The Family of Death.
•DEATH: An anthropomorphic personification of
death. He is a 7-foot-tall skeleton of polished bone, in whose eye sockets there
are tiny points of light (usually blue). He normally wears a robe
apparently woven of absolute darkness. Death's scythe looks normal enough,
except for the blade, which is so thin you can see through it - a pale blue shimmer
that could slice and chop sound. His sword has the same ice-blue, shadow-thin
blade, of the extreme thinness necessary to separate body from soul. His face, of
necessity, is frozen into a calcareous grin. His voice is felt rather than heard. His
voice is heard in capital letters, like this: HELLO. Death has a family…or as much of a
family as the anthropomorphic personification of death can have. Death also
likes cats.
•Mort: is a Deaths apprentice, the father of
Susan, the Dutch of Sto Helit, and the husband to Ysabell. He
first appears in the eponymous novel Mort, where Death chooses him as his
apprentice. Mort's original name is Mortimer.
Ysabell is the adopted daughter
of Death, who saved her as a baby when her parents were killed in
the Great Nef desert (no explanation has been given as to why he did this). When
first encountered in the Discworld books, she is a sixteen-year-old girl with
silver hair and silver eyes who, it transpires, has been sixteen for around thirty five years
(no time passes in Deaths Domain). She also has a fixation for the color pink.
Susan: Susan is Deaths
grandchild. Daughter of Mort (Deaths former apprentice) and Ysabell (Deaths
adopted daughter) , granddaughter of Death Himself, Susan is frequently subjected
to visits from Quoth the raven and the Death of Rats. Her consternation with her
heritage is an ongoing issue. Susan usually wears black and is quite in favor of
sensible things.