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Rincewind is considering his escape from Ankh-Morpork and thinks, "Let him but but get to Chimera or Gonim or Ecalpon and half a dozen armies couldn't bring him back."
Gonim and Ecalpon are two names that do not occur again.
Meantime, events in the story are changing. The Emperor of the Agatean Empire wanted Two Flower kept alive, but now the Emperor's Grand Vizier, Nine Turning Mirrors, sends a message by Albatross Mail saying he wants Two Flower dead.
The Patrician brings up the Assassin's Guild - their President at the moment is Zlorf Flannelfoot - hardly a name to render fear or apprehension to the reader. In this first book, the names of the Ankh-Morporkians are rendered in such a way, but before long they will return to normal names for the humans, and leave the exotic names for the rest of the beings that inhabit Discworld.
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