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Pyramids

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Pyramids	label	Pyramids
Pyramids	page	Pyramids
Pyramids	comment	The seventh Discworld book, and the first standalone story.Teppic has just graduated from the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Assassins' School, the finest educational establishment on the Disc, when he learns that his father has died and he is now King of Djelibeybi, a tiny backwards state (heavily based on Ancient Egypt) which has long since sold its empire to pay for more pyramids to bury its dead kings in. At first enamoured with the idea of being the king, Teppic soon discovers that it's not quite what it's hyped up to be. A country thousands of years old shows remarkable resistance to change (or plumbing), and Teppic soon begins to yearn for what he left behind. With the help of a surprisingly sharp handmaiden named Ptraci and a camel named You Bastard who is not all he seems, Teppic goes forth with the attempt to escape his own kingdom from the clutches of the domineering High Priest Dios.Terry Pratchett has quoted the assassin "road test" as one of his favourite sequences, and that he had no idea where it was going while he was writing it.note Back to the test centre, where else would you expect to go?.Preceded by Wyrd Sisters, followed by Guards! Guards!.
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Pyramids / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
Pyramids / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Dios. He has everything running the exact way he likes it, and won't allow for even the most insignificant change. Dead kings will be entombed regardless of their preference note Teppic's father wanted to be buried at sea. The king will have chicken for dinner even when he expressly said he didn't want it, and so on.
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Pyramids / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Pyramids / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Subverted in the end, when Teppic and Ptraci find out they're half brother and sister. Ptraci still wants to go through with the romance, while Teppic — who spent much of his formative years in the more modern Ankh-Morpork — is thoroughly against it.
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Pyramids / int_14a0fca8	type	Nepharious Pharaoh
Pyramids / int_14a0fca8	comment	Nepharious Pharaoh: Dios the High Priest — effectively the ruler of the kingdom, manipulating a succession of essentially benign but hopelessly confused Pharaohs for seven thousand years. Pratchett offers a subversion of this idea, suggesting that the pharaoh is essentially a powerless figurehead and real power resides elsewhere in an Ancient Egypt-like country.
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Pyramids / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Pyramids / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Assassin's Guild school's final exam resembles the UK driving license test.
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Pyramids / int_171c50a9	type	The Philosopher
Pyramids / int_171c50a9	comment	The Philosopher: Ephebe seems to be made up of little else.
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Pyramids / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Pyramids / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Ptaclusp regards his sons' schooling as this. He saved and struggled to be able to send them both to good schools, and how did they repay him? By getting educated!
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Pyramids / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Pyramids / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Teppic is a fully trained assassin. After his attempts to change things through his royal authority fail, he takes a more direct and personal approach. He does not assassinate anyone, but his training for sneaking, incapacitating guards and breaking into places is put to use.
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Pyramids / int_218b2ee8	type	Ancient Egypt
Pyramids / int_218b2ee8	comment	Ancient Egypt: Djelibeybi is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of this, turned up to eleven.
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Pyramids / int_2311e2de	type	Accidental Aiming Skills
Pyramids / int_2311e2de	comment	Accidental Aiming Skills: Having realized he doesn't want to kill anyone, Teppic deliberately aims his bow in a random direction and fires. Thanks to Pinball Projectile, it ends up striking the target anyway, and his tester chides him for showing off his Improbable Aiming Skills.
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Pyramids / int_240fee1f	type	Ultimate Final Exam
Pyramids / int_240fee1f	comment	Ultimate Final Exam: The final exam for students of the Assassins' Guild requires them to cross an extremely dangerous obstacle course in the rooftops over Ankh-Morpork, risking fatal falls and loosened handholds every step of the way. At the end is a target that must be inhumed in order to pass the test. Pteppic tries to rebel against the Deadly Graduation phase by shooting his crossbow at the wall, but ends up hitting the target anyway thanks to a ricochet. It turns out the victim was just a dummy.
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Pyramids / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Pyramids / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The Tsortean delegation is stated to be mimicking Djeli culture imperfectly; in particular, their clothing is based on clothing from multiple different eras of Djeli history. A footnote explains that it's comparable to an ambassador to the UK wearing "a bowler hat, a claymore, a Civil War breastplate, Saxon trousers, and a Jacobean haircut".
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Pyramids / int_2821d59c	type	Anatomically Impossible Sex
Pyramids / int_2821d59c	comment	Anatomically Impossible Sex: It features on a tattoo that defies biological facts. (An in-story example; all we are told about the tattoo is that it defies said facts.)
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Pyramids / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Pyramids / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: If you're up to speed on your Canis Latinicus, the name of one of the warriors mentioned in Copolymer's Iliad parody, Lavaeolus, translates to "Rinser of Winds". (Lavaeolus later shows up in person in Eric, where he does indeed turn out to be Rincewind's ancestor.)
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Pyramids / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Pyramids / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Mericet has this reputation among the would-be Assassins (potentially literally - this is a school for assassins, after all), although he does give Teppic a Pass after a really gruelling test.
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Pyramids / int_2ab73660	type	Beast Man
Pyramids / int_2ab73660	comment	Beast Man: The many animal-headed gods of the Djel. This becomes a lot more apparent when they manifest, and the human parts "slough off", leaving a vaguely human animal with little brains and a bad temper.
