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Necrotelicomnicon

2021-02-16T00:03:53Z

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The [[grimoire]] '''Necrotelicomnicon''' is a handy (but in unskilled hands possibly lethal) look-up guide to methods of contacting [[Gods]] and related [[Supernatural Entities]].
It as also known as ''Liber Paginarum Fulvarum'' ([[Latatian]]: "Book of yellow pages"). It is not clear if this is an older name than Necrotelicomnicon or a latter nickname. The Necrotelicomnicon was written by [[Achmed The Mad|Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches]] whilst [[knurd]].

The book currently rests in the maximum security wing of the [[Library]] of [[Unseen University]], where it sits in its own room with a large, carved stone arch reading NECROTELICOMNICON, just in case anybody forgets why they wanted to go in the room in the first place. (Another inmate is ''[[Ye Tantric Booke of Sexe Magicke]]'', which is kept in a refrigerated cell at the bottom of a vat of crushed ice.)

Staring at a page can cause a man's brain to dribble out of his ears; it is unknown whether the book has the same effect on women, since none are allowed in the Library. Certainly the [[Librarian]], being an orangutan, is able to read the book without too many ill effects, but he still does so from behind a smoked glass visor.

It is known that the Necrotelicomnicon contains information on [[Holy Wood]], and judging by its name it presumably also allows one to contact the dead.

The page headed "About the Author" spontaneously combusted shortly after Achmed's death, but the "Other Works by the Same Author" page remains, telling us that the Necrotelicomnicon's sister work is ''[[Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches's Book of Humorous Cat Stories]]''.

==Annotation==
This book seems to have been inspired by the {{wp|Necronomicon|Necronomicon}} which appears in the works of {{wp|H.P._Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft}} an author whose over-blown works of fantasy were precisely of the genre that Pratchett tended to satirise.

It is intimated by the insertion of 'telicom' (i.e.: British Telecom; Telkom) and by its Latatian name that the Necrotelicomnicon is not only a book about communicating with the dead, but also their telephone directory.

For the terminally sad: Greek editions of Lovecraft's works have commented that the word can have several different meanings in Greek when broken at its roots:

*''Necro-Nomicon'' : The Book of the Dead, derived from Nomicon (Book of Law), or the Book of the Laws of the Dead.
*''Necro-Nomo-icon'' : The Book of Dead Laws.
*''Necro-Nemo-ikon'' : A Study or Classification of the Dead.
*''Necro-Nomo-eikon'' : Image of the Law of the Dead.
*''Necro-Nemein-Ikon'' : Book Concerning the Dead.
*''Necr(o)-Onom(a)-icon'' : The Book of Dead Names, derived from όνομα ''onoma'' ("name").

Lovecraft was often asked about the veracity of the ''Necronomicon'', and always answered that it was completely his invention. In a letter to Willis Conover, Lovecraft elaborated upon his typical answer:
''<blockquote>Now about the ''“terrible and forbidden books”'' — I am forced to say that most of them are purely imaginary. There never was any Abdul Alhazred or ''Necronomicon'', for I invented these names myself. Robert Bloch devised the idea of Ludvig Prinn and his ''De Vermis Mysteriis'', while the ''Book of Eibon'' is an invention of Clark Ashton Smith's. Robert E. Howard is responsible for Friedrich von Junzt and his ''Unaussprechlichen Kulten''.... As for seriously-written books on dark, occult, and supernatural themes — in all truth they don’t amount to much. That is why it’s more fun to invent mythical works like the ''Necronomicon'' and ''Book of Eibon''.</blockquote>''

Oh - and Lovecraft's author was the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred...

The term Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory of businesses, categorized according to the product or service provided. As the name suggests, such directories are usually printed on yellow paper, as opposed to white pages for non-commercial listings. The traditional term "Yellow Pages" is now also applied to online directories of businesses.

And the cat books? One of Terry's first books was called [[Book:The Unadulterated Cat|The Unadulterated Cat]]...

''Fortean Times'' no 348 (December 2016) has this interesting snippet of information concerning mediaeval occultist Cornelius Agrippa. An unwary apprentice to this magician is said to have died when opening one of the Master's grimoires without first taking the appropriate precautions. Acounts vary, but either the book ate him alive, leaving no trace, or else the act of opening the pages summoned a legion of demons who tore him limb from limb and ate the living flesh. It is possible many of the legends about Agrippa - poet, philosopher, scientist and university lecturer - have been somewhat exaggerated.

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Necrotelicomnicon

2021-02-16T00:01:39Z

JDspeeder1:

The [[grimoire]] '''Necrotelicomnicon''' is a handy (but in unskilled hands possibly lethal) look-up guide to methods of contacting [[Gods]] and related [[Supernatural Entities]].
It as also known as ''Liber Paginarum Fulvarum'' ([[Latatian]]: "Book of yellow pages"). It is not clear if this is an older name than Necrotelicomnicon or a latter nickname. The Necrotelicomnicon was written by [[Achmed The Mad|Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches]] whilst [[knurd]].

The book currently rests in the maximum security wing of the [[Library]] of [[Unseen University]], where it sits in its own room with a large, carved stone arch reading NECROTELICOMNICON, just in case anybody forgets why they wanted to go in the room in the first place. (Another inmate is ''[[Ye Tantric Booke of Sexe Magicke]]'', which is kept in a refrigerated cell at the bottom of a vat of crushed ice.)

Staring at a page can cause a man's brain to dribble out of his ears; it is unknown whether the book has the same effect on women, since none are allowed in the Library. Certainly the [[Librarian]], being an orangutan, is able to read the book without too many ill effects, but he still does so from behind a smoked glass visor.

It is known that the Necrotelicomnicon contains information on [[Holy Wood]], and judging by its name it presumably also allows one to contact the dead.

The page headed "About the Author" spontaneously combusted shortly after Achmed's death, but the "Other Works by the Same Author" page remains, telling us that the Necrotelicomnicon's sister work is ''[[Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches's Book of Humorous Cat Stories]]''.

==Annotation==

This book seems to have been inspired by the {{wp|Necronomicon|Necronomicon}} which appears in the works of {{wp|H.P._Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft}} an author whose over-blown works of fantasy were precisely of the genre that Pratchett tended to satirise.

It is intimated by the insertion of 'telicom' (i.e.: British Telecom; Telkom) and by its Latatian name that the Necrotelicomnicon is not only a book about communicating with the dead, but also their telephone directory.

For the terminally sad: Greek editions of Lovecraft's works have commented that the word can have several different meanings in Greek when broken at its roots:

*''Necro-Nomicon'' : The Book of the Dead, derived from Nomicon (Book of Law), or the Book of the Laws of the Dead.
*''Necro-Nomo-icon'' : The Book of Dead Laws.
*''Necro-Nemo-ikon'' : A Study or Classification of the Dead.
*''Necro-Nomo-eikon'' : Image of the Law of the Dead.
*''Necro-Nemein-Ikon'' : Book Concerning the Dead.
*''Necr(o)-Onom(a)-icon'' : The Book of Dead Names, derived from όνομα ''onoma'' ("name").

Lovecraft was often asked about the veracity of the ''Necronomicon'', and always answered that it was completely his invention. In a letter to Willis Conover, Lovecraft elaborated upon his typical answer:
''<blockquote>Now about the ''“terrible and forbidden books”'' — I am forced to say that most of them are purely imaginary. There never was any Abdul Alhazred or ''Necronomicon'', for I invented these names myself. Robert Bloch devised the idea of Ludvig Prinn and his ''De Vermis Mysteriis'', while the ''Book of Eibon'' is an invention of Clark Ashton Smith's. Robert E. Howard is responsible for Friedrich von Junzt and his ''Unaussprechlichen Kulten''.... As for seriously-written books on dark, occult, and supernatural themes — in all truth they don’t amount to much. That is why it’s more fun to invent mythical works like the ''Necronomicon'' and ''Book of Eibon''.</blockquote>''

Oh - and Lovecraft's author was the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred...

The term Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory of businesses, categorized according to the product or service provided. As the name suggests, such directories are usually printed on yellow paper, as opposed to white pages for non-commercial listings. The traditional term "Yellow Pages" is now also applied to online directories of businesses.

And the cat books? One of Terry's first books was called [[Book:The Unadulterated Cat|The Unadulterated Cat]]...

''Fortean Times'' no 348 (December 2016) has this interesting snippet of information concerning mediaeval occultist Cornelius Agrippa. An unwary apprentice to this magician is said to have died when opening one of the Master's grimoires without first taking the appropriate precautions. Acounts vary, but either the book ate him alive, leaving no trace, or else the act of opening the pages summoned a legion of demons who tore him limb from limb and ate the living flesh. It is possible many of the legends about Agrippa - poet, philosopher, scientist and university lecturer - have been somewhat exaggerated.

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Klatch (country)

2021-02-15T23:54:09Z

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{{Nation Data
|title= Klatch
|picture=Blank.jpg|
|established=
|motto=

|neighbours= turnwise: [[Hersheba]], [[Ymitury]]; widdershins: [[Tsort]], rimwards: [[Syrrit]],and unidentified [[Howondaland]]ian sub-desert, plains and jungle princedoms, tribes and uncharted territories. The Klatchian Empire once extended as far widdershins as [[Klatchistan]].

|features= Deserts. The river [[Al'Dente]]. The occasional oasis. A coast on the [[Circle Sea]] with principal ports at [[El-Kinte]] and [[Gebra]].

|capital= [[Al-Khali]]
|population=
|size=
|government= Ruled by a Seriph, last known: [[Creosote]], from the palace [[The Rhoxie]]

|notablecitizens= Seriph [[Creosote]], Princes [[Cadram]] and [[Khufurah]], [[71-hour Ahmed]]

|imports= Sto Cabbages
|exports= [[Klatchian Coffee]], figs, tobacco

|anthem=

|books= {{S}}, {{J}}, {{CDA}}
}}The Seriphate of Klatch is a country on the [[Circle Sea]]. It is also the name of the continent upon which the country is located. The capital city is [[Al-Khali]], and it is ruled by a Seriph. The last named Seriph was [[Creosote]]. There is a reference in {{M!!!}} to it having been ruled by a Queen [[Ezeriel]] some two hundred years ago.

The country is a large and powerful nation. Despite the claims of certain [[Ankh-Morpork|Morporkians]], it is a scientifically advanced nation, responsible for mathematics and astronomy among other inventions.

The country is primarily desert, and popular modes of transport include camels and [[Magic Carpets|magic carpets]]. It has its own Watch of sorts, led by [[71-hour Ahmed]]. Klatch is an economic rival to Ankh-Morpork. Despite this, many Klatchians have emigrated to Ankh-Morpork, bringing aspects of their culture with them. Two that have really caught on include the god [[Offler]] and [[Curry|curry]].

The Seriphate is an empire with many outlying regions to pacify, but does not encompass the entire [[Klatch (continent)|Klatchian continent]], there being other notable countries including [[Omnia]], [[Tsort]], [[Ephebe]], and [[Djelibeybi]]. Klatch the country is militaristically and economically powerful like Tsort and Ephebe, but although all three countries are on the Klatchian coast of the [[Circle Sea]], only Klatch is considered the traditional enemy of the most powerful state across the Circle Sea, [[Ankh-Morpork]].

Principal cities: [[Al-Khali]], [[Gebra]], [[El-Kinte]]

Major appearances in ''[[Book:Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' and ''[[Book:Jingo|Jingo]]''. A fuller description and much additional information is in {{CDA}}.

==Annotation==

In ''{{wp|The_Devil%27s_Dictionary|The Devil's Dictionary}}'' by Ambrose Bierce, he whimsically notes that the letter "K" in the tongue of the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero, was called ''Klatch'', which means "destroyed". It is inconceivable1 that TP was unaware of this when he chose it as the name of a desert area and country.

1 Well, maybe conceivable: see [[Talk:Klatch (country)|discussion]].

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TV and Film:The Watch

2021-01-09T02:26:09Z

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|cover=[[File:Watch Poster.jpg|thumb|280px|Series Poster]]
|asin=
|imdb=8080292
|date=31st December 2020
|channel=AMC+
|director=Craig Viveiros
|producer=[[Rob Wilkins]], Hilary Simon, Phil Collinson, Simon Allen
|cast=Richard Dormer, Marama Corlett, Adam Hugill, Sam Adewunmi
|duration=480 minutes
|episodes=8
|series=Watch Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[TV and Film:Good Omens|Good Omens]]
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'''The Watch''' is an original series [[TV and film adaptations|adapted]] from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s books about the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]]. Developed by BBC America in conjunction with [[Narrativia (production company)|Narrativia]]. It has been variously described as a "Pratchett-style CSI," "a punk rock thriller" and "cyberpunk."

==Blurb==
Set in the fictional city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], where crime has been [[Thieves Guild|legalised]], The Watch is a uniquely anarchic drama. The series centres on a group of misfit cops as they rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. The Watch is an inclusive genre-bending series inspired by the legendary [[:Category:Watch Series|‘City Watch’]] subset of [[Terry Pratchett|Sir Terry Pratchett’s]] bestselling “[[Discworld]]” novels and its many iconic characters.

==Cast==
*[[Samuel Vimes]]: Richard Dormer
*[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]: Adam Hugill
*[[Sybil Ramkin]]: Lara Rossi
*[[Carcer|Carcer Dun]]: Sam Adewunmi
*[[Cheery Littlebottom]]: Jo Eaton-Kent
*[[Angua von Überwald]]: Marama Corlett
*[[Detritus]]: Ralph Ineson (voice), Craig McRae (body)
*[[Havelock Vetinari|Lord Vetinari]]: Anna Chancellor
*[[John Keel]]: Hakeem Kae-Kazim
*[[Cruces|Dr Cruces]]: Ingrid Oliver
*Archchancellor: James Fleet
*[[C.M.O.T. Dibbler|Throat Dibbler]]: Ruth Madeley
*[[Lupine Wonse|Wonse]]: Bianca Simone Mannie
*[[Inigo Skimmer]]: Paul Kaye
*[[Urdo van Pew]]: Joe Vaz
*[[Alice Band]]: Jane de Wet
*[[Librarian|The Librarian]]: Owen McRae
*[[Samuel Vimes|Samuel Vimes (Young)]]: Munro Lennon-Ritchie
*[[Death]]: Wendell Pierce (voice), Craig McRae (body)
*[[Kring|Wayne]]: Matt Berry

==Differences Between the Series and Novels==
'''Spoiler Warning'''

'’The Watch’' is an original series and not directly based on any specific [[Discworld]] novel. Promotional photos and information, and the trailer and early clips, make it clear the show differs in multiple ways from the books. Some of the differences in series include:
*Angua, along with Detritus and Cheery, are members of the City Watch before Carrot, and is tasked with training him.
*Carcer has been described as “wounded and wronged” implying he may be a more sympathetic character.
*Carcer and Vimes were best friends, Carcer's gang saved Vimes from poverty at a young age.
*Cheery is now a non-binary person rather than an openly female [[dwarf]]. Cheery is also taller than several human characters and remarked by Carrot to be rather tall for a dwarf.
*Sybil Ramkin attempts to improve the city through “chaotic vigilantism”, including kidnapping criminals to re-educate them at the 'Sunshine Rescue Centre for Broken, Bedraggled Things.'
*Carrot has new origins, he was dropped down into a dwarf mine shaft as a baby and was sent to join the City Watch as it was feared by his parents that his height would put others in danger as he once knocked his head against a mine shaft support which nearly collapsed the mine.
*The technological level of Ankh-Morpork is far more advanced than in the books: the city has electricity and light bulbs, and some clothing has zippers.
*[[Goblins]] are much taller and are a similar size to humans.
*[[Imps]] inhabit security cameras and paint on tablets similar to their book counterparts. However the tablets act similar to touchscreen devices with scrolling images and zoom and video functionality.
*Throat Dibbler is female and is described as a “snitch” with “a gang of freelance henchmen”, quite a departure from sausage-inna-bun salesman and entrepreneur [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]].
*[[John Keel]], mentor to Sam Vimes, is played by another actor, making it unlikely that the events of ‘’[[Book:Night Watch|Night Watch]]’’ have taken place (or will).
*[[Slab]] is now a drug taken by humans instead of being exclusively for trolls.
*Members of the [[Alchemists' Guild]] operate as drug dealers in a similar way that the [[Thieves' Guild]] operates.
*The [[Clacks]] are represented as ticker-tape like machines.
*Female Dwarfs do not have beards, as can be seen by Carrot's dwarf mother.
*[[Errol|Goodboy]] is a pocket sized dragon resembling a winged {{wp|Armadillo girdled lizard|Armadillo girdled lizard}}, that Sybil uses as a handheld flamethrower.
*Wonse was a part of Carcer's old gang and works as a cleaner at [[Unseen University]].
*Wizards wear hooded robes instead of pointed hats.
*The reason for the Librarian's transformation into an ape has been changed. The new reason behind it is that the Librarian has spent too long inside a magical room in the Library that allows people to read other people like books.

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:Watch Promo.jpg|thumb|150px|Promotional Art by [[Paul Kidby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:Watch Poster.jpg|thumb|200px|Series Poster]]
|}

==External Links==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20191118020624/https://www.narrativia.com/watch.html The Watch on Narrativia]

[https://discworldmonthly.co.uk/terrypratchett_thewatchseries.php Development history of The Watch by Discworld Monthly]

[https://twitter.com/TheWatch The Watch Twitter Account]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvMGq_h9khwXluTnjbyefYsgXBD64DzHj The Watch trailer and clips premiered at New York Comic-Con 2020]

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Ankh-Morpork

2020-12-29T23:30:53Z

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{{Nation Data
|title=Ankh-Morpork
|picture=Am11.png|The coat of arms of Ankh-Morpork|200px|
|established= [[-2564 UC]] (AM 1)
|motto= ''Quanti canicula ille in fenestra'' (How Much is That Doggie in the Window) and ''Merus in pectum et in aquam'' (Pure in Heart and Water)
|neighbours= The city-states of the [[Sto Plains]]
|features= River [[Ankh (river)|Ankh]], The [[Isle of Gods]], [[The Tump]]
|population= approx. 100,000 souls and ten times more inhabitants. Species include 50,000 dwarfs at the time {{T5E}}, trolls, werewolves, vampires, boogeymen, zombies, gargoyles, golems, gnolls, and Nobby Nobbs. Don't forget the humans, too.
|size= 1 mile across (about 1.6km) (excluding suburbs outside the city walls)
|government= Ruled by a [[Patrician]], currently [[Havelock Vetinari]], under the system of ''One Man, One Vote''. Before that, a [[monarchy]].
|notablecitizens= [[Samuel Vimes|Commander Sam Vimes]] of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]], Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] (heir to the throne), [[Lord Downey]] (head of the [[Assassins' Guild]]), [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]] (salesman), [[Lord Selachii]] and Lord [[Venturi]], perpetually warring noblemen.
|imports= [[Dwarfs]], [[Trolls]], raw materials, trouble
|exports= Manufactured goods, politics, trouble
|anthem= ''[[We Can Rule You Wholesale]]''
|books= All books in the [[:Category:Watch Series|Watch Series]] and [[:Category:Ankh-Morpork Books|Ankh-Morpork Books]], and {{M!M}}, {{SM}}, {{H}}, {{TOT}} {{TCOM}} {{TLF}} {{WS}} {{ER}} {{ISWM}} {{M}}
}}'''Ankh-Morpork''' is the largest city on the Disc with about a million inhabitants. It is also one of the most common locations for the Discworld stories. Its [[Latatian]] name is Ankhius et Morporkia. In {{MP}}, we learn its nickname is "the Big [[Wahoonie]]" (an ugly, smelly fruit). The city lies on the river [[Ankh (river)|Ankh]], which resembles solid ground more than it does water. Originally two cities separated by the river, [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]] and [[Morpork]] today are governed as one (admittedly potentially schizophrenic) entity. Ankh-Morpork is a city state which governs few lands outside its perimeter, but it has a political and economic influence which "distorts the landscape for hundreds of miles".

==The City==
The river is semi-solid, the water has a taste, the air is smoggy (the birds cough rather than sing) and following a snowfall the streets are left a muddy slurry. Baking hot in summer, cold and snowy in winter, Ankh-Morpork has a "despotic ruler" (some say) who has succeeded in so thoroughly organizing crime that it is self-regulating. While ethnic riots and feuds are common, Ankh-Morpork is still the place where everybody wants to live. Ankh-Morpork now has the largest [[dwarfs|dwarf]] population outside of [[Überwald]] and is in fact the Discworld's largest dwarf city. Likewise, Ankh-Morpork is home to probably the only [[trolls|troll]] crime syndicate on the Discworld, the [[Breccia]]. Not to be undone, the undead can meet in their own taverns or support groups and have a Bloody Mary or a mug of hot cocoa, depending on individual tastes. Evangelical preachers find a huge potential flock to convert, often immigrants seeking their fortunes here or refugees who have come seeking peaceful lives free from (specific) persecution. Perhaps they have been mis-informed by a travel log written by a ''[[Twoflower|tourist]]'', or maybe it just depends on the perspective.

The city of Ankh-Morpork is the first major setting to appear in the Discworld series, starring (as it were) in Part 1 of ''[[Book:The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' and reappearing in virtually every Discworld book in a cameo role if not as a major setting. Known to [[Death]] as a city that never sleeps, Ankh-Morpork prides itself on being a city where you can buy anything you can think of; indeed, if they don't have it, with a modicum of notice they will gladly steal it in order to sell it to you. It has been said that Ankh-Morpork's primary exports are smog and modern power politics. Indeed, a foreign ruler once likened Ankh-Morpork to a vampire; taking everything and turning other states into lesser copies of itself.

