No Queens We Willna Be Fooled Again

Pictsie
By Kit Cox
Name	Nac Mac Feegle, Pictsies, The Wee Free Men
Race	Pictsie
Historic period
Occupation	stealing, fighting, drinking
Physical advent	small just very stiff
Residence	Ramtops, hubward Sto Plains
Decease
Parents
Relatives
Children
Marital Status
Appearances
Books	Carpe Jugulum, The Wee Complimentary Men, Anxiety of Dirt, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Clothing Midnight, Snuff
Cameos	Monstrous Regiment, The Celebrated Discworld Almanak

Pictsies or Nac Mac Feegle are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number accept taken to wearing skulls of modest animals as helmets. In size they resemble gnomes, merely pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

History

The Nac Mac Feegle one time lived in Fairyland in service of the Fairy Queen. They would steal and plunder from other worlds for the Queen'south pleasure. While they didn't mind and largely enjoyed the take a chance and theft, the pictsies were less enthusiastic virtually fighting the weak and stealing from the poor. The Queen did not accept the same sense of what was correct, and she was never satisfied.

Some time after the falling out between the Fairy Queen and the King of the Elves, the Queen somehow tricked the Nac Mac Feegle. They rebelled, broke abroad from the rule of the Queen, and took upwardly residence on the Discworld every bit free agents. They remember vehemently with the battle cry: "Nae male monarch! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna exist fooled again!"

Habitat

Pictsies live and operate as members of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with ane queen called a Kelda and hundreds of males (but without female person "workers".) Pictsie clans alive in rural areas, and make their living through stealing cows, sheep, eggs, and other things from farmers and some hunting and gathering when necessary. Pictsies are secretive, disguising their underground tunnels as rabbit holes or in burial mounds. We accept encountered only a few clans so far:

• The Chalk Hill Clan. This is the association for which Tiffany Aching was temporarily Kelda. It is home to the near well known pictsies, such equally Rob Anybody, Daft Wullie and Big Yan.
• The Long Lake Clan. The Kelda is Big Aggie, and her daughter, Jeannie, came to marry Rob Anybody.
• Although information technology is not specifically mentioned, there is a clan up in the mountains, presumably the Ramtops, from which William the Gonnagle comes.

No pictsie clans accept been reported to operate in cities. However, some members of other species practice know virtually the existence of pictsies: the Lancre witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Miss Treason, for case. Pictsies occasionally do business with other people; once, Corporal Buggy Swires, the gnome Ankh-Morpork Watchman paid a pictsie clan a crate of whiskey in exchange for Morag, a highly trained buzzard (in Monstrous Regiment).

Personality and habits

All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise earth, where they are free to exercise whatever they delight. When they seem to dice, they go back to the globe of the living.

Past their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, every bit it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and i of the ways to select a grouping for a mission is merely to gear up them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or and so still standing.

Many Feegles distrust the written word, believing that if your proper name is written down you lot tin can go to prison. In at least one clan, the pictsies' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. Still, some clans, such as the Long Lake, have taken to writing, using their tiny scripts to "legally" get what can't be achieved past fighting or stealing.

The Keldas of a clan also accept unusual powers, called the "Hiddlins", which includes prophetic dreams. It is partially considering of this that they are given and so much respect. Each association as well has a gonnagle, a sort of battle poet who may as well play the mousepipes, which produce such a piercing screech that it causes enemies hurting.

Dialect and linguistic communication

Feegles talk with a strong mountain brogue. Some of the more than unusual words, and their equivalent meanings are:

• Big Wee Hag - Tiffany Agonized
• Bigjobs - man beings.
• Big Human - chief of the clan (usually the husband of the Kelda).
• Blathers/blethers - rubbish, nonsense.
• Boggin - to be desperate, as in 'I'm boggin for a loving cup of tea.(You would be gaggin for a cup of tea.)
• Bunty - a weak person.
• Carlin - an onetime adult female, witch or not.
• Cludgie - the privy
• Coo - Cow
• Crivens! - A general exclamation, ranging in seriousness and severity. Used in identify of swear words.
• Dinnae/didnae - do not/did not.
• Dree your/my/his/her weird - Face up the fate that is in shop for you/me/him/her.
• Eldritch - weird, foreign. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason
• Geas - An adjuration of sorts, an obligation. Non a bird.
• Hag - Witch
• Hag o' Hags - A head witch or nifty witch (due east.grand. Granny Weatherwax)
• Haggins/hagglins - What a witch does.
• Hiddlins - secrets
• Ken - Know.
• Midden - combination of dump, cesspit, dunnikin.
• Mudlin - Useless person.
• Offski - To leave or depart quickly. (Run abroad.)
• Pished - Tired....or so we are told. Pished = really drunk (nosotros all got pished - we all got actually drunk).
• Scunner - A generally unpleasant person.
• Scuggan - A really unpleasant person.
• Ships - Wooly things that eat grass and go 'baa'. Not to exist dislocated with sailing or boats.
• Spavie - See Mudlin.
• Waily - general cry of despair.
• Special Sheep Liniment - Probably moonshine whiskey

In the Long Lake clan, the dialect is much stronger and harder to sympathize.

List of known pictsies

This listing does non include honorary members of clans, for example Horace the Cheese, only but "true" Feegles.

Chalk Loma Clan

• Rob Everyone - big human of the association.
• Big Yan - biggest Feegle.
• Daft Wullie - second in command.
• Fion - The old Kelda'due south daughter
• Hamish the Aviator - scout and messenger.
• No-Equally-Big-Equally-Medium-Sized-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock - younger, apprentice Gonnagle.
• Old Kelda - Mother of Rob Anybody, Wullie and Fion, among others. Died subsequently 70 years in accuse.
• William the Gonnagle - old Gonnagle; originally from the onetime Kelda's clan, somewhere in the Ramtops.
• Wee Dangerous Spike - a younger, inexperienced Feegle.
• Wee Bobby
• Medium Size Jock
• Wee Jock
• Not-Totally-Wee Georgie
• Slightly Mad Angus
• Slightly-Thinner-than-Fat-Jock-Jock

Long Lake Clan

• Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin - very pocket-sized gonnagle.
• Big Aggie - Kelda.
• Jeannie - New Kelda of Chalk Colina, married to Rob Everyone.

Clan unknown

• Wee Mad Arthur - Carried off by a hawk as an infant, he was raised past peaceful gnomish shoemakers. His inherent Feegleness prevented him from fitting in, nevertheless. He is currently a member of the Ankh-Morpork City Sentinel.

Notation

A similarity occurs between Nac Mac Feegle of the Discworld and the Brownies seen in the sword and sorcery fantasy film Willow; that is to say ofttimes drunk, and flying on the backs of birds for easy transport.

Existence petty people with antedilivian habits and their ain language, they may accept been inspired by the Lilliputians in Mistress Masham'due south Placidity, which was read past Terry when younger.

Trivia

• Calling a Nac Mac Feegle a 'fairy' is considered to be a sure method of Suicide, though non for the usual Roundworld reasons: they take good reason to hate bodily fairies.

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Source: https://wiki.lspace.org/Pictsies

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