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Pyramids / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
Pyramids / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: When Teppic parts the Djel, he leaves a lot of confused crocodiles wondering where the hell the water's gone in their wake... and a lot of people seeing those crocodiles and thinking maybe now is as good a time as any to pick up the nearest pile of stones and get some payback for centuries of crocodile-related grievances. Later, Ptraci orders the new bridges across the Djel to have places where people can stand to drop rocks on the crocodiles.
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Pyramids / int_3700d6d8	type	Pinball Projectile
Pyramids / int_3700d6d8	comment	Pinball Projectile: The arrow ricocheting at the assassin's test.
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Pyramids / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Pyramids / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Dios, to the point he may exist purely because of the loop — not even having been born but just existing.
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Pyramids / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Pyramids / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Ptraci is initially more than a little dim. After Djelibeybi goes missing, she suddenly starts making dramatic leaps in intelligence. This might have something to do with the fact that it's no longer symbolically holding her back.
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Pyramids / int_3bb487aa	type	King Bob the Nth
Pyramids / int_3bb487aa	comment	King Bob the Nth: Pteppic's regnal name is Teppicymon XXVIII. His father was Teppicymon XXVII.
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Pyramids / int_3d4bdbb8	type	AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere
Pyramids / int_3d4bdbb8	comment	All Stories Are Real Somewhere: The narrator notes that this must be the case in an infinite universe.
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Pyramids / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Pyramids / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: In-universe, after the old pharoah dies, the people doing his tomb have to take severe artistic license with the frescoes of his mighty deeds because he didn't have any to his name. Or any great screw-ups, for that matter.
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Pyramids / int_3f064a0d	type	Humans Are Morons
Pyramids / int_3f064a0d	comment	Humans Are Morons: Teppic's opinions on his subjects is that they are a particularly human brand of stupid, that can only be accomplished by a supposedly intelligent species working very hard at being thick. Such as calling the guards on a man rescuing someone who got himself imprisoned because he turned himself in.
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Pyramids / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Pyramids / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: At the end, Pteppic and Ptraci have a talk about how there's a need to find someone to fill the now-absent throne. Pteppic discusses his common dream involving seven fat cows and seven thin cows, and Ptraci absently mentions she has that dream too... it takes them until the next page to cotton on.
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Pyramids / int_40f90c7c	type	Moody Mount
Pyramids / int_40f90c7c	comment	Moody Mount: You Bastard the camel.
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Pyramids / int_437e70f5	type	What a Piece of Junk
Pyramids / int_437e70f5	comment	What a Piece of Junk: Chidder's ship, the Unnamed, is deliberately designed to invoke this trope. It's built to look so ridiculously gaudy and impractical that it takes a keen eye to spot that it has rather more cargo space than may be immediately apparent, can go a lot faster than most other ships, and may or may not conceal a ramming spur below the waterline.
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Pyramids / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Pyramids / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Actually invoked by Djelibeybi's hiring policies. They (meaning Dios) prefer guards who aren't terribly keen or interested in things like fighting, in case those guards start getting ideas (such as "hey, why aren't we in charge?")
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Pyramids / int_4ba070fd	type	Drunken Song
Pyramids / int_4ba070fd	comment	Drunken Song: Teppic and his friends get drunk after passing the exam, and end up singing "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End".
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Pyramids / int_4e6cb27f	type	Rambling Old Man Monologue
Pyramids / int_4e6cb27f	comment	Rambling Old Man Monologue: While in Tsort, Pteppic attends a symposium with the so-called greatest storyteller on the Disc. Sadly, he's clearly past his prime, and the story comes out like this, with the guy scarcely able to remember any of the details.
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Pyramids / int_4ee98e74	type	Amphibian at Large
Pyramids / int_4ee98e74	comment	Amphibian at Large: Djelibeybi is so impoverished they couldn't even manage a plague of frogs, merely a plague of frog. It was, however, a particularly big frog, and it got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.
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Pyramids / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Pyramids / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: One mummy who's been dead for a thousand years, King Ashk-ur-men-tep, talks exclusively in Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe, and therefore says things like, "What you feel nowe is myld dislike."
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Pyramids / int_5080221	type	Faux Horrific
Pyramids / int_5080221	comment	Faux Horrific: Parodying the tendencies of the British Royal Family, Ptaclusp reacts with horror to Teppic's attempts to Put Him at his Ease and Remember his Name, and Dil has to endure half an hour of having to Talk about his Family.
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Pyramids / int_5123df54	type	Dramatic Sit-Down
Pyramids / int_5123df54	comment	Dramatic Sit-Down: Dios the High Priest is so nonplussed to find that Ptraci isn't actually hiding where he was sure she was after doing a dramatic "Ah-HAH!" reveal that he sits down on a chair which happened to contain a model ship for the king's tomb. The ghost of the king notes that it's the first time he's ever seen Dios do anything comical. Later on he also has to sit down on the temple steps when the entire pantheon is coming to life.
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Pyramids / int_51d9540e	type	Flames of Love
Pyramids / int_51d9540e	comment	Flames of Love: Pteppic says Ptraci and Chidder will get along like a house on fire.
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Pyramids / int_5345de5	type	Strange-Syntax Speaker
Pyramids / int_5345de5	comment	Strange-Syntax Speaker: Dios will do anything to avoid usage of past or future tenses, something Teppic notices early.
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Pyramids / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
Pyramids / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: King Ashk-ur-men-tep, who died a thousand years previously, speaks in this.
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Pyramids / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Pyramids / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Djelibeybi is, in the words of Stephen Briggs, "Ancient Egypt turned up until the knob falls off". Ephebe and Tsort are also based on Ancient Greece and Troy respectively.
