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Small Gods

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Small Gods	comment	The 13th Discworld novel and a standalone, although it uses some characters and locations from Pyramids and its events influence later works.Omnia is a theocratic empire, somewhere between Khomeini's Iran and inquisition-era Spain. Ruled by the Cenobiarch and his church military, the religion of Omnianism - the worship of the Great God ("holy horns") Om - dominates all aspects of life. At the bottom of the pecking order is the young novice Brutha, big and slow yet able to recite scripture on command. He finds a tortoise, dropped by an eagle in an unsuccessful attempt to smash its shell. A talking tortoise. It claims to be Om himself, reduced to this pitiful state due to Discworld's gods needing belief to survive — and unfortunately for Om, it's starting to look like everyone in Omnia (save the simple-minded Brutha) believes in the terrors that the Church will inflict on them for not adhering to their dogma more than they believe in Om himself...Small Gods is particularly renowned for its Zelda-like havoc-wreaking with the always-spotty Discworld timeline due to the appearance of Pyramids characters in the "young Brutha" segments yet the fact that the Omnianism that appears in later books is the more tolerant post-Brutha version. This was eventually explained in Thief of Time as being due to the Timey-Wimey Ball. It's also been said by Pratchett that he was here able to more fully explore ideas he first introduced in Pyramids.Preceded by Witches Abroad, followed by Lords and Ladies.
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Small Gods / int_1062982b	type	"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome
Small Gods / int_1062982b	comment	"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: What Om is very, very afraid of if Brutha should die.
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Small Gods / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Small Gods / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: Brutha is flogged and then strapped to the iron turtle to die slowly and horribly while being mocked. The local Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler creates a miniature statue of a tortoise obviously analogous to a crucifix.
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Small Gods / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Small Gods / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: The small god Om meets keeps repeating "I", "as you may dream of", and "greater glory", even as Om asks if it can recall its own name. Om is deeply disturbed.
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Small Gods / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Small Gods / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: There's plenty of humour here but the jokes don't come as thick and fast as they do in earlier Discworld books. That's because the narrative deals with subjects like torture and religious intolerance that weren't easily laughed off on publication in 1992 any more than they are today. Vorbis is the first Discworld character to be really terrifying. Small Gods marks the beginning of a different tone in the Discworld series, one with more social commentary.
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Small Gods / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Small Gods / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Urn and Didactylos' discussion re: armored turtles. Compare to discussions of doomsday weapons. Urn figures that if someone else builds armored turtles, he'll just build bigger ones.
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Small Gods / int_15f76026	type	Inexplicably Identical Individuals
Small Gods / int_15f76026	comment	Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The first appearance of one of Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler's foreign counterparts, Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah, seller of very old yoghurt and very new holy relics.
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Small Gods / int_165308f6	type	The Commandments
Small Gods / int_165308f6	comment	The Commandments: Which the Exquisition enforce. Part of the anticipation of the new Prophet is wondering what commandments he will give unto Omniasm this time. They're all made up, and in the end Om destroys the massive carving when he gets his power back.
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Small Gods / int_1876ce6c	type	At the Crossroads
Small Gods / int_1876ce6c	comment	At the Crossroads: "the spirits of places where two ant trails cross"
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Small Gods / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Small Gods / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Om bites an eagle in the testicles even though birds don't have any external genitalia.
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Small Gods / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Small Gods / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: The Death of Rats briefly appears when the Sea Goddess drowns an entire ship. He fills the ship's rat population in on what happened.
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Small Gods / int_1c2c6e08	type	Ignoring by Singing
Small Gods / int_1c2c6e08	comment	Ignoring by Singing: Brutha attempts this when he hears Om's voice and thinks it's a demon.
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Small Gods / int_1e8681db	type	Noble Bird of Prey
Small Gods / int_1e8681db	comment	Noble Bird of Prey: The crowd at the Place of Lamentation believe in this, and get very excited when a particularly noble-looking eagle perches itself atop a statue; they discuss whether it is a sign (not a sign of anything, just a sign in general), or a messenger from the Great God Om, or possibly the god himself. Om, who is nearby, is not happy, as he's currently a tortoise and eagles are one of his few natural predators; he sneers that it's just a "better-looking turkey" with a brain the size of a walnut.
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Small Gods / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
Small Gods / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: The lion decides to follow the "nice meat" and refrain from eating it, in some symbolic way. It has no compunctions about St. Ungulant, though, but Angus proves himself not-so-imaginary by bashing its head in with a rock.
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Small Gods / int_1ffe48eb	type	Incredibly Inconvenient Deity
Small Gods / int_1ffe48eb	comment	Incredibly Inconvenient Deity: Justified, where the Great God Om lacks the power to do things in a way that would be at all convenient for The Chosen One, Brutha, because Gods Need Prayer Badly and it's gotten to the point where Brutha is the only one who actually believes in him.
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Small Gods / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Small Gods / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain/Just Doing My Job - Lampshaded, when describing the torturers of the Exquisition. In among all the horrific torture implements are holiday mementoes, family photos, mugs saying "world's best dad", and letters from retired colleagues thanking everyone for the money at their leaving do.
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Small Gods / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Small Gods / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: Vorbis. Ultimately he cares more about his personal power and the power of the church than the god it was supposed to be dedicated to. Part of what makes him frightening is how completely unaware he is of this; he believes he's following the commands of his god all the way to end, until he passes to the desert and finally learns that he's only been hearing himself. And now that's all the company he'll ever have...
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Small Gods / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Small Gods / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: One chapter has Urn casting metal for the Moving turtle and commenting "Sâ€™not â€™n important cast anyway, ... Jusâ€™ the control levers." Later on, the Moving Turtle fails when the lever to start it breaks.
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Small Gods / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
Small Gods / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: For Vorbis, the desert every Omnian has to cross in the afterlife to reach judgement turns into this, as he's spent his whole life believing that he was following the voice of his god and realizes that it was his own all along. The realization that he's now alone without anyone to guide him leaves him prostrated in terror, until Brutha finds him a hundred years later (a literal eternity from his perspective, according to Death) and takes mercy on him.
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Small Gods / int_23d6eccb	type	Non-Mammal Mammaries
Small Gods / int_23d6eccb	comment	Non-Mammal Mammaries: Or the male equivalent, considering eagles shouldn't have certain anatomical features on the outside.
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Small Gods / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Small Gods / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: At the beginning of the story Brutha often quotes the Septateuch, the holy text of Omnianism, which he knows by memory.
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Small Gods / int_246268be	type	Flipping Helpless
Small Gods / int_246268be	comment	Flipping Helpless: Om, courtesy of Vorbis. He took it hard. He later gets his own back, forcing an eagle to drop him so he'll hit Vorbis smack between the eyes.
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Small Gods / int_2547b359	type	Real Dreams are Weirder
Small Gods / int_2547b359	comment	Real Dreams are Weirder: Urn says harnessing lightning is the dream of mankind. Didactylos says: "Is it? Itâ€™s not my dream. I always dream of a giant carrot chasing me through a field of lobsters."
