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The Colour of Magic

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The Colour of Magic	comment	The very first Discworld novel, from 1983. Written as a travelogue in which cowardly failed wizard Rincewind and Fish out of Water Twoflower, the world's first tourist, travel much of the Disc while running away from things with big teeth and men with swords. Unlike most of the later ones, it was primarily a vehicle for Terry Pratchett to mock, play with, and deconstruct specific other fantasy series, rather than the much broader field of his later work; introduced his interest in using nuclear physics (his previous area of expertise as a scientific journalist) as a metaphor and parody for how magic works; and, unlike later Discworld novels, is split into six parts rather than a continuous chapterless piece.It was adapted (with quite a lot of Adaptation Distillation) by Sky TV in 2007, together with The Light Fantastic (but the whole thing was known as The Colour of Magic). It was also adapted into a graphic novel (again with The Light Fantastic) to celebrate the Discworld series' anniversary. Unlike the TV adaptation, this was mostly a straight adaptation of the book, even keeping significant amounts of narrative and not merely the direct plot.Fantasy directly parodied includes: Dungeons & Dragons: The Vancian Magic system, in which spells take up a certain amount of space in one's head, and are usually named after their creator—also a scene in which the gods literally play dice with the fates of men, teleporting a troll into Rincewind's path. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Bravd and the Weasel, and the whole opening chapters with Ankh-Morpork burning. The initial characterization of Death as an actively malevolent being who directly kills people was also taken from here. There are also some noticeable similarities between the plot and some of the characters in The Lure of the Wyrm and Leiber's The Lords of Quarmall. The name of the city Ankh-Morpork is only coincidentally similar to Leiber's Lankhmar, though; Pratchett has denied being consciously influenced. H. P. Lovecraft: Bel-Shamharoth's temple. Conan the Barbarian: Hrun the Barbarian—note that Robert E. Howard used quite a few Eldritch Abominations, and indeed considered Cthulhu Mythos canonical in Conan's world. Michael Moorcock: The concept of the Eternal Hero and the Companion to Champions. Rincewind as an incompetent Elric who can neither cast spells nor use weapons. The Black Sword that sucks souls to Hell - here a sword that drags people into a Hell of boredom and ennui as it grabs the ear of the listener and will not let go. Capricious and chaotic Gods playing with human life for kicks. Dragonriders of Pern: The Dragons of the Wyrmberg, especially since the riders use exclamation marks in their names in a similar way to how McCaffrey's Dragonriders use apostrophes)Followed by The Light Fantastic, a direct sequel to the story.
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The Colour of Magic / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Hrun the Barbarian is used to the world being one big dungeon crawl: "You find chokeapples under a chokeapple tree. You find treasure under altars." He also specifically requests to fight both of Liessa's brothers at the same time, claiming he'll have them outnumbered one to two. Interesting Times and The Last Hero will confirm that Discworld heroes really do expect for the outnumbered warrior to be the one who triumphs.
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The Colour of Magic / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Colour of Magic / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."
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The Colour of Magic / int_1c7bed9f	type	Astronomic Zoom
The Colour of Magic / int_1c7bed9f	comment	Astronomic Zoom: Literary version. Most other Discworld books go on to start in this way, but The Colour of Magic has the most drawn-out one (unsurprising, as it needs to set the scene and describe the mechanics of the Discworld).
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The Colour of Magic / int_1f1248fc	type	Vancian Magic
The Colour of Magic / int_1f1248fc	comment	Vancian Magic: The narration states this is how spellcasting works (at least with wizards), though nobody is shown using magic at least to a point where this would be demonstrated in practice. This does not seem to be the case in any later books.
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The Colour of Magic / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
The Colour of Magic / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: A fairly straight example; Rincewind saves a frog from being swept over the Edge and it later turns out to have had The Lady "riding in its mind". Being that The Lady is... The Lady, it is implied she set this up herself.
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The Colour of Magic / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Colour of Magic / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: A few: The only spell Rincewind was able to learn. Subverted, since he doesn't get to use it, at least not in this book. In the next one, though.. The frog Rincewind saved near the Rimfall in the fourth arc of the book, which is revealed to be The Lady in the book's climax. The fact that the Discworld is flat and the exposition about Great A'tuin the World Turtle doesn't become relevant until the end of the book, where our main characters find themselves near the Rimfall, the edge of the world, and are almost sacrificed for the sake of discovering the gender of said World Turtle. Rincewind throws a wine bottle at the Guestmaster, who freezes it in the air with magic. The next time the Guestmaster comes in, the spell wears off and the bottle smashes into his head.