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Pyramids / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Pyramids / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Dios insists cats must be worshipped, but Teppic can't help but feel if he has to worship cats they should be elegant-looking creatures, not the vicious, yellow-eyed little bastards who claw him the minute he gets near.
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Pyramids / int_59a9605d	type	Never Smile at a Crocodile
Pyramids / int_59a9605d	comment	Never Smile at a Crocodile: Ptraci fears being thrown to the crocodiles for escaping from the late King's tomb. Later, any priest who says something the now-manifested gods might take offence at is thrown to the river's crocodiles by the other priests. Pteppic's mother was also killed by a crocodile, although not as a form of execution; she "took a midnight swim in what turned out to be a crocodile." When the Djel gods manifest and start tearing up the place, a crocodile-headed river god tries to bite off the snake-head of a rival river god.
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Pyramids / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Pyramids / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Dios' habit of addressing Pteppic using the royal plural causes some confusion when he says "It is time to discuss our marriage." Pteppic says to him "Well, I don't think we'd be compatible."
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Pyramids / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Pyramids / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Though the elite and citizenry of Ephebe and Tsort may hate each other dearly, their soldiers (or at least their commanders) don't appear to hold a particular grudge.
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Pyramids / int_5d162996	type	Extended Disarming
Pyramids / int_5d162996	comment	Extended Disarming: Implied.
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Pyramids / int_5d47a59b	type	God of Darkness
Pyramids / int_5d47a59b	comment	God of Darkness: The night goddess Nuit appears in the night sky over Djelibeybi (a fantasy version of Ancient Egypt) as a cosmically massive woman with a mournful face looking down on the world. From the perspective of people standing on the earth, her face is upside-down.
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Pyramids / int_5d6fc273	type	Misplaced Sorrow
Pyramids / int_5d6fc273	comment	Misplaced Sorrow: One of the surviving student assassins mourns the one who didn't make it, noting, "He still owed me money".
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Pyramids / int_5e1ecc50	type	Mistaken for Badass
Pyramids / int_5e1ecc50	comment	Mistaken for Badass: Pteppic has survived his final test as an assassin and is standing over his target's bed, but realises that when it comes down to it he can't kill someone for money. (It isn't a real person under the sheet but Pteppic doesn't know this.) Looking his examiner in the eye, he deliberately misses his shot... only for his crossbolt to ricochet back into the target anyway. Said examiner purses his lips and tells Pteppic that he personally disapproves of such unnecessarily theatrical trick shots, before giving him his licence and leaving.
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Pyramids / int_61c96b0a	type	Fertile Feet
Pyramids / int_61c96b0a	comment	Fertile Feet: Although it was a later book that was the Trope Namer.
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Pyramids / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Pyramids / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Dios has such a good one that Teppic is surprised not to see lines of molten rock on the walls when Dios is scanning the room for Ptraci.
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Pyramids / int_69c864de	type	Deliberate Under-Performance
Pyramids / int_69c864de	comment	Deliberate Under-Performance: Camels are revealed to be an entire species of this. They are extremely intelligent, and also realize that if humans knew of this they would have camels doing all sorts of things constantly. Therefore camels behave in a way that makes them barely suitable for work, which means humans don't expect them to do more than the bare minimum while still providing food and shelter and the camels are left with plenty of time to themselves.
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Pyramids / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Pyramids / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Dios is entirely correct when he tears a strip off Teppic for his ignorance when he innocently shook the hand of a stone-mason - there's a taboo on touching the royal person in Djelibeybi, meaning that the part that touched the monarch has to come off. When Teppic protests, horrified, that he's not going to sanction this, no matter how humane the process (complete with anaesthetic and a sharp blade), Dios points out that if it wasn't for the man's colleagues, he'd have removed it with a chisel. Teppic reluctantly concedes and instead ensures that the man has a job around the palace afterwards.
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Pyramids / int_6bd6c63f	type	"Shaggy Frog" Story
Pyramids / int_6bd6c63f	comment	"Shaggy Frog" Story: Copolymer (the Greatest Storyteller in the World) constantly lapses into this due to his bad memory and short attention span.
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Pyramids / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Pyramids / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "'The trouble with you, Ibid,' […], 'is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything.'"
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Pyramids / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
Pyramids / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: The Discworld equivalent of A Wizard Did It - If you can't explain/understand something, it was probably quantum.
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Pyramids / int_6ce535a9	type	You Can't Kill What's Already Dead
Pyramids / int_6ce535a9	comment	You Can't Kill What's Already Dead: Teppic's father notes that the mummification process seems to have made him stronger, due to the extra weight provided by the straw.
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Pyramids / int_6cf96262	type	Our Sphinxes Are Different
Pyramids / int_6cf96262	comment	Our Sphinxes Are Different: When Pteppic is attempting to reenter Djelibeybi, he passes through a misty land not entirely in any dimension where he encounters the Sphinx, who asks him her famous riddle with the equally famous penalty, and will not let him pass unless he answers it.
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Pyramids / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Pyramids / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: Dios has one once his set in stone routine is irrevocably ruined, and is left with no idea what he's supposed to do next.
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Pyramids / int_6f9d7da3	type	GrimReaper
Pyramids / int_6f9d7da3	comment	Subverted when Teppic's father meets Death, and is confused because he does not look like a giant scarab. Apparently, Death used to look like whatever people expected the personification of death to look like, until it became too tiresome and he decided to settle for the "skeleton with a scythe" look.