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Small Gods / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Small Gods / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Brother Nhumrod has a habit of repeating the last few words of every sentence said to him, as if it's taking his entire concentration just to parse out the statements.
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Small Gods / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Small Gods / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Vorbis, who deliberately shaves his head.
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Small Gods / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Small Gods / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Brutha. Om becomes a better god as a result of spending time with him. At least two characters observe that Vorbis has a tendency to make good people more like him. Brutha spends a lot of time in Vorbis's company but avoids being corrupted, and is in fact one of the first to realize this. He does pick up a nice set of Evil Virtues from the experience, though.
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Small Gods / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Small Gods / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Vorbis is disgusted by Ephebe practicing slavery, but the Tyrant throws it back in his face with a "Not So Different" Remark.
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Small Gods / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Small Gods / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In the Italian translation when Didactylos abiurates, he declares that he will write "more balls than you could imagine"; in Italian, it means "more lies than you could imagine". In English it's a sort of Triple Entendre - there's the obvious meaning, the slyly insulting meaning (balls, as well as bollocks, is British slang similar in connotation to "bullshit") and naturally, knowing the guy saying it, the crude meaning - balls (and bollocks) is slang for testicles. Combines with Genius Bonus when you realise that "omnia" is Latin for "all". What's another word meaning "all"? Catholic.
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Small Gods / int_29e25672	type	Oppose What You Suffered
Small Gods / int_29e25672	comment	Oppose What You Suffered: Brutha is used (and abused) as a useful pawn (or sacrifice) by the authorities of the Church of Om, the god Om himself, and even by those opposing the church. Later, once Om has regained his power and instated Brutha as the new head of the church, Brutha works to reform the church as well as his own god to make sure that people are never treated as mere pieces on a chessboard by the church or his god ever again. This has backfired a bit by the time of Carpe Jugulum, but still.
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Small Gods / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Small Gods / int_2c1f1138	comment	Urn gives this to Simony when he states he wants to let Brutha die and become a useful martyr for Simony's war against the Church of Omnia.
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Small Gods / int_2c7416bb	type	Acting Unnatural
Small Gods / int_2c7416bb	comment	Acting Unnatural:
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Small Gods / int_2cd322e4	type	Shoot the Builder
Small Gods / int_2cd322e4	comment	Shoot the Builder: "Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection."
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Small Gods / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Small Gods / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Deacon Cusp of the Exquisition joined mainly because he really wanted to hurt people. Vorbis terrifies the spit out of him, because hurting folk is all Cusp wanted. Vorbis, meanwhile, thinks people should be hurt, but doesn't even afford people the dignity of hating them for it.
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Small Gods / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Small Gods / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Simony apologises to a soldier just as he shoots the man dead (to prevent him from killing Didactylos).
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Small Gods / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Small Gods / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Vorbis, turning Om (whom he believes to be only a tortoise) on his back and props him with pebbles to ensure that he cannot right itself, just to see what would happen. Vorbis later forces the captain of the ship he's sailing on to harpoon a porpoise, because sailors generally believe that killing a porpoise is bad luck; a foolish superstition that must be overcome in the fundamental truth of Omnian doctrine. The sailors are right; Om is forced to make a bargain with the local sea goddess to spare him and Brutha. Later the ship does indeed sink as a direct result of Om's bargain (though a bit of bad luck and timing was involved), though after Om, Brutha, Vorbis and Simony have all disembarked.
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Small Gods / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Small Gods / int_34dd5f3	comment	Bishop Drunah, a member of La RÃ©sistance, is the secretary of The Congress of Iams in the Omnian Church, and as many of those people are old and of poor hearing, this is implied to give him the opportunity to alter records of the meeting.
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Small Gods / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Small Gods / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Urn has shades of this. He does care about morality... when he takes the time off his researches to think about it.
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Small Gods / int_37daf5c5	type	Not a Game
Small Gods / int_37daf5c5	comment	Not a Game: The gods literally treat the world of mortals as a game, dice and all. Om finally realizes it is Not a Game thanks to Brutha. After that, he (brow)beats the other gods into realizing it, too.
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Small Gods / int_38eb584d	type	Liar's Paradox
Small Gods / int_38eb584d	comment	Liar's Paradox: One of the Ephebian philosophers gets into trouble when he tries to discuss this paradox with his fellows. Discworld intellects being what they are, Xeno takes offense:
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Small Gods / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Small Gods / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: General Fri'it, literally (also a heartwarming moment) after his failed attempt to kill Vorbis. While initially reluctant to cross the Desert and be all alone with his beliefs, he considers what his beliefs are and decides:
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Small Gods / int_3a4ec6e8	type	Afterlife Angst
Small Gods / int_3a4ec6e8	comment	Afterlife Angst: At the end of the book, Vorbis is revealed to have spent nearly a hundred years in "the desert", a place where some souls are seen to go for Judgement (according to Death) because he was afraid to go on.
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Small Gods / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Small Gods / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Over the course of the book, Brutha develops from a clueless novice into a wise leader, and Om from a selfish, uncaring and cruel god to a god who appreciates human life. Om even lampshades it, when it occurs to him that he never even thought about words like 'unfair' before he became a tortoise.
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Small Gods / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Small Gods / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Om at the beginning, angered by people ignoring him, says many creative curses, such as "Your intestines to be wound around a tree until you are sorry!" or "Your sexual organs to sprout wings and fly away!"
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Small Gods / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Small Gods / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The actual fight between Vorbis' hidden army and the Ephebians is entirely skipped over, save the narration stating that the Omnian troops win decisively.
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Small Gods / int_3e99481a	type	Deadly Distant Finale
Small Gods / int_3e99481a	comment	Deadly Distant Finale: A hundred years after the events of the main plot, Brutha, having become head of the Omnian Church and thoroughly reformed it, dies on the anniversary day of his crossing of the desert.
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Small Gods / int_3eb7c6b7	type	The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Small Gods / int_3eb7c6b7	comment	The Easy Way or the Hard Way: At the end of the book, Brutha tells Sergeant Simony to stop the Exquisition the hard way—that is, with as few casualties as possible.
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Small Gods / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Small Gods / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: The desert afterlife, with judgement at the end. The judgement isn't a secret. Which end of the desert the judgement happens at is.
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Small Gods / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Small Gods / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Played with. A god really does descend from the sky to save the day. Just not in the way you're picturing.
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Small Gods / int_40b1b353	type	Chess with Death
Small Gods / int_40b1b353	comment	Chess with Death: Provides the page quote. The Abbot of the History Monks plays it at the end - however, Death can never remember how the little horse-shaped ones move, and the Abbot just continuously reincarnates anyway. The reader doesn't see how it ends, but the Abbot was back to being a baby in his next appearance.
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Small Gods / int_41899e45	type	Monster-Shaped Mountain
Small Gods / int_41899e45	comment	Monster-Shaped Mountain: The wind god has rather crude sense of humor, as demonstrated by the shape of an eroded rock pillar that Om points out to Brutha as a desert landmark.
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Small Gods / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Small Gods / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: General Fri'it, one of the leaders of La RÃ©sistance, gets a fair amount of focus in the first quarter of the novel, but then is caught by the Quisition and Killed Offscreen.
