said. It was a good word. It always made people hesitate. They were never quite sure whether he meant he’d deal with it now, or just deal with it briefly. And no-one ever dared ask.
(Guards Guards)

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