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Pyramids / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Pyramids / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: A group of unlicensed thieves trying mugging Teppic, Chidder and a friend of theirs when they graduate. It doesn't work out well for them. When he reappears, Chidder mentions having run into a group of pirates. Things did not end well for them, but Chidder did come into possession of a lot of goods they suddenly had no need for. Apparently this was a problem for Chidder and his father. While not pirates themselves, they do tend to run into them a lot, which is why the Unnamed is designed to either outrun anything else, or make whoever can catch up to them extremely sorry they did.
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Pyramids / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Pyramids / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Teppic and Ptraci are attracted to each other, though neither is initially aware of their relationship. In any case, all it results in is a single, chaste kiss - this being a version of Ancient Egypt,the only one who has a problem with the idea is Teppic himself, since he was educated in Ankh-Morpork -- Ptraci has no problem with the idea but she's equally fine with Chidder. It's worth noting that they might not be siblings, as it's implied that Ptraci's mother was just as confused as her daughter and that Teppic and Ptraci weren't that closely related.
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Pyramids / int_779c9d25	type	The Trope without a Title
Pyramids / int_779c9d25	comment	The Trope without a Title: Chidder's Cool Boat is called the Unnamed.
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Pyramids / int_77a55dfa	type	Endless Daytime
Pyramids / int_77a55dfa	comment	Endless Daytime: Thanks to Djelibeybi's many sun gods fighting over control of the sun.
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Pyramids / int_78c85191	type	Grapes of Luxury
Pyramids / int_78c85191	comment	Grapes of Luxury: Defied. Teppic doesn't really approve of the practice, and even asks that the servants not peel the grapes because most of the vitamins are found in the skins.
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Pyramids / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
Pyramids / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: One Ephebian soldier sees Djelibeybi pop back into existence while he's peeing. As the narration says, it's not the sort of thing that should happen to a lad who has to wash his own uniform.
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Pyramids / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
Pyramids / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: The original is parodied - both Ephebe and Tsort's armies have read their history and nowadays fight battles just by building a dozen wooden horses, placing them on opposite sides of the battlefield, and waiting for the enemy to blink first and grab one. Both sides rationalize that if the enemy is dumb enough to try this tactic they are dumb enough to fall for it. Comes up again in Eric, where it turns out the real original was an elaborate distraction for the commandos coming in the back gate while the defenders prepared to wipe out the team in the (empty) horse.
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Pyramids / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
Pyramids / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: At one point a footnote states a character's point of view is being translated to give the idea of what he'd be saying, since Djelibeybi doesn't have those things.
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Pyramids / int_7ef08424	type	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything
Pyramids / int_7ef08424	comment	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything: Played for Laughs.
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Pyramids / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
Pyramids / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: Ptaclusp IIb (a cosmic-minded architect) tells his twin brother Ptaclusp IIa (an accountant) "The trouble with you is you know the price of everything and the value of nothing". IIa retorts "And the trouble with you is... is that you don't!"
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Pyramids / int_7feed01b	type	Stepping-Stone Sword
Pyramids / int_7feed01b	comment	Stepping-Stone Sword: Teppic uses knives this way, and notes that it's Awesome, but Impractical as you eventually run out of knives, and it can ruin their cutting edges.
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Pyramids / int_81574019	type	Creature of Habit
Pyramids / int_81574019	comment	Creature of Habit: Dios has a routine that he has been practicing for at least seven thousand years. When it is unquestionably ruined beyond salvage, he still feels his body begin to urge him toward whatever task he 'should' be doing at this time of day.
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Pyramids / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Pyramids / int_816a4e80	comment	So there's a suggestion of romance between the male and female leads, one of whom is known to be royalty, but then they turn out to be brother and sister, so she ends up with a devil-may-care smuggler instead. Hmmm...
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Pyramids / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Pyramids / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: The first part is an extended parody of English school stories in general and Tom Brown's Schooldays in particular.
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Pyramids / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Pyramids / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Obliquely referenced, as Teppic learned to use a "puntbow" from the ibis poacher whom his father absent-mindedly appointed as a tutor. Punt guns actually existed, and were used for the same purpose of killing waterfowl en masse. Later on, Teppic notes the royal guards are carrying the kind of bows that can turn a charging hippo into a pile of kebab meat, and there's something about their expressions that suggest they don't know what it'd do to people, but they'd be keen on finding out.
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Pyramids / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Pyramids / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: Djelibeybi. (Helped along by the fact that it literally means "Child of the Djel".) That Americans weren't getting the pun led Pratchett to create the nearby country of Hersheba.
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Pyramids / int_84f15fc4	type	Sapient Steed
Pyramids / int_84f15fc4	comment	Sapient Steed: You Bastard the camel is the Disc's greatest mathematician. Ptraci never catches on that he's not just a really stupid animal, and while Teppic realizes YB can get him back into the Old Kingdom, he has no clue it's done via brilliant mathematics.
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Pyramids / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Pyramids / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Teppic's father tells an ancestor, recently freed from his pyramid, that he hates pyramids. The ancestor tells him that he does not, seeming to imply Teppic's father is obligated to be in favour of pyramids. He then clarifies that what he means is that what Teppic's father feels for pyramids is a mild dislike — if he hasn't been trapped in one of the damn things for a few thousand years, he can't know what it is to truly hate them!
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Pyramids / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Pyramids / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: In-universe. Teppic drops the silent P from his name in Ankh-Morpork, but has to go back to keeping it in Djelibeybi.