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Small Gods / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Small Gods / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Om, after he realizes his screamed curses and punishments ("Turn into a mud leech and wither in the fires of retribution!") fail to materialize:
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Small Gods / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Small Gods / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Initially, Om keeps reining himself in during conversation with Brutha, since he doesn't want to give away some of the major details about his chenolialism.
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Small Gods / int_476302df	type	You Are a Credit to Your Race
Small Gods / int_476302df	comment	You Are a Credit to Your Race: Despite the institutional misogyny of the Omnian church, Vorbis is genuinely impressed by what Brutha tells him about his grandmother, remarking that she would have made an excellent inquisitor... if not for the obvious deficiency of her sex.
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Small Gods / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Small Gods / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Brutha, as he realizes just how corrupt and tyrannical the Omnian church is.
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Small Gods / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Small Gods / int_4c782fb9	comment	Om had met a small god who had memories of prior greatness, but couldn't even remember its own name now that the worshippers were all gone. The temple may well have been to that same god.
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Small Gods / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Small Gods / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Throughout the book, deceased characters end up in an afterlife that takes the form of crossing a desert. They ask Death what lies at the end of the desert, and he replies Judgement. At the end of the book, Brutha dies, asks the question and considers Death's answer, and then asks:"Which end?"
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Small Gods / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Small Gods / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: When Om regains his full power, he begins speaking in numbered verse, like a holy text.
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Small Gods / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
Small Gods / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: The battle at the end; Brutha goes up to the generals and explains that there's no reason to fight. They look at him like he's an idiot and say that when two sides hate each other enough, sometimes there just has to be war. Any justification will do, even no justification at all.
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Small Gods / int_5318f34d	type	Conveniently Coherent Thoughts
Small Gods / int_5318f34d	comment	Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Averted - Om can't read minds because they're too chaotic, but he can get a feel for the general shape of them.
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Small Gods / int_5517f7a5	type	Just Think of the Potential!
Small Gods / int_5517f7a5	comment	Just Think of the Potential!: Urn's thoughts on his experimental steam-powered boat. Simony as well, but in a different way, involving lots of fire, payback and screaming.
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Small Gods / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
Small Gods / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: Vorbis is tall, lean and ascetic, in contrast to the good-hearted and fleshy Brutha.
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Small Gods / int_572249f0	type	Straight Edge Evil
Small Gods / int_572249f0	comment	Straight Edge Evil: Vorbis is an ascetic; aside from being celibate, he only consumes water and dry bread (he actually waits until the fresh bread dries).
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Small Gods / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Small Gods / int_57d43e40	comment	Lu Tze, the supernaturally wise and vaguely Asian monk, seems to be named in honor of Lao Tzu, the semi-legendary Taoist philosopher.
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Small Gods / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Small Gods / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Crossed with Idiot Hero in Brutha. Probably the weirdest example, in that he is brilliant, but in a different way than most people understand, and it takes a while for him to get to the point where he can use it.
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Small Gods / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Small Gods / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: At the end, the (usually hostile) countries of Ephebe, Tsort, Djelibeybi and Klatch combine their naval forces to invade Omnia and destroy it once and for all. It doesn't quite work out like that.
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Small Gods / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Small Gods / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: On seeing a large bronze statue of Himself as a bull, Om is told the church burns things in it. Brutha tells him they don't burn people in there, just paperwork and such. Then he mentions where they do put people...
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Small Gods / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Small Gods / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: The History Monks, who use 'circular aging' the way those who play wind instruments use 'circular breathing'.
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Small Gods / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Small Gods / int_5cc25ed	comment	Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Angus is set up as a hallucination of the clearly-mad prophet St. Ungulant. No one else can see/hear him, and he doesn't drink any water because it "[gives] him gas." Then, when the starving lion is primed to kill St. Ungulant, Angus knocks it out with a rock. Also a case of Fridge Brilliance: small gods become real through belief, and St. Ungulant believes in his imaginary friend. It certainly helps that he's the patron saint of small gods. Indeed, Om could be considered this to Brutha. For most of the book, no one else can hear Om's words but Brutha; everyone else thinks Om is just a tortoise, and most believe Brutha is a bit mad in this regard.
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Small Gods / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Small Gods / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: Brutha, to the point that he has No Infantile Amnesia. He remembers everything ever since, to the extent that he can copy out books he's only seen once despite not being able to read them himself. He doesn't forget a thing until he's about to die, 100 years later the main plot.
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Small Gods / int_60bf1097	type	Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer
Small Gods / int_60bf1097	comment	Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer: Vorbis, when demanding Didactylos recant the word of the turtle, has to be told by Brutha that he's agreed.
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Small Gods / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Small Gods / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Brutha's first impression of Simony. The man shoots him an expression of pure and unfiltered hatred.
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Small Gods / int_64713b04	type	Pedophile Priest
Small Gods / int_64713b04	comment	Pedophile Priest: Defied. Brother Nhumrod may suffer from demons and voices that tempt him in that direction, but he makes sure that his thoughts stay inside his head.
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Small Gods / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Small Gods / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Om often struggles to remember the many, many commandments, prophets, and texts he sent to his followers over the centuries. Some of these are implied to be false or exaggerated while others he genuinely doesn't remember. Brutha knows Om's religion better than Om himself.
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Small Gods / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Small Gods / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Once a mighty and feared deity who ruled many civilizations, lack of belief turned Om into a tortoise. It gave him a lot of perspective.
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Small Gods / int_6a2c5d8d	type	Caligula's Horse
Small Gods / int_6a2c5d8d	comment	Caligula's Horse: When Vorbis announces his plan to promote Brutha straight to Archbishop, the other clerics are surprised but note that precedents exist, such as... Ossory's ass.
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Small Gods / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Small Gods / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Om's first follower was a shepherd who had 100 sheep only because he was willing to look for days to find one. Later, Om remarks that if he wants thousands of followers, he needs to fight for one. While in the desert, Om says "In a hundred years we'll all be dead," and Brutha replies, "But here and now, we are alive!" A hundred years later, Brutha dies after being told how long it was since he'd been in the desert—exactly one hundred years. For added irony, his last words were "But here and now, we—" In the beginning, Vorbis turns Om over in the sun to see how long it'll take for him to die, and Om thinks "I'm on my back, and getting hotter, and I'm going to die..." Then, during the climax, when Vorbis attempts to execute Brutha on the iron turtle, Brutha thinks "I'm on my back and getting hotter and I'm going to die..."
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Small Gods / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Small Gods / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The teacher Didactylos's name comes from "didactic," meaning "apt to teach." The dim bulb Nhumrod's name seems to be a play on "numbskull" and "nimrod," two words that in modern times mean a stupid person. Lu Tze, the supernaturally wise and vaguely Asian monk, seems to be named in honor of Lao Tzu, the semi-legendary Taoist philosopher. Simony may refer to Simon the Zealot, a follower of Jesus Christ who wanted to wage war on the Roman occupiers Or, more likely, the ecclesiastical crime of selling church offices and favours, signifying the religious corruption throughout Omnianism
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Small Gods / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
Small Gods / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: Why Ephebe keeps so many philosophers around. As Om observes, 99 out of every 100 ideas they come up with are complete rubbish, but the 100th tends to be an absolute humdinger. For instance, one minute they're wibbling on about beauty and truth, the next they're saying "incidentally, putting this mirror up on that tower would make for an interesting demonstration of optical principles", giving Ephebe their own death ray.
