Characters in Raising Steam

Moist von Lipwig

Former con man, postmaster, banker — now building a railway and wondering how he keeps ending up in these situations.

Also in Going Postal, Making Money

Dick Simnel

The young engineer who built the Disc's first steam engine — earnest, brilliant, and a new kind of Discworld hero: the practical innovator.

Iron Girder

The first steam engine, which is treated almost as a character in its own right — beloved by its crew, feared by enemies.

Sam Vimes

The Commander of the City Watch, who travels on the railway's high-stakes run to Uberwald and faces the attacks along the way.

Also in Guards! Guards!, Making Money, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Monstrous Regiment, Theatre of Cruelty, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud!

Havelock Vetinari

The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, who puts Moist in charge of the railway and quietly steers its politics from behind the scenes.

Also in Going Postal, Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Making Money, Men at Arms, The Truth, Feet of Clay, Sourcery, Unseen Academicals, Jingo

Adora Belle Dearheart

Moist's formidable wife, who runs the Clacks and keeps her husband's schemes in check.

Also in Going Postal, Making Money

Angua von Überwald

Also in Men at Arms, Monstrous Regiment, Jingo

Detritus

Also in Moving Pictures, Men at Arms, Jingo, Night Watch, Thud!

Lady Sybil Vimes

Also in Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Snuff

Sir Harry King

Ankh-Morpork's blunt, self-made waste-disposal millionaire, who bankrolls the railway that Dick Simnel's engine makes possible.

Fred Colon

Also in Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Reaper Man, Theatre of Cruelty, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud!

Mr Thunderbolt

Of the Twilight the Darkness

Mr Crucible Wesley

Bashfull Bashfullson

Rhys Rhysson

Aeron

Lady Margolotta

Also in The Fifth Elephant