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Pyramids / int_8b287837	type	Tragic Time Traveler
Pyramids / int_8b287837	comment	Tragic Time Traveler: High Priest Dios is a Downplayed example, as he doesn't actually know he's in a time loop, but he's still stuck in a time loop for thousands of years until the end of the book, where he gets sent back to the begining of the kingdom.
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Pyramids / int_903e9dc9	type	Regent for Life
Pyramids / int_903e9dc9	comment	Regent for Life: Dios has been the real power behind the throne for as long as anyone can remember. For all of eternity, in fact.
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Pyramids / int_909538	type	Improvised Lightning Rod
Pyramids / int_909538	comment	Improvised Lightning Rod: Pteppicymon the Twenty-Eighth, last Pharaoh of Djelibeybi, climbs the malfunctioning Great Pyramid whose power has awoken several thousand deceased monarchs and allowed the gods to walk the earth. Using an Assassin throwing knife as a desperate lightning conductor, he earths the cosmic forces that have run rampant and allowed all this chaos to happen. He inhumes the full Set, as it were.
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Pyramids / int_939a84fa	type	Embarrassing Tattoo
Pyramids / int_939a84fa	comment	Embarrassing Tattoo: Alfonz has depictions of sex positions tattooed on his arms, some of which are physically impossible. After Ptraci takes a keen interest in them he decides it would be best if he wore a long-sleeved shirt.
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Pyramids / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Pyramids / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Aforementioned storyteller also says of a great hero that "his armor shone like shining armor." Most of the Djel gods are equipped with seemingly-random animals' heads ... except for Bunu, the Goat-Headed God of Goats.
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Pyramids / int_9620c3a1	type	God-Emperor
Pyramids / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: The pharaohs of Djelibeybi are considered to be living gods by their subjects. Among other things, they believe that the pharaoh is responsible for the sun rising every day.
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Pyramids / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Pyramids / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Teppic, at one point, finds himself joining in the condescending amusement at the Tsortean ambassadors' attempt to wear Djeli national clothing and accidentally cherrypicking various styles over the last few millennia.
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Pyramids / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Pyramids / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Divinity and confidence in ruling, apparently, with the occasional bout of Fertile Feet.
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Pyramids / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Pyramids / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: Dios. He'd be 7,000 years old at the beginning of the novel if he even had an age... and at the end of the book he is looped back to the beginning of the kingdom.
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Pyramids / int_9a3c3d17	type	The Omniscient
Pyramids / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: The rulers of Djelibeybi really are partially divine. This means that when Pteppic becomes king upon his father's death, he (very briefly) knows everything. It doesn't stick because he's still mostly mortal.
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Pyramids / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Pyramids / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: IIb has a habit of biting his wrist when he's nervous. After he burns his hand from touching his dimension-warped brother, he switches to biting his stylus instead.
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Pyramids / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Pyramids / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: Trope Namer.
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Pyramids / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
Pyramids / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: The final exam to become a fully fledged Assassin is to find, stalk and kill (inhume) a target, overcoming obstacles placed by the instructor. Teppic makes it to the target, but cannot bring himself to kill, so he looks the instructor in the eye and deliberately misses with his crossbow. Through a complicated ricochet, it ends up striking the target anyway. The instructor passes him, but scolds him for showing off. It turned out to be a dummy anyway.
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Pyramids / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Pyramids / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Teppic discovers the reason why he had a headache before his exam was that he went on to drink reannual wine to celebrate (which grows backwards in time, introduced in The Colour of Magic), and the 'hangunder' affected him before he drank it.
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Pyramids / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Pyramids / int_9f35bf5a	comment	Riddling Sphinx: Asks the Riddle of the Sphinx. Teppic manages to pick apart the metaphor and confuse it into forgetting it told him the answer.
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Pyramids / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Pyramids / int_a1a1491e	comment	Of course the literal translation of 'Djelibeybi' is child of the Djel. Djeli-baby...note It is also suggested that this is a sideways Homage to the Fourth Doctor, a man who could manipulate Time with ease and who always carried a bag in his pocket in order to hand them out. Also a Shout-Out to the Greek historian Herodotus, who referred to Egypt as "the gift of the Nile" In a Usenet posting, Terry Pratchett realized that this sailed right over the heads of most American readers, as Jelly Babies are not generally sold there. One of the alternative jokes he suggested, Hersheba, later became an actual country in Discworld. Unfortunately, most British readers like this Troper read that as Her-She-Ba' (Queen of Sheba, Bathsheba, etc). It can also go over the heads of Americans, since the joke is based on a British tendency to pronounce an "r" sound on words ending in a vowel, hence, "Hershebar".
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Pyramids / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Pyramids / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Dios is more of an evil priest than an evil chancellor, but the trope is referenced in describing him. "It is a fact as immutable as the Third Law of Sod that there is no such thing as a good Grand Vizier. A predilection to cackle and plot is apparently part of the job spec. High Priests are the same way. No sooner than they're given the funny hats, they start getting ideas about throwing virgins into volcanoes." Although in the aspect of him being the high priest, he very much follows expectations in that he is not explicitly insane or power-hungry, but so pious that adherence to belief and tradition override all else. Hoot Koomi wants to be scheming and oily, but Dios won't have any of it. Even when he finally gets the job at the end, he can't get any evil machinations past new ruler Ptraci.