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Small Gods / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Small Gods / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Lu-Tze, during his brief conversation with Brutha. Knowing him, he's probably more fluent than he lets on. The advice he gives is still clear enough.
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Small Gods / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Small Gods / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: Brutha becomes a bishop, which (the narrative reminds us) moves diagonally to crop up in unexpected places.
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Small Gods / int_712af56	type	Not Quite the Almighty
Small Gods / int_712af56	comment	Not Quite the Almighty: A major trope for the work given that Brutha has long conversations with the monotheistic god of his god within a world that is explicitly polytheistic while also being a major example of Gods Need Prayer Badly. Coming to terms with this trope is a central part of Om and Brutha's character arcs.
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Small Gods / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Small Gods / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate - Subverted: Lu-Tze changes events, and the Discworld's usual Rubber-Band History does not come into play because the History Monks can just edit the books which contain the whole history of the world so it fits his changes.
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Small Gods / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Small Gods / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: When Brutha is about to be executed, Simony argues that they can't save him, and if they do nothing, his death will become a "symbol for people". Urn is disgusted by this, telling him that now he thinks like Vorbis. He even muses that the most horrible thing about Vorbis is that he makes other people like himself.
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Small Gods / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Small Gods / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Lu-Tze literally acts like a janitor, while secretly tweaking the timeline to avoid a war. Bishop Drunah, a member of La RÃ©sistance, is the secretary of The Congress of Iams in the Omnian Church, and as many of those people are old and of poor hearing, this is implied to give him the opportunity to alter records of the meeting.
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Small Gods / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
Small Gods / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: Again, all of them. Things like mercy, fairness and justice are too human for most of them to get their heads around, and that's the smarter ones. Ones like the Sea Goddess will kill anyone who's nearby, just because they're in a bad mood.
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Small Gods / int_73f799ed	type	The Horseshoe Effect
Small Gods / int_73f799ed	comment	The Horseshoe Effect: The novel features an atheist character of such burning passion that their atheism works just like belief in the gods.
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Small Gods / int_7451e686	type	It Came from the Fridge
Small Gods / int_7451e686	comment	It Came from the Fridge: The, ahem, live yogurt sold by Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah, which was kept out in the sun too long. As a result, Dhblah had to keep hitting it with a spoon to prevent it from escaping.
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Small Gods / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Small Gods / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Several characters throughout the book, when they're killed and find themselves in the spectral desert of the afterlife which they must journey through, ask Death "what awaits at the end of the desert?", to which Death replies Judgement. At the end, there's a twist when Brutha does the same, considers for a moment, then asks: "Which end?" "The turtle moves!", the cry of the revolutionists against Omnia's dogmatism and a Shout-Out to Galileo. "In a hundred years we'll all be dead, but here and now we are alive" becomes the cornerstone of Brutha's philosophy.
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Small Gods / int_79bfd876	type	The Only Believer
Small Gods / int_79bfd876	comment	The Only Believer: As mentioned earlier, people believe in the structure of the Church and its rules, not the god they actually worship. They have feelings like vague hopes and fears about Om, but no belief. The only exception is Brutha, who believes in Om in the sort of simple, wholehearted way that a young child believes in something that their parents tell them is true.
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Small Gods / int_7a5f720f	type	Sturgeon's Law
Small Gods / int_7a5f720f	comment	Sturgeon's Law: Om says that ninety-nine percent of the Ephebian philosophers' ideas are useless but they are tolerated because that last one percent is a "humdinger".
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Small Gods / int_7c77081d	type	Language Equals Thought
Small Gods / int_7c77081d	comment	Language Equals Thought: Fasta Benj, a man from a tiny tribe that is unaware of the rest of the world, gets mixed up in the final conflict when his boat is swept along by the attacking fleet. Thus, his god also appears along the rest of the gods, and forbids him to wage war against Omnia. His people have no word for war, since they have no one to fight, so the god uses the description: "remember when Pacha Moj hit his uncle with big rock? Like that, only more worse." The fisherman comes away with the impression that it's not good if lots of people hit Pacha Moj's uncle with a big rock, though he can't understand why they would.
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Small Gods / int_7f3e75b6	type	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
Small Gods / int_7f3e75b6	comment	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Why Om is very uncomfortable when they take shelter in an abandoned temple in the middle of the desert. Om had met a small god who had memories of prior greatness, but couldn't even remember its own name now that the worshippers were all gone. The temple may well have been to that same god.
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Small Gods / int_7f514dd1	type	AwesomeByAnalysis
Small Gods / int_7f514dd1	comment	Awesome by Analysis: Brutha, although it really only comes into play at the end.
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Small Gods / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
Small Gods / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: Vorbis. It's said that it has something to do with his coming from a tribe living deep in the desert. Also a Shout-Out to the Fremen of Dune.
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Small Gods / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Small Gods / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: Om and the religion built around him are a defining example of this trope.
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Small Gods / int_84cbf6e4	type	Grandpa God
Small Gods / int_84cbf6e4	comment	Grandpa God: Discussed and justified. A common personification for gods is "A big beard in the sky," because all a baby can see of his father is a big beard hovering over them, and if a god is one's heavenly father, and one is to believe with the faith of a child, it stands to reason that god looks... like a big beard in the sky.
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Small Gods / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Small Gods / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Used for drama, when Om starts thinking about his past, and remembers his old arch-enemy, Ur-Gilash, and realises he has no idea what happened to the guy. He can barely remember what he did, some sort of spider-like god if he remembers correctly. Then, later on, Om and Brutha take refuge in a temple with a very spidery look to its artwork...
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Small Gods / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Small Gods / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Subverted, when the Sea Goddess sinks a vessel Vorbis is on. She doesn't actually know (and wouldn't care anyway) that Vorbis is the one who pissed her off in the first place, she just liked the bigger target his ship offered. And Vorbis survives anyway. Later on, however, he ends up being hit smack between the eyes by a tortoise (Om), who Vorbis had previously wedged upside down in the sun to see how long it would take him to die.
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Small Gods / int_9538d01b	type	Super-Speed Reading
Small Gods / int_9538d01b	comment	Super-Speed Reading: Brutha, although with the twist that he doesn't understand any of it — he's just using his photographic memory to memorize the shapes and orders of the letters so he can copy it down again later.
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Small Gods / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Small Gods / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Vorbis finally gets this after death, realizing that he'd never actually been following the commandments of a god—that the only voice he'd ever heard came from his own head.
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Small Gods / int_966b4df0	type	Time Police
Small Gods / int_966b4df0	comment	Time Police: The History Monks, who ensure the timeline doesn't stray too far from its course.
