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Name: Delphine Angua von Überwald (Angua)
Residence Mrs Cake's house, Elm Street, Amkh Mopork
Job: Sergant in Ankh Mopork City Watch
1st Appearance Men At Arms (1993) Book 15
Affiliates: Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson of the Ankh Mopork City Watch, Corporal Cheery Littlebottom (AMCW), the rest of the Watch, Mrs Evadne Cake (Landlady), Gaspode, Gavin (a wolf).
Family members Father/Sire Baron Guye von Überwald (Silvertail); Mother Mme Serafine Soxe Bloonberg of Genua (Yellowfang); Brothers Wolfgang, Andrei; Sister Elsa
Other: Werewolf, estranged from family.

Angua is, on first appearance, a well-developed young lady with a mass of ash-blondwe hair, and an annoying habit of looking at one's neck. She is also good at her job, even if beiong a watchman is an unusual occupation for a lady.

When it is full moon, she is a paedigree Ramtop wolfhound wioth an ash-blonde main round her shoulders.

Angua is, to quote Nobby, anthromorphically gifted. In plain English, she's a werewolf. this means that she can tear out a man's jugular, give someone a week of abysmal hairdays every month, and very usefully, she can see smells as colours when in her lupine form. This means that she has been very useful for tracking offenders. Several criminals have had reason to curse her presence in the watch. however, the crimial classes of Ankh Mopork have got wise to her talents, and now no self-respecting criminal goes out without a scent bomb. Dropped in a busy place, there are so many powerfully scented trails that she has to go home with a splitting headache.
angua has formed a relationship of sorts with Carrot. They are attached to each other but don't hold your breath waiting for a wedding invite! Whether the birth of Vime's son will change things remains to be seen.

Angua left the Ramtops because she didn't get on with her family.

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she is vegetarian and if she does end up eating a chickwen she will return the next morning and pay for it with the going market rate. Her family especially her brother Wolfgang, take a different view of the food chain. She is the only person who can beat Wolfgang in a fight, as she proved during the events of Fifth Elephant. Once you've met her relations, you can understand why she escaped.

Angua and Wolfgang were the only two classical bi-morphs in the litter. Elsa and Andrei are Yennorks, werewolfs who can't change shape. Wolfgang killed Elsa, and Andrei decided to escape and become a champion sheepdog in Borogravia. His insistance on "pure" blood is why she hates Wolfgang so much.

She decided to join the watch because the only other career path available waqs as a "seamstress". She was taken on by the watch when it started its ethnic minority recruitment programme. She is still the only "undead" member of the watch who lacks a valid death certificate as vimes refuses to employ vampires.

Angua is a good example of Pratchett's ability to write strong female characters, lets hope we do see more of her and her "sisters"

This is good stuff.

Could you create an entry with this information in, and tell us what the A number is? Then we can link it directly from the Cathederal and you get the kudos for writing the entry.

Let us know either way.

Ta.

what don you mean-I haven't got the hang of writing entries yet, hence why i posted it in the way that i did. sorry I took so long to get back to you-1st hols then exams

couldn't you copy it then paste into an entry?-I don't know when I'll have the time to get on H2G2 next

have finally worked out how to GuideML it. it's A2218196

Excellent, really nice entry. Thanks.

Sorry about the delay replying to you.