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Pyramids / int_a5398aba	type	Authority in Name Only
Pyramids / int_a5398aba	comment	Authority in Name Only: Teppic may be the king, but, over the course of his long career as High Priest and Chief Minister, Dios had gathered all actual power to himself. Every royal declaration made by Teppic, even something as trivial as "I do not want to have chicken for dinner", is ignored in favor of whatever Dios decides, by everyone.
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Pyramids / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Pyramids / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Teppic's father is a good man, and he does care for his son, but as a parent he's astoundingly lacking, and not entirely sure how to even talk to Teppic for two minutes.
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Pyramids / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Pyramids / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: The people of Djelibeybi are so used to doing whatever Dios has commanded that Teppic has some difficulty trying to get Ptraci to freedom when he wants to rescue her from being executed. An old man he tries to rescue screams for the guards rather than be set free.
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Pyramids / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Pyramids / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: As an Ancient Egypt analogue, giving the proper due requires rather a lot of effort. A handmaiden gets in trouble for not volunteering to accompany the king.
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Pyramids / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Pyramids / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Every camel, everywhere on the Disc. Having long ago figured out that showing off your intelligence in any significant way leads to being asked to do things (admittedly, either being a lab rat or used to sink boats, like dolphins), they're quite content to be contentious and disagreeable if it means all they have to do is walk around and eat stuff while they ponder theoretical physics.
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Pyramids	hasFeature	Pyramids / int_a7aef9ff
Pyramids / int_a7beb2c5	type	Non-Human Head
Pyramids / int_a7beb2c5	comment	Non-Human Head: Many of Djelibeybi's gods have animal heads. Teppic's late father is a bit surprised that Death doesn't have one of these.
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Pyramids / int_a7beb2c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Pyramids	hasFeature	Pyramids / int_a7beb2c5
Pyramids / int_a8076bdf	type	War Elephants
Pyramids / int_a8076bdf	comment	War Elephants: According to Pteppic, they're useless, since all they do is trample on their own troops when they inevitably panic. The military responds to this by breeding bigger elephants.
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Pyramids / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
Pyramids / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Mericet teaches Strategy and Poison in the Assassins' school and many of the traps he sets for Teppic are poisoned.
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Pyramids / int_ad44a161	type	Ouroboros
Pyramids / int_ad44a161	comment	Ouroboros: Dios doesn't notice until the very end that the serpents on his staff of office are holding their own tails in their mouths, symbolizing that he's caught in a Stable Time Loop.
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Pyramids / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Pyramids / int_b0cd3349	comment	And Fridge Brilliance for those that realised that when he imagines the hieroglyphs for 'feather mattress' it's a hippo's bottom, a reference to a long-running series of bed adverts in the UK starring a hippo and duckling.
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Pyramids	hasFeature	Pyramids / int_b0cd3349
Pyramids / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Pyramids / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Or to phrase it another way, the Fate After Death for almost every single person who has been mummified in Djelibeybi. As a result of the rather convoluted belief system of the Djelibeybians, all of them are dead in the practical ways, but unable to pass on. Instead, they remain bound to their bodies, which are then methodically dismantled and sealed up in tombs for all eternity. This approaches And I Must Scream for one particularly-unfortunate mummy, whose sarcophagus lid was so well-secured that he couldn't get out. Dios's ultimate fate is this as well; he's forced to relive the same 6,000 year life over and over, for eternity. That said, he isn't aware of it — or, it seems, particularly bothered by it.
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Pyramids / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Pyramids / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Inhuming a professor is rumored to get a student assassin instant promotion to full membership in the guild. But since attempting to inhume a professor and failing will get one stripped of many student privileges (starting with the right to breathe), nobody actually tries it.
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Pyramids / int_b2e7f372	type	The Anticipator
Pyramids / int_b2e7f372	comment	The Anticipator: Teppic considers inhuming Mericet, his Assassin's school examinator (managing to kill the examinator gets you an automatic pass, because it's nearly impossible), but decides against it. Mericet was in fact hiding as a gargoyle, tells Teppic where to go next (involving an obstacle course worthy of Assassin's Creed), and somehow shows up there before Teppic.
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Pyramids / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
Pyramids / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The historical wars between Ephebe and Tsort resemble the mythical Trojan War. In this book, when there's a threat of the war re-erupting, both sides build wooden horses along the border.
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Pyramids / int_b64e1024	type	Evil Smells Bad
Pyramids / int_b64e1024	comment	Evil Smells Bad: Inverted. Dios says that the smell of the buckets which are used as toilets keeps away "bad influences".
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Pyramids / int_b8bf00fd	type	Poison Ring
Pyramids / int_b8bf00fd	comment	Poison Ring: One of Pteppic's teachers at the Assassins' school, Lady T'Malia, wears a lot of these; students sometimes have to be advised not to try kissing her ring as a greeting.
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Pyramids / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
Pyramids / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: Ptraci keeps tissues in her bra.
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Pyramids / int_bb067aba	type	Cool Mask
Pyramids / int_bb067aba	comment	Cool Mask: The pharaoh's mask, which Dios insists the pharaoh wear. It looks gold, but as Teppic eventually discovers, it's actually just gold paint. Underneath, it's lead.
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Pyramids / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Pyramids / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: The narration describes camels as the world's greatest mathematicians, whose innate grasp of complex trigonometry is used solely to spit at people with uncanny accuracy. You Bastard spends most of his time in Ephebe hitting seagulls out of the air with olive stones.
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Pyramids / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
Pyramids / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Endos the Listener is a variant, his job is to act as if the person who is talking is the most interesting person in the world.
