Rumo (2004) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Rumo: Wolperting (a dog-like creature).The main character. Both interesting and badass.
• Volzotan Smyke: Shark grub who teaches Rumo.
• Yukobak: Upper-class Helling distantly related to the royal Gornabs. Short and scrawny. Has albino-white skin and two small horns. Closet revolutionary and painter.
• Ribble: Homunculi born full grown from alchemical Mothersoup. Belongs to lowest caste of Hel. Has the head and pincers of a crab and legs like a chicken. Always wears a funnel on his head and a small barrel around his body. Yukobak's servant and best friend. Secretly a revolutionary and poet.
• Rala: Beautiful girl Wolperting. Rumo's sweetheart. Not afraid of death.
• Friftar: Add a description of this character.
• Ushan Delucca: Wolperting. Best swordsman in Zamonia. Named after a type of rum. Teaches at the school in Wolperting. Extremely weather sensitive.
• Tallon
• Krindle
• Gomab
• Urs of the White Snow
• Ostafan Kolibri: In search of the Non-Existent Teenies.
• Harra of Midgard: Teacher at Wolperting school. One of the few Wolpertings to reject fighting. When he was a boy, he was involved in a skirmish between two rival gangs of schoolboys. While play fighting he swung his wooden sword too hard and left a notch in the skull of his classmate Jowly of Gloomberg (the current Wolperting Mayor). He vowed to never pick up a sword again.
• Gornab: Gornab the Ninety-ninth. The demented king of the Netherworld.
• Kromek Toomah
• General Tick-Tock: Evil commander of the Copper Killers. Obsessed with death.
• Princess Daintyhoof: A young roe deer. Originally a human child whom a perfidious Hazelwitch had transformed into a deer and abandoned on the edge of the Great Forest.Fell in love with Prince Sangfroid, a big black wolf that was a human under a spell. According to legend, gave birth to a son that was neither deer nor wolf, but a wolf cub with two little horns - the first Wolperting.
• Zorda
• Vasko
• Skullop
• Rohr
• Jo
• Koram
• Murkholm
• Rolv: Can pass through the White Fire.
• Marmaduke
• Zorilla
• Rick
• Hellings
• Demonocles
• Kronk
• Roboglob
• Tykhon

Quotes edit see section history

• “"If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious."”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Zamonia: The continent within which the story takes place.
• Wolperting: The city of the Wolpertingers.
• Netherworld
• Roaming Rock
• Bala
• Omt
• Rata
• Vrahok
• Shark Grub
• Florinth
• Bluddums
• Vulphead
• Deadwood
• Black Dome
• Fort Una
• City Hall
• Gloomberg
• Nairland
• Olek
• Great Forest
• Nurn
• Loch Loch
• Professor Abdullah Nightingale's Brain

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Ensel und Krete. Ein Märchen aus Zamonien von Hildegunst von Mythenmetz., and followed by The City of Dreaming Books.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Walter Moers (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Walter Moers (Illustrator)
2. John Brownjohn (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 833.92

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Contains descriptions of gory and violent scenes.

Subjects edit see section history

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