Talk:Arena

Few believe in the single-Patrician hypothesis, but the COM Patrician sounds too sharp to be Snapcase, either. There may have been a few in between; who knows? --Old Dickens 21:50, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

We've had the same discusion at the german discwiki. Perhaps this could be helpfull: [1]. --Rene 08:55, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Rene points out a doubt in The Creator's own mind. Why not: the Patrician was a minor failure to storyboard every detail dozens of books into the future?

I suspect most of us separate the first two books from the rest of the canon as a formative period when an astonishing amount of scenario was established, but some elements were vetoed by Narrativia and had to be improved. There was the early sci-fi and then The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic and then there was a realised Discworld. --Old Dickens (talk) 02:34, 27 April 2014 (UTC)