The best things in life according to him are "hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper". He has at least one known daughter and is assumed to have many more children, most of whom he does not know. Her name is Conina. She is the daughter of a temple dancer. It is generally difficult for others to consider Cohen a friend, given his volatile nature; when questioned by Havelock Vetinari , Rincewind conceded that he could be considered Cohen's friend simply because he and Cohen had met a couple of times and Cohen hadn't killed him.
Cohen married Bethan who was a sacrificial virgin at least back then she was with a tanned perfect body, and a knowledge of chiropody - a perfect complement to Cohen's age-warped back. It is presumed they broke up at some point. According to Rincewind, Conina and Bethan are about the same age. However, he soon grew bored of a life bereft of constant adventure and peril, and when Old Vincent choked on a cucumber a decidedly un-heroic way to die , he led the Horde on a final mission - returning fire to the gods in the form of Agatean Thunder Clay.
Cohen, over the course of his long career, has been everywhere and done everything, sometimes twice. After learning of the man's exploits, he views himself as similar to Carelinus , the greatest conquerer in the history of the Disc, only "not as cissy, obviously".
During his final adventure on the Disc, at least , Cohen joined the very small group of people who have successfully cheated Fate by rolling a 7 on a 6-sided die. Of course, he did this by cutting it in half while it was up in the air, so that both the side showing 6 and the side showing 1 landed face up, but everyone agreed that it was a fine stroke and certainly a very barbarian-like way of solving the problem.
The Octavo is then eaten by Twoflower's Luggage. The book ends with Twoflower and Rincewind parting company, as Twoflower decides to return home, leaving The Luggage with Rincewind as a parting gift.
Page 6 "[ Page 8 "[ This does not usually reduce the value of the book, but booksellers tend to be scrupulous about such matters. In Lords and Ladies , p. Distant cousin. Never knew him,' said Granny. Rapping at the windows, Crying through the lock, 'Are the children all in bed? For it's now eight o'clock. He is traditionally depicted going upstairs carrying a candlestick with a flat, saucer-like base, a short candleholder in the middle and a loop to grip it by at one side.
Page 9 "[ Whether Pratchett had this in mind or alternately was thinking of the fact that, until recently, pubs in the UK opened at 11 a. Page 10 The Dandelion Clock is a reference to the folk-belief that the seed-heads of dandelions can be used to tell the time. Children pick the dandelion, blow the seeds away, and the number of puffs it takes to get rid of all the seeds is the time, e. As a result, the dandelion stalks with their globes of seeds are regularly referred to as a "dandelion clocks" in colloquial English.
Page 10 "'To the upper cellars! Page 24 "[ In this instance it is a 'shade' more subtle than most Tom Swifties; the connection being that Death is often referred to as a 'shade'. Tom Swifties are plays on the style of writing popularized in the Tom Swift series of of boys' adventure novels with a pun thrown in that connects the quoted sentence to the adverb or verb.
Pratchett was asked if this scene was influenced by Monty Python who also do a Death-at-a-party sketch. He stated, "No. I'm fairly honest about this stuff. I didn't even see the film until long after the book was done. Once again, I'd say it's an easy parallel -- what with the Masque of the Red Death and stuff like that, the joke is just lying there waiting for anyone to pick it up. The Masque of the Red Death is a well-known story by Edgar Allan Poe, in which the nobility, in a decadent and senseless attempt to escape from the plague that's ravishing the land, lock themselves up a castle and hold a big party, at which a costumed personification of Death eventually turns up and claims everyone anyway.
Page 30 "[ This line is a play on the common miscommunication and apocryphal tales of miscommunications between natives and foreign explorers which occurs in Roundworld as well as Discworld and leads to odd place names. One supposed example is the naming of the Yucatan Pennisula in Mexico. Whether this story is true or not there are certainly other examples which are. There are other stories of place names translating from the local language to mean "I don't know" but as Cecil Adams puts it in More of the Straight Dope : "Having now had the "I don't know" yarn turn up in three different parts of the globe, I can draw one of two conclusions: either explorers are incredible saps, or somebody's been pulling our leg.
Page 34 The line, "'Good grief! A real gingerbread cottage! The line "Twoflower touched a wall gingerly. Page 35 "Candyfloss. It is the pink spun sugar you can get at fairs and shows. Page 35 "He read that its height plus its length divided by half its width equalled exactly 1. This is a take off on the various popular theories involving such things as the relationship between the circumference and the height of Great Pyramid at Giza and the various 'cosmic truths' associated with it.
The remark about sharpening razor blades at the end of the paragraph is a reference to the pseudo-scientific 'fact' that miniature pyramids are supposed to have the ability to sharpen razor blades that are placed underneath them overnight as well as other equally ludicrous powers. Page 37 Cohen's answer to what is good in life; "Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper" is a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger's line from the first Conan The Barbarian movie: "Conan!
What is good in life? Its members are Truckle the Uncivil, Boy Willie so called because he's the only one under eighty, though only slightly under , Caleb the Ripper, Mad Hamish, Old Vincent ironic in that all of the Horde are old , and Mr.
Ronald Saveloy geography teacher turned barbarian adventurer , or, as the Horde call him, Teach. They are rumoured to be "the legendary Seven Indestructible Sages", previously unheard of, but "Perhaps legends have to start somewhere". In Interesting Times , The Silver Horde aid Cohen in his invasion of the Agatean Empire in an effort to steal something, which is hinted at but not revealed until the end to be the Empire itself.
They also have a hand in overthrowing the current Emperor a cruel tyrant who isn't "simply at Death's door but well inside the hallway, admiring the carpet and commenting on the hatstand". A main point of the plot is Teach's attempt to civilise the Horde, a difficult task since "every one of them saw a book as either a lavatorial accessory or a set of portable firelighters and thought that hygiene was a greeting.
With Cohen crowned Emperor, the Horde live like royalty, all except Teach, who dies in the final battle of the novel after proving his barbarian credentials beyond all doubt with a rage that amazed even his cohorts.
As of The Last Hero , Old Vincent is also dead, having choked on a cucumber or possibly a concubine — there's some confusion on this point in the dialogue. The Horde sets off to return fire to the gods in a glorious last adventure, but eventually realize that this would destroy the Disc and, it is implied if not explicitly stated that they give their lives to save everyone else.
It is unsure if the Horde actually die in rescuing the world from destruction. They hurl themselves and a massive explosive device off of a frozen mountain cliff, and once the blast has cleared, Valkyries arrive with the intent of collecting fallen heroes and taking them to a glorious afterlife of drinking and fighting.
However, the Horde suddenly rises up from the snow and steals the Valkyries' flying horses, deciding that they were bored with the Discworld and that it is time to explore other worlds. When asked whether or not they are truly dead, Cohen stated that they didn't think they were dead, so why should they care what anyone else thought?
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