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The Colour of Magic / int_253be057	type	Body-Count Competition
The Colour of Magic / int_253be057	comment	Kring the talking sword mentions a notch that came from an enemy wearing an octiron collar. Likely a reference to Gimli and Legolas' Body-Count Competition in The Lord of the Rings, Gimli's axe was notched from the forty-second orc, who had an iron collar.
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The Colour of Magic / int_2864490b	type	Gravity Screw
The Colour of Magic / int_2864490b	comment	Gravity Screw: After Rincewind threw a wine bottle at the Guestmaster, he retaliated with Atavarr's Personal Gravitational Upset, a spell that left Rincewind standing on the wall, unable to get back to the floor.
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The Colour of Magic / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Colour of Magic / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Zweiblumen (The name of Twoflower's alternate dimension counterpart) is German for "Twoflower". For that matter, perfectly reversed in the German translation, where Twoflower is named Zweiblum ("Zweiblumen" actually is the plural form and would correspond to "Twoflowers"; also, the German translator rendered Twoflower as Zweiblum to make it sound like a genuine German note contrary to popular perception, not exclusively Jewish, despite the -blum ending name). The name of the aforementioned counterpart is, obviously, reverse-translated as Jack Twoflower.
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The Colour of Magic / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
The Colour of Magic / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: Greicha, ruler of Wyrmberg, who's actually Dead All Along, won't give up his domain until one of his children proves their worth. Liessa, his incredibly headstrong daughter, hires Hrun the Barbarian to kill her brothers so she'll get the position by default. She's also the one who killed Greicha in the first place.
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The Colour of Magic / int_2bc8bdeb	type	Speak of the Devil
The Colour of Magic / int_2bc8bdeb	comment	Speak of the Devil: Bel-Shmhroth, the Sender of [6+2]. Inverted with The Lady, the goddess who only aids those who never invoke her, and speaking her name makes her flee away... who, in case you haven't guessed, is Lady Luck. The Bel-Shamharoth example is subject to an Running Gag of Discworld and Rincewind, and even the book's narration dancing around the number:
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The Colour of Magic / int_2cd322e4	type	Shoot the Builder
The Colour of Magic / int_2cd322e4	comment	Shoot the Builder: Dactylos (see above) has been suffering this on the installment plan, as it were. His current employer has promised to let him go free, but he doesn't hold out much hope.
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The Colour of Magic / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
The Colour of Magic / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: The Wyrmberg area suffered a direct hit by one during the Mage Wars, and the ensuing Fantastic Fallout means that it is home to an upside-down mountain, imaginary dragons, and coins land on their edge or don't come down at all.
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The Colour of Magic / int_314c56b9	type	Time Stands Still
The Colour of Magic / int_314c56b9	comment	Time Stands Still: When Rincewind hurls a bottle at the Guestmaster, the latter wards off the attack by stopping time for the bottle, leaving it hanging in midair. Thanks to the Lady, the effect wears off just in time for it to knock its intended target unconscious the next time he enters the room.
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The Colour of Magic / int_31f9cec9	type	Critical Staffing Shortage
The Colour of Magic / int_31f9cec9	comment	Critical Staffing Shortage: The Wyrmberg's halls are mostly deserted, their contents rusting and covered with dust. This is because the level of ambient magic is weaker than it used to be, limiting the ruling family's dragon-summoning powers, which have also weakened over the generations.
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The Colour of Magic / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
The Colour of Magic / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Subverted, as the words "THE END" are followed immediately by a few more pages of story.
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The Colour of Magic / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Colour of Magic / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos pretty much knows he's going to die when he finishes his latest construction, and sure enough, his current employer has him shot in the chest with a crossbow. He calmly examines the bolt and comments on its shoddy workmanship before expiring.
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The Colour of Magic / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Colour of Magic / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Whatever it was that caused Rincewind and Hrun to meet previously (which might have something to do with the fact they're both favoured by The Lady).
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The Colour of Magic / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Colour of Magic / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Twoflower, which Rincewind attempts to take advantage of.
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The Colour of Magic / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Colour of Magic / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: A literal example, crossed with a Chekhov's Gun in the reveal that the frog Rincewind saved was really Lady Luck, a literal God. This is, of course, Played for Laughs.
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The Colour of Magic / int_41899e45	type	Monster-Shaped Mountain
The Colour of Magic / int_41899e45	comment	Monster-Shaped Mountain: One of the worlds Tethys passed while drifting in space had a "mountain range" consisting of the spinal ridges of a continent-sized sleeping dragon.