The city is divided clearly by the river. '''Morpork''', the widdershins half of the city is home to the most of the guilds, the [[Unseen University]] and the [[Patrician's Palace]]. It also includes most of both the city's industry and grime, including the docks, the markets and [[The Shades]] - the poorest and most densly populated part of the city. The city of '''Ankh''', the turnwise half, is mostly residential and is dominated by several large mansions and parks. The geographical centre of the city is the [[Opera House]] on [[Pseudopolis Yard]], a circular square on the [[Isle of Gods]] and a meeting point for several important roads.

Geographically, the city is built mostly on river silt and silt deposition has increased the height of the city over many centuries. As a result, many older buildings and even streets survive perfectly intact beneath the present day city. Apart from [[The Tump]], a large hill on the perimeter, the city is mostly flat.

==The People==

Ordinary Ankh-Morpork citizens are inordinately fond of street theatre, and have a very liberal definition of such. They will gather and watch anything occurring in the streets, while something that is actually interesting can bring the city to a complete halt. Some popular one-act productions include the [[Fools' Guild|Guild of Fools]] on [[Firefighters' Guild|fire]], somebody threatening to jump off the top of a building (even though everybody knows they're doing it just to get tobacco money), overturned beer carts, public hangings and so on. Where crowds gather, Mr. [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]] ("cutting-me-own-throat" as in he's selling things so cheaply it's suicidal) is guaranteed to be present, selling sausages-in-a-bun and other unhygienic, possibly un-food, fast food. If there is a crowd and Dibbler is there and not selling anything, then there is something seriously wrong (''really'' seriously wrong).

Ankh-Morpork citizens are very touchy about the reputations of things such as, the state of the [[Ankh (river)|River Ankh]], the democracy, or the caterpillars in their imported cabbages. Ankh-Morpork also houses many noble families. Historically, Ankh-Morpork has warred against other city-states on the [[Sto Plains]] and against [[Klatch (country)|Klatch]] across the [[Circle Sea]]. Ankh-Morpork nobles typically look down upon [[Lancre|The Kingdom of Lancre]] and go on tours to sneer at [[Überwald]]. Many countries owe Ankh-Morpork a lot of money. When things are peaceful, Ankh-Morpork is the boss; when somebody turns directly against Ankh-Morpork however, Ankh-Morpork finds very few allies (though it does find bill-collectors rather more useful than allies in any event).

Nobles of other countries often send their children to attend the [[Assassins' Guild|Assassins']] school (assuming they look good in black clothing; otherwise The [[Fools' Guild]] - which has swallowed up and now incorporates the formerly independent guilds of Quirm and [[Überwald]] - and [[Seamstresses' Guild]] are always welcoming new members). In short, although just about everybody who lives in Ankh-Morpork has some complaints about living there, for the most part they continue. To live. There. And more people are coming every year.

Many citizens are members of the various [[Guilds]] however some others have joined various street gangs such as the [[Breccia]], The Shamlegger Rude Boys and the Cockbill Street Roaring Lads.

==Government==

The city is formally ruled by the [[Patrician]], the absolute tyrant elected by a one man, one vote system of democracy (he is the man and he has the vote), although the [[Guilds of Ankh-Morpork|guilds]] and temples make many of the everyday decisions. Affairs of state and the small volume of local government are carried out from the [[Patrician's Palace]] by a select staff of [[Clerks]] under the close supervision of Patrician [[Havelock Vetinari]]. Should any situation which requires immediate attention develop, the guild leaders, nobles and various other important city dignitaries hold an emergency council meeting, which usually consists of them bickering at each other.

There is relatively little crime in Ankh-Morpork since much of it is legalized and handled by the guilds. It's up to the guilds themselves to keep criminality at a reasonable level. The [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]], resurrected practically only in the last few years, takes care of crimes out of the jurisdiction or sight of the Guilds, ranging from sporadic unlicensed burglaries and thefts, to major crimes or conspiracies (such as attempted assassinations of the Patrician) against the city.

==Economy==

The business of Ankh-Morpork is business. As a city-state, it has no natural resources. Even its river is too thick to navigate effectively and too soft to walk (though a brisk pace might do the trick). However the city owns things, makes things, buys and sells things. It imports the raw materials and the people who turn them into the tools, weapons, shoes, books and trinkets for most of the Disc from Llamedos to Genua. A steady stream of immigrants from all around the world bring skills, strength and new technologies and send home Ankh-Morpork dollars which buy Ankh-Morpork exports in turn.

===Taxes===

Lord Vetinari often points out that tax revenues in Ankh-Morpork are insubstantial and unreliable at best. This is normal for politicians (incumbents, that is) who are always constrained by their budgets in good times and bad. However, it does appear that few in Ankh-Morpork actually pay taxes, so how does the Palace support the Watch, the Clerks or indeed its own tax-collectors?

To fully understand the state of the Ankh-Morpork city finances, the following must be considered, based on information gleaned from various sources:

'''{{RM}}'''

*In ''Reaper Man'', through wrangling between the [[Unseen University]] and the city government (involving the trading of petty threats, and one or two which are considerably less petty), it is established that taxes are charged based on a simple fee of AM$200 per head, payable in quarterly installments. The wizards, of course, are a sacred and laudable brotherhood that none would dream of extorting in so cruel a manner. They do, however, find it in their hearts to make a charitable donation of AM$200 per capita per annum. Charitably.

'''{{MAA}} and {{FOC}}'''

*Near the end of ''Men at Arms'', we found Captain Carrot interviewing a group of [[dwarfs|dwarf]] bakers who have failed to pay their taxes.
*We also learn in ''Feet of Clay'' that Mr. [[Setha Ironcrust]], who at the time owned a single bakery, has avoided his taxes.
*Neither does Mr. Maxilotte, owner of a butchery in the [[Shambles]], pay his taxes.

Of course in these cases, they could simply have forgotten to - what with them being honest merchants who work hard all year round, it's easy to overlook financial affairs. If so, Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]], who has read the roll of taxpayers and knows who pays their taxes and who doesn't, will be happy to oblige by bringing around the proper documentation and visiting ''every'' single week after work to see if the papers have been filled out...

'''{{J}}'''

*During an important meeting on the issue of the island of [[Leshp]] in the Patrician's Palace, [[Samuel Vimes]], Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, is the only one in a room full of important (and extremely wealthy) Guild leaders and nobles to declare to have paid his taxes in full.
*In the same scene, the [[Assassins' Guild]] is shown to have a collective income of about AM$13,207,408 the year before. Despite this, they have paid less than 0.0004% of it in taxes through an arrangement with the [[Guild of Accountants]].
*Speaking of which, the Guild of Accountants earned AM$7,999,011 the year before, but paid nothing in taxes. In fact, they have applied for a rebate of AM$200,000 instead, which means insofar taxation is concerned, they have a ''net gain''.

'''{{MM}}'''

*We finally return to the issue of taxation in ''Making Money'', where [[Topsy Lavish]], former Manager of the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork]] gives the statistic that the majority of Ankh-Morpork citizens live on AM$150 or less.
*Based on the tax rate of AM$200 as established in {{RM}}, this means that the average citizen is required to pay a tax that totals up to far more than they can actually conceivably and legally earn in the same period. On the other hand, this could mean that the average citizen lives on a ''net after-tax'' income of $150, meaning that the effective tax rate is about 57%.
*At the end of {{MM}}, we learn about the current post-holder, [[Creaser]], whose methods of collection were mainly physical and personalized.

So it is clear that the current system of taxation is in desperate need of revision. Besides typical Ankh-Morporkian sensibilities, ordinary citizens are incapable of paying their taxes altogether simply because the amount they have to pay exceeds their income. The wealthy on the other hand, pay negligible amounts or avoid paying entirely thanks to the Guild of Accountants. From the comments of Lord Vetinari in {{MM}} we can also assume that the inefficiency of tax collection is also due to the ineptitude of the gatherers themselves.

However there are other revenues available to government besides income, sales and property taxes. Duties and excise, user fees and tolls, and license fees can be levied. These tend to be more politically acceptable, as they are often charged to someone else. Duties, tolls and docking fees applied to foreigners are especially popular, since they're not immediately associated with increased prices for imported goods. As the largest city and trading port on the Disc, Ankh-Morpork has considerable capacity for this sort of "hidden" taxation.

Another revenue stream would be fines and the appropriation of the proceeds of criminal operations. Even unconvicted criminals are likely to flee the Patrician's rather rough justice, leaving behind some unaccounted valuables. [[William de Worde]] managed to scoop a rather large bag of rubies, but much of this will fall into the hands of the City Watch, and so the City. In addition, the City may also lay claim to discovery of certain resources that may prove useful, such as a large chest of gold unearthed by [[Moist von Lipwig]], an army of [[golems]], or an array of [[Technomantic Devices|Devices]].

In addition, as Vetinari himself belongs to an extremely powerful and wealthy noble family, he may actually support the city treasury out of his own pocket, and so very much unlike his predecessors who saw Patricianship as a cash cow for their drinking buddies and themselves. The latter point is more or less borne out by the excessive rate of taxation imposed on the average citizen, and the crude methods of [[Creaser]], the current [[Taxmaster]] who has been part of the several preceding (incompetent and corrupt) regimes.

Apparently such devices have sustained the system so far, and allowed it to tolerate the inept management of the revenue office, but for grand schemes [[Undertaking|underground]] a lot of money must be [[Book:Raising Taxes|raised]]. And so new blood is needed. Perhaps it will be [[Moist von Lipwig]], the same man who revived the [[Post Office]], and reformed the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork|Royal Bank]] and [[Ankh-Morpork Mint|Mint]] of Ankh-Morpork? Regardless, the next Taxmaster will have his hands full dealing with the Ankh-Morpork citizenry, who are renowned for their stinginess in matters regarding the flow of money out of their own pockets. It is likely though, that whoever it will be, he would have the whole-hearted support of Commander Samuel Vimes, Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]], as well as the remainder of the City Watch in any matters regarding tax collection.

==Notable places==

*The [[Tower of Art]]
*[[The Mended Drum]]
*[[Opera House]]
*The [[Patrician's Palace]]
*[[Pseudopolis Yard]]
*The [[Temple of Small Gods]]
*The [[Unseen University]]
*[[The Shades]]

[[Category:Discworld geography|Ankh-Morpork]]
[[Category:Locations|Ankh-Morpork]]
[[de:Ankh-Morpork]]

TV and Film:Hogfather

2017-06-05T23:31:35Z

JDspeeder1: /* Plot */

{{TV Data
|title=Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
|cover=[[File:H DVD.jpg|thumb|240px|DVD Cover]]
|imdb=0765458
|date=2006
|channel=Sky One
|producer=Vadim Jean
|cast=David Jason, Michelle Dockery, Marc Warren
|duration=189 minutes
|episodes=2
|series=Death Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[TV and Film:Johnny and the Bomb|Johnny and the Bomb]]
|next=[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]
}}
Hogfather is the first [[TV and film adaptations|live action adaptation]] of one of [[Biography|Terry Pratchett's]] [[Discworld]] novels and the first of the series of adaptations by the channel Sky One. Hogfather was produced by The Mob Film Company.

==Plot==
Based on {{H}}, [[Death]] has left his post again, only this time he's taken on the role of another being, the holiday spirit The [[Hogfather]] who's really gone missing. Now it's up to Death's granddaughter [[Susan Sto Helit|Susan]] to find the Hogfather before the night is out, or the sun will not rise again.

==Episodes==
The show was originally broadcast on Sky One in two parts of 1hr 30mins. Later when released on DVD the two episode format was kept.

==Cast==
*David Jason: [[Alberto Malich|Albert]]
*Marc Warren: [[Jonathan Teatime|Mr Teatime]]
*Michelle Dockery: [[Susan Sto Helit]] / [[Death of Rats]]
*David Warner: [[Lord Downey]]
*Tony Robinson: [[Vernon Crumley]]
*Nigel Planer: [[Sideney|Mr. Sideney]]
*Peter Guinness: [[Medium Dave Lilywhite|Medium Dave]]
*Stephen Marcus: [[Banjo]]
*Craig Conway: [[Chickenwire]]
*Rhodri Meilir: [[Bilious]]
*Sinead Matthews: [[Violet Bottler]]
*Ian Richardson: [[Death]] / Narrator
*Neil Pearson: [[Quoth|Quoth the Raven]]
*Nicholas Tennant: [[Nobby Nobbs]]
*Richard Katz: [[Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets]]

==Twelve Days of Hogswatch==
Also known as 'Death's Guide to Discworld' these are a series of short 4-5 minute episodes in which [[Death]] interviews the creators of the Hogfather TV series and explains facets of the [[Discworld|Discworld's]] lore. The episodes were originally available on the Sky One website, but they were later released on the 2-disc and limited editions of the DVD.

==DVD Extras==
These extras are available on the 2-disc and limited edition versions of the DVD release.
*The Twelve Days of Hogswatch
*The Whole Hog Making Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (Documentary)
*Gallery
*Deleted Scenes
*Trailers
*A small card by Terry Pratchett expressing his views on the film and cast (Limited edition only)

==Illustrated Screenplay==
{{Book Data
|title=Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: The Illustrated Screenplay
|cover=[[File:HFIS.jpg|240px|thumb|Illustrated Screenplay Hardback Cover]]
|coauthors=Vadim Jean
|illustrator=[[Stephen Player]]
|date=November 2006
|pages=272
|publisher=Gollancz
|isbn=0575079290
|series=
|characters=
|rrp=£20.00
|annotations=
|notes=
}}
The screenplay of the series was released separately illustrated with stills from the series and some illustraions by [[Stephen Player]].

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:H Ltd.jpg|thumb|150px|Limited Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:HFDVD.jpg|thumb|150px|One-Disc DVD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:H Card.jpg|thumb|180px|Limited Edition Bonus Card]]
| valign="top" | [[File:HFIS2.jpg|thumb|150px|Screenplay Paperback]]
|}

[[Category:TV and Film|Hogfather]]

Collections

2017-06-05T23:27:09Z

JDspeeder1: /* The Bromeliad */

Several of [[Biography|Terry Pratchett's]] novels that are related either by [[Reading Order|subject]] or [[Johnny Maxwell|certain]] [[Rincewind|characters]] have been combined or collected together in omnibus books or special collected slipcases. These books contain full novels collected together as opposed to collections of smaller works such as {{BS}} or {{DCC}}. There have also been some collections for [[TV and film adaptations]].

=Discworld=
==Pratchett Giftcase's==
[[File:GiftcaseA.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Giftcase A]]
Giftcase A:

[[Corgi]], 1989, paperback slipcase set.

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{ER}}

Giftcase B:

[[Corgi]], 1990, paperback slipcase set.

Contents:
*{{M}}
*{{S}}
*{{WS}}

==The Witches Trilogy==
[[File:WT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1995

Contents:
*{{ER}}
*{{WS}}
*{{WA}}

==Terry Pratchett Compact Discworlds 1-4==
[[File:Compacts.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1995. These were available separately or together in a complete slipcase.

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{ER}}
*{{M}}

==Death Trilogy==
[[File:DT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1998

Contents:
*{{M}}
*{{RM}}
*{{SM}}

==The First Discworld Novels The Colour of Magic The Light Fantastic==
[[File:FDN.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[File:FDN2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|2017 Edition Cover]]
[[Colin Smythe]], 1999. A paperback with the same contents was released in 2008 to coincide with the [[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|TV series]] just called 'The Colour of Magic.'

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}

==City Watch Trilogy==
[[File:CWT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1999

Contents:
*{{G!G!}}
*{{MAA}}
*{{FOC}}

==Rincewind the Wizzard==
[[File:RTW Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
Science Fiction Book Club, 1999

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{S}}
*{{E}}

==Tales of Discworld==
[[File:TOD Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
Science Fiction Book Club, 2000

Contents:
*{{P}}
*{{MP}}
*{{SG}}

==The Gods Trilogy==
[[File:GT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 2000

Contents:
*{{P}}
*{{SG}}
*{{H}}

==The Rincewind Trilogy==
[[File:RT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 2001

Contents:
*{{S}}
*{{E}}
*{{IT}}

==Discworld Starter Pack==
[[File:DSP Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Corgi]], 2004. Slipcase issued with special slipcase editions of {{TCOM}}.

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{ER}}

==The Wee Free Men: The Beginning==
[[File:WFMB Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[HarperCollins|HarperTorch]], 2010

Contents:
*{{WFM}}
*{{HFOS}}

==Tiffany Aching Complete Collection==
[[File:TACC2.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[File:TACC Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Updated Cover]]
[[HarperCollins]], 2014 updated to include 'The Shepherd's Crown' in 2015. These are ebook only releases.

Contents:
*{{WFM}}
*{{HFOS}}
*{{W}}
*{{ISWM}}
*{{TSC}}

=Non-Discworld=
==[[Bromeliad|The Bromeliad]]==
[[File:Brome FE.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Doubleday]], 1998

Contents:
*{{T}}
*{{D}}
*{{WI}}

==[[Book:The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy|The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]==
[[File:JMT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Doubleday]], 1999. A slipcase with the same contents called 'The Johnny Maxwell Collection' was released in 2005.

Contents:
*{{OYCSM}}
*{{JatD}}
*{{JATB}}

==Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Special Gift Box==
[[File:LE GB.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Corgi]], 2015

Contents:
*{{TLE}}
*{{TLM}}
*{{TLU}}

=TV and Film=
==Terry Pratchett's Discworld==
[[File:TPD Box.jpg|right|thumb|150px]]
Universal, 2005

Contents:
*''[[Welcome to the Discworld]]'' (as a special feature)
*[[TV and Film:Soul Music|''Soul Music'']]
*[[TV and Film:Wyrd Sisters|''Wyrd Sisters'']]
*{{GP}} (Corgi paperback, UK version only)
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:TPD US.jpg|thumb|120px|US Box set]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TPD US2.jpg|thumb|110px|US DVD]]
|}

==The Terry Pratchett Collection==
[[File:TPC Box.jpg|right|thumb|150px]]
Fox, 2010

Contents:
*[[TV and Film:Hogfather|''Terry Pratchett's Hogfather'']]
*[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|''Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic'']]
*[[TV and Film:Going Postal|''Terry Pratchett's Going Postal'']]

[[Category:Peripherals|Collections]]
[[Category:Johnny Maxwell Series|Collections]]
[[Category:The Long Earth Series|Collections]]
[[Category:Discworld Series|Collections]]
[[Category:TV and Film|Collections]]

Collections

2017-06-05T23:20:23Z

JDspeeder1: /* Tiffany Aching Complete Collection */

Several of [[Biography|Terry Pratchett's]] novels that are related either by [[Reading Order|subject]] or [[Johnny Maxwell|certain]] [[Rincewind|characters]] have been combined or collected together in omnibus books or special collected slipcases. These books contain full novels collected together as opposed to collections of smaller works such as {{BS}} or {{DCC}}. There have also been some collections for [[TV and film adaptations]].

=Discworld=
==Pratchett Giftcase's==
[[File:GiftcaseA.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Giftcase A]]
Giftcase A:

[[Corgi]], 1989, paperback slipcase set.

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{ER}}

Giftcase B:

[[Corgi]], 1990, paperback slipcase set.

Contents:
*{{M}}
*{{S}}
*{{WS}}

==The Witches Trilogy==
[[File:WT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1995

Contents:
*{{ER}}
*{{WS}}
*{{WA}}

==Terry Pratchett Compact Discworlds 1-4==
[[File:Compacts.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1995. These were available separately or together in a complete slipcase.

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{ER}}
*{{M}}

==Death Trilogy==
[[File:DT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1998

Contents:
*{{M}}
*{{RM}}
*{{SM}}

==The First Discworld Novels The Colour of Magic The Light Fantastic==
[[File:FDN.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[File:FDN2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|2017 Edition Cover]]
[[Colin Smythe]], 1999. A paperback with the same contents was released in 2008 to coincide with the [[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|TV series]] just called 'The Colour of Magic.'

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}

==City Watch Trilogy==
[[File:CWT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 1999

Contents:
*{{G!G!}}
*{{MAA}}
*{{FOC}}

==Rincewind the Wizzard==
[[File:RTW Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
Science Fiction Book Club, 1999

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{S}}
*{{E}}

==Tales of Discworld==
[[File:TOD Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
Science Fiction Book Club, 2000

Contents:
*{{P}}
*{{MP}}
*{{SG}}

==The Gods Trilogy==
[[File:GT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 2000

Contents:
*{{P}}
*{{SG}}
*{{H}}

==The Rincewind Trilogy==
[[File:RT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Gollancz]], 2001

Contents:
*{{S}}
*{{E}}
*{{IT}}

==Discworld Starter Pack==
[[File:DSP Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Corgi]], 2004. Slipcase issued with special slipcase editions of {{TCOM}}.

Contents:
*{{TCOM}}
*{{TLF}}
*{{ER}}

==The Wee Free Men: The Beginning==
[[File:WFMB Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[HarperCollins|HarperTorch]], 2010

Contents:
*{{WFM}}
*{{HFOS}}

==Tiffany Aching Complete Collection==
[[File:TACC2.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[File:TACC Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Updated Cover]]
[[HarperCollins]], 2014 updated to include 'The Shepherd's Crown' in 2015. These are ebook only releases.