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Small Gods / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Small Gods / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Double subverted. Vorbis has Didactylos summoned up to him, assuming the philosopher will do this and allow Vorbis to make An Example of him... and then Didactylos says that maybe Vorbis has the right idea, maybe the Disc is round after all. Vorbis is utterly baffled by the idea of a philosopher suggesting that his ideas aren't the singular truth... and just as Didactylos walks off, he hurls his lantern at Vorbis' head.
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Small Gods / int_97ddee3e	type	My Skull Runneth Over
Small Gods / int_97ddee3e	comment	My Skull Runneth Over: Brutha experiences discomfort after memorizing the entire Ephebean library. Despite having never learned to read, the information from the books he memorized somehow manages to leak into his mind. Thankfully for Brutha, it never gets worse than the discomfort and knowledge leaks.
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Small Gods / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Small Gods / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Lu Tze manages to change the fate of Omnia from centuries of religious war and hideous institutionalised torture to a constitutional theocracy (which means Om has to follow the rules about not killing as well). He does this with a strategically placed pile of compost, sweeping the floor at a crucial moment, and a bucket of cold water.
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Small Gods / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Small Gods / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: When Brutha discovers that Vorbis has languished in limbo, he wonders aloud if time works differently there in such a way that he's been there for far shorter than the most-of-a-century that passed on the mortal plane; Death implies that it may have been far, far longer - or at least felt that way.
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Small Gods / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Small Gods / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Brutha. Especially notable in the climax, when his last words to his soon-to-be-dead nemesis, who is in the process of torturing Brutha to death, are "You are going to die. I'm sorry." Also in the epilogue, where he decides to help said nemesis' soul to cross the desert.
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Small Gods / int_9cc1e9ec	type	Unwanted False Faith
Small Gods / int_9cc1e9ec	comment	Unwanted False Faith: Didactylos hadn't intended to start a cultural revolution. He'd just published a philosophical piece, and is embarrassed when he comes face to face with Simony's resistance movement.
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Small Gods / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Small Gods / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The Ephebian philosophers previously appeared in Pyramids (which caused a Continuity Snarl mentioned in Thief of Time since the books are set a century apart). The Librarian is glimpsed rescuing books from the burning Library of Ephebe and then vanishing — using his skills seen in Guards! Guards! to navigate through L-Space from one library to another, including through time. It's Lampshaded as a Continuity Nod cameo by the narration noting that the scene doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the story - it's just nice to know it happened. Way back in the fifth book, Sourcery, Death muses that he dreads those cliched chess games because he can never remember how the knights are supposed to move. Sure enough, when he's playing chess with the Abbot, he has to ask again. A dead character once again laments that there's "no justice", and gets the response Just me.
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Small Gods / int_9eeb5455	type	Evil Virtues
Small Gods / int_9eeb5455	comment	At least two characters observe that Vorbis has a tendency to make good people more like him. Brutha spends a lot of time in Vorbis's company but avoids being corrupted, and is in fact one of the first to realize this. He does pick up a nice set of Evil Virtues from the experience, though.
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Small Gods / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Small Gods / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Brutha's awkward name is lampshaded when Vorbis thinks of what will happen when he's Brother Brutha. Or even Father Brutha. He concludes they should promote him to subdeacon as soon as possible to avoid this.
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Small Gods / int_a0a838fe	type	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
Small Gods / int_a0a838fe	comment	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: Done with crossbows when Didactylos is on the run from Vorbis's soldiers. One of the soldiers lines up an easy shot, there's the twang of a crossbow bolt, and... the soldier falls, having been shot by another soldier who's a member of the resistance.
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Small Gods / int_a1b27125	type	Nervous Wreck
Small Gods / int_a1b27125	comment	Nervous Wreck: Brother Nhumrod. Spending enough time in the Citadel will do that to a person.
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Small Gods / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Small Gods / int_a2022cc9	comment	While in the desert, Om says "In a hundred years we'll all be dead," and Brutha replies, "But here and now, we are alive!" A hundred years later, Brutha dies after being told how long it was since he'd been in the desert—exactly one hundred years. For added irony, his last words were "But here and now, we—"
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Small Gods / int_a2fea27d	type	The Chosen Many
Small Gods / int_a2fea27d	comment	The Chosen Many: The Prophets of Om (holy horns), of which there have been several, Brutha just being the latest. Explored, and subverted, since Om didn't actually chose any of them. Half the time he never even met or talked to them, and in one case the lengthy amount of things he said was actually no more than "hey, look what I can do". And then Brutha manages to single-handedly institute a cultural and religious revolution, managing to actually play the idea relatively straight.
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Small Gods / int_a46ce039	type	Superstitious Sailors
Small Gods / int_a46ce039	comment	Superstitious Sailors: The sailors have a number of superstitions and ritual practices, most notably a taboo against killing dolphins. Almost all of these turn out to be justified as they are part of a system of obeisance to the vindictive Sea Queen, who is enraged by killing dolphins.
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Small Gods / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
Small Gods / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: Om tries a few, but it doesn't really work; the most he can produce is a pathetic little spark. The Ephebians are quick to compliment their gods immediately after saying anything disrespectful about them, unless the Library's copper roof is above them to ground out this trope. A few Ephebian philosophers mention that it's not a good idea to start pondering whether the gods exist or not, because the poor bugger who does gets hit with one that has a note tied to it saying "yes, we do". Played with, with the philosophers in a pub. They declare the gods are outmoded, until the rumbling starts, listing each god and how they like them, until they get to the god of avalanches. Noting they're a long way from any snow, they start dissing him... until Brutha has the sudden urge to ask if it just got colder. Also subverted. When the Tyrant says trouble started after the Omnian missionary pushed over the statue of Tuvelpit, the Ephebian god of Wine, Vorbis asks mockingly if he was then struck by lightning. The Tyrant says no, he was struck by an amphora of wine, because Tuvelpit was in the crowd and threw it. Didactylos remembers old "Charcoal" Abraxas, who just seemed naturally immune to being fried. Hit over a dozen times, to no apparent ill-effect. The last anyone saw of him was a pair of charred sandals, so Didactylos figures he's probably not coming back.
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Small Gods / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Small Gods / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Brutha discovers that the Ephebean slaves have much better working conditions than the (nominally) free Omnians, and slavery offers the chance to earn their freedom and own slaves themselves. When the Omnians free the slaves during their stay, the slaves go spare (which ends up being the deciding factor in Ephebe's revolt). Vorbis boasts to the Tyrant that in the Omnian language, there is no word for 'slavery'. The Tyrant muses that this is likely similar to fish having no word for 'water'.
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Small Gods / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Small Gods / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Vorbis's final fate - an eternity in the absolute silence of his own mind, all alone with himself - is Subverted when Brutha mercifully takes him to the afterlife.
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Small Gods / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Small Gods / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Vorbis pulls a chilling example of this on Brutha as they are about to leave the desert.
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Small Gods / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Small Gods / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Om. Oh so much. After all, a turtle doesn't have many ways to vent its anger.
