So I’m wondering if Vorbis was mostly awake and aware of everything, saw Brutha talk to a tortoise for a long time, and assumed the tortoise was a random small god trying to convert Brutha. While I know Vorbis is on a weird spectrum of psychotic, I wouldn’t think he’d make such an effort to kill a random turtle unless it was important.

When Vorbis finally moves on his own, the first things he does is bash Brutha with a rock and smash a turtle. I think Small Gods might be one of my favorite Discworld books to date, but there’s one part I was never sure about when Brutha was carrying Vorbis and Om through the desert towards Omnia. While he did things that were appallingly evil, he never seemed to do evil for the sake of evil one might describe him as being functionally amoral, while believing himself to actually be very moral.Hello, first time posting and big fan of this thread and all the discussions here. Psychologically, he was held to be beyond insanity by some that had experienced him, and the god Om described his mind as a steel ball - nothing went in, and nothing came out all he heard when he prayed was the sound of his own thoughts coming back to him. His eyes were almost entirely black, thanks to his being descended from one of the deep desert tribes. Physically, he was over six feet tall and stick-thin, with a shaven head (and everything else, in fact) and an aquiline nose. When Brutha died he chose to travel through the desert with Vorbis. Brutha then became the Eighth Prophet.Īccording to Death, after the trip through the desert he would find Hell. However, despite his claims, Om was not on his side, as was demonstrated when Om Himself killed Vorbis by falling onto his head in his tortoise form. (Although this seems erroneous, none of the previous Prophets heard Om either). He took the credit for the entire journey and was made Cenobiarch, and was declared to be the Eighth Prophet despite never hearing the voice of Om.

He was carried unconscious across the desert by Brutha but, upon his recovery, he knocked the novice out and carried him into the Citadel. This changed following a visit to Ephebe, an aggressive diplomatic mission that ultimately ended in failure. Despite his fanatical devotion, for the greater part of his life he did not rise above the position of Deacon, a result of his position in the Quisition. The Church's imperialistic goals with incredible zeal.

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