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The Colour of Magic / int_441ccbad	type	Talking Weapon
The Colour of Magic / int_441ccbad	comment	Talking Weapon: Kring the magical talking sword.
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The Colour of Magic / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
The Colour of Magic / int_479f9ad0	comment	The nature of the Patrician simply changes completely between this and later books, without explanation; see Characterization Marches On and Early-Installment Weirdness.
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The Colour of Magic / int_49b29c7a	type	Rejected by the Empathic Weapon
The Colour of Magic / int_49b29c7a	comment	Rejected by the Empathic Weapon: Kring, the magic talking sword, is picked up not by the mighty hero he expects but by freakin' Rincewind. The sword realizes it has to make the best of the situation, but is passive-aggressive and snarky the entire time until Rincewind is finally able to hand it off to Hrun, to their mutual relief.
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The Colour of Magic / int_49bbfaee	type	Everything's Better with Rainbows
The Colour of Magic / int_49bbfaee	comment	Everything's Better with Rainbows: The Rimbow, the great rainbow caused by the sunlight shining through the Rimfall as it pours from the Edge, which—due to the magical field—has eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and octarine. We finally get to see an artistic representation of this in The Last Hero.
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The Colour of Magic / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Colour of Magic / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The epic descriptions of Great A'tuin, the elephants and the Disc. This is often briefly recapped at the start of later novels, but The Colour of Magic has such descriptions throughout (particularly called-back at the end, where Tethys holds Rincewind over the Edge and he sees them for himself). We finally got to see some of these wonders realised as artwork in The Last Hero.
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The Colour of Magic / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
The Colour of Magic / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Dragons at the Wyrmberg only materialize if the one who imagines them believes in them strongly enough, and vanish if their summoner falls unconscious.
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The Colour of Magic / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Colour of Magic / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Rincewind and Twoflower fall off the edge of the world. However, they survive in the next book.
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The Colour of Magic / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Colour of Magic / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: A LOT. Let's see— Death acts psychotically, randomly killing people out of spite, unlike his later sympathetic view on humanity, seeing his role as a duty and not being the one who decides who dies and when. Also, some of the details of his job aren't quite ironed out, showing him actively taking souls, rather than just severing the link between corpse and spirit, and mentioning Famine as an underling, rather than a co-worker. The Patrician is flabby, capricious and eats rare delicacies. Despite the invoked Word of God, many fans refuse to believe it's the same Patrician as the thin, coldly logical, ascetic Vetinari. The plural and adjective for dwarf are dwarves and dwarven respectively, as in The Lord of the Rings (and its many imitators). Pratchett would not switch to 'dwarfs' and 'dwarfish' until a few books later. After encountering dryads, Rincewind reflects he thought they were extinct, and believed that the only non-human races still around were elves and trolls, specifically mentioning that gnomes and pixies had died out. This is almost the reverse of later books, where there are no (pure-blood) elves on Discworld, only occasional extradimensional invaders, and gnomes and pixies are commonplace. A peculiar one is that the King of the Wyrmberg calls himself a 13th-level wizard, while the next book will say that there are only 8 levels. Odd because this is the book that introduces and emphasises the number 8 being important, and indeed the idea of wizarding levels is barely brought up in books after Sourcery. In any case, this was justified in the Discworld Companion by saying that levels higher than 8 are just made up by foreign wizards trying to inflate their own titles. It's stated that wizards are usually very skinny, when in later entries rather the opposite is true. Relatedly, there's no mention of wizards practicing Klingon Promotion at all. That won't be until the next book. Pratchett's trademark Footnote Fever isn't really established yet, either. Not that there are no footnotes in The Colour of Magic, but they're few and far between. The Ankh is treated as an actual river, wherein it's entirely possible to drown with ease, as opposed to the highly euphemistic river (or more accurately, mud with some water in it) of later books. Though it is described as being very polluted. The Assassin's Guild is depicted as a bunch of thuggish cutthroats as opposed to their later characterization as refined, elegant gentlemen.
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The Colour of Magic / int_5029a6a9	comment	Blow Gun: The leader of the Assassin Guild uses a blowgun as his weapon.
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The Colour of Magic / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Colour of Magic / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The dryad condemns Rincewind to death for accidentally peeling a strip of bark from her tree, and doesn't care that he was clinging to it to avoid a fatal fall. (Have to wonder what punishment she hands out to woodpeckers...)