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Small Gods / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Small Gods / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: When Brutha leads Vorbis through a labyrinth, he thinks: "I could run forward. I could hide, and he'd walk into one of the pits or a deadfall or someÂthing, and then I could sneak back to my room and who would ever know? I would." Also Vorbis when he is forced to examine himself after death, then Brutha again when he finds him there a century later. Something similar (What You Are In The Storm?) comes into play when Simony realises he can't leave trapped soldiers, even enemies, to die in a shipwreck. When it comes down to it, he doesn't even hesitate.
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Small Gods / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Small Gods / int_b0cd3349	comment	The Messenger of the Gods (the equivalent of Hermes) in Ephebe is called Fedecks, a reference to the famous delivery company FedEx. (May be a case of Fridge Brilliance, since there exists another delivery company named Hermes).
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Small Gods / int_b298a3fe	type	Lord of the Ocean
Small Gods / int_b298a3fe	comment	Lord of the Ocean: The Sea Queen is the goddess of the sea. Worshipped by sailors, she is vindictive and causes storms to attack ships that disrespect her. One such way is by killing dolphins, who are her favorite species. For every dolphin killed, she demands a human killed in equal measure.
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Small Gods / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
Small Gods / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	Combines with Genius Bonus when you realise that "omnia" is Latin for "all". What's another word meaning "all"? Catholic.
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Small Gods / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
Small Gods / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: The Eagle and its tortoise-crushing skill. He'll be back...
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Small Gods / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Small Gods / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Om at the beginning is very callous and self-centered, throwing excruciating death curses around left, right, and center (which might actually work if he wasn't reduced to only one actual believer). However, even he's horrified by the torture chambers of the Omnian inquisition. He silently takes in what happens in absolute horror, tries not to think of what he just saw, and tries to get back to the surface as quickly as possible, while in total shock.
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Small Gods / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Small Gods / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: In one incident, the Inquisition displayed a man trying to talk about the world being round to every town in Omnia. There are a lot of towns in Omnia, so they had to cut him up into some very small pieces to do that.
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Small Gods / int_b4fb830c	type	Smarter Than You Look
Small Gods / int_b4fb830c	comment	Smarter Than You Look: Brutha. While he's not classically clever, he's got an impossibly good memory, and he's quite perceptive - he has to think about thinking, so while he's slower than most, he actually really thinks about things, allowing him to properly understand them. He's also got a level of Incorruptible Pure Pureness that allows him to hang around Vorbis and only pick up a bunch of Evil Virtues (mostly relating to leadership and understanding human nature).
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Small Gods / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
Small Gods / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: The Omnians have banned all religions other than their state religion, Omnianism. Brutha later turns this on its head, allowing all religions in Omnia, though Omnianism (in more varied forms than before) is still the prevailing one.
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Small Gods / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Small Gods / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: Subverted: The ruler of Ephebe is called the "Tyrant"... because, as with the original definition of the word, he didn't inherit his title. Rather, he was democratically elected.
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Small Gods / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Small Gods / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: All gods are completely self-centered. Om in particular didn't care at all what his followers did as long as they worshipped him. He gets better over the course of the novel.
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Small Gods / int_bb6c96a7	type	Culture Police
Small Gods / int_bb6c96a7	comment	Culture Police: One of the many duties of the Exquisition, because so many things are outlawed in Omnia. Books, for example.
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Small Gods / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Small Gods / int_bef696dd	comment	Several characters throughout the book, when they're killed and find themselves in the spectral desert of the afterlife which they must journey through, ask Death "what awaits at the end of the desert?", to which Death replies Judgement. At the end, there's a twist when Brutha does the same, considers for a moment, then asks: "Which end?"
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Small Gods / int_bf016fce	type	Judgement of the Dead
Small Gods / int_bf016fce	comment	Judgement of the Dead: Whenever characters die, they find themselves in a desert. They encounter Death, who tells them that their judgement awaits at the end of the desert. Characters find themselves in perfect clarity, and usually use the walk to reflect upon their life.
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Small Gods / int_c00e411c	type	Amnesiac God
Small Gods / int_c00e411c	comment	Amnesiac God: Om remembers he's a god at the beginning of the book, thanks to Brutha's proximity. He has spent three years at least without being aware of what he was, and is consequently terrified of what happens if he gets too far away from Brutha.
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Small Gods / int_c391447c	type	God Is Flawed
Small Gods / int_c391447c	comment	God Is Flawed: Om is very far from the omnipotent, omniscient creature Brutha first believes him to be (and he was far from it even before he became a tortoise). It's common for Discworld gods to be less intelligent and moral than their followers.
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Small Gods / int_c5474384	type	Vow of Celibacy
Small Gods / int_c5474384	comment	Vow of Celibacy: Evidently applicable, although never stated outright, for the clergy of Om. This caused Brother Nhumrod great difficulty.
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Small Gods / int_c57a40bc	type	Doublethink
Small Gods / int_c57a40bc	comment	Doublethink: Vorbis repeatedly refers to the difference between the trivial, surface truth and a deeper, 'fundamental' truth. The latter, of course, is always a convenient justification for his actions.
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Small Gods / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Small Gods / int_c75df49a	comment	Terry also manages at least one truly audacious Shout-Out. (Well, he has said that he's disappointed none of his books have yet been bonfired by Deep South Fundamentalists.) When Brutha is in his old familiar garden praying for guidance from a God who has apparently withdrawn himself, when he is frightened of the consequences of disobeying Vorbis but knowing he has to do it, while wishing somebody else would: this is Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Small Gods / int_c83a6950	type	Sleep Learning
Small Gods / int_c83a6950	comment	Sleep Learning: A king wants to become learned without actually taking the time to read anything, so Didactylos suggests having slaves whisper bits of knowledge in his ear while he sleeps.
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Small Gods / int_c91bf297	type	Iron Lady
Small Gods / int_c91bf297	comment	Iron Lady: Brutha's grandmother, a stern woman who quite literally beat religion into him (on the grounds he would have done something during the day to deserve it). Not unlike an evil version of Mrs. Cake, she would run pretty much every minor duty in her village's temple. The narration notes that if she'd been born a man, Omnia would've had a new prophet several decades early, while a mildly impressed Vorbis muses that if she'd been a man, she would have made a very good Quisitor.
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Small Gods / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Small Gods / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Brutha. He's the only one who can directly talk to his god, he survives a life-changing journey through the desert and he reforms the religion of his country.
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Small Gods / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Small Gods / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Although the shape of the world controversy is clearly based on the Catholic Church vs. Galileo, Omnia is more like Iran (the most obvious example of a theocracy to the modern mind). Besides its terrain and climate being reminiscent of Iran, its capital city and seat of the Cenobiarch is Kom—compare the Iranian holy city and seat of the Grand Ayatollah, Qom. Dibbler's counterpart is also "Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah", a reference to how Sharia law punishes theft by cutting hands off. Word of God confirms this: the novel was inspired by a documentary about Khomeini's Iran.
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Small Gods / int_cccfa535	type	Blindfolded Trip
Small Gods / int_cccfa535	comment	Blindfolded Trip: Anyone being brought through the trap-filled labyrinth, which is why Vorbis needs Brutha's perfect memory.