Contents:
*{{WFM}}
*{{HFOS}}
*{{W}}
*{{ISWM}}
*{{TSC}}

=Non-Discworld=
==[[Bromeliad|The Bromeliad]]==
[[File:Brome FE.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Doubleday]], 1998

Contents:
*{{T}}
*{{D}}
*{{W}}

==[[Book:The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy|The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]==
[[File:JMT Cover.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Doubleday]], 1999. A slipcase with the same contents called 'The Johnny Maxwell Collection' was released in 2005.

Contents:
*{{OYCSM}}
*{{JatD}}
*{{JATB}}

==Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Special Gift Box==
[[File:LE GB.jpg|thumb|right|150px]]
[[Corgi]], 2015

Contents:
*{{TLE}}
*{{TLM}}
*{{TLU}}

=TV and Film=
==Terry Pratchett's Discworld==
[[File:TPD Box.jpg|right|thumb|150px]]
Universal, 2005

Contents:
*''[[Welcome to the Discworld]]'' (as a special feature)
*[[TV and Film:Soul Music|''Soul Music'']]
*[[TV and Film:Wyrd Sisters|''Wyrd Sisters'']]
*{{GP}} (Corgi paperback, UK version only)
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:TPD US.jpg|thumb|120px|US Box set]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TPD US2.jpg|thumb|110px|US DVD]]
|}

==The Terry Pratchett Collection==
[[File:TPC Box.jpg|right|thumb|150px]]
Fox, 2010

Contents:
*[[TV and Film:Hogfather|''Terry Pratchett's Hogfather'']]
*[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|''Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic'']]
*[[TV and Film:Going Postal|''Terry Pratchett's Going Postal'']]

[[Category:Peripherals|Collections]]
[[Category:Johnny Maxwell Series|Collections]]
[[Category:The Long Earth Series|Collections]]
[[Category:Discworld Series|Collections]]
[[Category:TV and Film|Collections]]

Talk:Thaum

2017-06-05T22:44:38Z

JDspeeder1: /* Citation */ new section

:Thanks for removing the "pipes". I didn't know they were case insensitive.

== Is the thaum also basic particle of magic? ==

If the thaum is just a unit of measure, how can it be "made up" of anything (like resons). That's like saying a meter is made up of smaller particles. Maybe the thaum is both a unit of measure AND the fundamental particle of magic (like an atom or proton would be in Roundworld?). The reson thing sounds a lot like "protons are made up of quarks" (which also have flavors). [[User:Kellyterryjones|Kellyterryjones]] 22:03, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

To get all technical here, and to run the risk of running out of my very basic knowledge, isn't the analogy that of the way we define radio broadcast bands? On analogue radio, for a long, long, time, BBC Radio Two described itself as broadcasting on 1500 metres Long Wave, and Radio One's jingles all highlighted 247 metres Medium Wave - ie, the radio station call signs were based on a ''measurement'', ie that of its broadcast wavelength measured either trough-to-trough or peak-to-peak.

Then all of a sudden it changed and today, BBC Radio Two broadcasts jingles proudly announcing to the world (or at least North-west Europe) ''Eighty-eight to Ninety-one FM'' - which is equally valid, but which is no longer a measurement of wavelength, but an expression of the cyclic frequency of the radio-waves.

By analogy, surely the Thaum and the [[prime]] are measuring different aspects of the same phenomena - ie, the raw magic saturating the Disc? --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 10:39, 1 August 2007 (CEST)

Just to add to the confusion: in {{COM}}, Rincewind notices a "stable magic aura of [...] several milliPrime", indicating a field strength. Field strength is usually measured per units of area or volume. Maybe 1 prime = 1 thaum per cubic meter or something like that? [[User:Kellyterryjones|Kellyterryjones]] 22:03, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

== Citation ==

Where and when are Thaums first mentioned? I know I remember them from somewhere, but a recent reread of Book 1 turned up nothing. --[[User:JDspeeder1|JDspeeder1]] ([[User talk:JDspeeder1|talk]]) 22:44, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Gold

2017-06-02T23:15:37Z

JDspeeder1:

Not to be mistaken for [[Glod]], as is often the case.

A precious metal which is highly sought after and in demand for use in economic transactions of all kinds and for its jewellery value. Twenty times denser than water, it dissolves in mercury, and is inert except in the presence of highly reactive halogen ions, as in {{wp|Aqua_regia|''Aqua Regia''}}, (and probably ''[[Aqua Quirmis]]''*) and cyanide....

OK then, how long could YOU sing about it? It's yellow, it goes ching, and you can buy things with it. About five seconds, I'd think.

Then you're evidently not a [[Dwarfs|Dwarf]], a race who can make a good old favourite last up to five hours. Of course Dwarfs don't really love gold, they just say they do to get it in bed.

Gold is said to be so boringly commonplace on the [[Counterweight Continent]] that it is cheaper than lead and fulfills many of the functions there for which lead is commonly used in the hubward [[Circle Sea]] regions.

A discussion of the economic importance of gold, and the reasons why everyone thinks it's important for the banks to have some in the cellar - when it can be proven that this doesn't really matter a damn - happens in {{MM}}, where the concept of the Gold Standard is practically tested and found wanting.**

Another sly reference which TP is alluding to here is the gift of the Elven Lady Galadriel to the dwarf Gimli, in Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'', where she blesses him and prophesies that "''your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion.''" (LotR II, ch 8) Most Discworld Dwarfs would sacrifice limbs and firstborn children for the former, but be totally incapable of understanding the latter clause. "''Of course gold is meant to have power over you, that's what the damn stuff's '''for!'''''"

...* ''Aqua Regia'' is a 1:3 mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid which is capable of dissolving gold. ''Aqua Quirmis'', as described by [[Cheery Littlebottom]], is quite possibly the Disc's equivalent of this potent brew which well deserves its [[Alchemists' Guild]] subtitle of ''Kysse Thyyne Eyebrowes Fare-thee-well'' - as well as any other inadvertently exposed tissue...

...** Ankh-Morpork has been debasing its [[currency]] for some time. Near the beginning of {{COM}} we learn that their "gold" coins are only one-third gold. Later on, [[Vetinari]] got it down to about the gold content of seawater, but it was a promise to pay One Dollar, the actual gold being kept in the [[Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork|vaults]] for safety. By ''Making Money'', of course, the gold has gone altogether but no one notices.

[[Category:Things]]
[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[de:Gold]]

Book:The Colour of Magic

2017-06-02T23:03:53Z

JDspeeder1: /* Plot */

{{Book Data
|title=The Colour Of Magic
|cover=[[File:Cover The Colour Of Magic.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=[[Josh Kirby]]
|date=November 1983
|publisher=Colin Smythe
|isbn=086140324X
|pages=206
|rrp=
|series=Rincewind Series
|characters=[[Rincewind]], [[Twoflower]], [[the Luggage]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=The first Discworld novel
}}
==Blurb==
On a [[Discworld (world)|world]] supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but [[Rincewind|inept wizard]], a [[Twoflower|naive tourist]] whose [[The Luggage|luggage]] moves on hundreds of dear little legs, [[Noble dragon|dragons]] who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet ...

==Plot==
The story starts with the telling of the manner of the Discworld. The world itself is a flat disc that rests on the back of four giant elephants named [[Berilia]], [[Tubul]], [[Great T'Phon]] and [[Jerakeen]], who (in turn) rest on the large shell of a giant World Turtle called [[Great A'Tuin]] who swims through space. On the Disc it is further known that the small kingdom of [[Krull]] has been sending teams of men over the Edge to look at the Turtle and the four Elephants and proved that they are real, but they do not know the sex of Great A'Tuin.

Far away in the hubwards direction [[Ankh-Morpork]], the most famous and oldest city on the Disc, is burning. This burning is being watched by two of the local heroes, [[Bravd the Hublander]] and his partner [[Weasel]]. They are joined shortly after by [[Rincewind]] (a failed wizard who had looked at the great spell book the [[Octavo]] and then flunked out of the [[Unseen University]]) and the Disc's first tourist [[Twoflower]] (who has passed out after falling off his horse which he failed to ride) and after them comes the [[Luggage]] (a walking suitcase that has half a mind of its own and has a homicidal attitude to anything threatening).

Rincewind then explains to the two local heroes his story about how he had met Twoflower. Several days ago Twoflower had arrived from the [[Agatean Empire]] that is on the infamous [[Counterweight Continent]]. He has a large amount of [[gold]] (which makes various men try and rob him) that he thinks is not a lot of money. He attracts the attention of [[Blind Hugh]] who sends [[Cripple Wa]] to tell the two greatest thieves in Ankh-Morpork, [[Ymor]] and [[Stren Withel]], and Hugh himself leads Twoflower to the [[Broken Drum]], a local inn owned by [[Broadman]].

Twoflower pays for his room (using more money than the inn and staff are worth) and is followed in by the Luggage which gets Rincewind's attention because it is made of [[sapient pearwood]]. Speaking in [[Trob]], Rincewind and Twoflower talk to each other while Broadman runs to an Alchemist to check the gold coins that Twoflower had given him. The Alchemist says that it is 'technically false coinage' (local coins contain less gold then seawater). Word soon spreads that a large amount of gold has entered Ankh-Morpork and various thieves start to come together.

Back at the Broken Drum, Rincewind has been hired to be a guide to Twoflower but after receiving pay he runs off. Buying a horse, Rincewind tries to leave the city but his horse is shot by the guards. The [[Patrician]] tells Rincewind that he will spare his life if Rincewind will keep guiding Twoflower and keep him from getting in trouble or killed. Going back, Rincewind rescues Twoflower from a tavern fight and they head out to 'look' at the city, taking pictures with the [[Iconograph]]. Soon the two find themselves separated and Rincewind is almost killed by Withel but he escapes.

The Patrician receives a request from the [[Grand Vizier]] of the Agatean Empire to make sure Twoflower does not return so he sends the master of the [[Assassins' Guild]] ([[Zlorf Flannelfoot]]) to kill Twoflower. Rincewind backtracks to the Broken Drum to find that the [[Thieves' Guild|Thieves]], Assassins, and the newly created [[Guild of Merchants]] all want Twoflower, who is currently selling Broadman In-sewer-ants (Insurance). The three groups start to fight with each other. The gutter wizard Rincewind meanwhile has an unexpected meeting with [[Death]] who offers him a horse.

Refusing, Rincewind rescues Twoflower from the fight while Broadman sets fire to the inn to get the money from the In-sewer-ants and is offered a match by a hollow voiced stranger (Death, and you know what happens next). Of course the fire becomes a large fire ball that sets fire to those parts of Ankh-Morpork which are flammable (most of them) hence finishing the backstory.

We now learn that the events taking place are controlled in a board game played by [[The Gods]] and Rincewind and Twoflower are controlled by [[The Lady]] and [[Fate]] is trying to be kill them. He brings forth the most impossible piece: the Sender of Eight, [[Bel-Shamharoth]]. Rincewind ends up hanging from a branch (with a snake wrapped on it and under a wasp nest) and is hanging above a pack of wolves. Death again tries to claim him but Rincewind knocks the wasp nest down by accident causing the wolves to flee. Safe, Rincewind is taken prisoner by the [[dryad]] [[Druellae]] for breaking a branch, he of course has a lucky break and is able to instantly get to Twoflower.

They meet [[Hrun]] the Barbarian and banish the Sender of Eight, causing Fate to lose the game, and the three of them go to the [[Wyrmberg]], an upsidedown mountain filled with dragons. Twoflower thinks of a dragon and ones pops up in front of him while Hrun is offered to become a King by [[Liessa]] the princess. Leaving Hrun behind. Rincewind and Twoflower use Twoflower's dragon to escape but flying too far away from the Wyrmberg the dragon fades and they drop out of the air.

For a moment or two they are transported to [[Roundworld]] until the Luggage leaps in and they fall into the Discworld sea near the Edge. They are rescued by the [[Circumfence]] (a fence that wraps around the Edge) and meet a water troll from another world and then are transported to [[Krull]] to be sacrificed to the god Fate while Fate himself confirms the up-coming deaths of Rincewind and Twoflower. They escape their jail with help from the Lady and get into two space suits meant for the passengers of the [[Potent Voyager]], a ship that is about to be sent over the Edge. At that moment the Luggage comes in (wrapped in seaweed) which gets the attention of everyone who figured out that Rincewind and Twoflower are imposters. Twoflower starts to climb in the Potent Voyager and Rincewind starts to climb in after him but then the Voyager starts to slide down.

Desperately a group of men come up and try and stop the Voyager but that only makes Twoflower fall into the cabin below and the latch locks behind him leaving Rincewind outside. Then '...sparkling like a salmon, [the Voyager] dropped into the sky and over the Edge. A few seconds later there came a thunder of little feet and the Luggage cleared the rim of the world, legs still pumping determinedly, and plunged down into the universe.'

Rincewind safely lands on a tree on the very Edge and is confronted by Death again, but Rincewind points out that he hasn't broken anything and is still alive. Death turns out to be a small demon Scrofula and Rincewind argues with him and, just as the demon is about to kill him, the tree gives way. Rincewind starts to fall off the Disc and then clearing the planet he falls, and falls, and falls....

==Cover==
The cover illustration was drawn by [[Josh Kirby]]. Like most of his pictures the illustration is very busy and filled with a great number of details. It presumably shows a scene inside the tavern [[The Mended Drum|The Broken Drum]]. In the foreground of the picture [[the Luggage]] can be seen running away on several small feet. Notably, is the drawing of [[Twoflower]] running down the stairs. It can be seen that the artist decided to take a passage on page 16 literally where it says "(...) Blind Hugh began, and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it." However, Terry Pratchett only wanted to state that [[Twoflower]] was wearing glasses.

==Characters==
===Main characters===
*[[Bel-Shamharoth]] aka "The Soul Eater", "The Sender of Eight"
*[[Hrun]], the [[Barbarian heroes|Barbarian]], aka Hrun of Chimeria
*[[Liessa Wyrmbidder]] aka Lianna (possibly a typo)
*[[the Luggage]]
*[[Rincewind]], and his [[Roundworld]] alias, [[Dr Rjinswand]]
*[[Twoflower]], and his [[Roundworld]] alias, [[Jack Zweiblumen]]

===Minor characters===
*[[Arch-Astronomer]] of Krull, who kills Dactylos
*[[Bravd]] the Hublander
*[[Broadman]], owner of the Broken Drum
*[[Death]]
*[[Disease]], subordinate of Death (another name for [[Pestilence]]?)
*[[Lio!rt Dragonlord]] and [[Liartes Dragonlord]], brothers
*[[Druellae]], a [[dryad]]
*[[Famine]]
*[[Fate]]
*[[Garhartra]], Guestmaster of Krull
*[[Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos]]
*[[Gorphal]], student of the Agatean Empire, works for the Patrician
*[[Greicha]]
*[[Blind Hugh]], a beggar
*Twoflower's [[iconograph]] [[Imps|imp]], unnamed imp that nonetheless has a speaking part
*[[Blind Io]]
*[[Kring]] (the magic sword)
*[[K!sdra]], a dragon rider
*[[The Lady]] (Luck)
*[[Laolith]], Liessa's dragon who eats a flying pig
*[[Loremaster]] of Wyrmberg, who, among other things, notes that "It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground"
*[[Marchesa]], a female wizard
*[[Ninereeds]], Accountmaster and Twoflower's dragon
*[[Offler]]
*The [[Patrician]]
*[[Bronze Psepha]], a dragon
*[[Rerpf]], representative of the [[Merchants' Guild|Guild of Merchants and Traders]]
*[[Tethis]], an alien sea troll
*[[Cripple Wa]], a beggar
*[[Weasel]]
*[[Stren Withel]], Ankh-Morpork's second greatest thief
*[[Ymor]], Ankh-Morpork's greatest thief

===Mentioned===
*[[Alohura]], Goddess of Lightning on Trob
*[[Archmandrite of B'Ituni]], former owner of Kring
*[[Archmage of Ymitury]], robbed and killed by Bravd and Weasel
*[[Captain Eightpanther]], maker of rock-hard [[dwarf bread]]-like biscuits, [[Captain Eightpanther's Travellers' Digestives]]
*[[Boy Emperor]], who permitted Twoflower's journey and ordered the Patrician to protect him
*[[Chance]], a god
*[[Codice of Chimeria]], presumably (but not really) killed the last [[noble dragon|dragon]]
*[[Destiny]], a god
*[[Zlorf Flannelfoot]], president of the [[Assassins' Guild]]
*[[Fredor]], possible owner of the Crimson Leech
*[[Gorrin]] the Cat, a thief
*[[Grinjo]], an assassin
*[[Kerible]] the Enchanter
*[[Master Launchcontroller]] of Krull
*[[Night]], a god
*[[Nine Turning Mirrors]], Grand Vizier of the Agatean Empire
*[[Ninereeds]], to whom Twoflower was apprenticed
*[[Olden Ones]], who bound magic to obey the [[Law of Conservation of Reality]], possibly another name for the [[Old High Ones]], to whom even the gods must answer
*[[Pasha of Redurant]], former owner of Kring (also known as [[Pasha of Re'durat]])
*[[Pitchiu]], person whose tomb is protected by Dactylos' Metal Warriors
*[[Reforgule]] of Krull, known for his theory that the disc revolves to distribute weight fairly on the four [[World Elephant|Giant elephants]]
*[[Scrofula]], an ineffective demon
*[[Sorca]], group of people who built the [[Light Dams]] of Great Nef, as designed by Dactylos
*[[Erig Stronginthearm]]
*[[Terton]], who also mans the Circumfence, is attacked by The Luggage, and escapes to the Great Nef
*[[Urabewe]], a nation of dark brown people
*[[Urmond]], an assassin
*[[The Watch]], who carefully refuse to intervene in a bar fight until everyone is either dead or has run away (in stark contrast to their later appearances)
*[[Heric Whiteblade]], barbarian hero
*[[World Elephant]]s, [[Berilia]], [[Jerakeen]], [[Tubul]], [[Great T'Phon]]
*[[Zchloty]], a coin
*[[Black Zenell]]
*[[Zephyrus]], god of light breezes, named after the word [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zephyr zephyr]
*[[Cohen]] The Barbarian

==Locations==
*[[Agatean Empire]] aka Golden Empire
**[[Bes Pelargic]], Twoflower's home (mentioned)
**Red Triangle district, where the odds against a house catching fire are 538-to-1
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
**[[Wizards' Quarter]] (mentioned) (also called [[Magicians' Quarter]] and [[Magical Quarter]] later in the book)
**[[Unseen University]] (mentioned)
**[[Merchants Street]] (mentioned)
**[[Crimson Leech]] (mentioned)
**[[Deosil Gate]] (mentioned)
**[[Pearl Dock]]
**[[The Mended Drum|The Broken Drum]]
**[[Temple of Small Gods]] (mentioned)
**[[Hub Gate]] (mentioned)
**[[Arena]] (mentioned)
**[[Whore Pits]]
**[[Beggars' Guild]] (mentioned)
**[[Brass Bridge]] (mentioned)
**Temple of [[Seven-Handed Sek]]
**[[Plaza of Broken Moons]]
**[[River Gate]]
**[[Leaning Tower]]
**[[Rime Street]]
**[[Frost Alley]]
**[[Groaning Platter]] tavern (mentioned)
**[[Short Street]]
**[[Filigree Street]]
**[[Widdershin Gate]]
*[[Mount Awayawa]] (mentioned)
*[[Bathys]], Tethis' home world
*[[Brown Islands]] (mentioned)
*[[Caderack Mountains]] (mentioned)
*[[Chirm]]
*[[Circle Sea]] (mentioned)
*[[Counterweight Continent]] (mentioned)
*[[Dunmanifestin]]
*[[Chirm]] (mentioned)
*[[Ecalpon]] (mentioned), "no place" backwards
*[[Gonim]] (mentioned)
*[[Gorunna Trench]] (mentioned)
*[[Great Nef]] (mentioned)
**[[Dehydrated Ocean]] (mentioned)
*[[Hades]], another name for Hell
*[[Howondaland]] (mentioned)
*[[The Hub]] (mentioned), spire of green ice 10 miles high
*Ice System of Zeret, a non-Discworld world affected by Rincewind's transfer to/from Roundworld
*[[Klatch]] (mentioned)
*[[Krull]]
*[[Mithos]] (mentioned), incredibly rare blue milk diamonds come from the clay basins there
*[[Morpork Mountains]]
*[[Orohai Peninsular]] (mentioned)
*[[Palace of the Seven Deserts]], built by Dactylos
*[[Pseudopolis]] (mentioned), Death stalks the streets there, "rescuing" citizens from the White Plague
*[[Rammerorck Mountains]] (mentioned)
*[[Mount Raruaruaha]] (mentioned)
*[[Rehigreed Province]], where [[Vul Nut|vul nut]]s are grown
*Temple of [[Bel-Shamharoth]]
*[[Trob]] (mentioned)
*[[Turnwise Ocean]] (mentioned), separates Agatean Empire from Ankh-Morpork
*[[Wyrmberg]]

==Sentient Species==
*[[Dryad|Dryads]]
*[[Gnolls]]
*[[Humans]]
*[[Tethys|Sea Trolls]]
*[[Trolls]]

==Supernatural Entities==
*[[Creator|The Creator]] (mentioned)
*[[Demons]] (mentioned)
*[[Death]]
*[[The gods|Gods]]
*[[Imps]]
*[[Dungeon Dimensions|Old Dark Gods from the Dungeon Dimensions]]

==Miscellaneous==
Things and concepts mentioned:
* [[7a]]
* [[Ajandurah's Wand of Utter Negativity]], a powerful wand wielded by Marchesa
* [[Atavarr's Personal Gravitational Upset]], a spell that makes people think they're sideways
* [[Big Bang Hypothesis]], theory of creation parodying [[Roundworld]] {{wp|Big_Bang|theory with the same name}}
* [[Black Oroogu]], a language with no nouns and only one adjective (which is obscene)
* [[Borogravia|High Borogravian]], a language
* [[Chelonaut]], Krullian equivalent of astronaut
* [[Chimeria|Chimeran]], a language (interestingly, the language is "Chimeran", even though the country is "Chimeria" (with an 'i'), unless the two are unrelated?; Rincewind mentions "Chimera" (no 'i') later in the book)
* [[Circumfence]], a strong fence around the edge of a large part of the Disc
* [[Fresnel's Wonderful Concentrator]], a spell used to create a lens that skims across water, powered by the hate of hydrophobes. On [[Roundworld]], a {{wp|Fresnel_lens|Fresnel lens}} concentrates light.
*[[Gamblers' Guild]]
*[[Ghlen Livid]], a drink made from the [[Vul Nut|vul nut]], which allows the drinker to see into the future
*[[gnome]]s and [[pictsies|pixies]], as having died out when Man came to the Disc (though this clearly wrong as we meet gnome [[Buggy Swires]] in {{TLF}} and the Nac Mac Feegle in the Tiffany books)
*[[Grey Miasma of H'rull]], proverbially sticky substance, parody of {{wp|quicksand|quicksand}}
*[[Infernal Combustion Enigma]], a powerful spell, whose name parodies the phrase "internal combustion engine"
*[[Mage Wars]]
*[[Octarine]], the colour of magic, after which the book is titled
*[[Octiron]], metal that radiates magic, parodies {{wp|uranium|uranium}}, but sounds like {{wp|iron|iron}}
*[[Octogen]], gas that radiates magic, parodies {{wp|radon|radon}}, but sounds like {{wp|oxygen|oxygen}}
*[[Octarine Fairy Book]], a book with pictures of dragons
*[[Potent Voyager]], the Disc's first? spaceship
*[[Rimbow]], 8-colored rainbow seen at the edge of the Disc
*[[Sea grape]], a kind of jellyfish
*[[Steady Gait Hypothesis]], theory of creation parodying "steady state"
*[[Sumtri]], an island and its language
*[[Vanglemesht]], a language
*[[Vestcake's Floating Curse]], a spell

Other:
*In 1989 {{TCOM}} had a new hardcover reprint which featured a [[Contributions to other works|new Foreword]] by Terry Pratchett.

