Lancre

Lancre
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Motto
Neighbours	Ohulan Cutash, The Chalk, Überwald, Skund (usually)
Geographical Features	the Ramtops, the Lancre River, The Place Where The Sun Does Not Shine
Population	for tax reasons, 2, but somewhere near 600
Size	Roughly 400 sq. miles
Capital	Lancre Town
Type of government	Monarchy, current ruler: King Verence II and Queen Magrat
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Imports	Knick-knacks for Mrs Ogg
Exports	Lancre Blue, tough wool (via the Zoons), Witches and Wizards.
National Anthem
Books	The Witches Series centres on Lancre.

A small kingdom in the Ramtops, Lancre is homeland to many witches and wizards. Wizards tend to move over to Unseen University (including Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully and former Archchancellor Galder Weatherwax), but famous Lancre witches including Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick (now retired, being queen and all...) and Agnes Nitt stick around. The King and husband to Magrat is Verence II.

Major appearances in most or all of the Witches Series, and sometimes mentioned in other books as the place-nobody-has-heard-of from which people come to big cities and achieve great things. Politically, Lancre is the largest kingdom on the Ramtops (consisting of a village AND a castle), the representative country that people of other regions think of when they think of the Ramtops. It actually contains a fair amount of land, the problem being that this land is packed so close together that it is almost vertical (the only piece of flat land the people of Lancre have is in a museum). King Verence II is very forward-looking, and tries to build a democracy with diplomatic relations.

Lancre encompases the following settlements:

• Lancre Town - Capital, home of Nanny Ogg
• Lancre Castle - Residence of it's ruler
• Bad Ass - village of Granyweatherwax
• Brass Neck - village under the Leaping Mountain
• Mad Stoat - village of Magrat Garlick and later Agnes Nitt
• Slice - backward village where marrying your cousin is seen as posh
• Razorback - village
• Creel Springs - village close to Bear Mountain

Annotations

The name may come from Pierre de Lancre, a 16th/17th century witch hunter.

Due to the hard-nosed, stoic and general down-to-earth nature of both the country and its people, not to mention the regrettable business at Pendle in the mid-1600's, it is also reasonable to assume that there is a large dollop of Lancashire in there too...