Nanny Gytha Ogg
| Nanny | Greebo | Design Notes |
Nanny Ogg
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Nanny is the Clarecraft figure as it came except that I have removed the bottle she was carrying. Painted in true witches colour of black, with red and white striped stockings, and her famous red shoes. |
Greebo
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This figure came with a cat wrapped around the legs.
I didn't think I could cut it off without damaging
it so left it in place and painted as greebo.
Having now found a small scale cat that will do for Greebo, Clarecraft have produced their own version, see first picture. I have him on order from them as our local Clarecraft agent is not very helpful in obtaining new items. From the picture I expect he will be a little overscale but like Errol not enough not to use him. |
Design Notes
Nanny Ogg
70 ish? Trained by Biddy Spective. Witch of Lancre town. Married 3 times, 15 living children, lives between sons Jason and Shawn.Nanny has a thatch of white curls so thick might have been wearing a helmet. Single tooth or gummy as a baby, face like a small dried raisin or apple left too long. Expression of near terminal good nature. Dumpy, large bosom and bandy legged. Knee length knicker leg with string bag and purse, flask of brandy etc. stuffed up one leg. Wears Greebo like a collar. 2" high hat reinforced with willow by Mr Verrissage of Slice with 18 pockets. In the point is a cache of needles and a spool of thread wrapped up in a velvet cloth. Owns a black straw hat with cherries on for funeral etc.. Smokes a pipe from which coils blue smoke. Nanny is famous for her red hobnail boots.
Musical especially after a couple of drinks which normally leads to her dancing on the table, showing her petticoats and singing The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All and A wizard's staff has a knob on the end. Plays the banjo given to her by Mrs Gogol (WA).
She has a secret still in the woods which every one knows about, including the King, but all are careful to avoid.
Author of a cook book "The Joye of Snacks Bye a Lanrce Witch" at bottom of a crowded cover in very small lettering "cxxviith Printyng, More Than Twenty Thousand Solde!" cost One half Dollar and was printer by Mr Goatberger.
Nanny has an apple named after her. It is red, round, shiny and fruity. "Tasty, a bit wrinkled but a damn good keeper" quotes Nanny. Percy Hopcroft, bald but wears a terrible wig, the premier grower of fruit and veg. in the Ramtops created it. He uses a camel hair brush for the cross polination.
Greebo
Greebo is Nanny Ogg's cat. To her Greebo is still a sweet fluffy little kitten that plays with balls of wool and he still sleeps on her bed. To the rest of the world, Greebo is an enormous tomcat with a skin that looks less like fur than a patchwork quilt, a fierce bag of fleas, no ears, the remains of which looked like the edge of a stamp. Left eye green-yellow blind right eye pearl white. He is a mottled grey colour with much scar tissue and has a smell that could almost rival Foul ole Ron. Greebo is a malevolent collection of life force who won't hesitate to fight or rape anything (As a matter of pride). Dogs hide when Greebo's on the prowl, Foxes detour around Lancre and even Wolves avoid him.The only creature that has successfully stood up to Greebo is Legba, Mrs Googol's Cockerel , who merely looked at him and then scratched the ground in a way that drew attention to his two inch long spurs.
He has been turned into a human by the witches when circumstances required. He was six-foot tall, broad-shouldered tapering to waist and leather-clad, like a pirate, rippling muscle under black leather shirt. Insouciant moustache long sideburns and tousled black hair. Mane of black hair and a beard. Broken nose. Lazy smile on scarred face. Long incisor teeth, needle toothed. Still has retractable claws in fingers. Black patch over bad right eye other gleamed a malevolent emerald, greenish yellow. He was as popular with the ladies as he was with the female cats.
Greebo as Gribeau - black eye patch with sequins where it crossed the eye. Black coat and long black tights, shoes with shiny buckles, top hat, big cloak with red lining, bow tie, posh black ebony cane with silver top. Mask of a ginger cat.
Jason Ogg
Eldest son. Very big and very strong. Hairy brow and chessegrater chin, 15 stone and looks as if he was constructed, arms like tree trunks and legs like beer barrels stacked in twos. A blacksmith and farrier by trade, one of who's customers is DEATH's horse Binky. A member of the Lancre Morris Men.
Shawn Ogg
Youngest son. Short and red faced. Odd-job man at Lancre Castle. Odd jobs include; Guard the Castle; Footman with powdered wig too big for him; Herald with trumpet; Royal Historian; Conductor of the Lancre Light Symphony Orchestra; Operating the Royal Mint; Delivering the Mail; Balance the Budget; Help the Gardener; Empties the Palace Privies and occationally mans the Border posts.
He invented the Lancrastian Army Knife with its folding saw, nose hair tweezers and other essential tools and utensils for the soldier in the feild, such as: Adjustable device for winningontological arguments; tool for extracting the truth from a given statement; device for dissecting paradoxes; appliance for detecting small grains of hope; spiral thing for ascertaining the reality of being and an instrument for ending arguments very quickly.