==Roundworld References==
* {{wp|Magnox|Magnox}}, a type of nuclear reactor
* {{wp|TWA|TWA}}, an airline

==[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|Television]]==
{{TV Data
|title=Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic
|cover=[[File:Magic DVD.jpg|thumb|200px]]
|asin=B001EM1E8A
|imdb=1079959
|date=23-24 March 2008
|channel=Sky One
|director=Vadim Jean
|producer=Rod Brown & Ian Sharples
|cast=David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee (voice)
|duration=184 minutes
|episodes=2
|series=Rincewind Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[TV and Film:Hogfather|Terry Pratchett's Hogfather]]
|next=[[TV and Film:Going Postal|Terry Pratchett's Going Postal]]
}}
*[[Rincewind]] - [[Wikipedia:David_Jason|David Jason]] (''Only Fools And Horses, A Touch Of Frost, The Darling Buds of May, Terry Pratchett's [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'')
*[[Twoflower]] - [[Wikipedia:Sean_Astin|Sean Astin]] (''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, ''The Goonies'')
*[[Trymon]] - [[Wikipedia:Tim_Curry|Tim Curry]] (''The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Legend'')
*[[Death]] (voice) - [[Wikipedia:Chistopher_Lee|Christopher Lee]] (''The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith)
*[[Lord Vetinari]] - [[Wikipedia:Jeremy_Irons|Jeremy Irons]] (''Die Hard with a Vengance, Dead Ringers'')
*[[Cohen the Barbarian]] - [[Wikipedia:David_Bradley|David Bradley]] (''Harry Potter'' series, ''Hot Fuzz'')
*[[Bethan]] - [[Wikipedia:Laura_Haddock|Laura Haddock]] (''Honest, How Not To Live Your Life'')
*[[Galder Weatherwax]] - [[Wikipedia:James_Cosmo|James Cosmo]] (''Highlander, Braveheart, Trainspotting'')
*[[Librarian | Head Librarian of the Unseen University]] - [[Wikipedia:Nicolas_Tennant|Nicolas Tennant]] (''Terry Pratchett's [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'')
*[[Liessa]] - [[Wikipedia:Karen_David|Karen David]]
*[[Herrena]] - [[Wikipedia:Liz_May_Brice|Liz May Brice]]
*[[Arch-Astronomer]] - [[Wikipedia:Nigel_Planer|Nigel Planer]] (''The Young Ones'')
*[[The Luggage]] - [[Wikipedia:Richard_Da_Costa|Richard Da Costa]]
*[[Lumuel Panter]] - [[Wikipedia:Roger_Ashton-Griffiths|Roger Ashton-Griffiths]]
*[[Zlorf Flannelfoot]] - [[Wikipedia:Miles_Richardson|Miles Richardson]]
*[[Kring]] - [[Wikipedia:James_Perry|James Perry]]
*[[Broadman]] - [[Wikipedia:Stephen_Marcus|Stephen Marcus]] (''Terry Pratchett's [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'')

The TV adaptation also adds characters unreferenced in the original book like [[Hector Tugelbend]] and [[Ransak Boggett]], who are essentially "placeholder" characters added for completion who are referenced only once, with minimal information, and then dissappear again.

==Graphic Novel==
The novel was adapted into a series of four comics illustrated by Steven Ross. These were then collected into a single edition in 1992 and then later in 2008 combined with the other collected edition based on {{TLF}} into the omnibus [[Book:The Discworld Graphic Novels The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic|''The Discworld Graphic Novels The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic'']].

In 2008 The Colour of Magic and {{TLF}} were reprinted together in a 25th anniversary edition with illustrations by [[Stephen Player]].

==Other Adaptations==
The novel was [[Radio Adaptations|serialised and broadcast]] on the BBC Radio 4 show 'Women's Hour' the same year as its release, 1983.

The Colour of Magic and {{TLF}} were adapted into a text adventure video game [[Game:The Colour of Magic|''The Colour of Magic'']] in 1986.

It was adapted into a second video game for mobile phones, [[Game:The Colour of Magic|''Discworld: The Colour of Magic'']] in 2006.

Elements of the book were used in the [[Theatre Adaptations|playtext]] [[Book:The Rince Cycle|''The Rince Cycle'']] by [[Stephen Briggs]] in 2015.

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM First Edition.jpg|120px|thumb|First Edition Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM 1989.jpg|thumb|110px|Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Compact.jpg|thumb|140px|Compact Edition 1995]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM SP.jpg|thumb|110px|Cover by [[Stephen Player]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Slip.jpg|thumb|140px|21st Anniversary Collectors Slipcase]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM 21.jpg|thumb|120px|21st Anniversary Hardback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM US1.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover 2005]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM US2.jpg|thumb|100px|US Cover 2013]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Unseen.jpg|thumb|120px|Unseen Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM LF Illustrated.jpg|thumb|110px|Illustrated Edition by [[Stephen Player]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM LF Movie.jpg|thumb|100px|Omnibus with TV Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Zoom.jpg|thumb|100px|Paperback 2012]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Spineless.jpg|thumb|110px|Spineless Classics Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
|}

==External Links==
*[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-colour-of-magic.html ''The Colour of Magic'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1079959/ The Colour of Magic at the Internet Movie Database]

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Trob

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Trob is an island mentioned in {{COM}} whose sailors sometimes visit the [[Counterweight Continent]]. The beTrobi people are fairly simple and speak in metaphors. It is common knowledge of their language that first allows [[Rincewind]] and [[Twoflower]] to communicate.

Places in Trob:
* [[Mount Awayawa]], whose lower slopes are home to tall [[Diamondwood Tree|diamondwood trees]], while the higher slopes are rumoured to be the home of firegods.
* [[Orohai peninsular]], home of sponge-eating pygmies who live in coral houses
* [[Mount Raruaruaha]]

[[Gods]] in Trob:
* [[Alohura]], Goddess of Lightning
* The firegods of Awayawa

==Annotation==

With words like Awayawa, Orohai and Raruaruaha, beTrobi seems to be linguistically very similar to the {{wp|Polynesia|South Sea Islands}} of [[Roundworld]], also known as Polynesia. Polynesia may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island. The other main island groups located within the Polynesian triangle are Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Niue, Wallis and Futuna and French Polynesia.

Words from that region have the profusion of vowels and repetitions seen in beTrobi. Some of the forty-odd distinct languages have as few as 12 letters in their alphabets, leading to the need for repetition. Here are some genuine Polynesian placenames taken at random:

''Bikenikaibuke, Matanatamberan, Paepaeoleia, Kapingamarangi, Kolombangara, Laupahoehoe, Panopompom''... You get the idea.

[[Category:Discworld geography]]

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{{Book Data
|title=The Colour Of Magic
|cover=[[File:Cover The Colour Of Magic.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=[[Josh Kirby]]
|date=November 1983
|publisher=Colin Smythe
|isbn=086140324X
|pages=206
|rrp=
|series=Rincewind Series
|characters=[[Rincewind]], [[Twoflower]], [[the Luggage]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=The first Discworld novel
}}
==Blurb==
On a [[Discworld (world)|world]] supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but [[Rincewind|inept wizard]], a [[Twoflower|naive tourist]] whose [[The Luggage|luggage]] moves on hundreds of dear little legs, [[Noble dragon|dragons]] who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet ...

==Plot==
The story starts with the telling of the manner of the Discworld. The world itself is a flat disc that rests on the back of four giant elephants named [[Berilia]], [[Tubul]], [[Great T'Phon]] and [[Jerakeen]], who (in turn) rest on the large shell of a giant World Turtle called [[Great A'Tuin]] who swims through space. On the Disc it is further known that the small kingdom of [[Krull]] has been sending teams of men over the Edge to look at the Turtle and the four Elephants and proved that they are real, but they do not know the sex of Great A`Tuin.

Far away in the hubwards direction [[Ankh-Morpork]], the most famous and oldest city on the Disc, is burning. This burning is being watched by two of the local heroes, [[Bravd the Hublander]] and his partner [[Weasel]]. They are joined shortly after by [[Rincewind]] (a failed wizard who had looked at the great spell book the [[Octavo]] and then flunked out of the [[Unseen University]]) and the Disc's first tourist [[Twoflower]] (who has passed out after falling off his horse which he failed to ride) and after them comes the [[Luggage]] (a walking suitcase that has half a mind of its own and has a homicidal attitude to anything threatening).

Rincewind then explains to the two local heroes his story about how he had met Twoflower. Several days ago Twoflower had arrived from the [[Agatean Empire]] that is on the infamous [[Counterweight Continent]]. He has a large amount of [[gold]] (which makes various men try and rob him) that he thinks is not a lot of money. He attracts the attention of [[Blind Hugh]] who sends [[Cripple Wa]] to tell the two greatest thieves in Ankh-Morpork, [[Ymor]] and [[Stren Withel]], and Hugh himself leads Twoflower to the [[Broken Drum]], a local inn owned by [[Broadman]].

Twoflower pays for his room (using more money than the inn and staff are worth) and is followed in by the Luggage which gets Rincewind's attention because it is made of [[sapient pearwood]]. Speaking in [[Trob]], Rincewind and Twoflower talk to each other while Broadman runs to an Alchemist to check the gold coins that Twoflower had given him. The Alchemist says that it is 'technically false coinage' (local coins contain less gold then seawater). Word soon spreads that a large amount of gold has entered Ankh-Morpork and various thieves start to come together.

Back at the Broken Drum, Rincewind has been hired to be a guide to Twoflower but after receiving pay he runs off. Buying a horse Rincewind tries to leave the city but his horse is shot by the guards. The Patrician tells Rincewind that he will spare his life if Rincewind will keep guiding Twoflower and keep him from getting in trouble or killed. Going back, Rincewind rescues Twoflower from a tavern fight and they head out to 'look' at the city, taking pictures with the [[Iconograph]]. Soon the two find themselves separated and Rincewind is almost killed by Withel but he escapes.

The Patrician receives a request from the Grand Vizier of the Agatean Empire to make sure Twoflower does not return so he sends the master of the Assassins Guild to kill Twoflower. Rincewind backtracks to the Broken Drum to find that the Thieves, Assassins, and the newly created Guild of Merchants all want Twoflower, who is currently selling Broadman In-sewer-ants (Insurance). The three groups start to fight with each other. The gutter wizard Rincewind meanwhile has an unexpected meeting with Death who offers him a horse.

Refusing, Rincewind rescues Twoflower from the fight while Broadman sets fire to the inn to get the money from the In-sewer-ants and is offered a match by a hollow voiced stranger (Death, and you know what happens next). Of course the fire becomes a large fire ball that sets fire to those parts of Ankh-Morpork which are flammable (most of them) hence finishing the backstory.

We now learn that the events taking place are controlled in a board game played by [[The gods]] and Rincewind and Twoflower are controlled by [[The Lady]] and [[Fate]] is trying to be kill them. He brings forth the most impossible piece: the Sender of Eight, [[Bel-Shamharoth]]. Rincewind ends up hanging from a branch (with a snake wrapped on it and under a wasp nest) and is hanging above a pack of wolves. Death again tries to claim him but Rincewind knocks the wasp nest down by accident causing the wolves to flee. Safe, Rincewind is taken prisoner by the tree nymph for breaking a branch, he of course has a lucky break and is able to instantly get to Twoflower.

They meet [[Hrun]] the Barbarian and banish the Sender of Eight, causing Fate to lose the game, and the three of them go to the [[Wyrmberg]], an upsidedown mountain filled with dragons. Twoflower thinks of a dragon and ones pops up in front of him while Hrun is offered to become a King by [[Liessa]] the princess. Leaving Hrun behind. Rincewind and Twoflower use Twoflower's dragon to escape but flying too far away from the Wyrmburg the dragon fades and they drop out of the air.

For a moment or two they are transported to [[Roundworld]] until the Luggage leaps in and they fall into the Discworld sea near the Edge. They are rescued by the [[Circumfence]] (a fence that wraps around the Edge) and meet a water troll from another world and then are transported to [[Krull]] to be sacrificed to the god Fate while Fate himself confirms the up-coming deaths of Rincewind and Twoflower. They escape their jail with help from the Lady and get into two space suits meant for the passengers of the [[Potent Voyager]], a ship that is about to be sent over the Edge. At that moment the Luggage comes in (wrapped in seaweed) which gets the attention of everyone who figured out that Rincewind and Twoflower are imposters. Twoflower starts to climb in the Potent Voyager and Rincewind starts to climb in after him but then the Voyager starts to slide down.

Desperately a group of men come up and try and stop the Voyager but that only makes Twoflower fall into the cabin below and the latch locks behind him leaving Rincewind outside. Then '...sparkling like a salmon, [the Voyager] dropped into the sky and over the Edge. A few seconds later there came a thunder of little feet and the Luggage cleared the rim of the world, legs still pumping determinedly, and plunged down into the universe.'

Rincewind safely lands on a tree on the very Edge and is confronted by Death again, but Rincewind points out that he hasn`t broken anything and is still alive. Death turns out to be a small demon Scrofula and Rincewind argues with him and, just as the demon is about to kill him, the tree gives way. Rincewind starts to fall off the Disc and then clearing the planet he falls, and falls, and falls....

==Cover==
The cover illustration was drawn by [[Josh Kirby]]. Like most of his pictures the illustration is very busy and filled with a great number of details. It presumably shows a scene inside the tavern [[The Mended Drum|The Broken Drum]]. In the foreground of the picture [[the Luggage]] can be seen running away on several small feet. Notably, is the drawing of [[Twoflower]] running down the stairs. It can be seen that the artist decided to take a passage on page 16 literally where it says "(...) Blind Hugh began, and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it." However, Terry Pratchett only wanted to state that [[Twoflower]] was wearing glasses.

==Characters==
===Main characters===
*[[Bel-Shamharoth]] aka "The Soul Eater", "The Sender of Eight"
*[[Hrun]], the [[Barbarian heroes|Barbarian]], aka Hrun of Chimeria
*[[Liessa Wyrmbidder]] aka Lianna (possibly a typo)
*[[the Luggage]]
*[[Rincewind]], and his [[Roundworld]] alias, [[Dr Rjinswand]]
*[[Twoflower]], and his [[Roundworld]] alias, [[Jack Zweiblumen]]

===Minor characters===
*[[Arch-Astronomer]] of Krull, who kills Dactylos
*[[Bravd]] the Hublander
*[[Broadman]], owner of the Broken Drum
*[[Death]]
*[[Disease]], subordinate of Death (another name for [[Pestilence]]?)
*[[Lio!rt Dragonlord]] and [[Liartes Dragonlord]], brothers
*[[Druellae]], a [[dryad]]
*[[Famine]]
*[[Fate]]
*[[Garhartra]], Guestmaster of Krull
*[[Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos]]
*[[Gorphal]], student of the Agatean Empire, works for the Patrician
*[[Greicha]]
*[[Blind Hugh]], a beggar
*Twoflower's [[iconograph]] [[Imps|imp]], unnamed imp that nonetheless has a speaking part
*[[Blind Io]]
*[[Kring]] (the magic sword)
*[[K!sdra]], a dragon rider
*[[The Lady]] (Luck)
*[[Laolith]], Liessa's dragon who eats a flying pig
*[[Loremaster]] of Wyrmberg, who, among other things, notes that "It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground"
*[[Marchesa]], a female wizard
*[[Ninereeds]], Accountmaster and Twoflower's dragon
*[[Offler]]
*The [[Patrician]]
*[[Bronze Psepha]], a dragon
*[[Rerpf]], representative of the [[Merchants' Guild|Guild of Merchants and Traders]]
*[[Tethis]], an alien sea troll
*[[Cripple Wa]], a beggar
*[[Weasel]]
*[[Stren Withel]], Ankh-Morpork's second greatest thief
*[[Ymor]], Ankh-Morpork's greatest thief

===Mentioned===
*[[Alohura]], Goddess of Lightning on Trob
*[[Archmandrite of B'Ituni]], former owner of Kring
*[[Archmage of Ymitury]], robbed and killed by Bravd and Weasel
*[[Captain Eightpanther]], maker of rock-hard [[dwarf bread]]-like biscuits, [[Captain Eightpanther's Travellers' Digestives]]
*[[Boy Emperor]], who permitted Twoflower's journey and ordered the Patrician to protect him
*[[Chance]], a god
*[[Codice of Chimeria]], presumably (but not really) killed the last [[noble dragon|dragon]]
*[[Destiny]], a god
*[[Zlorf Flannelfoot]], president of the [[Assassins' Guild]]
*[[Fredor]], possible owner of the Crimson Leech
*[[Gorrin]] the Cat, a thief
*[[Grinjo]], an assassin
*[[Kerible]] the Enchanter
*[[Master Launchcontroller]] of Krull
*[[Night]], a god
*[[Nine Turning Mirrors]], Grand Vizier of the Agatean Empire
*[[Ninereeds]], to whom Twoflower was apprenticed
*[[Olden Ones]], who bound magic to obey the [[Law of Conservation of Reality]], possibly another name for the [[Old High Ones]], to whom even the gods must answer
*[[Pasha of Redurant]], former owner of Kring (also known as [[Pasha of Re'durat]])
*[[Pitchiu]], person whose tomb is protected by Dactylos' Metal Warriors
*[[Reforgule]] of Krull, known for his theory that the disc revolves to distribute weight fairly on the four [[World Elephant|Giant elephants]]
*[[Scrofula]], an ineffective demon
*[[Sorca]], group of people who built the [[Light Dams]] of Great Nef, as designed by Dactylos
*[[Erig Stronginthearm]]
*[[Terton]], who also mans the Circumfence, is attacked by The Luggage, and escapes to the Great Nef
*[[Urabewe]], a nation of dark brown people
*[[Urmond]], an assassin
*[[The Watch]], who carefully refuse to intervene in a bar fight until everyone is either dead or has run away (in stark contrast to their later appearances)
*[[Heric Whiteblade]], barbarian hero
*[[World Elephant]]s, [[Berilia]], [[Jerakeen]], [[Tubul]], [[Great T'Phon]]
*[[Zchloty]], a coin
*[[Black Zenell]]
*[[Zephyrus]], god of light breezes, named after the word [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zephyr zephyr]
*[[Cohen]] The Barbarian