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The Colour of Magic / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
The Colour of Magic / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Double-subverted in the encounter with the troll on the road from Ankh-Morpork. Rincewind tries throwing his sword at it, and misses it completely... but then, due to divine intervention, the sword ricochets off a rock and strikes the troll a lethal blow from behind.
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The Colour of Magic / int_539bb70d	type	Cosmic Chess Game
The Colour of Magic / int_539bb70d	comment	Cosmic Chess Game: The gods of Discworld influence the events on the Disc by playing a game that involves rolling dice and moving pieces around a world map.
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The Colour of Magic / int_54956f54	comment	Flat World: The introduction of the Discworld.
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The Colour of Magic / int_553d8a44	type	King on His Deathbed
The Colour of Magic / int_553d8a44	comment	King on His Deathbed: Greicha, the ruler of the Wyrmberg gets poisoned by his daughter. However, since she is still in a power struggle with her two brothers, he refuses to pass on, lingering as a lich until he makes sure she is fit to rule on her own.
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The Colour of Magic / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Colour of Magic / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Agatean Empire here seems mainly based on Japan (both the fact that it is closed to outsiders and has only one port, like Tokugawa-era Japan, and Twoflower's tourist stereotype seems mainly based on Japanese tourists). However, its naming conventions are based on Aztec names rendered literally into English. When Pratchett actually sets a book there, it's mostly based on China, with Japanese items thrown in.
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The Colour of Magic / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
The Colour of Magic / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: When Ninereeds snatches up Hrun and carries him off, it's specifically mentioned that the dragon "momentarily sychronised their bodily rhythms" so the abrupt acceleration wouldn't hurt him.
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The Colour of Magic / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Colour of Magic / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: One worker on the Circumfence nearly falls afoul of the Luggage, and spends several hours clinging to a rock. It instils in him such a hatred of water he moves to the most arid desert he can find... and it's still too moist for him.
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The Colour of Magic / int_5db4ba2f	type	Serial Prostheses
The Colour of Magic / int_5db4ba2f	comment	Serial Prostheses: Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos. His backstory consists of him inventing marvels for various royals, only for his employers to mutilate him so that he couldn't repeat the invention for anyone else. When his latest employer asks why he didn't just give it all up and try flower arranging, he replies "I'm good at it."
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The Colour of Magic / int_5fc117f5	comment	Fantastic Measurement System: Rincewind measures the Wyrmberg's magical field in (milli)Primes. In every other book it's (milli)thaums. This was explained in the Discworld Companion as being two competing measurement systems, like Fahrenheit and Celsius.
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The Colour of Magic / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Colour of Magic / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Rincewind thinks about rescuing Twoflower or buying a fast horse and legging it. A man would have to be a total heel to leave Twoflower to the mercy of Ankh-Morpork's crooks... the next paragraph begins with Rincewind having been dragged before the Patrician, after his men caught him trying to flee the city via horse.
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The Colour of Magic / int_68b24098	type	Cheap Gold Coins
The Colour of Magic / int_68b24098	comment	Cheap Gold Coins: played with. Ankh-Morporkian "gold pieces" are actually "gold-ish", containing less actual gold than seawater. The coins Twoflower brings with him, however, are solid gold—he comes from the Agatean Empire, where gold is a very common metal—and he frequently pays for meals with enough gold to buy the restaurant out of business.
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The Colour of Magic / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Suitably for a wizard, Galder's name sounds like galdr, an ancient Norse magical incantation.
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The Colour of Magic / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
The Colour of Magic / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: Pterry himself in a 1985 speech described the book as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns."
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The Colour of Magic / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Colour of Magic / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: The Eldritch Abomination Bel-Shamharoth turns out to be this.
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The Colour of Magic / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
The Colour of Magic / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: Twoflower loves going on about how great a wizard Rincewind is. Rincewind can't even spell the word correctly.
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The Colour of Magic / int_788b4436	type	I Like Those Odds
The Colour of Magic / int_788b4436	comment	I Like Those Odds: Hrun the Barbarian declares he'll fight both dragonlords at once:
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The Colour of Magic / int_78f6bb9b	type	Translation: "Yes"
The Colour of Magic / int_78f6bb9b	comment	Translation: "Yes": A running gag with the beTrobi language; for instance, the beTrobi for "remarkable" is more literally "a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower Slopes of Mount Awayawa, home of the firegods or so it is said".
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The Colour of Magic / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
The Colour of Magic / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Rincewind is saved from a sword thrust to the heart by a bag of Twoflower's gold he has concealed under his robe.