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Pyramids / int_c36f6d6c	type	Mummy
Pyramids / int_c36f6d6c	comment	Mummy: Seeing as Djelibeybi is the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Ancient Egypt, this is a given. Usually they aren't animate, but the Power of Belief combined with the effects of the pyramid causes them to come back to life, and they're not happy about being trapped in pyramids for thousands of years.
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Pyramids / int_c3b7509c	type	Doublethink
Pyramids / int_c3b7509c	comment	Double Think: The religious beliefs of the Djelibeybians are obviously contradictory, with multiple "supreme" gods ruling the other gods. Dios believes in all of them even though he invented most of them himself. He has some trouble with the idea of the sun and moon orbiting four elephants standing on a giant turtle, but he believes that one too.
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Pyramids / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Pyramids / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: Teppic's father mentions very early on that Teppic and Ptraci are half brother and sister — but, being a ghost, nobody hears him. Teppic and Ptraci don't find out about it until the last pages of the novel.
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Pyramids / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Pyramids / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: The reason both armies build an army of wooden horses. The reasoning goes that if the enemy is stupid enough to try it they're stupid enough to fall for it.
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Pyramids / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Pyramids / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Koomi, bucking for a Klingon Promotion, gets the other priests to consider this as a way to "send" Dios to negotiate with the gods. The fact that the gods are right there threatens to scuttle the idea, even before Dios himself shows he's not so easily disposed of.
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Pyramids / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Pyramids / int_c75df49a	comment	The scene where Pteppic has to hold too many items of regalia at once, including the Cabbage of Vegetative Increase, is a Shout-Out to an old British game show in which contestants tried to hold as many prizes as they could, plus actual cabbages given as a penalty.
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Pyramids / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Pyramids / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Teppic's father is a little confused in life. Namely, he's convinced he's a seagull, which ends up being what kills him when he tries to fly off from the palace roof. After death he finds he can reason much more clearly.
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Pyramids / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
Pyramids / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: According to Dios, Teppic's great-great-grandmother declared himself king "as a matter of political expediency".
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Pyramids / int_cf3b5436	type	Paper People
Pyramids / int_cf3b5436	comment	Paper People: IIa becomes flat and drifts continuously to the right as a result of the pyramid switching his dimensions.
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Pyramids / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Pyramids / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Dios isn't exactly wicked, just inexorably hidebound and traditional.
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Pyramids / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Pyramids / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Teppic shakes the hand of an unfortunate stonemason. Since he's considered to be a living god by his subjects, the man can no longer use his hand without defiling it, and has to have it amputated.
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Pyramids / int_d0bab7f5	type	Royal Inbreeding
Pyramids / int_d0bab7f5	comment	Royal Inbreeding: High Priest Dios suggests that newly-crowned pharaoh Teppic marry any available female relative, such as his aunt. Teppic is horrified. Dios, Comically Missing the Point, regretfully muses that it's a pity that Teppic doesn't have any sisters — ironically, he does have a half-sister (probably), Ptraci, and there's genuine UST between them, but Teppic backs off sharply when he finds out.
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Pyramids / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Pyramids / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: Dios insists Teppic cannot be Teppic when he catches him breaking Dios' rules. Since Dios is the one proclaiming this, no-one dares argue the fact. Later on, Teppic's father is a little dubious at the story of Teppic killing himself then fleeing on a camel.
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Pyramids / int_d3da7dd6	type	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Pyramids / int_d3da7dd6	comment	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: One of the flashback scenes during Teppic's assassin examination involved a classmate performing his bedtime prayers... which involved occult pentagrams and the ritual sacrifice of a goat.
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Pyramids / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
Pyramids / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Teppicymon XXVII likes to hear Ptraci sing, because the world always seems so much brighter after she stops.
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Pyramids / int_d577d839	type	Murphy's Bullet
Pyramids / int_d577d839	comment	Murphy's Bullet: Pteppic decides to fail his Assassin's Guild final exam in style and deliberately aims his crossbow away from the target. The bolt ricochets off several objects before burying itself in the target. The examiner comments that he is not a fan of these new, flashy techniques but passes him as the end result was achieved.
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Pyramids / int_d7700808	type	Living Forever is No Big Deal
Pyramids / int_d7700808	comment	Living Forever is No Big Deal: When Dios is asked how any man can bear to live for thousands of years like he has, he says that thousands of years is still "just one day at the time."
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Pyramids / int_d7c059b2	type	Formulaic Magic
Pyramids / int_d7c059b2	comment	Formulaic Magic: Camels can use maths to manipulate dimensions.
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Pyramids / int_d9b4cc7f	type	Abdicate the Throne
Pyramids / int_d9b4cc7f	comment	Abdicate the Throne: At the end, in favor of Ptraci.
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Pyramids / int_da317ca7	type	Temporal Duplication
Pyramids / int_da317ca7	comment	Temporal Duplication: In order to make sure the pyramid is built on time, the builders reluctantly use a form of time travel (pyramids mess up time around them, changing the speed, looping or even reversing time) by having multiple instances of workers on the same job. This being the Disc, the workers immediately recognize the potential of getting paid multiple times for the same job (another has problems when he sees himself with his wife and doesn't know if it counts as cheating or not).
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Pyramids / int_dc6a260b	type	Try to Fit That on a Business Card
Pyramids / int_dc6a260b	comment	Try to Fit That on a Business Card: King Teppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High-Born One, the Never-Dying King. On formal occasions, it's considered necessary to repeat the entire thing every time he's referred to.
