Lord Rust Traditional Cache

Surname of one of the older noble families in Ankh-Morpork, the most powerful city-state on the Sto Plains. The ancestor of the current Lord Rust was created a Baron after single-handedly killing thirty-seven Klatchians while apparently armed with nothing more than a pin.

Lord Rust is something of a cartoon of all the supercilious snobs of movie and story aristocracy, conflicted by greed and vanity on one hand, and patriotism and "the done thing" on the other. He is arrogant and ignorant and a very dangerous military commander; he expects huge casualties, and if they have to be his, c'est la guerre. He has been described as operating on the principal that any battle where you can deduct your casualties from the casualties suffered by the enemy and result in a positive number is a glorious victory. At one point in time he even became the official leader of the city, but his military and political incompetence was soon exposed.