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The Colour of Magic / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
The Colour of Magic / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: Down in the darkest trench of the Disk's oceans, there exist things so unspeakably disgusting and horrific that even kraken dare not go near them. One falls afoul of the Luggage, and washes ashore on a remote island. The islanders who find it note that on its face is an expression of terror.
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The Colour of Magic / int_79fdc157	type	Camera Obscurer
The Colour of Magic / int_79fdc157	comment	Camera Obscurer: Rincewind uses a camera flash to defeat an Eldritch Abomination and later finds out that he only has a photo of his thumb to show for it.
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The Colour of Magic / int_7a9bc66	comment	Fictional Colour: The titular Colour of Magic is Octarine, the eighth colour, the pigment of the imagination. Depending on the scene, it's either invisible or blacker than black if you aren't a creature that can see magic, like a wizard or cat. If you can see magic, Rincewind describes it as a sort of disappointing purplish-greenish-yellow. This may be based on the colour of the afterimages one sees after looking into a bright light.
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The Colour of Magic / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
The Colour of Magic / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: Innovation Comics published one in 1991. Having come out some time after the original, it alters some of the Early-Installment Weirdness, such as removing Death's casual murders and having Vetinari more in line with his later depiction.
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The Colour of Magic / int_7d81759e	type	Magical Land
The Colour of Magic / int_7d81759e	comment	Magical Land: The whole Disc to some extent, but some regions such as the area around the Wyrmberg are particularly magical. However, this is because they are suffering from the magical equivalent of nuclear fallout from a war at the dawn of time between the gods and the First Men.
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The Colour of Magic / int_7ff52319	type	Blinding Camera Flash
The Colour of Magic / int_7ff52319	comment	Blinding Camera Flash: Bel-Shamharoth is defeated when Twoflower's camera flashes in his eye.
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The Colour of Magic / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Colour of Magic / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The first segment (not counting the prologue) is structured like this, with Ankh-Morpork already in flames, and Bravd and the Weasel asking Rincewind for an explanation.
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The Colour of Magic / int_80c775b1	type	Palate Propping
The Colour of Magic / int_80c775b1	comment	Palate Propping: Rincewind props open the Luggage's lid before he dares remove some packed food and water from it. Soon as he's finished doing so, the Luggage subverts this trope by ever-so-deliberately closing its lid, grinding the wooden prop into powder.
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The Colour of Magic / int_82a4fadc	type	Our Liches Are Different
The Colour of Magic / int_82a4fadc	comment	Our Liches Are Different: Greicha, late king of the Wyrmberg, used his wizardly knowledge to stick around after death until one of his children could defeat the other two and thus prove worthy of the throne.
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The Colour of Magic / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Colour of Magic / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Tethys the water troll is last seen getting into the space capsule with Twoflower and plummeting over the edge. When Twoflower is magically rescued along with the capsule in the next book he isn't even mentioned. A rare example where all options are positive; he can survive travel in space unassisted and wanted off the Disc anyway, or the spell used could easily have just sent him home. The Discworld Companion suggests he's still in the lake that Rincewind lands in in The Light Fantastic.
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The Colour of Magic / int_868a972f	type	Quiet Cry for Help
The Colour of Magic / int_868a972f	comment	Quiet Cry for Help: A variation on this trope is seen when Rincewind tries to take advantage of the fact that only he speaks Twoflower's language to warn Twoflower about his choice of lodging.
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The Colour of Magic / int_86eea0e5	type	World of Pun
The Colour of Magic / int_86eea0e5	comment	World of Pun: Later Discworld novels love their punes, or plays on words, but they are omnipresent here.
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The Colour of Magic / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Colour of Magic / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Bel-Shamharoth, the Sender of Eight, is a stock one.
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The Colour of Magic / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
The Colour of Magic / int_8a5dc833	comment	It Runs on Nonsensoleum: An ocean-based hovercraft works by having hydrophobic mages, who don't hate but loathe water, stare at it and repel it with their loathing. They're very expensive, Rincewind says. Have to be trained on dehydrated water.
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The Colour of Magic / int_8c16c5d	type	Powers That Be
The Colour of Magic / int_8c16c5d	comment	Powers That Be: One of only two Disc novels to mention the Old High Ones "to whom even the gods are answerable", who intervened to prevent the destruction of the Disc in the aforementioned war by banishing the gods to Cori Celesti and remaking men a good deal smaller.
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The Colour of Magic / int_8c96e3bc	type	Chandelier Swing
The Colour of Magic / int_8c96e3bc	comment	Chandelier Swing: Mentioned by Twoflower as one of the things he's heard about people doing in tavern brawls.