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Pyramids / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Pyramids / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Teppic tries to be one, but Dios keeps overriding him, and everyone else is too terrified to go against Dios' will. However, even Dios does have a few moments that show he views himself as this. In a Pet the Dog moment, he does find a position for the stonemason who lost his arm due to Teppic's carelessness. The problem is that Dios has his own views on what is reasonable.
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Pyramids / int_de953d10	type	Rage Helm
Pyramids / int_de953d10	comment	Rage Helm: The soldiers wear them even during innocuous conversation.
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Pyramids / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Pyramids / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: For the second book in a row, a prince returns to his kingdom only to decide he doesn't actually want to be king, leaving the throne to be taken up by a previously unsuspected heir (who may not actually be of royal blood).
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Pyramids / int_e38b0f45	type	Snake Oil Salesman
Pyramids / int_e38b0f45	comment	Snake Oil Salesman: Khuft, the founder of Djelibeybi (sort of), turns out to have been a camel salesman who was forced to flee into the desert to avoid angry customers.
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Pyramids / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Pyramids / int_e5421161	comment	There's a particularly clever one explained in one of the Discworld quiz books: it's mentioned the Assassins' School has a notoriously nasty bully called Fliemoe, who is clearly an expy of the bully Flashman in Tom Browns School Days. Flashman had a sidekick called Speedicut; Flymo and Speedicut are both British makes of lawnmower.
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Pyramids / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Pyramids / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Chidder and his father are not smugglers. They are businessmen. Who just happen to have a ship that looks an awful lot like it was designed to hide things.
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Pyramids / int_e5f9580d	type	Riddle of the Sphinx
Pyramids / int_e5f9580d	comment	Riddle of the Sphinx: Spoofed. Teppic encounters a Sphinx who asks him this riddle. He's unable to answer, but protests that the metaphor is overly simplistic, forcing it to give a more accurate version covering all possibilities. Teppic answers this and walks off before the Sphinx remembers that it had already told him the answer.
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Pyramids / int_e7f9c214	type	Barred from the Afterlife
Pyramids / int_e7f9c214	comment	Or to phrase it another way, the Fate After Death for almost every single person who has been mummified in Djelibeybi. As a result of the rather convoluted belief system of the Djelibeybians, all of them are dead in the practical ways, but unable to pass on. Instead, they remain bound to their bodies, which are then methodically dismantled and sealed up in tombs for all eternity. This approaches And I Must Scream for one particularly-unfortunate mummy, whose sarcophagus lid was so well-secured that he couldn't get out.
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Pyramids / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Pyramids / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After being unflattened IIa shows no interest in the cost of the new bridges, which initially worries Ptaclusp. However, it turns out that he's just preoccupied with the royal finances.
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Pyramids / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
Pyramids / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: Played with. Pteppic gets past the sphinx by confusing it and tossing its own riddle back in its face. By the time it realizes something is wrong, he's already running.
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Pyramids / int_ea30a388	type	Carpet-Rolled Corpse
Pyramids / int_ea30a388	comment	Carpet-Rolled Corpse: Ptraci tries to emulate an ancient queen who'd used this method to smuggle herself into her lover's chambers. When she's unrolled she finds there's nothing romantic about lint, dizziness, or being dumped out on the floor.
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Pyramids / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Pyramids / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Ptaclusp IIa and Ptaclusp IIb are generally referred to only by their numbers.
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Pyramids / int_ea8168f	type	Crossover Cosmology
Pyramids / int_ea8168f	comment	Crossover Cosmology: Like the real Egypt, Djelibeybi has several different gods for the same thing (in the real world, this was due to Egyptian culture existing and evolving for millennia and assimilating Greek, Hittite etc gods alongside their original ones). This means that, among other things, they all fight for who gets the job of moving the sun around, with a nearby priest acting as a sports commentator to describe it. Subverted when Teppic's father meets Death, and is confused because he does not look like a giant scarab. Apparently, Death used to look like whatever people expected the personification of death to look like, until it became too tiresome and he decided to settle for the "skeleton with a scythe" look.
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Pyramids / int_ead7e42e	type	Walking Armory
Pyramids / int_ead7e42e	comment	Walking Armory: In the book's opening, Teppic arms himself with so many weapons that he falls over.
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Pyramids / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
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Pyramids / int_fad7b727	comment	Fun with Foreign Languages: Djelibeybi (of course) uses hieroglyphs, which Teppic pronounces out loud as "eagle, squiggle" and so on. And Fridge Brilliance for those that realised that when he imagines the hieroglyphs for 'feather mattress' it's a hippo's bottom, a reference to a long-running series of bed adverts in the UK starring a hippo and duckling. Of course the literal translation of 'Djelibeybi' is child of the Djel. Djeli-baby...note It is also suggested that this is a sideways Homage to the Fourth Doctor, a man who could manipulate Time with ease and who always carried a bag in his pocket in order to hand them out. Also a Shout-Out to the Greek historian Herodotus, who referred to Egypt as "the gift of the Nile" In a Usenet posting, Terry Pratchett realized that this sailed right over the heads of most American readers, as Jelly Babies are not generally sold there. One of the alternative jokes he suggested, Hersheba, later became an actual country in Discworld. Unfortunately, most British readers like this Troper read that as Her-She-Ba' (Queen of Sheba, Bathsheba, etc). It can also go over the heads of Americans, since the joke is based on a British tendency to pronounce an "r" sound on words ending in a vowel, hence, "Hershebar".
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