![]() ![]() The font used by the golems in the UK editions is clearly designed to In the centre of the crest is the number 177, which - we learnt in Men at Arms - is Vimes' own badge number. ![]() Vimes family: "protego et servio" - "I protect and serve". ![]() Thieves' Guild: "acutus id verberat" - "whip it quick" Rudolph Potts (baker): "quod subigo farinam" - "because I knead the dough" Vetinari: "si non confectus non reficiat" - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" (a saying popularised by Lyndon B Johnson, though possibly older)Īssassins Guild: "nil mortifice sine lucre" - "no killing without payment" Gerhardt Sock (butcher): "futurus meus est in visceris" - "my future is in the entrails" ![]() The mottoes and crests are mostly explained in the book,Įdward St John de Nobbes: "capite omnia" - "take it all" Someone regarded as an idol has a hidden weakness. Hence, colloquially, the expression "feet of clay" has come to mean that Shattered and destroyed by being struck on the feet, its weakest point. Of gold, but lower down the statue the materials got progressively moreīase, until the feet were "part of iron, part of clay" the statue was Nebuchadnezzar had a dream in which he saw a statue whose head was made The original working title for this book was Words in the Head. ![]()
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