==Locations==
*[[Agatean Empire]] aka Golden Empire
**[[Bes Pelargic]], Twoflower's home (mentioned)
**Red Triangle district, where the odds against a house catching fire are 538-to-1
*[[Ankh-Morpork]]
**[[Wizards' Quarter]] (mentioned) (also called [[Magicians' Quarter]] and [[Magical Quarter]] later in the book)
**[[Unseen University]] (mentioned)
**[[Merchants Street]] (mentioned)
**[[Crimson Leech]] (mentioned)
**[[Deosil Gate]] (mentioned)
**[[Pearl Dock]]
**[[The Mended Drum|The Broken Drum]]
**[[Temple of Small Gods]] (mentioned)
**[[Hub Gate]] (mentioned)
**[[Arena]] (mentioned)
**[[Whore Pits]]
**[[Beggars' Guild]] (mentioned)
**[[Brass Bridge]] (mentioned)
**Temple of [[Seven-Handed Sek]]
**[[Plaza of Broken Moons]]
**[[River Gate]]
**[[Leaning Tower]]
**[[Rime Street]]
**[[Frost Alley]]
**[[Groaning Platter]] tavern (mentioned)
**[[Short Street]]
**[[Filigree Street]]
**[[Widdershin Gate]]
*[[Mount Awayawa]] (mentioned)
*[[Bathys]], Tethis' home world
*[[Brown Islands]] (mentioned)
*[[Caderack Mountains]] (mentioned)
*[[Chirm]]
*[[Circle Sea]] (mentioned)
*[[Counterweight Continent]] (mentioned)
*[[Dunmanifestin]]
*[[Chirm]] (mentioned)
*[[Ecalpon]] (mentioned), "no place" backwards
*[[Gonim]] (mentioned)
*[[Gorunna Trench]] (mentioned)
*[[Great Nef]] (mentioned)
**[[Dehydrated Ocean]] (mentioned)
*[[Hades]], another name for Hell
*[[Howondaland]] (mentioned)
*[[The Hub]] (mentioned), spire of green ice 10 miles high
*Ice System of Zeret, a non-Discworld world affected by Rincewind's transfer to/from Roundworld
*[[Klatch]] (mentioned)
*[[Krull]]
*[[Mithos]] (mentioned), incredibly rare blue milk diamonds come from the clay basins there
*[[Morpork Mountains]]
*[[Orohai Peninsular]] (mentioned)
*[[Palace of the Seven Deserts]], built by Dactylos
*[[Pseudopolis]] (mentioned), Death stalks the streets there, "rescuing" citizens from the White Plague
*[[Rammerorck Mountains]] (mentioned)
*[[Mount Raruaruaha]] (mentioned)
*[[Rehigreed Province]], where [[Vul Nut|vul nut]]s are grown
*Temple of [[Bel-Shamharoth]]
*[[Trob]] (mentioned)
*[[Turnwise Ocean]] (mentioned), separates Agatean Empire from Ankh-Morpork
*[[Wyrmberg]]

==Sentient Species==
*[[Dryad|Dryads]]
*[[Gnolls]]
*[[Humans]]
*[[Tethys|Sea Trolls]]
*[[Trolls]]

==Supernatural Entities==
*[[Creator|The Creator]] (mentioned)
*[[Demons]] (mentioned)
*[[Death]]
*[[The gods|Gods]]
*[[Imps]]
*[[Dungeon Dimensions|Old Dark Gods from the Dungeon Dimensions]]

==Miscellaneous==
Things and concepts mentioned:
* [[7a]]
* [[Ajandurah's Wand of Utter Negativity]], a powerful wand wielded by Marchesa
* [[Atavarr's Personal Gravitational Upset]], a spell that makes people think they're sideways
* [[Big Bang Hypothesis]], theory of creation parodying [[Roundworld]] {{wp|Big_Bang|theory with the same name}}
* [[Black Oroogu]], a language with no nouns and only one adjective (which is obscene)
* [[Borogravia|High Borogravian]], a language
* [[Chelonaut]], Krullian equivalent of astronaut
* [[Chimeria|Chimeran]], a language (interestingly, the language is "Chimeran", even though the country is "Chimeria" (with an 'i'), unless the two are unrelated?; Rincewind mentions "Chimera" (no 'i') later in the book)
* [[Circumfence]], a strong fence around the edge of a large part of the Disc
* [[Fresnel's Wonderful Concentrator]], a spell used to create a lens that skims across water, powered by the hate of hydrophobes. On [[Roundworld]], a {{wp|Fresnel_lens|Fresnel lens}} concentrates light.
*[[Gamblers' Guild]]
*[[Ghlen Livid]], a drink made from the [[Vul Nut|vul nut]], which allows the drinker to see into the future
*[[gnome]]s and [[pictsies|pixies]], as having died out when Man came to the Disc (though this clearly wrong as we meet gnome [[Buggy Swires]] in {{TLF}} and the Nac Mac Feegle in the Tiffany books)
*[[Grey Miasma of H'rull]], proverbially sticky substance, parody of {{wp|quicksand|quicksand}}
*[[Infernal Combustion Enigma]], a powerful spell, whose name parodies the phrase "internal combustion engine"
*[[Mage Wars]]
*[[Octarine]], the colour of magic, after which the book is titled
*[[Octiron]], metal that radiates magic, parodies {{wp|uranium|uranium}}, but sounds like {{wp|iron|iron}}
*[[Octogen]], gas that radiates magic, parodies {{wp|radon|radon}}, but sounds like {{wp|oxygen|oxygen}}
*[[Octarine Fairy Book]], a book with pictures of dragons
*[[Potent Voyager]], the Disc's first? spaceship
*[[Rimbow]], 8-colored rainbow seen at the edge of the Disc
*[[Sea grape]], a kind of jellyfish
*[[Steady Gait Hypothesis]], theory of creation parodying "steady state"
*[[Sumtri]], an island and its language
*[[Vanglemesht]], a language
*[[Vestcake's Floating Curse]], a spell

Other:
*In 1989 {{TCOM}} had a new hardcover reprint which featured a [[Contributions to other works|new Foreword]] by Terry Pratchett.

==Roundworld References==
* {{wp|Magnox|Magnox}}, a type of nuclear reactor
* {{wp|TWA|TWA}}, an airline

==[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|Television]]==
{{TV Data
|title=Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic
|cover=[[File:Magic DVD.jpg|thumb|200px]]
|asin=B001EM1E8A
|imdb=1079959
|date=23-24 March 2008
|channel=Sky One
|director=Vadim Jean
|producer=Rod Brown & Ian Sharples
|cast=David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee (voice)
|duration=184 minutes
|episodes=2
|series=Rincewind Series
|annotations=
|notes=
|prev=[[TV and Film:Hogfather|Terry Pratchett's Hogfather]]
|next=[[TV and Film:Going Postal|Terry Pratchett's Going Postal]]
}}
*[[Rincewind]] - [[Wikipedia:David_Jason|David Jason]] (''Only Fools And Horses, A Touch Of Frost, The Darling Buds of May, Terry Pratchett's [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'')
*[[Twoflower]] - [[Wikipedia:Sean_Astin|Sean Astin]] (''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, ''The Goonies'')
*[[Trymon]] - [[Wikipedia:Tim_Curry|Tim Curry]] (''The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Legend'')
*[[Death]] (voice) - [[Wikipedia:Chistopher_Lee|Christopher Lee]] (''The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith)
*[[Lord Vetinari]] - [[Wikipedia:Jeremy_Irons|Jeremy Irons]] (''Die Hard with a Vengance, Dead Ringers'')
*[[Cohen the Barbarian]] - [[Wikipedia:David_Bradley|David Bradley]] (''Harry Potter'' series, ''Hot Fuzz'')
*[[Bethan]] - [[Wikipedia:Laura_Haddock|Laura Haddock]] (''Honest, How Not To Live Your Life'')
*[[Galder Weatherwax]] - [[Wikipedia:James_Cosmo|James Cosmo]] (''Highlander, Braveheart, Trainspotting'')
*[[Librarian | Head Librarian of the Unseen University]] - [[Wikipedia:Nicolas_Tennant|Nicolas Tennant]] (''Terry Pratchett's [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'')
*[[Liessa]] - [[Wikipedia:Karen_David|Karen David]]
*[[Herrena]] - [[Wikipedia:Liz_May_Brice|Liz May Brice]]
*[[Arch-Astronomer]] - [[Wikipedia:Nigel_Planer|Nigel Planer]] (''The Young Ones'')
*[[The Luggage]] - [[Wikipedia:Richard_Da_Costa|Richard Da Costa]]
*[[Lumuel Panter]] - [[Wikipedia:Roger_Ashton-Griffiths|Roger Ashton-Griffiths]]
*[[Zlorf Flannelfoot]] - [[Wikipedia:Miles_Richardson|Miles Richardson]]
*[[Kring]] - [[Wikipedia:James_Perry|James Perry]]
*[[Broadman]] - [[Wikipedia:Stephen_Marcus|Stephen Marcus]] (''Terry Pratchett's [[Book:Hogfather|Hogfather]]'')

The TV adaptation also adds characters unreferenced in the original book like [[Hector Tugelbend]] and [[Ransak Boggett]], who are essentially "placeholder" characters added for completion who are referenced only once, with minimal information, and then dissappear again.

==Graphic Novel==
The novel was adapted into a series of four comics illustrated by Steven Ross. These were then collected into a single edition in 1992 and then later in 2008 combined with the other collected edition based on {{TLF}} into the omnibus [[Book:The Discworld Graphic Novels The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic|''The Discworld Graphic Novels The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic'']].

In 2008 The Colour of Magic and {{TLF}} were reprinted together in a 25th anniversary edition with illustrations by [[Stephen Player]].

==Other Adaptations==
The novel was [[Radio Adaptations|serialised and broadcast]] on the BBC Radio 4 show 'Women's Hour' the same year as its release, 1983.

The Colour of Magic and {{TLF}} were adapted into a text adventure video game [[Game:The Colour of Magic|''The Colour of Magic'']] in 1986.

It was adapted into a second video game for mobile phones, [[Game:The Colour of Magic|''Discworld: The Colour of Magic'']] in 2006.

Elements of the book were used in the [[Theatre Adaptations|playtext]] [[Book:The Rince Cycle|''The Rince Cycle'']] by [[Stephen Briggs]] in 2015.

==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM First Edition.jpg|120px|thumb|First Edition Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM 1989.jpg|thumb|110px|Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Compact.jpg|thumb|140px|Compact Edition 1995]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM SP.jpg|thumb|110px|Cover by [[Stephen Player]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Slip.jpg|thumb|140px|21st Anniversary Collectors Slipcase]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM 21.jpg|thumb|120px|21st Anniversary Hardback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM US1.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover 2005]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM US2.jpg|thumb|100px|US Cover 2013]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Unseen.jpg|thumb|120px|Unseen Library Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM LF Illustrated.jpg|thumb|110px|Illustrated Edition by [[Stephen Player]]]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM LF Movie.jpg|thumb|100px|Omnibus with TV Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Zoom.jpg|thumb|100px|Paperback 2012]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM Spineless.jpg|thumb|110px|Spineless Classics Edition]]
| valign="top" | [[File:TCOM CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]
|}

==External Links==
*[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-colour-of-magic.html ''The Colour of Magic'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1079959/ The Colour of Magic at the Internet Movie Database]

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Agatean Empire

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The political entity that rules over the entire [[Counterweight Continent]], and also once used to have heavy influence on foreign countries as powerful as [[Ankh-Morpork]], until the Agatean government lost interest in all places foreign and, in order to keep citizens happily toiling away within the walls of the Empire, told the citizens that all foreign lands were barren wastelands with howling ghosts.

Gold is common on the Counterweight Continent, and deemed less valuable by Agateans than as regarded by foreigners. Once upon the time, the Agateans were more technologically advanced: [[iconograph]]s, spectacles, dentures, and so on. These devices were soon copied by foreigners when [[Twoflower]] the tourist went out into the world, and speedily evolved in the hands of the [[Wizard's magic|wizards]], artificers, [[Alchemists' Guild|alchemists]] etc. in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. [[CMOT Dibbler|Some Agateans]] think that foreigners are flesh-and-blood humans who might have some money to buy some Agatean products, but tend to think that foreigners have nothing and therefore everything is worth selling: silk (which Ankh-Morpork in fact buys from [[Klatch_(continent)|Klatch]]) or tea which is bought from [[Howondaland]] etc.

The Agateans do not understand how much power can be derived from their gold. The Agatean government had once wielded huge naval fleets, but had ceased contact with the other countries and therefore its influence was diminished. The Agatean Empire, then, is an agricultural country with no exports and no influences on world politics except when a foreign ruler remembers the fear that they once regarded the Empire with. The Empire has turned its forces inward, having a formal and showy civil war between feudal lords every time that an Emperor needs to be selected, and oppressing revolutionaries who talk about the sort of freedom found in the outside world. The Agatean Empire has become one of the sources of the refugee sort of immigrants who arrive in Ankh-Morpork.

When the Discworld chronicles began, the Agatean Empire was ruled by an idealistic and possibly more open-minded boy Emperor (see ''[[Book:The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]''), who was clever enough to turn a Grand Vizier's murder scheme against himself (see ''[[Book:Mort|Mort]]''). The boy Emperor was likely subsequently, successfully murdered, as the Empire was ruled by a whimsical old man and again oppressive when a [[Silver Horde|certain group]] of [[barbarian heroes]] invaded (see ''[[Book:Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]''). After the barbarian heroes successfully seized the throne, diplomatic relations were re-established, and embassies of, for example, [[Ankh-Morpork]], were settled in the capital city [[Hunghung]]. The barbarian-minded new Emperor subsequently deserted the throne and went on yet another quest (see ''[[Book:The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]''), and the subsequent political arrangements within the Empire are clarified in {{CDA}}. Apparently the Revolution succeeded and there is no longer an Emperor. The country is now The [[People's Beneficent Republic of Agatea]], headed by the Chairman of the People's Committee.

[[Bes Pelargic]] is a seaport in a remote corner of the Agatean Empire. Being from Bes Pelargic is a good excuse for eccentricities.

===Noble Families of the Agatean Empire===
*[[Hongs]]
*[[Sungs]]
*[[Fangs]]
*[[Tangs]]
*[[McSweeneys]]

==Annotations==
Its huge size, the horseman-baiting wall around it, its former political and scientific prominence followed by centuries of introverted stagnation and feuding warlords, followed in turn by the formation of a people's republic - not to mention [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army its flowerpot soldiers] - make it obvious which [[Roundworld]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China country the Agatean Empire is a parody of]. Other small references to East Asian culture make it a vague portmanteau of the region in general, although cameo references to places such as [[Grimchi]] and [[Bhangbhangduc]] have helped to separate it out some.

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Discworld (world)

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The '''Discworld''' is the setting of most of the books by [[Terry Pratchett]]. It is a magical world in the shape of a disc which - as in certain well-known ancient cosmologies - is mounted on top of four [[World Elephant|giant elephants]] which are standing on a giant turtle. Another (possibly better) description would be "like a geological [[pizza]] but without the anchovies". The Discworld universe operates through the effects of [[narrativium]], which explains its fundamental properties.

The turtle's name is A'Tuin, more often known as the [[Great A'Tuin]]. At least, that is the name some people gave the large turtle. It is unknown what the turtle calls itself. The sex of the turtle is also unknown, but there are some scientists on the Disc who have devoted their whole lives to finding that out, called chelonauts. (it would be an important matter should the Star Turtle ever find a mate). It is possible that it is female, because of its interest in the eggs which hatched in ''[[The Light Fantastic]]''.

Because of the world being a disc, the "usual" directions such as north or west do not apply and are unheard of. Instead the directions are [[hubwards]] (toward the center of the Disc), [[rimwards]] (toward the edge of the Disc), [[turnwise]] (along the direction of the Disc's spinning) and [[widdershins]] (counterturnwise). Terry himself has said about the Disc's cardinal directions that:

''There are four cardinal directions on the Discworld: hubwards, rimwards, turnwise and widdershins. Seasoned travellers have learnt to navigate solely by the sensations that they feel. If it gets warmer, you are headed rimwards. If it gets colder, you are headed hubwards. If you get dizzy, you are headed widdershins.''

The Disc's full spin cycle takes 800 days, where each year contains two summers, two winters and so on (see also [[Discworld calendar]]).

== ''The Disc: Physical Geography'' ==
The Disc is about 10,000 miles across and about 30 miles thick at the [[Rim]], but a lot thicker at the [[Hub]]. At the center of the disc a large mountain ([[Cori Celesti]]) reaches into the sky, whereas at the Rim a large amount of water continuously flows over it ([[Rimfall]]). How this status can be maintained without running out of water is unknown, but probably is also caused by the Narrativium. The Rim is partially surrounded by a fence called the [[Circumfence]], keeping people and ships from dropping off the world. Major oceans are the [[Rim Ocean]] and the [[Turnwise Ocean]]. There are four major continents and some other islands and archipelagos, such as the [[Brown Islands]].

The Moon that circles around the Discworld can only do its complete course if one of the elephants will occasionally lift a leg and let it pass beneath. It is the same for the Sun. The moon is slightly closer to the Disc than the sun, and is covered, on one half, with silvery glowing plants, which feed the [[Moon dragon|lunar dragons]] and illuminate the sky - unlike on [[Roundworld]] where the moon needs surrogate light from the sun. The other half is burnt black by the sun. The moon rotates, and completes a full revolution in about a month; the full moon occurs when the luminescent side is completely visible from the Disc, the new moon when the dark side is shown.

== ''The Disc: Political Geography and Statistics'' ==

The Disc consists of four major landmasses and a lot of smaller islands. The four major continents are:

* The Central Continent, an un-named landmass which is substantially larger than the others. This includes [[Ankh-Morpork]] and the greater number of the named political states, and most of the action of the books occurs here.
*[[Klatch]], a sub-continent comprising regions and states such as [[Howondaland]] and [[Hersheba]]. This is an ethnic melting pot known to have brown-skinned people analogous to Roundworld Arabs. Further Rimwards/south, in [[Howondaland]] proper, are plains known to accommodate a red-skinned people not unlike [[One-Man-Bucket|North American Indians]], and rimward of them are jungles and savannahs where black-skinned people live. There is also a hint from several novels and writings that a forgotten colony of white people, left over from days of Empire, may complete the ethnic mix.
*[[Fourecks]], or XXXX, which is either a colony or a very large island, depending on your point of view, populated by amazingly laid-back people who drink a lot of lager and eat meat-pie floaters.
* The [[Counterweight Continent]], or [[Agatean Empire|Agatea]], populated by an incredibly old, sophisticated, inward-looking and above all, ''cruel'' civilization, with a penchant for building walls round everything.

Significant island states include:

*The [[Brown Islands]];
*The [[Foggy Islands]];
*[[Krull]];

The population of the Disc has been estimated as twenty million. The estimate was made by the God [[Om]], who in common with other [[The gods|gods]] (a) should know; and (b) should have an interest in the theoretical total maximum of believers it is possible for a God to have.

It is unclear whether this total includes Dwarves, Trolls and other races, or just the human population of the Disc. However, as Om is a God of the human race, trolls have their own deities, and Dwarves don't bother with that sort of formal religion, Om is probably only counting humans (as they are the only people he's interested in).

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Discworld (world)

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The '''Discworld''' is the setting of most of the books by [[Terry Pratchett]]. It is a magical world in the shape of a disc which - as in certain well-known ancient cosmologies - is mounted on top of four [[World Elephant|giant elephants]] which are standing on a giant turtle. Another (possibly better) description would be "like a geological [[pizza]] but without the anchovies". The Discworld universe operates through the effects of [[narrativium]], which explains its fundamental properties.

The turtle's name is A'Tuin, more often known as the [[Great A'Tuin]]. At least, that is the name some people gave the large turtle. It is unknown what the turtle calls itself. The sex of the turtle is also unknown, but there are some scientists on the Disc who have devoted their whole lives to finding that out, called chelonauts. (it would be an important matter should the Star Turtle ever find a mate). It is possible that it is female, because of its interest in the eggs which hatched in ''[[The Light Fantastic]]''.

Because of the world being a disc, the "usual" directions such as north or west do not apply and are unheard of. Instead the directions are [[hubwards]] (toward the center of the Disc), [[rimwards]] (toward the edge of the Disc), [[turnwise]] (along the direction of the Disc's spinning) and [[widdershins]] (counterturnwise). Terry himself has said about the Disc's cardinal directions that:

''There are four cardinal directions on the Discworld: hubwards, rimwards, turnwise and widdershins. Seasoned travellers have learnt to navigate solely by the sensations that they feel. If it gets warmer, you are headed rimwards. If it gets colder, you are headed hubwards. If you get dizzy, you are headed widdershins.''

The Disc's full spin cycle takes 800 days, where each year contains two summers, two winters and so on (see also [[Discworld calendar]]).

== ''The Disc: Physical Geography'' ==
The Disc is about 10,000 miles across and about 30 miles thick at the [[Rim]], but a lot thicker at the [[Hub]]. At the center of the disc a large mountain ([[Cori Celesti]]) reaches into the sky, whereas at the Rim a large amount of water continuously flows over it ([[Rimfall]]). How this status can be maintained without running out of water is unknown, but probably is also caused by the Narrativium. The Rim is partially surrounded by a fence called the [[Circumfence]], keeping people and ships from dropping off the world. Major oceans are the [[Rim Ocean]] and the [[Turnwise Ocean]]. There are four major continents and some other islands and archipelagos, such as the [[Brown Islands]].

The Moon that circles around the Discworld can only do its complete course if one of the elephants will occasionally lift a leg and let it pass beneath. It is the same for the Sun. The moon is slightly closer to the Disc than the sun, and is covered, on one half, with silvery glowing plants, which feed the [[Moon dragon|lunar dragons]] and illuminate the sky - unlike on [[Roundworld]] where the moon needs surrogate light from the sun. The other half is burnt black by the sun. The moon rotates, and completes a full revolution in about a month; the full moon occurs when the luminescent side is completely visible from the Disc, the new moon when the dark side is shown.