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The Colour of Magic / int_8dfc21ee	type	Slave Market
The Colour of Magic / int_8dfc21ee	comment	Slave Market: Because Ankh-Morpork is the quintessence of a classic Sword and Sorcery city at this point, of course it has a slave market, which Twoflower regards as one of the sights he has to see — though we don't get details.
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The Colour of Magic / int_8f746311	type	Cargo Cult
The Colour of Magic / int_8f746311	comment	Cargo Cult: The eventual fate of the first in-sewer-ants policy of Ankh-Morpork, blown out to sea, where a small island nation found it and worshipped it as a god, eventually prompting some of the Unseen University's wizards to come have a looksee.
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The Colour of Magic / int_93b39134	type	Training the Gift of Magic
The Colour of Magic / int_93b39134	comment	Training the Gift of Magic: The book establishes the principle that Discworld magic-workers have a unique gift, but still need training and competence to use it safely. (Even Rincewind has the gift, though he lacks any competence whatsoever.) The gift is defined here as the ability to see octarine light (see above), though that is largely forgotten in later books.
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The Colour of Magic / int_958ffe8c	type	The Perils of Being the Best
The Colour of Magic / int_958ffe8c	comment	The Perils of Being the Best: A short section focuses on a great architect who has built a number of masterpieces, only for his employers to decide to mutilate or cripple him afterward so that he could never build a better work for another country. After finishing his latest work, he only wants to be let go and left alone. Instead his employer kills him.
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The Colour of Magic / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
The Colour of Magic / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Rincewind, technically speaking, who takes it upon himself to spin a few tales for Twoflower's benefit in exchange for gold. Unfortunately (for Rincewind) things don't work out as he hoped.
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The Colour of Magic / int_99fa6bc0	type	Because I'm Good At It
The Colour of Magic / int_99fa6bc0	comment	Because I'm Good At It: The reason Dactylos keeps designing things no matter how many bits of him his employers remove.
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The Colour of Magic / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
The Colour of Magic / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini: Liessa. Played with, in that this is how all Dragonriders in the Wyrmburg dress, including the men.
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The Colour of Magic / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
The Colour of Magic / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: Spoofed. As well as the more usual three categories of plants, annuals (you plant it this year, it comes up the same year), biannuals (you plant it this year, it comes up next year) and perennials (you plant it this year, it keeps coming up every year), Discworld also includes re-annuals, which you plant this year and come up last year. Wine made from reannual grapes is highly prized, but gives you the 'hangunder' before you drink it.
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The Colour of Magic / int_a24495b8	type	Attack of the Monster Appendage
The Colour of Magic / int_a24495b8	comment	Attack of the Monster Appendage: Bel-Shamaroth, which can be considered both type 1 and type 2.
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The Colour of Magic / int_a51467fe	type	Chest Monster
The Colour of Magic / int_a51467fe	comment	Chest Monster: The Luggage, a walking chest made of sapient pearwood. One of the few good-guy examples... for a given value of "good".
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The Colour of Magic / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
The Colour of Magic / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Kring, Hrun's talking sword.
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The Colour of Magic / int_a9b99f04	type	NaÃ¯ve Animal Lover
The Colour of Magic / int_a9b99f04	comment	NaÃ¯ve Animal Lover: Referenced:
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The Colour of Magic / int_ab7b9269	type	You All Meet in an Inn
The Colour of Magic / int_ab7b9269	comment	You All Meet in an Inn: Rincewind and Twoflower meet in the stereotypical fantasy inn the Broken Drum, which is also filled with heroes and adventurers. The name, incidentally, is explained in another Pratchett book, Strata: "Because you can't beat it".
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The Colour of Magic / int_ad44a161	type	Ouroboros
The Colour of Magic / int_ad44a161	comment	Ouroboros: Tethys once passed a world that was an equally common world myth as the turtle-elephant-disc structure, that of a world entwined by a serpent ouroboros.
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The Colour of Magic / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Colour of Magic / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: When the dryads are going to execute Rincewind for damaging their tree, but nonetheless say he's fortunate compared to Twoflower who is trapped in Bel-Shamharoth's temple—
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The Colour of Magic / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Colour of Magic / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Needless to say, as this is the first book there are quite a few later on... One paragraph particularly stands out, when Rincewind is surprised that dryads still exist. His monologue mentions that it's thought that only trolls and elves survived the "coming of men to the Disc" and that gnomes and pixies have died out. Later books instead state that there are no elves on the Disc and gnomes and pixies are very much still there. Hrun says that swamp dragons are extinct, but they prominently appear in later books, such as Guards! Guards!. For that matter, the description of swamp dragons in this book — as acid-spewing monsters — is very different to the small fire-breathing pets of later books. The nature of the Patrician simply changes completely between this and later books, without explanation; see Characterization Marches On and Early-Installment Weirdness.
