Hwel
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| Characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series |
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| Full name: | Hwel |
| Description: | A dwarven playwright |
| Associations: | Shakespeare |
| Location: | Ankh-Morpork |
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| First seen: | Wyrd Sisters |
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Hwel is a secondary character from the Discworld novel "Wyrd Sisters" by Terry Pratchett. He is the most talented playwright in the Disc and works for the travelling theatrical company of Olvin Vitoler.
[edit] Origin
Hwel is a dwarf and as such comes from the Ramtop mountains. He is, however, utterly indifferent towards gold and mining and is involved in an extremely undwarfish occuparion.
[edit] Talent
Being the most gifted playwright in the Discworld, Hwel creates his works under the influence of an unstoppable inspiration, which drives him to the verge of insanity with the vivid images it forces into his mind. Hwel's plays are usually modified and tinkered with by the author even long after their creation. An example is the play he writes as instructed by the Duke of Lancre. The play actually twists its own form and makes Hwel completely alter the plot, reversing all of the characters.
