He also provided the voicing for several characters in the videogame Discworld.

In the Discworld novel Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett, one of the characters is a zombie by the name of Baron Saturday, who is the former ruler of the fictional country of Genua.

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.

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* 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.

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.

The holiday of Hogswatch, which appears in the Discworld books, is celebrated by the characters in The Dark Side of the Sun.

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" Death does not appear to them, as he often does when Discworld characters die, although he subsequently appears to Vena, and is evasive about whether he is " collecting ".

As the series progresses, she also begins to take on roles educating children, so that, as Pratchett mentions in The Art of Discworld, she has " ended up, via that unconscious evolution that dogs characters, a kind of Goth Mary Poppins ".

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Category: Discworld characters

The pie floater also makes an appearance in the Discworld novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, where it is sold by Fair Go Dibbler, one of a number of similar characters who sell " regional delicacies " across the Disc.

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: This article is about the pseudonym ; for the Discworld character see Discworld characters # Walter Plinge

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Category: Discworld characters

Because of her reluctance to openly use magic, other Discworld characters have, at various times, accused Granny Weatherwax of ' working by trickery alone ', and of ' having little or no real power ' ( an accusation she shares with Lu-Tze ).

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Category: Discworld characters

The Pratchett Portfolio is a small collection of the artistic works of Paul Kidby, illustrating the characters of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

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Category: Discworld characters

* Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, begun in 1983, includes characters who manifest more than one personality ; this is portrayed as a mere idiosyncrasy, not a serious psychiatric disorder.

One of the major sentient species in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe are the " Earth "- based ( ranging from Detritus to Diamond ) Trolls.

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.

The exploits of the head wizards of the Unseen University are one of the main plot threads in the longrunning fantasy series, and have played a central role in 13 novels to date, as well as the three supplementary Science of Discworld novels and the short story, A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices.

The Eight Great Spells that initially made the Discworld are imprisoned on its pages, giving the book sentience.

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.

The Art of Discworld confirms that the Librarian was indeed Dr. Horace Worblehat, and that his fears of turning back into human are baseless at most.

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 ).

There are multiverses also in the Warcraft universe, The Chronicles of Narnia, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci, Howl's Moving Castle and Deep Secret books and standalone book A Sudden Wild Magic.

* Terry Pratchett created Discworld, a large disc resting on the backs of four huge elephants, which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, as it slowly swims through space.

On the Discworld, sourcerers – wizards who are sources of magic, and thus immensely more powerful than normal wizards – were the main cause of the great mage wars that left areas of the disc uninhabitable.

The events of the novel are a direct continuation of those in the preceding book, The Colour of Magic ( the only Discworld novel to follow on in this manner ).

Meanwhile, the wizards of Ankh-Morpork discover from Death via a rite that the Discworld will soon be destroyed by a huge red star unless the eight spells of the Octavo are read: the most powerful spells in existence, one of which hides in Rincewind's head.

This signifies that the child is destined to become a wizard ; on the Discworld, the number eight has many of the magical properties that are sometimes ascribed to seven in other mythologies.

", and occasionally ' The Defendants ') are a type of fairy folk appearing in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Carpe Jugulum, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight and Snuff.

Though they do not exclusively dwell on the Discworld plane, this is where they are most commonly spotted.

Theoretically, ( and on the Discworld theories of this nature tend to work, even if they are not actually right, owing to narrative causality ), the bottle contains water from the cauldrons of Nac Mac Feegle keldas since before history.

They are small, matted and dirty enough to sprout fungi and grasses on their hides ( and seem to relate to soil as trolls relate to rock ), and act as street-cleaners in cities like Ankh-Morpork ; as Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson puts it, they " pick up this, pick up that, maybe bang it against the wall until it stops struggling ..." In the case of at least Stoolie, if not every gnoll on the Discworld, there seems to be a tendency to drop the vowels in words, reflecting a croaking sort of voice.

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.

Dwarfs in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, to which they largely started out as a homage, and dwarves in other fantasy novels.

However, while Tolkien stated that female dwarves are rare, and disguise themselves as male when they must travel, female Discworld dwarfs are common, but are traditionally indistinguishable from males at all times.