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Small Gods / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Small Gods / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: Urn invents what is possibly the Disc's first one in the Moving Turtle, though see also Eric.
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Small Gods / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Small Gods / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Om, wandering around the Citadel, gets a brief glimpse into one of the torture pits. Mercifully, we don't get a description, but it's enough to terrify him.
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Small Gods / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Small Gods / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Simony, who refuses to believe in the existence of the gods even when they're speaking to him personally. Om likes him because atheism that militant is basically the same as religious belief from the point of view of a god — they're thinking and talking about the gods as frequently and as strongly as believers, if not more so. The Ephebean philosophers dismiss the gods as "relics of an outmoded belief system". Then they have to take it back when various gods send them warning signs. Funnily enough, they're literally atheists on a flat planet carried by giant elephants carried by a huge turtle. Although, Discworld does make a distinction between objective knowledge and faith: sure the gods exist, but they don't believe in them, no sir. Inverted with the Omnian church, who keep insisting the flat world is round. Vorbis proclaims that even if someone traveled to the edge of the world and looked over, it doesn't matter: "Truth lies within, not without. In the words of the Great God Om, as delivered through his chosen prophets. Our eyes may deceive us, but our God never will."
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Small Gods / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Small Gods / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Brutha guides the spiritual development of his own god, then moves on to the worshippers. The wording of the trope is played with; Vorbis is more like a shepherd than Brutha, since sheep are stupid and need to be driven. Brutha is more like a goatherd, since goats are intelligent and need to be led. This is deconstructed - going off from the sheep vs. goat analogy, the narration notes that, had Om followed a goatherd (whose goats can think for themselves and would follow a benevolent leader) instead of the shepherd that Om actually did follow, he would not have grown up to be a violent authoritarian thinking his followers were easily cowed simpletons there to please him and needing constant dogma to be kept in check. Even after Om is reformed in the presence of Brutha, he does hold on to the one positive lesson the good shepherd had taught him—that if he wanted to keep his followers, he needed to watch out for them, which he does when he stops the war that would have resulted in Brutha being killed. Omnia is the medieval Catholic Italy of the Discworld. Perhaps the best is, "Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum", when Om hijacks the eagle. For the non dog-Latinists among us, this translates roughly to "Get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." The book Bowdlerizes this, at least partly for humor (given the circumstances of Om hijacking the eagle); see below.
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Small Gods / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Small Gods / int_d332bf54	comment	It's Lampshaded as a Continuity Nod cameo by the narration noting that the scene doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the story - it's just nice to know it happened.
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Small Gods / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Small Gods / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Urn gives this to Simony when he states he wants to let Brutha die and become a useful martyr for Simony's war against the Church of Omnia. Near the end of the novel, Brutha chews out Simony, Urn, and company for following him to a parley with the incoming armies when he had previously stated he wished to do so alone—their presence had disrupted the peace talks and was about to precipitate a war.
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Small Gods / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
Small Gods / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Brutha's singing is so awful that he receives special dispensation to be excused from choir practice; the music master says it puts him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey. Om himself compares it to the lamentations of the plague-stricken.
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Small Gods / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Small Gods / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The desert lion seems like it'll be important later, but really only exists after the initial encounter to provide a punchline.
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Small Gods / int_dbed9cf7	type	I Was Never Here
Small Gods / int_dbed9cf7	comment	I Was Never Here: The meeting in which Vorbis recruits Brutha for the Ephebe mission ends with Vorbis instructing him: "You were not in this room. You have not seen us here." Earlier narration establishes that this is only the latest of many meetings that have not taken place in Vorbis's office, some of them involving people who traveled long distances in secret in order to not attend them.
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Small Gods / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
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Small Gods / int_df0fdac4	type	Clueless Boss
Small Gods / int_df0fdac4	comment	Clueless Boss: The Cenobiarch, the High Priest of the Omnian Church, is this. He's just a senile old man who nods at anything said during meetings with the high-ranking church members, who tries to bless anyone nearby.
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Small Gods / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Small Gods / int_df582b0b	comment	The Ephebian philosophers previously appeared in Pyramids (which caused a Continuity Snarl mentioned in Thief of Time since the books are set a century apart).
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Small Gods / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Small Gods / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: A common problem with Ephebian democracy. The Tyrant is elected because he has been determined to be eligible by dint of not being either a liar, a criminal, a madman, a foreigner or a woman. Then, once he's in office, he's found to be at least one of these things, kicked out, the Ephebians vote for a new bloke, who... is also either a liar, a criminal, a madman, a foreigner or a woman.
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Small Gods / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Small Gods / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Pretty explicitly Brutha with tortoises (harmless, slow, thoughtful) and Vorbis with eagles (predatory, focused, elevated); the eagle will lift the tortoise off the ground and broaden its horizons only to drop it to its death, just as Vorbis promotes Brutha with every intention of eventually having him killed. The problem for Vorbis comes in when the tortoise, as described in the opening tale, learns how to fly...
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Small Gods / int_e491684a	type	Odd Job Gods
Small Gods / int_e491684a	comment	Odd Job Gods: Om mentions he knows a goddess of lettuce. He actually praises her ingenuity; it's such a specific niche that she'll never be all that powerful, but it also means nobody cares enough to challenge her for it and she can fit herself into the mythology of whatever major god is dominant at the moment as a lessor spirit.
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Small Gods / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Small Gods / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: A two-for-one with Legibus. He appears running down the street, fresh from his (incomplete) bath, naked and soaked (much as Archimedes is reputed to have run into the street shouting excitedly when he realized that objects immersed in fluids displace their own volume of fluid), to a potter's shop to ask for a few mundane items, and a few axiomatic devices. The potter is quite familiar with the routine, having been through it so often that he has a towel belonging to Legibus and some chalk so he can draw some diagrams on the walls (a reference to Albert Einstein, who is reputed to have been so absent-minded in his later years that he would go to his customary diner for breakfast on his way to Princeton University, and discover when he went to pay that he'd left his wallet in the pants he forgot to put on, and would then be given a spare pair kept in the diner for this exact reason). According to "The Unseen University Challenge" book, "Brutha's build, his powerful mind, and the fact that his fellow-novices call him the Big Dumb Ox, should remind the discerning of St Thomas Aquinas." Brutha's zen-like tolerance of all, his quest to bring salvation free of status or dogma, and simple patience calls to mind the Buddha. Of special note is that Om is named after Ohm, an important phrase in Buddhism. Didactylos living in a barrel and carrying a lantern to look for a good man (as well as his generally irrevant attitude to authority) is meant to evoke the Greek philosopher Diogenes.
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Small Gods / int_e596b496	type	False Prophet
Small Gods / int_e596b496	comment	False Prophet: Deacon Vorbis deliberately lied about a missionary being killed when the Ephebians were not responsive to the Omnian message, so as to create a casus belli for invading and annexing the country, then converting the people, by force, to Omnianism.
