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Monsterous Regiment Question

  • 22-05-2011 3:43pm
    #1
    KonFusion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭


    Was just wondering about the timeline for this book regarding Vimes.

    It was mentioned at one point (I'm trying to find the exact text) that Vimes was wearing sergeant's stripes. I thought though at this point he was Commander/Duke.

    Maybe he was just wearing them cos he's like that?? Or maybe I dreamt it and it never happened :o

    Just looking for clarification as it was bugging me :)


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  • #2
    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    Yes, I think Vimes is a Duke by then, and Commander of the Watch, but I don't remember any reference to sergeant's stripes. :confused:

    See if you can find the passage?


  • #3
    ríomhaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 473 ✭✭ríomhaire


    Pretty sure he was Duke in Monstrous Regiment, but I have been known to be mistaken.


  • #4
    Opinicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Opinicus


    have just started re-reading this funnily enough!

    Will post back if I find a reference to it.

    You're not mixing him up with Sgt. Jackrum are you?


  • #5
    Opinicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Opinicus


    About a quarter of the way in polly finds a piece of the times (so it's after 'the truth') with an article mentioning Vimes calling him 'his grace' and 'commander'. So he is definitely a Duke at that stage.


  • #6
    KonFusion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭KonFusion


    I figured as much. And nope don't think I'm messing him up with Jackrum.

    (awesome book btw)

    Can't find the passge but I believe it was when polly
    met high command towards the end and Vimes was in the background smoking a cigar and 'grinning'

    Must have read it wrong....or dreamt it :P

    Thanks.


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  • #7
    quietsailor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    I think I remember something about polly thinking Vimes "looks like a sergeant" or " looks like a sergeant type person" when she enters the castle and meets the commanders?


  • #8
    Opinicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Opinicus


    Yeah, just getting to the last quarter of the book.
    When they first meet the Officers in the keep they notice Vimes in the background with workmanlike armour.

    Blouse remarks that he looks like a sergeant and Polly says "but he doesn't have any stripes!".


  • #9
    KonFusion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭KonFusion


    Opinicus wrote: »
    Yeah, just getting to the last quarter of the book.
    When they first meet the Officers in the keep they notice Vimes in the background with workmanlike armour.

    Blouse remarks that he looks like a sergeant and Polly says "but he doesn't have any stripes!".

    That clears it up nicely :)

    Many thanks.


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