* Kaos, aka Ronnie Soak, the fictional Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse in the Discworld novel Thief of Time

Mort is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.

Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the Death of the Discworld, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels.

A powerful swamp witch / voodoo woman in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Witches Abroad is named Erzulie Gogol.

The current Archchancellor is Mustrum Ridcully who assumed the post in Moving Pictures and, at the time of the most recent Discworld novel ( which features the wizards as main characters ), Unseen Academicals, still holds it.

* Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, published in 2001, gives version of the tale.

Another example is a series of Ankh-Morpork stamps created to publicise the Discworld novel Going Postal.

Jingo is the 21st novel by Terry Pratchett, one of his Discworld series.

The Last Continent is the twenty-second Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.

Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1988.

The first few pages of the novel deal with a sourcerer's father who cheats death by making a prophecy that Death must honour ; the alternative is to risk destroying the Discworld.

The rest of the novel deals with the sourcerer's plan to have wizards rule the Discworld, and the efforts of a small group – including Rincewind the Wizzard, Nijel the Destroyer and Conina the Hairdresser, daughter of Cohen the Barbarian – to thwart those plans.

* The Discworld novel, Wyrd Sisters, satirizes the idea in several places, with several characters appearing to be under the impression that ' Droit de Seigneur ' is a type of dog, leading to a recurring double entendre about it having to be ' exercised ' often.

* Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Hogfather features a governess named Susan Sto Helit.

In the Discworld novel, Sourcery by Sir Terry Pratchett ; Nijel the Destroyer, a newbie barbarian hero learning the trade from the book ‘ Inne Juste 7 Dayes I wille make You a Barbearian Hero ’ ( sic ) ( written by Cohen the Barbarean, allegedly ) claims “ It ’ s in the book.

* Sourcery, the fifth Discworld novel

* Maskerade, a 1995 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett

It was the 28th novel in the Discworld series but the first written for children.

It has been called a " preconsideration " of Discworld, though the plot and characters are modelled on ( or parodies of ) the novel Ringworld by Larry Niven.

Soul Music is the sixteenth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, first published in 1994.

Terry Pratchett used the Legend of Ys as the basis for his Discworld novel Jingo.

* Monstrous Regiment ( novel ), a 2003 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett

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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.

The Lancre Coven is, as mentioned above, the main group of witches in the Discworld novels, and the ones featured in the novels referred to as " The Witches series ".

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She has starred in six Discworld novels ( Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum ), has appeared briefly in Wee Free Men, acted as a significant supporting character in A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, and I Shall Wear Midnight, and was referenced in three other Discworld books ( by name in Mort, and anonymously in Thief of Time as well as Going Postal ).

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Witches Abroad is the twelfth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, originally published in 1991.

First appearing in Soul Music, Hex is an elaborate, magic-powered and self-building computer, ( not unlike a ' shamble '; a kind of magical device used by the Witches of the Discworld ,) and is housed in the basement of the High Energy Magic Building, at the Unseen University ( UU ), in the Twin city of Ankh-Morpork.

The Discworld novel Witches Abroad also features a plotting fairy godmother, Lady Lilith de Tempscire, who uses the power of stories to control the city of Genua.

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In more modern times, Piers Anthony's Xanth books, Robert Asprin's MythAdventures of Skeeve and Aahz books, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Tom Holt's books provide good examples, as do many of the works by Christopher Moore.

In the fictional Discworld universe created by author Terry Pratchett, the city-state of Ankh-Morpork contains numerous Guilds ( including respective Guilds for Assassins, Beggars and Fools, as well as Thieves and others ), all of which have a monopoly on the various trades which they dominate.

* In the Discworld series of novels by Terry Pratchett, the practice of retrophrenology is mentioned.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, particularly those featuring the Lancre witches, the Picts are an obvious influence on the Nac Mac Feegle, a race of tiny wood-fairies whose speech is influenced by Scottish Gaelic and who are tattooed with blue war-paint.

This was followed in 1999 by another graphic album titled A Cosmic Cornucopia, which includes extensive text by David Langford and two chapters dedicated to his work for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

The History Monks appear in Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time and explain anachronisms in the Discworld ( such as Elizabethan theatre existing simultaneously with opera ) by describing how history was previously destroyed by a magical clock and they have been haphazardly attempting to reconstruct it.

In the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, the Patrician's Palace contains the Rats Chamber, an anagrammatical equivalent to the actual Star Chamber.

" Vorbis " is named after a Discworld character, Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

He followed on this Discworld work by playing a role in the live action television dramatisation of Hogfather, broadcast on Sky over the Christmas season in 2006.

It is suggested in the book that, in one of the many parallel universes adjacent to the one on which the Discworld novels take place, Ridcully and Esme Weatherwax are married and have children ; though it also implies that they were all probably killed by the Queen of the Elves.

His entry in The New Discworld Companion states: ' originally rather lazy by nature, he seems to have blossomed to become the youngest and most depressingly keen member of the faculty ... as one of the few wizards at the University with his head screwed on in any fashion, he appears, quite against his will, to be in the front line '.

* In The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett a reference is made to " those bastards over at Braseneck College ", probably a parody of Brasenose.

A book mentioned in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett was written by a wizard named Humptulip ( no terminal " s ").

The Friends of Abingdon's Unicorn Theatre, housed in the old Abbey buildings, is the site of first productions of many stage adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, by Stephen Briggs.

Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).