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Small Gods / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
Small Gods / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: Vorbis' plans, among other things, include invading Ephebe by sending the Omnian fleet to attack Ephebe directly - and getting burned by a giant Ephebian magnifying glass - partly as a justification to his main plan to cross the desert, helped by several expeditions that left caches of food and water along the way. Pratchett referred to it as "planning your counter-attack before your attack." If the first attack works, excellent. If not, it sets up the second. Vorbis may be the most frightening villain Pratchett has ever created, because he is essentially what Vetinari would be if he were actually evil and sadistic.
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Small Gods / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Small Gods / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: More or less all the gods have this, with concern for humans and, indeed, ethics, being a puzzling concept to them. Om even refers to small gods looking to make it big seeing humans as "prey" before immediately performing a Verbal Backspace. Om is the exception, eventually, with it being noted both by the narration and Om himelf that humanity - specifically, Brutha's Incorruptible Pure Pureness - ends up rubbing off on him.
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Small Gods / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Small Gods / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Brutha. Even though he has a photographic memory, he was incapable of understanding the concept of reading. His mind could not make the connection between the letters and the sounds.
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Small Gods / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Vorbis swears up and down that the Ephebians killed the preacher Omnia sent. When Brutha starts questioning this story, Vorbis tries using these to say that while they didn't kill him exactly, their not listening to him did. Brutha points out this means he was actually killed by the Inquisition on his return.
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Small Gods / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Small Gods / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Om utilizes this method to commandeer the eagle he uses to transport him to the execution site and lay the smack down on Vorbis. According to the Annotated Pratchett file, this is anatomically incorrect, but hey, no reason to let that get in the way of a good joke or plot point.
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Small Gods / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Small Gods / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Seems to be played straight, but then subverted. Brutha chooses to help Vorbis and bring him back to Omnia, even standing up to Om, who has first-hand experience with Vorbis's sadism. But when the trio get close to Omnia, it turns out that Vorbis had been faking helplessness the whole time, and knocks Brutha unconscious, allowing him free rein to spin what happened however he wants it. However, this ultimately makes it possible for Om to eventually kill Vorbis in a very dramatic moment, causing the Omnians to believe in him again.
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Small Gods / int_ed66b11a	type	Giant Animal Worship
Small Gods / int_ed66b11a	comment	Giant Animal Worship: An extremely backwards swamp-dwelling tribe worships a giant newt and has no concept of fire or war. The newt shows up on Cori Celesti (because of how belief works on the Disc) and is just as ignorant as its worshippers, conceptualizing war as "like the time Pacha Mog hit his uncle with big rock, only more worse".
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Small Gods / int_ef72a72	type	No Infantile Amnesia
Small Gods / int_ef72a72	comment	No Infantile Amnesia: Again, Brutha.
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Small Gods / int_f18ac036	type	Velvet Revolution
Small Gods / int_f18ac036	comment	Velvet Revolution: Things end the hard way — which is not with bloody warfare, as Brutha and Om are able to stop the armies from attacking Omnia.
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Small Gods / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Small Gods / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: St. Ungulant regularly eats psychedelic mushrooms, though he never realized that they are psychedelic, noting that the desert becomes really interesting after he eats them.
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Small Gods / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
Small Gods / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: In the epilogue, after a hundred years in the desert with only the company of his own thoughts, Vorbis gets a chance at redemption thanks to Brutha.
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Small Gods / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Small Gods / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Everyone who notices Om for the first time remarks, "There's good eating on one of those."
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Small Gods / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Brutha encounters the philosophers' colloqium:
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Small Gods / int_fd5b9124	type	There Is a God!
Small Gods / int_fd5b9124	comment	There Is a God!: Played for Drama; the sight of Brutha being saved from execution and martyrdom by a falling tortoise (Om) striking Vorbis on the head is enough of a miracle to instantly restore Om to his full power.
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Small Gods / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Small Gods / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Didactylos's quip, "Do Deformed Rabbit, it's my favorite", referring back to a Running Gag from Moving Pictures. Also, the summary of Didactylos's philosophy references this novel's own previous Ephebian tavern scene, by having him pick up some extra packets of peanuts because of the near-naked woman depicted on their labels. The connection between peanuts and naked ladies may be unclear to some readers - it refers to the once-common practice of stapling peanut packets to a cardboard bar display with a picture of a woman on it. The more packets you buy, the more of the woman is revealed.
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Small Gods / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Small Gods / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Vorbis is noted at least twice to have a tendency to make those around him more like himself.
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Small Gods / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Small Gods / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: A man comes to Vorbis bringing word of the proto-tank being built, hoping that it would earn the release of his incarcerated father. Vorbis outright states that he knows that he would be in league with the rebels if not for his father... and nonetheless orders that the father be released. It appears for a moment that he is baiting him by asking an inquisitor if they know where the man lives, but never follows up on it. Then again, Vorbis may simply not have gotten around to it. He was rather busy from that point until he died.
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Small Gods / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: The only women mentioned in the book are Brutha's late grandmother and a couple of goddesses (although it's made clear that the Church doesn't approve of women, and Ephebe conscientiously excludes "women" from the category of "people").
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Small Gods	hasFeature	Lord of the Ocean / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Lost Tribe / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Malevolent Architecture / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Measuring the Marigolds / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Mindless Sheep / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Monochromatic Eyes / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Monster-Shaped Mountain / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Multitasked Conversation / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Mundane Luxury / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Mushroom Samba / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	My Skull Runneth Over / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Narnia Time / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Nay-Theist / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Necro Non Sequitur / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Nervous Wreck / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Nicknaming the Enemy / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	No Infantile Amnesia / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Noble Bird of Prey / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Nominal Importance / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Non-Mammal Mammaries / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Not-So-Imaginary Friend / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Odd Job Gods / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Oh, My Gods! / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Oppose What You Suffered / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Pals with Jesus / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Pretentious Latin Motto / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Pretext for War / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Produce Pelting / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Prophetic Names / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Real Dreams are Weirder / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Reality Changing Miniature / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Reasoning with God / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Reflexive Remark of Reverence / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Saintly Church / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Save the Villain / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Save Your Deity / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Scienceville / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Screw Destiny / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Secret Handshake / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Self-Inflicted Hell / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Shoot the Builder / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Shy Shelled Animal / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Slain in Their Sleep / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Slave Liberation / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Sleep Learning / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Smoldering Shoes / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Spoiler Cover / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Standing Between the Enemies / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Steven Ulysses Perhero / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Straight Edge Evil / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Sturgeon's Law / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Superstitious Sailors / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Survival Mantra / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Survivorship Bias / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Sweeping Ashes / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Tautological Templar / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Terms of Endangerment / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Alliance / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Aloner / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Anti-Nihilist / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Easy Way or the Hard Way / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Fundamentalist / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Golden Rule / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Heretic / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Horseshoe Effect / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Only Believer / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	The Witch Hunter / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	There Is a God! / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Top God / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Torture Always Works / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Torture Technician / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Turbulent Priest / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Turtle Power / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Unconventional Formatting / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Unpleasant Animal Counterpart / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Velvet Revolution / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Villainous BSoD / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Warding Gestures / int_ec9155b1
Small Gods	hasFeature	Written by the Winners / int_ec9155b1

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