![]() ![]() Rincewind and Twoflower eventually meet and team up with Cohen the Barbarian, an elderly barbarian who was once a legendary hero known widely across the Disc, and a young woman named Bethan, whom Cohen rescues from being sacrificed by a group of druids, not that she’s grateful about it. After summoning Death to question about the sudden changing of the world, the wizards set out on their own quest to find Rincewind.Īnd unbeknownst to the citizens of the Disc, Great A’Tuin continues to travel straight towards an inevitable collision with a malevolent red star. They are dropped in a secluded forest where they befriend a gnome named Swires.Īt the same time, power struggles rage at Unseen Universities when Ymper Trymon schemes to take the job of Deuteragonist Arch-Chancellor Galder Weatherwax. It opens with the Octavo saving Rincewind and Twoflower from their No One Could Survive That! fate in the first book by changing the entire world around them to stop them from falling off the edge of the Discworld. The second Discworld novel, from 1986 and a direct sequel to The Colour of Magic. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. ![]()
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