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The Colour of Magic / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
The Colour of Magic / int_b2c737e8	comment	Relatedly, there's no mention of wizards practicing Klingon Promotion at all. That won't be until the next book.
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The Colour of Magic / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
The Colour of Magic / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Bel-Shamharoth's temple is made up of eight-sided stone slabs. Yes, only eight-sided stone slabs.
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The Colour of Magic / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
The Colour of Magic / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Just before he's rescued from Liessa, Hrun is described as 'priapic'.
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The Colour of Magic / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Colour of Magic / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Rincewind, who is not merely cowardly but surprisingly greedy compared with his later appearances, debuts as a Pragmatic Hero.
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The Colour of Magic / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
The Colour of Magic / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: Twoflower is able to read the words directing travelers to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth, even after he realizes he's unfamiliar with the language they're inscribed in.
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The Colour of Magic / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
The Colour of Magic / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Bel-Shamharoth. So ancient that most of his kind have gone extinct long ago, so repulsive that Time itself dares not touch his temple or its surroundings, and it's stated (though in jest) that Death might not have dared to touch him. So powerful that his existence is the reasons why wizards should not say the word eight, so alien that looking at him drives to insanity... and cripplingly weak to bright light. Also, when two hydrophobes on Krull try to apprehend the pair, a quick-thinking Twoflower incapacitates one of them by spitting on his hand.
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The Colour of Magic / int_c0fda9f6	type	All Amazons Want Hercules
The Colour of Magic / int_c0fda9f6	comment	All Amazons Want Hercules: Liessa Wyrmbidder and Hrun the barbarian.
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The Colour of Magic / int_c5011a76	comment	Weapon Wields You: Kring the magical talking sword does this several times during the rescue it forces Rincewind to carry out.
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The Colour of Magic / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: The book ends with Rincewind thrown off the edge of the world, and the fates of Twoflower and The Luggage left ambiguous.
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The Colour of Magic / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Besides the direct parodies noted above; The place name "Ecalpon" ('noplace' spelled backwards) is a reference to Erewhon (almost 'nowhere' backwards). The name Rincewind is derived from J. B. Morton's "Beachcomber" column in the London Daily Express — specifically, it was the name of one of the dwarves in the "Mr Justice Cocklecarrot and the twelve Red-Bearded Dwarves" features. Twoflower mentions having read The Octarine Fairy Book as a child; this is the Discworld version of the Andrew Lang series of colour-named fairy tale compilations such as The Blue Fairy Book. Death sawing at the tree in which Rincewind is curled up is an homage to The Seventh Seal. Kring the talking sword mentions a notch that came from an enemy wearing an octiron collar. Likely a reference to Gimli and Legolas' Body-Count Competition in The Lord of the Rings, Gimli's axe was notched from the forty-second orc, who had an iron collar. One of Kring's escapades, which he grumbles about, was spending some time at the bottom of a lake. Kring also mentions a wish to be forged into a ploughshare, a reference to Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3 Death telling Rincewind that they have an appointment in a far away city and offering him to loan him his horse to get there is an inverted version of the Appointment in Samarra folktale. Rincewind's explanation of hydrophobic wizards' ability to levitate over water is a rewording of the way levitation was controlled by the protagonist of Randall Garrett's What The Left Hand Was Doing: Garrett's levitator ended up flying home over an ocean that he'd persuaded himself to loath. Garrett is not usually listed among Pratchett's influencers but was in the right time and genre to be one.
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The Colour of Magic / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Colour of Magic / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: See Blinding Camera Flash above.
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The Colour of Magic / int_cdf07252	comment	Heads, Tails, Edge: Rincewind confirms his suspicions that they have entered a magical fallout zone when he successfully calls a tossed coin as 'edge'.
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The Colour of Magic / int_ce4f133d	comment	Gun Twirling: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it example, the head of the Assassins' Guild spins, then holsters his blowpipe after firing off a poisoned dart.
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The Colour of Magic / int_cedeae6a	comment	Wacky Wayside Tribe: The book is a constant stream of them.
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The Colour of Magic / int_d05cf3f	comment	Pratchett's trademark Footnote Fever isn't really established yet, either. Not that there are no footnotes in The Colour of Magic, but they're few and far between.