== ''The Disc: Political Geography and Statistics'' ==

The Disc consists of four major landmasses and a lot of smaller islands. The four major continents are:

* The Central Continent, an un-named landmass which is substantially larger than the others. This includes [[Ankh-Morpork]] and the greater number of the named political states, and most of the action of the books occurs here.
*[[Klatch]], a sub-continent comprising regions and states such as [[Howondaland]] and [[Hersheba]]. This is an ethnic melting pot known to have brown-skinned people analogous to Roundworld Arabs. Further Rimwards/south, in [[Howondaland]] proper, are plains known to accommodate a red-skinned people not unlike [[One-Man-Bucket|North American Indians]], and rimward of them are jungles and savannahs where black-skinned people live. There is also a hint from several novels and writings that a forgotten colony of white people, left over from days of Empire, may complete the ethnic mix.
*[[Fourecks]], or XXXX, which is either a colony or a very large island, depending on your point of view, populated by amazingly laid-back people who drink a lot of lager and eat meat-pie floaters.
* The [[Counterweight Continent]], or [[Agatean Empire|Agatea]], populated by an incredibly old, sophisticated, inward-looking and above all, ''cruel'' civilization, with a penchant for building walls round everything.

Significant island states include:

*The [[Brown Islands]];
*The [[Foggy Islands]];
*[[Krull]];

The population of the Disc has been estimated as twenty million. The estimate was made by the God [[Om]], who in common with other [[The gods|gods]] (a) should know; and (b) should have an interest in the theoretical total maximum of believers it is possible for a God to have.

It is unclear whether this total includes Dwarves, Trolls and other races, or just the human population of the disc. However, as Om is a God of the human race, trolls have their own deities, and Dwarves don't bother with that sort of formal religion, Om is probably only counting humans (as they are the only people he's interested in).

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Discworld calendar

2017-06-01T22:52:19Z

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''This article is about the counting and naming of years and days on Discworld. For calendar books like the {{AGD}} see [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]], for the commercial items see [[Discworld Calendars]].''

==General==
A Discworld celestial year has 800 days and because of some interesting astronomical facts two of each seasons (two summers, two winters, etc.). This leads to the fact that many people actually do not count the astronomical years, but the half-years with 400 days, often refered to as "common years". The half-year has 13 months, listed below. Each month except Ick has 32 days, Ick has 16 days. Each week has eight days. The eighth day of each week is called Octeday.

There are two main calendars in use on Discworld. The [[Ankh-Morpork Calendar]] counts full years and starts at the founding of [[Ankh-Morpork]], the [[University Calendar]] starts at the founding of [[Unseen University]] (in 1282 AM) and counts in half-years. Oddly enough, while the Imperial Ankh-Morpork calendar offers intellectual purity and mathematical elegance, the general populace tends to use the Weird, Wild, Wacky Wizards' calendar, which happens to correspond to the growing season.

==Years and centuries==
Centuries and years are named. We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy ({{CJ}}). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat ({{MP}}) and even earlier by the Century of the Three Lice, and the [[Djelibeybi|Century of the Cobra]] ({{SG}}).

== Notable past years==

*The [[Kreeblephor|Year of the Lenient Vegetable]] - in which Bishop [[Kreeblephor]] converted a demon to the [[Om]]nian faith;
*The [[Year of the Pensive Hare]] - the events of {{UA}} take place shortly after the New Year celebrations which usher in this year.
* The [[Year of the Astounded Beetle]]‎;
* The [[Year of the Engaging Sloth]];
* The Year of the Hyena (mentioned in {{S}})
* The [[Year of the Notional Serpent]];
* The Year of the Prawn (Common Year 2005; Scholar's Year 1657);
* The [[Cabbage|Year of the Pensive Frog]];
* The Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan (Common Year 2007);
* The Year of the Revolving Crab (mentioned in {{WA}};
* The Year of the Sideways Leech (mentioned in {{H}});
* The Year of the Spinning Mouse (Common Year 2015);
* The Year of the Talking Frog (mentioned in {{H}});
* The [[Year of the Sneezing Panda]] (Common Year 2016);
* The Year of the Intimidating Porpoise (mentioned in ''[[Reaper Man]]'');
* The Year of the [[Backwards-Facing Artichoke]] (Common Year 2017)

==Months Of The Discworld Year==
Or rather, of the Discworld's ''half''-year. {{TCDA}} clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. Quote:
''This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which emcompasses two common years...''

* [[Ick]] - only has sixteen days
* [[Offle]] - all following months have thirty-two
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* [[Grune]]
* August
* [[Spune]]
* [[Sektober]]
* [[Ember]]
* December

The year commences on Hogswatch Day and ends on the following Hogswatch Eve.

==Special holidays==

* [[Hogswatch]] Eve, the end of the old common year.
* [[Hogswatch]]Day (first of Ick, start of the new common year)
* [[Soul Cake Tuesday]]
* Day of the Lesser Gods (?same as below?)
* [[Eve of Small Gods]], first midsummer day
* Samedi Nuit Mort (celebrated in Genua)
* Creator's Birthday (28th of April)
* Wear a lilac if you were [[Glorious Revolution|there]] day (25th of May)
* Koom Valley Day (5th of Grune)
* [[Crueltide]], half-year point (end of first half-year, start of next)
* [[Alls Fallow]], 3/4 point of 800-day year, the one day when witches and warlocks stay in bed (parodying {{wp|Halloween|Halloween}}), though in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weatherwax, since her arrival may cause people to feel wary rather than jolly.

== Seasons ==

* Spring Prime, first spring
* Summer: mid-point ''Small Gods' Eve''
* Autumn Prime, first autumn
* Winter Secundus aka Spindlewinter: Mid-point ''Crueltide''
* Secundus Spring
* Summer Two: mid-point ''All's Fallow''
* Secundus Autumn
* Backspindlewinter: mid-point ''Hogswatch''

Discworld seasons are 'explained' in one of four paragraphs in the footnote on page 5 of ''The Colour of Magic''. It is written:

"Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference."

==Zodiac==

The Discworld zodiac consists of 64 (8*8) constellations, nebulae or individual stars grouped in thirteen ''Houses''. There may be other constellations that are not part of the zodiac, but it's possible that the Discworld's unusual revolution means that the Discworld sun and/or moon enters all constellations at least once (the "zodiac" is a list of constellations in which the sun or moon [or planets, but there don't seem to be any around Discworld] can be found at some point in time). [[Roundworld]] has 88 constellations (1 of them non-contiguous), 12 of which are in the zodiac (a 13th constellation is also technically in the zodiac, but is not recognized as part of the zodiac). According to research wizard "Numbers" [[Riktor]], who meticulously counted them, there are, or were at the time of counting, 49,873 visible stars in the Discworld heavens. Which is ample raw material for the cosmic Rorschach test that creates constellations.

===The Houses of the Zodiac and their 64 Elements:===
:as described by the well-known mages and scholars Pratchett of Sarum and Pearson of Wincanton

*'''The First House''' - The House of Io
**The Eye of Io
** The Crab
**The Cow of Heaven
**The (Knotted) String
**The Celestial Parsnip

*'''The Second House''' - The House of the Gate
**[[Wezen (the double-headed kangaroo)]]
**The Two Fat Cousins
**The Perhaps Gate
**Scarab's Claw
**[[Mubbo the Hyena]]

*'''The Third House''' - The House of the Bull
**Silicarous's Gift
**The Bull
**Hast's Trumpet
**[[Cubal's Flame]]
**The Void

*'''The Fourth House''' - The House of Melok
**Melok
**Old Toesy
**Vut the Evenstar
**Mr Williams
**Occasional Paddles

*'''The Fifth House''' - The House of the Bright Cabbage
**Blic-Blick
**[[Spune|The Bright Cabbage]]
**The Starfish
**Old Dog
**[[Crabbus]]

*'''The Sixth House''' - The House of the Plow
**Pashmina
**The Flying Moose
**The Pitcher (or Bucket)
**Plough Handle
**Okjock the Salesman

*'''The Seventh House''' - The House of the Star
**The Faint Star Major
**The Faint Star Minor
**The Little Turtle
**The Flagon
**Ket's Knife

*'''The Next House''' - The House of Woldar
**Woldar
**Evar's Footprint
**The Ram's Horn
**Two Rivers
**Young Faithful

*'''The Ninth House''' - The House of the Ram
**The Jumping Ram
**[[Khefin]]'s Eye 1
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 2]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 3]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 4]]

*'''The Tenth House''' - The House of Trabnor
**Trabnor
**The Lanthorn
**The Wicket
**Turnip's Tail
**The Snipe

*'''The Eleventh House''' - The House of the Horse
**Teg the Horse
**The Miller's Pocket
**[[Astoria's Flame]]
**The Cradle
**The Sleeping Dog

*'''The Twelfth House''' - The House of Fore and Aft
**Young Harry
**Forward
**Aft
**Vut's Candle
**Silur the Catfish

*'''The Thirteenth House''' - The Dread House
**Old Faithful
**The Scythe
**The Coffee Cup
**[[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]

===Annotations===

* Wezen the Doubleheaded Kangaroo: the first constellation (interesting because the wizards don't seem to recognize a kangaroo when they see it in {{TLC}}-- perhaps because it was flattened and had only one head? Although in fairness you couldn't recognize anything else from it's constellation either, and it's never really obvious what is mythical and what isn't!)
* The Two Fat Cousins: possible reference to Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
* The Flying Moose: possible reference to Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose
* [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]]: Rincewind's birth sign, usually not a wizard's sign. Was much brighter thousands of years ago when the Disc was closer to it (according to {{TLC}}), so it's not clear why the ancients called it "faint"; perhaps they knew the Disc would move away from it long-term?
* The Knotted String: possible pun on "I'm a frayed knot" jokes
* [[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]: the last constellation (now if we could only find that whale)
* the Triangle, mentioned in {{TLC}}, possibly not part of the zodiac

==Related pages==
* [[Discworld Timeline]]
* [[:category:Discworld Timeline|Discworld timeline category]]

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

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Discworld calendar

2017-06-01T22:49:16Z

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''This article is about the counting and naming of years and days on Discworld. For calendar books like the {{AGD}} see [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]], for the commercial items see [[Discworld Calendars]].''

==General==
A Discworld celestial year has 800 days and because of some interesting astronomical facts two of each seasons (two summers, two winters, etc.). This leads to the fact that many people actually do not count the astronomical years, but the half-years with 400 days, often refered to as "common years". The half-year has 13 months, listed below. Each month except Ick has 32 days, Ick has 16 days. Each week has eight days. The eighth day of each week is called Octeday.

There are two main calendars in use on Discworld. The [[Ankh-Morpork Calendar]] counts full years and starts at the founding of [[Ankh-Morpork]], the [[University Calendar]] starts at the founding of [[Unseen University]] (in 1282 AM) and counts in half-years. Oddly enough, while the Imperial Ankh-Morpork calendar offers intellectual purity and mathematical elegance, the general populace tends to use the Weird, Wild, Wacky Wizards' calendar, which happens to correspond to the growing season.

==Years and centuries==
Centuries and years are named. We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy ({{CJ}}). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat ({{MP}}) and even earlier by the Century of the Three Lice, and the [[Djelibeybi|Century of the Cobra]] ({{SG}}).

== Notable past years==

*The [[Kreeblephor|Year of the Lenient Vegetable]] - in which Bishop [[Kreeblephor]] converted a demon to the [[Om]]nian faith;
*The [[Year of the Pensive Hare]] - the events of {{UA}} take place shortly after the New Year celebrations which usher in this year.
* The [[Year of the Astounded Beetle]]‎;
* The [[Year of the Engaging Sloth]];
* The Year of the Hyena (mentioned in {{S}})
* The [[Year of the Notional Serpent]];
* The Year of the Prawn (Common Year 2005; Scholar's Year 1657);
* The [[Cabbage|Year of the Pensive Frog]];
* The Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan (Common Year 2007);
* The Year of the Revolving Crab (mentioned in {{WA}};
* The Year of the Sideways Leech (mentioned in {{H}});
* The Year of the Spinning Mouse (Common Year 2015);
* The Year of the Talking Frog (mentioned in {{H}});
* The [[Year of the Sneezing Panda]] (Common Year 2016);
* The Year of the Intimidating Porpoise (mentioned in ''[[Reaper Man]]'');
* The Year of the [[Backwards-Facing Artichoke]] (Common Year 2017)

==Months Of The Discworld Year==
Or rather, of the Discworld's ''half''-year. {{TCDA}} clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. Quote:
''This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which emcompasses two common years...''

* [[Ick]] - only has sixteen days
* [[Offle]] - all following months have thirty-two
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* [[Grune]]
* August
* [[Spune]]
* [[Sektober]]
* [[Ember]]
* December

The year commences on Hogswatch Day and ends on the following Hogswatch Eve.

==Special holidays==

* [[Hogswatch]] Eve, the end of the old common year.
* [[Hogswatch]]Day (first of Ick, start of the new common year)
* [[Soul Cake Tuesday]]
* Day of the Lesser Gods (?same as below?)
* [[Eve of Small Gods]], first midsummer day
* Samedi Nuit Mort (celebrated in Genua)
* Creator's Birthday (28th of April)
* Wear a lilac if you were [[Glorious Revolution|there]] day (25th of May)
* Koom Valley Day (5th of Grune)
* [[Crueltide]], half-year point (end of first half-year, start of next)
* [[Alls Fallow]], 3/4 point of 800-day year, the one day when witches and warlocks stay in bed (parodying {{wp|Halloween|Halloween}}), though in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weatherwax, since her arrival may cause people to feel wary rather than jolly.

== Seasons ==

* Spring Prime, first spring
* Summer: mid-point ''Small Gods' Eve''
* Autumn Prime, first autumn
* Winter Secundus aka Spindlewinter: Mid-point ''Crueltide''
* Secundus Spring
* Summer Two: mid-point ''All's Fallow''
* Secundus Autumn
* Backspindlewinter: mid-point ''Hogswatch''

Discworld seasons are 'explained' in one of four paragraphs in the footnote on page 5 of ''The Colour of Magic''. It is written:

"Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference."

==Zodiac==

The Discworld zodiac consists of 64 (8*8) constellations, nebulae or individual stars grouped in thirteen ''Houses''. There may be other constellations that are not part of the zodiac, but it's possible that the Discworld's unusual revolution means that the Discworld sun and/or moon enters all constellations at least once (the "zodiac" is a list of constellations in which the sun or moon [or planets, but there don't seem to be any around Discworld] can be found at some point in time). [[Roundworld]] has 88 constellations (1 of them non-contiguous), 12 of which are in the zodiac (a 13th constellation is also technically in the zodiac, but is not recognized as part of the zodiac). According to research wizard "Numbers" [[Riktor]], who meticulously counted them, there are, or were at the time of counting, 49,873 visible stars in the Discworld heavens. Which is ample raw material for the cosmic Rorschach test that creates constellations.

===The Houses of the Zodiac and their 64 Elements:===
:as described by the well-known mages and scholars Pratchett of Sarum and Pearson of Wincanton

*'''The First House''' - The House of Io
**The Eye of Io
** The Crab
**The Cow of Heaven
**The (Knotted) String
**The Celestial Parsnip

*'''The Second House''' - The House of the Gate
**[[Wezen (the double-headed kangaroo)]]
**The Two Fat Cousins
**The Perhaps Gate
**Scarab's Claw
**[[Mubbo the Hyena]]

*'''The Third House''' - The House of the Bull
**Silicarous's Gift
**The Bull
**Hast's Trumpet
**[[Cubal's Flame]]
**The Void

*'''The Fourth House''' - The House of Melok
**Melok
**Old Toesy
**Vut the Evenstar
**Mr Williams
**Occasional Paddles

*'''The Fifth House''' - The House of the Bright Cabbage
**Blic-Blick
**[[Spune|The Bright Cabbage]]
**The Starfish
**Old Dog
**[[Crabbus]]

*'''The Sixth House''' - The House of the Plow
**Pashmina
**The Flying Moose
**The Pitcher (or Bucket)
**Plough Handle
**Okjock the Salesman

*'''The Seventh House''' - The House of the Star
**The Faint Star Major
**The Faint Star Minor
**The Little Turtle
**The Flagon
**Ket's Knife

*'''The Next House''' - The House of Woldar
**Woldar
**Evar's Footprint
**The Ram's Horn
**Two Rivers
**Young Faithful

*'''The Ninth House''' - The House of the Ram
**The Jumping Ram
**[[Khefin]]'s Eye 1
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 2]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 3]]
*[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 4]]

*'''The Tenth House''' - The House of Trabnor
**Trabnor
**The Lanthorn
**The Wicket
**Turnip's Tail
**The Snipe

*'''The Eleventh House''' - The House of the Horse
**Teg the Horse
**The Miller's Pocket
**[[Astoria's Flame]]
**The Cradle
**The Sleeping Dog

*'''The Twelfth House''' - The House of Fore and Aft
**Young Harry
**Forward
**Aft
**Vut's Candle
**Silur the Catfish

*'''The Thirteenth House''' - The Dread House
**Old Faithful
**The Scythe
**The Coffee Cup
**[[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]

===Annotations===

* Wezen the Doubleheaded Kangaroo: the first constellation (interesting because the wizards don't seem to recognize a kangaroo when they see it in {{TLC}}-- perhaps because it was flattened and had only one head? Although in fairness you couldn't recognize anything else from it's constellation either, and it's never really obvious what is mythical and what isn't!)
* The Two Fat Cousins: possible reference to Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
* The Flying Moose: possible reference to Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose
* [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]]: Rincewind's birth sign, usually not a wizard's sign. Was much brighter thousands of years ago when the Disc was closer to it (according to {{TLC}}), so it's not clear why the ancients called it "faint"; perhaps they knew the Disc would move away from it long-term?
* The Knotted String: possible pun on "I'm a frayed knot" jokes
* [[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]: the last constellation (now if we could only find that whale)
* the Triangle, mentioned in {{TLC}}, possibly not part of the zodiac

==Related pages==
* [[Discworld Timeline]]
* [[:category:Discworld Timeline|Discworld timeline category]]

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

[[de:Drehjahr]]
[[de:Monate]]
[[de:Tag]]
[[de:Tierkreiszeichen]]

Backwards-Facing Artichoke

2017-06-01T22:42:04Z

JDspeeder1:

[[File:BF Artichoke.jpg|200px|thumb|right|[[Bernard Pearson]]'s christening of the year 2017]]

The Year of the Backwards-Facing Artichoke, according to the [[Discworld Emporium]], is the name of the [[Common Year]] 2017.

[[Category: Discworld Timeline]]

Discworld calendar

2017-06-01T22:39:17Z

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''This article is about the counting and naming of years and days on Discworld. For calendar books like the {{AGD}} see [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]], for the commercial items see [[Discworld Calendars]].''

==General==
A Discworld celestial year has 800 days and because of some interesting astronomical facts two of each seasons (two summers, two winters, etc.). This leads to the fact that many people actually do not count the astronomical years, but the half-years with 400 days, often refered to as "common years". The half-year has 13 months, listed below. Each month except Ick has 32 days, Ick has 16 days. Each week has eight days. The eighth day of each week is called Octeday.

There are two main calendars in use on Discworld. The [[Ankh-Morpork Calendar]] counts full years and starts at the founding of [[Ankh-Morpork]], the [[University Calendar]] starts at the founding of [[Unseen University]] (in 1282 AM) and counts in half-years. Oddly enough, while the Imperial Ankh-Morpork calendar offers intellectual purity and mathematical elegance, the general populace tends to use the Weird, Wild, Wacky Wizards' calendar, which happens to correspond to the growing season.

==Years and centuries==
Centuries and years are named. We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy ({{CJ}}). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat ({{MP}}) and even earlier by the Century of the Three Lice, and the [[Djelibeybi|Century of the Cobra]] ({{SG}}).

== Notable past years==

*The [[Kreeblephor|Year of the Lenient Vegetable]] - in which Bishop [[Kreeblephor]] converted a demon to the [[Om]]nian faith;
*The [[Year of the Pensive Hare]] - the events of {{UA}} take place shortly after the New Year celebrations which usher in this year.
* The [[Year of the Astounded Beetle]]‎;
* The [[Year of the Engaging Sloth]];
* The Year of the Hyena (mentioned in {{S}})
* The [[Year of the Notional Serpent]];
* The Year of the Prawn (Common Year 2005; Scholar's Year 1657);
* The [[Cabbage|Year of the Pensive Frog]];
* The Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan (Common Year 2007);
* The Year of the Revolving Crab (mentioned in {{WA}};
* The Year of the Sideways Leech (mentioned in {{H}});
* The Year of the Spinning Mouse (Common Year 2015);
* The Year of the Talking Frog (mentioned in {{H}});
* The [[Year of the Sneezing Panda]] (Common Year 2016);
* The Year of the Intimidating Porpoise (mentioned in ''[[Reaper Man]]'');
* The Year of the [[Backwards-Facing Artichoke]] (Common Year 2017)

==Months Of The Discworld Year==
Or rather, of the Discworld's ''half''-year. {{TCDA}} clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. Quote:
''This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which emcompasses two common years...''

* [[Ick]] - only has sixteen days
* [[Offle]] - all following months have thirty-two
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* [[Grune]]
* August
* [[Spune]]
* [[Sektober]]
* [[Ember]]
* December

The year commences on Hogswatch Day and ends on the following Hogswatch Eve.

==Special holidays==

* [[Hogswatch]] Eve, the end of the old common year.
* [[Hogswatch]]Day (first of Ick, start of the new common year)
* [[Soul Cake Tuesday]]
* Day of the Lesser Gods (?same as below?)
* [[Eve of Small Gods]], first midsummer day
* Samedi Nuit Mort (celebrated in Genua)
* Creator's Birthday (28th of April)
* Wear a lilac if you were [[Glorious Revolution|there]] day (25th of May)
* Koom Valley Day (5th of Grune)
* [[Crueltide]], half-year point (end of first half-year, start of next)
* [[Alls Fallow]], 3/4 point of 800-day year, the one day when witches and warlocks stay in bed (parodying {{wp|Halloween|Halloween}}), though in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weatherwax, since her arrival may cause people to feel wary rather than jolly.

