, Death can be quite passionate about life in general in some cases, he actively defends it against the depredations of the Auditors. While his job and anatomy cause a lack of emotions which he displays in his hollow voice He is also described by Susan as someone who would solve world hunger, not by changing socioeconomic forces, but by giving everyone a good meal. However, as an immortal skeletal being who does not have to pay heed to fatigue or even time, he seems to lack comprehension of some human concepts, such as detective novels.
Death appears for the first time in the first novel, The Colour of Magic (though it is suggested that his first appearance was actually that of his 'stand-in', Scrofula), and reappears in all of the stories that take place in the Discworld universe, with the exception of The Wee Free Men, a Tiffany Aching young adult book, and Snuff.ĭeath is fascinated with humans in general, and as a result attempts to emulate their behaviour, if only to better understand them. He appears as the traditional Grim Reaper, with a skeletal body, a black robe and a scythe (or sometimes a sword for royalty) and talks in unquoted small caps Tall, not what you'd call fleshy, Talks like thisĮvery Discworld book except The Wee Free Men and Snuffĭeath is the anthropomorphic personification of death on the Discworld. whtmnkĪs old as the death of the first living thing Death Illustrated by Christopher Stryjewski a.k.a.
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