As a werewolf can only be killed with a silver weapon, Angua is revived upon the moon's rising. Cruces gives Carrot the evidence that he is the royal heir, upon which Carrot kills Cruces with his sword and has both the evidence and the dismantled gonne buried with Cuddy. Vimes and Carrot confront and disarm Cruces, and Carrot helps Vimes resist the gonne's allure. The Watch prevent Cruces from killing Vetinari, but Cuddy and Angua are killed in the process. Cruces, head of the Assassin's Guild, Cruces murders him and takes up the plan himself. Any possessor of the gonne seems to become obsessed with the device. It is revealed that d'Eath has stolen the gonne, the Disc's first and only handheld firearm, from the Assassins' Guild, with the intention of discrediting Vetinari's government through the murders. Angua works with the talking dog Gaspode, and also forms a romantic connection with Carrot, who loses his virginity to her but handles the discovery that she is a werewolf poorly. Cuddy and Detritus are forced to work together, resulting in them becoming friends as they overcome their deep-seated racial enmity. When a string of seemingly random murders occur among the Guilds of the city, Lord Vetinari forbids Vimes to investigate in a successful ploy to ensure Vimes does investigate. He also must deal with a new group of recruits that he has been required to take on for the sake of diversity: Cuddy (a dwarf), Detritus (a troll), and Angua (a werewolf-but Carrot is unaware of this, and believes she is included because she is female). Meanwhile, Captain Samuel Vimes, captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, prepares for his imminent wedding to Sybil Ramkin, the richest woman in Ankh-Morpork. He researches the history of the royal family and determines that Carrot Ironfoundersson is in fact the rightful heir to the throne.

Also notable is the only appearance of Lance-constable Cuddy (also promoted to Acting-constable).Įdward d'Eath, an Assassin and son of a down-and-out noble family, becomes convinced that the restoration of the Ankh-Morpork monarchy will solve the social change in the city which he blames for his family's humbling. Lance-constable (in the course of the novel promoted to Acting-constable) Detritus is introduced as a new member of the watch as well, though he had already appeared in other Discworld novels, most notably in Moving Pictures. Lance-constable Angua von Überwald, later in the series promoted to the rank of Sergeant, is introduced in this book.

It is the second novel about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch on the Discworld. Men at Arms is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 15th book in the Discworld series, first published in 1993.

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