== Seasons ==

* Spring Prime, first spring
* Summer: mid-point ''Small Gods' Eve''
* Autumn Prime, first autumn
* Winter Secundus aka Spindlewinter: Mid-point ''Crueltide''
* Secundus Spring
* Summer Two: mid-point ''All's Fallow''
* Secundus Autumn
* Backspindlewinter: mid-point ''Hogswatch''

Discworld seasons are 'explained' in one of four paragraphs in the footnote on page 5 of ''The Colour of Magic''. It is written:

"Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference."

==Zodiac==

The Discworld zodiac consists of 64 (8*8) constellations, nebulae or individual stars grouped in thirteen ''Houses''. There may be other constellations that are not part of the zodiac, but it's possible that the Discworld's unusual revolution means that the Discworld sun and/or moon enters all constellations at least once (the "zodiac" is a list of constellations in which the sun or moon [or planets, but there don't seem to be any around Discworld] can be found at some point in time). [[Roundworld]] has 88 constellations (1 of them non-contiguous), 12 of which are in the zodiac (a 13th constellation is also technically in the zodiac, but is not recognized as part of the zodiac). According to research wizard "Numbers" [[Riktor]], who meticulously counted them, there are, or were at the time of counting, 49,873 visible stars in the Discworld heavens. Which is ample raw material for the cosmic Rorschach test that creates constellations.

===The Houses of the Zodiac and their 64 Elements :===
:as described by the well-known mages and scholars Pratchett of Sarum and Pearson of Wincanton

*'''The First House''' - The House of Io
**The Eye of Io
** The Crab
**The Cow of Heaven
**The (Knotted) String
**The Celestial Parsnip

*'''The Second House''' - The House of the Gate
**[[Wezen (the double-headed kangaroo)]]
**The Two Fat Cousins
**The Perhaps Gate
**Scarab's Claw
**[[Mubbo the Hyena]]

*'''The Third House''' - The House of the Bull
**Silicarous's Gift
**The Bull
**Hast's Trumpet
**[[Cubal's Flame]]
**The Void

*'''The Fourth House''' - The House of Melok
**Melok
**Old Toesy
**Vut the Evenstar
**Mr Williams
**Occasional Paddles

*'''The Fifth House''' - The House of the Bright Cabbage
**Blic-Blick
**[[Spune|The Bright Cabbage]]
**The Starfish
**Old Dog
**[[Crabbus]]

*'''The Sixth House''' - The House of the Plow
**Pashmina
**The Flying Moose
**The Pitcher (or Bucket)
**Plough Handle
**Okjock the Salesman

*'''The Seventh House''' - The House of the Star
**The Faint Star Major
**The Faint Star Minor
**The Little Turtle
**The Flagon
**Ket's Knife

*'''The Next House''' - The House of Woldar
**Woldar
**Evar's Footprint
**The Ram's Horn
**Two Rivers
**Young Faithful

*'''The Ninth House''' - The House of the Ram
**The Jumping Ram
**[[Khefin]]'s Eye 1
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 2]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 3]]
*[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 4]]

*'''The Tenth House''' - The House of Trabnor
**Trabnor
**The Lanthorn
**The Wicket
**Turnip's Tail
**The Snipe

*'''The Eleventh House''' - The House of the Horse
**Teg the Horse
**The Miller's Pocket
**[[Astoria's Flame]]
**The Cradle
**The Sleeping Dog

*'''The Twelfth House''' - The House of Fore and Aft
**Young Harry
**Forward
**Aft
**Vut's Candle
**Silur the Catfish

*'''The Thirteenth House''' - The Dread House
**Old Faithful
**The Scythe
**The Coffee Cup
**[[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]

===Annotations===

* Wezen the Doubleheaded Kangaroo: the first constellation (interesting because the wizards don't seem to recognize a kangaroo when they see it in {{TLC}}-- perhaps because it was flattened and had only one head? Although in fairness you couldn't recognize anything else from it's constellation either, and it's never really obvious what is mythical and what isn't!)
* The Two Fat Cousins: possible reference to Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
* The Flying Moose: possible reference to Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose
* [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]]: Rincewind's birth sign, usually not a wizard's sign. Was much brighter thousands of years ago when the Disc was closer to it (according to {{TLC}}), so it's not clear why the ancients called it "faint"; perhaps they knew the Disc would move away from it long-term?
* The Knotted String: possible pun on "I'm a frayed knot" jokes
* [[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]: the last constellation (now if we could only find that whale)
* the Triangle, mentioned in {{TLC}}, possibly not part of the zodiac

==Related pages==
* [[Discworld Timeline]]
* [[:category:Discworld Timeline|Discworld timeline category]]

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

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Discworld calendar

2017-06-01T22:27:03Z

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''This article is about the counting and naming of years and days on Discworld. For calendar books like the {{AGD}} see [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]], for the commercial items see [[Discworld Calendars]].''

==General==
A Discworld celestial year has 800 days and because of some interesting astronomical facts two of each seasons (two summers, two winters, etc.). This leads to the fact that many people actually do not count the astronomical years, but the half-years with 400 days, often refered to as "common years". The half-year has 13 months, listed below. Each month except Ick has 32 days, Ick has 16 days. Each week has eight days. The eighth day of each week is called Octeday.

There are two main calendars in use on Discworld. The [[Ankh-Morpork Calendar]] counts full years and starts at the founding of [[Ankh-Morpork]], the [[University Calendar]] starts at the founding of [[Unseen University]] (in 1282 AM) and counts in half-years. Oddly enough, while the Imperial Ankh-Morpork calendar offers intellectual purity and mathematical elegance, the general populace tends to use the Weird, Wild, Wacky Wizards' calendar, which happens to correspond to the growing season.

==Years and centuries==
Centuries and years are named. We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy ({{CJ}}). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat ({{MP}}) and even earlier by the Century of the Three Lice, and the [[Djelibeybi|Century of the Cobra]] ({{SG}}).

== Notable past years==

*The [[Kreeblephor|Year of the Lenient Vegetable]] - in which Bishop [[Kreeblephor]] converted a demon to the [[Om]]nian faith;
*The [[Year of the Pensive Hare]] - the events of {{UA}} take place shortly after the New Year celebrations which usher in this year.
* The [[Year of the Astounded Beetle]] ‎;
* The [[Year of the Engaging Sloth]] ;
* The Year of the Hyena (mentioned in {{S}})
* The [[Year of the Notional Serpent]] ‎;
* The Year of the Prawn (Common Year 2005; Scholar's Year 1657) ;
* The [[Cabbage|Year of the Pensive Frog]] ;
* The Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan (Common Year 2007) ;
* The Year of the Revolving Crab (mentioned in {{WA}} ;
* The Year of the Sideways Leech (mentioned in {{H}}) ;
* The Year of the Spinning Mouse (Common Year 2015) ;
* The Year of the Talking Frog (mentioned in {{H}}) ;
* The [[Year of the Sneezing Panda]] (Common Year 2016);
* The Year of the Intimidating Porpoise (mentionned in Reaper Man);
* The Year of the [[Backwards-Facing Artichoke]] (Common Year 2017)

==Months Of The Discworld Year==
Or rather, of the Discworld's ''half''-year. {{TCDA}} clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. Quote:
''This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which emcompasses two common years...''

* [[Ick]] - only has sixteen days
* [[Offle]] - all following months have thirty-two
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* [[Grune]]
* August
* [[Spune]]
* [[Sektober]]
* [[Ember]]
* December

The year commences on Hogswatch Day and ends on the following Hogswatch Eve.

==Special holidays==

* [[Hogswatch]] Eve, the end of the old common year.
* [[Hogswatch]]Day (first of Ick, start of the new common year)
* [[Soul Cake Tuesday]]
* Day of the Lesser Gods (?same as below?)
* [[Eve of Small Gods]], first midsummer day
* Samedi Nuit Mort (celebrated in Genua)
* Creator's Birthday (28th of April)
* Wear a lilac if you were [[Glorious Revolution|there]] day (25th of May)
* Koom Valley Day (5th of Grune)
* [[Crueltide]], half-year point (end of first half-year, start of next)
* [[Alls Fallow]], 3/4 point of 800-day year, the one day when witches and warlocks stay in bed (parodying {{wp|Halloween|Halloween}}), though in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weatherwax, since her arrival may cause people to feel wary rather than jolly.

== Seasons ==

* Spring Prime, first spring
* Summer: mid-point ''Small Gods' Eve''
* Autumn Prime, first autumn
* Winter Secundus aka Spindlewinter: Mid-point ''Crueltide''
* Secundus Spring
* Summer Two: mid-point ''All's Fallow''
* Secundus Autumn
* Backspindlewinter: mid-point ''Hogswatch''

Discworld seasons are 'explained' in one of four paragraphs in the footnote on page 5 of ''The Colour of Magic''. It is written:

"Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference."

==Zodiac==

The Discworld zodiac consists of 64 (8*8) constellations, nebulae or individual stars grouped in thirteen ''Houses''. There may be other constellations that are not part of the zodiac, but it's possible that the Discworld's unusual revolution means that the Discworld sun and/or moon enters all constellations at least once (the "zodiac" is a list of constellations in which the sun or moon [or planets, but there don't seem to be any around Discworld] can be found at some point in time). [[Roundworld]] has 88 constellations (1 of them non-contiguous), 12 of which are in the zodiac (a 13th constellation is also technically in the zodiac, but is not recognized as part of the zodiac). According to research wizard "Numbers" [[Riktor]], who meticulously counted them, there are, or were at the time of counting, 49,873 visible stars in the Discworld heavens. Which is ample raw material for the cosmic Rorschach test that creates constellations.

===The Houses of the Zodiac and their 64 Elements :===
:as described by the well-known mages and scholars Pratchett of Sarum and Pearson of Wincanton

*'''The First House''' - The House of Io
**The Eye of Io
** The Crab
**The Cow of Heaven
**The (Knotted) String
**The Celestial Parsnip

*'''The Second House''' - The House of the Gate
**[[Wezen (the double-headed kangaroo)]]
**The Two Fat Cousins
**The Perhaps Gate
**Scarab's Claw
**[[Mubbo the Hyena]]

*'''The Third House''' - The House of the Bull
**Silicarous's Gift
**The Bull
**Hast's Trumpet
**[[Cubal's Flame]]
**The Void

*'''The Fourth House''' - The House of Melok
**Melok
**Old Toesy
**Vut the Evenstar
**Mr Williams
**Occasional Paddles

*'''The Fifth House''' - The House of the Bright Cabbage
**Blic-Blick
**[[Spune|The Bright Cabbage]]
**The Starfish
**Old Dog
**[[Crabbus]]

*'''The Sixth House''' - The House of the Plow
**Pashmina
**The Flying Moose
**The Pitcher (or Bucket)
**Plough Handle
**Okjock the Salesman

*'''The Seventh House''' - The House of the Star
**The Faint Star Major
**The Faint Star Minor
**The Little Turtle
**The Flagon
**Ket's Knife

*'''The Next House''' - The House of Woldar
**Woldar
**Evar's Footprint
**The Ram's Horn
**Two Rivers
**Young Faithful

*'''The Ninth House''' - The House of the Ram
**The Jumping Ram
**[[Khefin]]'s Eye 1
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 2]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 3]]
*[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 4]]

*'''The Tenth House''' - The House of Trabnor
**Trabnor
**The Lanthorn
**The Wicket
**Turnip's Tail
**The Snipe

*'''The Eleventh House''' - The House of the Horse
**Teg the Horse
**The Miller's Pocket
**[[Astoria's Flame]]
**The Cradle
**The Sleeping Dog

*'''The Twelfth House''' - The House of Fore and Aft
**Young Harry
**Forward
**Aft
**Vut's Candle
**Silur the Catfish

*'''The Thirteenth House''' - The Dread House
**Old Faithful
**The Scythe
**The Coffee Cup
**[[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]

===Annotations===

* Wezen the Doubleheaded Kangaroo: the first constellation (interesting because the wizards don't seem to recognize a kangaroo when they see it in {{TLC}}-- perhaps because it was flattened and had only one head? Although in fairness you couldn't recognize anything else from it's constellation either, and it's never really obvious what is mythical and what isn't!)
* The Two Fat Cousins: possible reference to Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
* The Flying Moose: possible reference to Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose
* [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]]: Rincewind's birth sign, usually not a wizard's sign. Was much brighter thousands of years ago when the Disc was closer to it (according to {{TLC}}), so it's not clear why the ancients called it "faint"; perhaps they knew the Disc would move away from it long-term?
* The Knotted String: possible pun on "I'm a frayed knot" jokes
* [[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]: the last constellation (now if we could only find that whale)
* the Triangle, mentioned in {{TLC}}, possibly not part of the zodiac

==Related pages==
* [[Discworld Timeline]]
* [[:category:Discworld Timeline|Discworld timeline category]]

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

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[[de:Monate]]
[[de:Tag]]
[[de:Tierkreiszeichen]]

Discworld calendar

2017-06-01T22:24:50Z

JDspeeder1: /* Special holidays */

''This article is about the counting and naming of years and days on Discworld. For calendar books like the {{AGD}} see [[Bibliography#Diaries|Bibliography]], for the commercial items see [[Discworld Calendars]].''

==General==
A Discworld celestial year has 800 days and because of some interesting astronomical facts two of each seasons (two summers, two winters, etc.). This leads to the fact that many people actually do not count the astronomical years, but the half-years with 400 days, often refered to as "common years". The half-year has 13 months, listed below. Each month except Ick has 32 days, Ick has 16 days. Each week has eight days. The eighth day of each week is called Octeday.

There are two main calendars in use on Discworld. The [[Ankh-Morpork Calendar]] counts full years and starts at the founding of [[Ankh-Morpork]], the [[University Calendar]] starts at the founding of [[Unseen University]] (in 1282 AM) and counts in half-years. Oddly enough, while the Imperial Ankh-Morpork calendar offers intellectual purity and mathematical elegance, the general populace tends to use the Weird, Wild, Wacky Wizards' calendar, which happens to correspond to the growing season.

==Years and centuries==
Centuries and years are named. We are currently in the Century of the Anchovy ({{CJ}}). It was preceded by the Century of the Fruitbat ({{MP}}) and even earlier by the Century of the Three Lice, and the [[Djelibeybi|Century of the Cobra]] ({{SG}}).

== Notable past years==

*The [[Kreeblephor|Year of the Lenient Vegetable]] - in which Bishop [[Kreeblephor]] converted a demon to the [[Om]]nian faith;
*The [[Year of the Pensive Hare]] - the events of {{UA}} take place shortly after the New Year celebrations which usher in this year.
* The [[Year of the Astounded Beetle]] ‎;
* The [[Year of the Engaging Sloth]] ;
* The Year of the Hyena (mentioned in {{S}})
* The [[Year of the Notional Serpent]] ‎;
* The Year of the Prawn (Common Year 2005; Scholar's Year 1657) ;
* The [[Cabbage|Year of the Pensive Frog]] ;
* The Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan (Common Year 2007) ;
* The Year of the Revolving Crab (mentioned in {{WA}} ;
* The Year of the Sideways Leech (mentioned in {{H}}) ;
* The Year of the Spinning Mouse (Common Year 2015) ;
* The Year of the Talking Frog (mentioned in {{H}}) ;
* The [[Year of the Sneezing Panda]] (Common Year 2016);
* The Year of the Intimidating Porpoise (mentionned in Reaper Man);
* The Year of the [[Backwards-Facing Artichoke]] (Common Year 2017)

==Months Of The Discworld Year==
Or rather, of the Discworld's ''half''-year. {{TCDA}} clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. Quote:
''This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which emcompasses two common years...''

* [[Ick]] - only has sixteen days
* [[Offle]] - all following months have thirty-two
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* [[Grune]]
* August
* [[Spune]]
* [[Sektober]]
* [[Ember]]
* December

The year commences on Hogswatch Day and ends on the following Hogswatch Eve.

==Special holidays==

* [[Hogswatch]] Eve, the end of the old common year.
* [[Hogswatch]]Day (first of Ick, start of the new common year)
* [[Soul Cake Tuesday]]
* Day of the Lesser Gods (?same as below?)
* [[Eve of Small Gods]], first midsummer day
* Samedi Nuit Mort (celebrated in Genua)
* Creator's Birthday (28th of April)
* Wear a lilac if you were [[Glorious Revolution|there]] day (25th of May)
* Koom Valley Day (5th of Grune)
* [[Crueltide]], half-year point (end of first half-year, start of next)
* [[Alls Fallow]], 3/4 point of 800-day year, the one day when witches and warlocks stay in bed (parodying {{wp|Halloween|Halloween}}), though in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'', [[Esmerelda Weatherwax]] suggests that [[Hogswatch]] is the one day witches shouldn't go out, though this may only apply to Mistress Weatherwax, since her arrival may cause people to feel wary rather than jolly.

== Seasons ==

* Spring Prime, first spring
* Summer : mid-point ''Small Gods' Eve''
* Autumn Prime, first autumn
* Winter Secundus aka Spindlewinter : Mid-point ''Crueltide''
* Secundus Spring
* Summer Two : mid-point ''All's Fallow''
* Secundus Autumn
* Backspindlewinter : mid-point ''Hogswatch''

Discworld seasons are 'explained' in one of four paragraphs in the footnote on page 5 of ''The Colour of Magic''. It is written:

"Since the disc's tiny orbiting sunlet maintains a fixed orbit while the majestic disc turns slowly beneath it, it will be readily deduced that a disc year consists of not four but eight seasons. The summers are those times when the sun rises or sets at the nearest point on the Rim, the winters those occasions when it rises or sets at a point around ninety degrees along the circumference."

==Zodiac==

The Discworld zodiac consists of 64 (8*8) constellations, nebulae or individual stars grouped in thirteen ''Houses''. There may be other constellations that are not part of the zodiac, but it's possible that the Discworld's unusual revolution means that the Discworld sun and/or moon enters all constellations at least once (the "zodiac" is a list of constellations in which the sun or moon [or planets, but there don't seem to be any around Discworld] can be found at some point in time). [[Roundworld]] has 88 constellations (1 of them non-contiguous), 12 of which are in the zodiac (a 13th constellation is also technically in the zodiac, but is not recognized as part of the zodiac). According to research wizard "Numbers" [[Riktor]], who meticulously counted them, there are, or were at the time of counting, 49,873 visible stars in the Discworld heavens. Which is ample raw material for the cosmic Rorschach test that creates constellations.

===The Houses of the Zodiac and their 64 Elements :===
:as described by the well-known mages and scholars Pratchett of Sarum and Pearson of Wincanton

*'''The First House''' - The House of Io
**The Eye of Io
** The Crab
**The Cow of Heaven
**The (Knotted) String
**The Celestial Parsnip

*'''The Second House''' - The House of the Gate
**[[Wezen (the double-headed kangaroo)]]
**The Two Fat Cousins
**The Perhaps Gate
**Scarab's Claw
**[[Mubbo the Hyena]]

*'''The Third House''' - The House of the Bull
**Silicarous's Gift
**The Bull
**Hast's Trumpet
**[[Cubal's Flame]]
**The Void

*'''The Fourth House''' - The House of Melok
**Melok
**Old Toesy
**Vut the Evenstar
**Mr Williams
**Occasional Paddles

*'''The Fifth House''' - The House of the Bright Cabbage
**Blic-Blick
**[[Spune|The Bright Cabbage]]
**The Starfish
**Old Dog
**[[Crabbus]]

*'''The Sixth House''' - The House of the Plow
**Pashmina
**The Flying Moose
**The Pitcher (or Bucket)
**Plough Handle
**Okjock the Salesman

*'''The Seventh House''' - The House of the Star
**The Faint Star Major
**The Faint Star Minor
**The Little Turtle
**The Flagon
**Ket's Knife

*'''The Next House''' - The House of Woldar
**Woldar
**Evar's Footprint
**The Ram's Horn
**Two Rivers
**Young Faithful

*'''The Ninth House''' - The House of the Ram
**The Jumping Ram
**[[Khefin]]'s Eye 1
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 2]]
**[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 3]]
*[[Khefin|Khefin's Eye 4]]

*'''The Tenth House''' - The House of Trabnor
**Trabnor
**The Lanthorn
**The Wicket
**Turnip's Tail
**The Snipe

*'''The Eleventh House''' - The House of the Horse
**Teg the Horse
**The Miller's Pocket
**[[Astoria's Flame]]
**The Cradle
**The Sleeping Dog

*'''The Twelfth House''' - The House of Fore and Aft
**Young Harry
**Forward
**Aft
**Vut's Candle
**Silur the Catfish

*'''The Thirteenth House''' - The Dread House
**Old Faithful
**The Scythe
**The Coffee Cup
**[[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]

===Annotations===

* Wezen the Doubleheaded Kangaroo: the first constellation (interesting because the wizards don't seem to recognize a kangaroo when they see it in {{TLC}}-- perhaps because it was flattened and had only one head? Although in fairness you couldn't recognize anything else from it's constellation either, and it's never really obvious what is mythical and what isn't!)
* The Two Fat Cousins: possible reference to Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
* The Flying Moose: possible reference to Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose
* [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]]: Rincewind's birth sign, usually not a wizard's sign. Was much brighter thousands of years ago when the Disc was closer to it (according to {{TLC}}), so it's not clear why the ancients called it "faint"; perhaps they knew the Disc would move away from it long-term?
* The Knotted String: possible pun on "I'm a frayed knot" jokes
* [[Gahoolie the Vase of Tulips]]: the last constellation (now if we could only find that whale)
* the Triangle, mentioned in {{TLC}}, possibly not part of the zodiac

==Related pages==
* [[Discworld Timeline]]
* [[:category:Discworld Timeline|Discworld timeline category]]

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

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[[de:Monate]]
[[de:Tag]]
[[de:Tierkreiszeichen]]

Unseen University

2017-06-01T22:09:22Z

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{{Building Data
|photo=UU01.png|coat of arms|100px|
|name= Unseen University
|location= [[Ankh-Morpork]]
|owner=
|apperance=
|residents= [[Wizards]]
|use= University
|built= 1282 AM ([[1 UC]])
|founded by= [[Albert|Alberto Malich the Wise]]
|demolished=
|books= {{TCOM}} {{TLF}} {{ER}} {{M}} {{S}} {{E}} {{MP}} {{RM}} {{SM}} {{IT}} {{H}} {{TLC}} {{TT}} {{TOT}} {{GP}} {{UA}}
|notes= Motto: ''NVNC ID VIDES, NVNC NE VIDES'' (now you see it, now you don't)
}}

''"Unseen University, home of the greatest wizards on the Discworld. And one or two of the worst."''

