The majority of Discworld Witches are seen in the Ramtops region of Discworld, and, barring the latest book in the Tiffany Aching series, the primary protagonists of the Witch books are from Lancre, a country in the Ramtops region.

In his debut novel he came up with the plan to discredit the Witches, which was in Granny's belief the most dangerous and unstoppable threat they'd ever faced, because it couldn't be fought but had to be prevented as soon as possible. Good thing he switched sides. Evil Matriarch: Played With. She's described as the "undisputed tyrant of half the Ramtops" for a reason. She's very loving (and controlling) with her children and grandchildren. Her poor, poor daughters-in-law, however, certainly think so, and with good reason. Nanny Ogg sees their primary purpose in life as being to keep her content by cleaning her house — and she's very demanding about that — and providing her with all the food and drink she asks for. Watson, J., Lydon, S. J. and Harrison, N. A. (2001). "A revision of the English Wealden Flora, III: Czekanowskiales, Ginkgoales & allied Coniferales". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology Series), 57(1), 29-82.

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The character of Nanny Ogg is based on someone Pratchett knew in real life, "an old lady who liked a drink and a laugh, but...I suspect you could find someone like her on any street." [1] Discworld illustrator Paul Kidby expressed a similar view of the character, writing "I like to think we all know someone like Nanny Ogg, a person who enjoys a drink and has led a happy and full life." [1] Nanny's grandson, Shane is a sailor and has taught her some 'basic foreign language', mostly made up of mangled words from French and other European languages. Maskerade is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the eighteenth book in the Discworld series. [1] The witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg visit the Ankh-Morpork Opera House to find Agnes Nitt, a girl from Lancre, and get caught up in a story similar to The Phantom of the Opera. Combat Pragmatist: They will fight dirty and break any rules to win. Nanny Ogg discusses this approach with Magrat in Wyrd Sisters, comparing it to an oath never to swim: it’s all very well if you can honor it, but if you end up in deep water is it worth keeping or breaking?

Fluffy Tamer: Where Greebo is concerned, anyway. And even then, she's not above throwing a boot at his head. Interspecies Romance: The dwarf Casanunda hits on Nanny Ogg shamelessly whenever they cross paths, which Nanny Ogg regards with a mixture of bafflement, amusement, and pride. It's mentioned in passing it's not the first time an Ogg caught the eye of a dwarf; at least one married into the family (or had a child with an Ogg ancestor), giving Nanny Ogg and her descendants very tough skulls.Better known as Long Tall Short Fat Sally, Miss Cambric is one of the witches who accompanies Mrs. Proust to the Chalk. She suffers from tides; her body expands and contracts with the moon's influence. She is being trained by Mrs. Happenstance. Her expanding and shrinking tendencies were very helpful in The Shepherd's Crown, where she was able to inflate and fall on fairies, thereby crushing them. Enraged by Idiocy: Downplayed, but Granny's own thoughts make it quite obvious just how contemptuous she is of most people for falling short of her standards of intelligence and common sense. This doesn't stop her from exploiting their superstitious thinking for her Headology, of course.

A fairy godmother, mentioned in The Wee Free Men and named in the court transcript in The Illustrated Wee Free Men. She gave Princess Sandy the traditional gifts of health, wealth and happiness, only to be sued by the princess when she didn't feel very happy. Nettle solved this problem by turning the princess into a mirror and her lawyer into a toad. Another later addition to witch skills, established in Maskerade, but first named in the Aching books, is First Sight—seeing what's really there instead of what you hope to, expect to, or what others see—and Second Thoughts—thinking about the way you're thinking. I Was Quite a Looker: She may be a wrinkly, implicitly somewhat portly old lady now, but in her youth she was a very attractive (and very sexually liberated) woman. The "Mona Ogg" suggests she and Leonard of Quirm were very taken with each other, for instance. She held onto it enough that she had at least one child in her late 40s/early 50s (thanks to the events of Wyrd Sisters, time got a little wobbly up around Lancre). Butt-Monkey: Poor girl never seems to catch a break. The end of Maskerade is something close to a Humiliation Conga. Her life gets a bit better after she becomes an official witch. Neville is a thief and (prior to the events of Maskerade) stole all the lead from the roof of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. Afterward he hid at Mrs. Palm's establishment. When Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax visit Ankh-Morpork in Maskerade they also seek lodging with Mrs. Palm, and are surprised to learn that this is a brothel rather than a boarding house.

I Have Many Names: At one point, Nanny brings up that her name among the trolls translates as "She Who Must Be Avoided" and the dwarfs know her as "Go Around The Other Side Of The Mountain".