The '''Unseen University''' (UU) is a school for [[Wizards|wizards]] located in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. It was founded in the year 1282 AM ([[1 UC]]) by [[Albert|Alberto Malich the Wise]].

==The Place==
The Unseen University has gates of [[octiron]], and single-minded [[Bledlows]] to perform the Ceremony of the Keys every night. The University has an octagonal lawn, roses, other plants, and compost heaps tended by Mr. [[Modo]], the university's dwarf gardener. The buildings are of ancient stone, and contain many dark, winding corridors and small rooms, far more than the size of the grounds should allow. The unusual architecture of the building suggests that the top storeys and roof were built before the ground floors. Inside the University is the [[Great Hall]], where the Wizard's four main meals of the day are eaten. Also noteworthy are the hundreds of paintings and busts of former [[Archchancellor|Archchancellors]] that line the vestibule just outside the Great Hall. Other notable features are the [[Uncommon Room]], the staffroom of the Faculty (see below); the gymnasium (which is for students to practise spells, not exercise, and - as such - is lined and protected ''very'' powerfully); the [[Emperor]] candle and the [[Tesseractical Floor|Tesseractical floor]].

The grounds are enclosed in brick walls, but there are some places where bricks can be removed to offer convenient footholds for young and reasonably athletic students to climb over. The more famous buildings are: The [[Tower of Art]], the [[Library]], and the [[High Energy Magic Building]].

[[Old Tom]] is the University's bell and it is made of octiron. Every hour this bell chimes heavy silences which render all sounds inaudible. Sometimes Old Tom also rings during incidents involving a massive amount of magic, making verbal communication very difficult during the emergency.

The [[Unreal Estate]] is an area outside of the University walls. The area used to be the University's dumpster, and the magic contamination has until recently made the ground unusable for any housing or farming. However, part of this area has since been developed into the [[Thaumatological Park]]. This serves two purposes: it earns money for the University by selling commercially useful by-products of research magic such as the [[Dis-organiser]], and it keeps young wizards trained by [[Ponder Stibbons]] usefully occupied after graduation, otherwise there's no telling what minds like those would find to do. As the area is still inherently dangerous, a ''really'' cynical senior wizard might reflect that it could even thin their numbers out a bit, which is no bad thing...

The University is unbelievably rich. This comes from the rents of [[Sator Square]], the [[Plaza of Broken Moons]], magical services throughout the city and the classrooms that are rented out for various uses. Much more recently there has been the money made from the Thaumatological Park. Additionally, the University doesn't spend much, on food especially. People donate food regularly to the place, on the basis that if there were a lot of daft old men living on enough magic to rip a hole in two realities near ''you'', you'd want them to be too full to move as well.

==The People==
For many centuries, the wizards in Unseen University vied for the top position, the Archchancellor. The wizards were also in eight orders, each wizard fighting for the higher positions in the order, and fighting off other orders. (For more on in-fighting of wizards, see also the article [[Wizard's magic]].) After the coming of Archchancellor Ridcully, the power structure stabilized because nobody is able to murder Ridcully. The fighting changed from magical and murderous to quarrels and minor insults between faculty members. Everybody is able to come down alive and have a big dinner in relative calm, (unless the Bursar is insane for the moment or there is major magical disturbance in the vicinity.) There are many, many faculty members who are wizards who specialize in particular studies, drawing no salary, living at the ends of obscure corridors, unknown and unseen by others except at meals or when the more important wizards require the specialized wizards for some reason. Few faculty members like to teach. They have virtual lectures in a classroom, ([[Room 3b]]) that does not exist, a happy arrangement mutually understood and respected by [[Faculty]] and [[students]] alike. The other lecture theatre specifically mentioned in the chronicles is [[Room 5b]], which has its own woes in that Space and Time have come adrift from each other, and a lecturer walking in might discover he's already there and has started taking a class twenty minutes previously. Genuine lectures do happen at the University and are generally well-attended: refer to {{ER}}, where [[Eskarina Smith]] clandestinely attends the lectures by hiding underneath the tiered benches, and watching from behind a line of pointy boots. Student wizards do have to pass an exam, with an 88% pass mark, to obtain a Bachelor's degree. After that, a wizard may leave and find work, or stay and do more researches for advanced degrees.

All alumni of the UU have the right to wear a bronze octogram which symbolises their attendance at the school.

The faculty members listed below are well-known simply because they appear more often to the public and are there when the Archchancellor calls for meetings. These faculty members are not known for their lectures or the importance of their subjects. A hot subject, if such it may be called, is any technomancy under Ponder Stibbons's supervision, but in fact, his students are not more single-minded than other research students, and his department does not draw particularly many more students than other departments. Still, Mr. Stibbons's labs in the High Energy Building are often helpful to the Archchancellor in these modern times.

===The Top Faculty===
[[image:UUFaculty.jpg|350px|thumb|Left to right: The Chair, The Dean, The Librarian, The Archchancellor, Runes, The Bursar, Ponder Stibbons, The Senior Wrangler and Rincew.... oh he's, er, gone.]]
*The [[Archchancellor]] ([[Mustrum Ridcully]]),
*The [[Bursar]] (A. A. Dinwiddie)
*The [[Dean]] (Henry Porter)
Note:As of ''Unseen Academicals'' "The Dean" is now Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]]
*The [[Senior Wrangler]] (Horace)
*The [[Chair of Indefinite Studies]]
*The [[Lecturer in Recent Runes]]
*The [[Librarian]], (an orangutan, previously Human Horace Worblehat)
*The Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic ([[Ponder Stibbons]])
*The [[Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography]] ([[Rincewind]])
*The [[Department of Post-Mortem Communications|Head of the Department of Post-Mortem Communications]] (Dr [[John Hicks]])

*[[Hex]], the University's thinking-engine, although nominally a campus resource, functions as a ''de facto'' member of the top faculty

===Other Members of the Teaching Staff (in alphabetical order)===
*Master of the Music (Professor Ritornello)
*The [[Chair for the Public Misunderstanding of Magic]]
*The [[Dean of Liberal Studies]]
*The [[Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage]]
*The [[Lecturer in Applied Astrology]]
*The [[The Lecturer in Approximate Accuracy|Lecturer in Approximate Accuracy]]
*The [[Lecturer in Creative Uncertainty]]
*The [[Professor of Applied Anthropics]]
*The [[Professor of Astrology]]
*The Professor of Dust, Miscellaneous Particles and Filaments
*The [[Professor of Extreme Horticulture]]
*The [[Professor of Illiberal Studies]]
*The [[Professor of Logic]]
*The [[Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy|''Posthumous'' Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy]]
*The [[Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy|''Prehumous'' Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy]]
*The [[Professor of Natural Studies]]
*The Professor of Ornithology
*The [[Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map Folding‎]]
*The [[Professor of Recondite Phenomena]]
*The [[Professor of Slood Dynamics]]
*The [[The Professor of Virtual Anthropology|Professor of Virtual Anthropology]]
*The [[Reader in Esoteric Studies]]
*The [[Reader in Woolly Thinking]]

===The Staff===
*[[Modo]], Gardener
*Mrs. [[Whitlow]], head of housekeeping
*The [[Bledlows]], the UU's policemen, nowadays basically the porters
**[[McAbre]], Head Bledlow
**[[Gelid]], Bledlow
**[[Alphonse Nobbs]] (no relation), Bledlow
**[[Frankly Ottomy]], Bledlow
*[[Glenda Sugarbean]], head of the [[Night Kitchen]]
**[[Juliet Stollop]], one of Ms Sugarbean's workers
**Mrs. May Hedges, Night Kitchen cheeseboards
**Mildred & Rachel, Night Kitchen vegetable women
* [[Ksandra]], hapless undermaid
*The [[Candle Knave]], Mr [[Natchbull Smeems|Smeems]]
*The [[Candle Dribbler|Candle Dribblers]] of [[The Vats|the Vats]]
*Mr. [[Downbody]], one of the servants in the [[Uncommon Room]]
*Mr [[Blunk]], the coal porter

===Former Faculty & Staff===
* [[Windle Poons]], wizard (deceased).
* [[Evans the Striped]], sports master (deceased).
*[[Brother Fingers]] once worked as an odd-job man at UU.
*[[Inspector Lewton]] briefly hired on as a dormitory bedmaker in [[Discworld Noir]], but only as a ruse to snoop around the campus.
* Dr. [[Fettle Dodgast]], age 132 when interviewed in {{TT}}, most likely belongs among the ''former'', not current, faculty by now.
* Dr [[Sensibility Bustle]], DM, Phil, B.EI L, Patricius Professor of Magic, linguistics expert and hiver researcher (deceased).
* Professor H.F. Pullunder (Doctor Erratamus) is mentioned by Ponder while reading the Book of Traditions. No one recognizes the name.
* Dr. Earwig retired to get married to a witch, now Mrs. [[Letice Earwig]].
* Dr. Housemartin left UU for medical reasons (a bad case of work-related frogs).
* Professor Maidenhair transferred to Genua, possibly in hopes that people there wouldn't laugh at his name.
* The Senior Tutor attends a faculty council meeting at the start of {{E}}, but no later Council meeting includes him. Possibly this is one of the top faculty, not yet promoted to his better-known rank.
* [[Prissal Teatar]] passed away for real at UU some 30 years before {{RM}}, having previously faked his death in jest on multiple occasions.

===Former Archchancellors===
*[[Albert|Alberto Malich]] – founder
*Archchancellor [[Bewdley]] – according to his commemorative statue, disliked Ankh-Morpork intensely. According to {{TLC}}, a magical hole opened in his left boot.
*Archchancellor "Trouter" Hopkins – his actual preserved body is in the great hall, in accordance with his will, in which he stated that he wanted his body to be pickled in alcohol posthumously.
*Archchancellor William Badger – a very unpopular man, whose likeness is on the University's drain covers.
*Archchancellor [[Galder Weatherwax]] – Archchancellor in {{TLF}}
*Archchancellor [[Cutangle]] – Archchancellor in {{ER}}
*Archchancellor-Elect [[Virrid Wayzygoose]] – an ''almost''-Archchancellor who died before his own inaugural dinner in {{S}}
*Archchancellor [[Ezrolith Churn]] – Archchancellor in {{E}}
*Archchancellor [[Buckleby]] – Apparently locked himself in his own wardrobe. Mentioned in {{H}}
*Archchancellor [[Spode]] – mentioned in {{H}} and instituted a rule about locking doors
*Archchancellor [[Sloman]] – mentioned in "A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices"; discovered the Special Theory of Slood
*Archchancellor [[Bowell]] – left an unusual bequest and has a vestibule named after him (see below)
*Archchancellor Preserved Bigger – left a substantial bequest with the requirement that UU play football at least once every 20 years.
*Archchancellor Abasti – The ever-changing stained glass window overlooking the Great Hall is dedicated to him.

==The Orders of Wizardry==
*[[Ancient and Truly Original Brothers of the Silver Star]]
*[[Ancient and Truly Original Sages of the Unbroken Circle]]
*[[Brotherhood of the Hoodwink]]
*[[Brothers of the Order of Midnight]]
*[[Sages of the Unknown Shadow]]
*[[Venerable Council of Seers]]
*[[Mrs Widgery's Lodgers]]
*[[The Last Order]]

==Terms==
There are eight terms, each one is roughly one week long, to minimise the time that the professers must spend teaching. However, the students continue to live and study on their own for the remainder of the year. The terms are called:
*Octinity
*Rotation
*Backspindle
*Hogswatch
*Evelyn
*Micklemote
*Candlerent
*Soul Cakes

==Unseen University Degrees==
These are the UU courses in magic and related topics. UU also offers lesser degrees in medicine, law, geology and so on, but lecturers are required to have at least one magical degree from UU before they are allowed to teach.

The full list can be [[UU degrees|found here]].

==Customs and traditions==
===Beating the Bounds===
Also known as "plunkers", this ceremony takes place each year at dawn on the 22nd of Grune. The entire faculty walks along the original boundaries of the University, walking through or if necessary over any buildings in the way of the original march route. Any nearby citizens are hit with live ferrets, and any red-headed men (except for one [[Carrot|Captain Ironfoundersson]]) are given a "plunking". Upon return to the University, breakfast is served, in which duck must be present.

In our world the beating of the bounds of Oxford takes place every Ascension day (changes every year but it is either May or June).

===Boy Archchancellor===
Occurring at around [[Hogswatch]], a first year student is selected to be the Archchancellor for the day. He has the full powers of Archchancellorship, and there is many a tale of him performing all manner of jokes and pranks on the most senior wizards. Because his life expectancy following this will almost certainly be brief, the boy chosen is normally the University's most unpopular student.

This is similar to the idea of a boy bishop, which is present in our world.

===The [[Convivium]]===
The Degrees ceremony, in which the [[Archchancellor]], University Council, eighth level wizards, masters and doctors proceed from the University to the [[Opera House]]. They are led by the Commander of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]], or if there isn't one, then by a man carrying a pot of mustard and a quill. Foreign dignitaries, city officials and nobles are also invited to this ceremony, and upon arrival at the Opera House, the [[Patrician]] will present the graduates with their degrees.

===Gaudy Night===
This appears to be a follow up of the Convivium, and the new graduates attend a feast in the Great Hall of the University, making an even greater effort than usual to be the best dressed. The winner is thrown into the river by the losers.

This is an celebration dinner at Oxford University, around which the novel ''Gaudy Night'' by Dorothy L. Sayers is based.

===Head of the River===
Because of the difficulty of rowing on the river, teams of eight wizards will carry the racing skiffs and run from the University boathouse to the Brass Bridge. The course is known as the "Bumps", and the winning team is awarded a "Brown" (a new pair of brown boots to replace the ones that will by now have been effectively disintegrated). They are now referred to as "Head of the River". One past winner of this race is the current Archchancellor, [[Mustrum Ridcully|Mustrum Ridcully the Brown]].

===May Morning===
Every May Day Dawn, the University choir sing from the top of the [[Tower of Art]] to the rest of the faculty, assembled below. Although the anthem cannot be heard, the Tower of Art being 800 feet high, the listeners still clap after five minutes, the length of time taken to sing the anthem.

===The Poor Scholars===
This harks back to the founding days of the University, when young, but poor men with magical talent were accepted into the universities. However, there was no accommodation space for them, so they lived in lean-tos against the walls of the [[Tower of Art]]. As a recognition of their determination, the faculty would throw food down to (or at) the poor scholars. Now, this ceremony takes place once a year, and the students gather in [[Sator Square]], where the faculty throw stale bread rolls at them as hard as they can.

===Rag week===
This is the entire backspindle term. On this week, the wizards are let loose on Ankh-Morpork. Activities include the Short Street Climb, in which the wizards climb sideways across the streets. Some fail to reach the end, and fall into the [[the Mended Drum]]. Another custom is tobogganing, in which the wizards go up to the Tower of Art on teatrays, and then toboggan back down. It must be noted that for this to happen, the involved students must have consumed a large amount of alcohol.

===Scrawn Money===
Also known as "Archchancellor Scrawn's bequest", this rather dated ceremony requires all those who live on University property to assemble in Sator Square, where they are given two pennies, a pair of socks, and a loaf of day-old bread each. They are then allowed to watch the wizards eat lunch.

==='Sity and Guilds===
Due to the rivalry induced violence between students of the various [[guilds]] and the university, it was decided to channel the rivalries into an annual sporting match, similar to football or rugby. The "playing field" was from [[The Shades]] to the Tower of Art. Goals are scored by kicking the ball through the door or window of a pub, and the scoring team had to get drinks bought by the other teams. Only one goal per pub was allowed due to the length of some games that had not benefited from this rule. It appears that the Unseen University has not participated in this for some time now.

===The Wizards' Excuse Me===
A large dance at the end of the Backspindle term, to which the city nobles are also invited. There are two bands and a giant buffet with three dozen kinds of meat.

=== Archchancellor [[Bowell]]'s Remembrance's bun and penny ===
An extant bequest pays for one small currant bun and one copper penny to be placed on a high stone shelf on one wall of this vestibule (circular hall) every second Wednesday. No one knows why this is done, or even why the vestibule is named [[Archchancellor Bowell's Remembrance]] ({{H}})

===The Hunting of the Megapode===
A veritable heyhoe-rumbledown as all fellows pursue the [[Megapode]] through the college buildings with much mirth and good spirits.

===Archchancellor Preserved Bigger's Bequest, or Poore Boys Funne===

The Bigger's Bequest is a very large fund. Monies from the interest on the fund cover approximately 87.4% of the college food bill. It does however carry conditions, in order for the UU to have access to these funds they must play [[Football]] at least once every twenty years.
Food is ''important'' to the modern wizard: the University appears to be regualted as tightly as any ship at sea by its [[Unseen University Mealtimes|mealtimes]], which happen at approximately two-hour intervals throughout the day and night, like the ship's bells that tell sailors what watch they're on. Therefore while there is much grumbling and reluctance, the vital necessity to play football is acknowledged in {{UA}}.

==Flora and Fauna==
The grounds are closed and heavily contaminated with magic, so a special ecosystem has evolved within Unseen University, with many wondrous creatures not found elsewhere, and many highly intelligent and civilized varieties of common house pests. These include:
*[[.303 Bookworm]] in the Library.
*Ants; some pull carts, some ride on beetles. One time, a clan of ants built a sugar pyramid for the mummy of a deceased queen (on the walls the true secret of longevity was inscribed, but it was lost when it was washed out).
*Bedbugs in Rincewind's mattress, smart enough to take the mattress with them when they feel they need to flee the University.
*Cockroaches; billions of them can march with their steps perfectly in time.
*[[Critters]] in the Library.
* Escaped demons in the cellar.
*Flying insects (including bees) who are not only capable of leaving a room by the window through which they entered, they can unerringly pick out a tiny hole in the glass no larger than a small coin, and enter and leave via this aperture.
*{{wp|Marmosets|Marmosets}} were planned to be used by a previous Archchancellor in order to communicate throughout the university (a piped system).
*[[Rats]] who seem to understand human speech. Some have moved to under the [[Patrician's Palace]] and sometimes serve the Patrician, Lord [[Havelock Vetinari]].
*Owls - [[Book:The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook & Diary 2007|The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook & Diary]] notes that there are a large population of owls living in the upper attics of UU. The wizards did once try and use the owls are an internal postal-service to deliver the letters and memos. However these were very intelligent birds, and saw the letters an an easily obtainable source of nesting material. The letters had to be retrieved from owls and stamped 'defected on by owls' (although most people can see this when they get it).
*[[Quoth|Ravens]] talk and are very inquisitive, but not very bright.
*[[Swear-Words]], cussed into being by Ridcully during a time of great magical potential.

:These creatures can be found in: {{ER}}, {{S}}, {{G!G!}}, {{RM}} and {{NW}}.

[[Gargoyles]] - There are a large colony of gargoyles covering much of the ancient buildings of the Unseen University. The first appear in {{ER}}. In wet weather they delight in spitting the water over passing students. In the event of a serious storm however, they have been known to leave the walls and hide under the attics, holding 'that just because your are ugly, doesn't mean you have to be stupid'. In {{S}} the entire gargoyle population abandoned UU, descending to ground level and fleeing across the immaculate grass lawns, sensing the approach of the [[Coin|Sourcerer]].

The University still dumps magical rubbish carelessly in the back alleys of [[Ankh-Morpork]]. The eating of magical rubbish led to the rise of the [[Rats|rat]] Clan, composed of rats not only intelligent but also fluent in human speech. These rats are important characters in ''[[Book:The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]''.

[[Gaspode]], the thinking-brain dog for the [[Canting Crew]], may also have got his thinking abilities and human speech from eating Unseen's rubbish (or, as he says in {{MAA}}, by sleeping next to the High Energy Magic Building), dumped by time-honoured custom in the [[Unreal Estate]]. (Details in {{MP}} and {{MAA}}). This was certainly the case for [[The Amazing Maurice]], an otherwise bright feral tomcat who, before eating Unseen's rubbish at one step removed, was scratching a bare living on the margins, but then got a Big Idea.

[[Schleppel]], a boogeyman, was invited to move into the University's cellars after the events of {{RM}}, and happily looked forward to preying on its various wildlife. It is uncertain how he may have fitted into its curious ecology.

==Annotation==
The name of the Unseen University probably comes from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_College Invisible College]

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