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The Colour of Magic / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
The Colour of Magic / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: The usual fate of any poor sod caught by the Empire of Krull is their tongue gets cut out.
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The Colour of Magic / int_d30dfd1c	comment	Ridiculous Exchange Rates: Twoflower's money is made of pure gold, which in his homeland is considered Worthless Yellow Rocks and only used as a fiat currency. As a result an amount of money that would keep going for a month at home makes him effectively the richest man in the city. The Patrician actually points out what this would do to the value of gold if he kept spreading it around, but Rincewind doesn't get it. Twoflower himself apparently never figures this out, and for example rents a room at the Drum for more than the worth of the Drum.
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The Colour of Magic / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The Colour of Magic / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: This introduces the two breeds of dragon, Draco(nis) vulgaris the small realistic swamp dragon, and Draco(nis) nobilis, huge dragons as we expect them to be, and can only exist thanks to strong magic or belief (also, because they're not exactly real, they're often mostly transparent). The books describe the dragons repeatedly as having horse-like heads, although the graphic novel adaptation doesn't in any way correspond to that image.
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The Colour of Magic / int_d9d3c1f2	comment	Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Figures rather prominently.
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The Colour of Magic / int_de5f028b	type	Barbarian Hero
The Colour of Magic / int_de5f028b	comment	Barbarian Hero: Hrun and Bravd.
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The Colour of Magic / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Colour of Magic / int_df968cf	comment	Insurance Fraud: While captive, Twoflower sells Broadman an Inn-sewer-ants policy for the Broken Drum. Naturally, when he gets a chance to slip away, Broadman goes to burn it down, mostly because Inn-sewer-ants was described as a bet that the Drum won't burn down.
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The Colour of Magic / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Colour of Magic / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: Death's scythe is mentioned to have bisected a breeze and spoken words, and sliced a candle flame into three parts.
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The Colour of Magic / int_e4cf1ef0	type	Load-Bearing Boss
The Colour of Magic / int_e4cf1ef0	comment	Load-Bearing Boss/No Ontological Inertia: Done interestingly with Bel-Shamharoth's temple—as soon as he retreats, the thousands of years of time that was held at bay by his power comes rushing in and the temple not only falls apart but is ground down to dust in seconds.
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The Colour of Magic / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Nothing will stop the Luggage following Twoflower.
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The Colour of Magic / int_e670e8ab	type	Old Magic
The Colour of Magic / int_e670e8ab	comment	Old Magic: The dryad Druellae calls her magic "Not your weasel-faced tame magic, but root-and-branch magic, the old magic. Wild magic." Rincewind remembers just enough magical theory to understand what she's doing (which, ironically, is a magitek Faraday disc), and that UU strictly forbids it.
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The Colour of Magic / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
The Colour of Magic / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: The Luggage shows some instances of dog-like behavior, such as shaking itself to get dry.
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The Colour of Magic / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
The Colour of Magic / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Bel-Shamharoth.
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The Colour of Magic / int_e96475ec	type	Excalibur
The Colour of Magic / int_e96475ec	comment	One of Kring's escapades, which he grumbles about, was spending some time at the bottom of a lake.
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The Colour of Magic / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
The Colour of Magic / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Spoofed, since there are no guns in this setting, it's a Dramatic Crossbow Cock instead. Several of them.
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The Colour of Magic / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Colour of Magic / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Rincewind is almost kind of a Jerkass who shamelessly fleeces Twoflower out of his money and only protects him because the Patrician will kill him if he doesn't.
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The Colour of Magic / int_ef56c5be	type	Exotic Entree
The Colour of Magic / int_ef56c5be	comment	Exotic Entree: The Patrician enjoys delicacies like candied jellyfish. During Rincewind and Twoflower's captivity in Krull, they're offered a large quantity of exotic seafood.
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The Colour of Magic / int_f018c5cf	type	Offhand Backhand
The Colour of Magic / int_f018c5cf	comment	Offhand Backhand: Hrun instinctively reaches out and grabs the dagger-holding hand of Liessa in mid-stab... while fast asleep. Then again, a few moments later (now awake), when he stands up and casually disarms and incapacitates the guards 'out of habit'.
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The Colour of Magic / int_f19ee38d	type	Fantasy Aliens
The Colour of Magic / int_f19ee38d	comment	Fantasy Aliens: Tethys the water troll hails from another planet and arrived on the disc by falling off his previous world.
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The Colour of Magic / int_f2a5f7f2	type	Expospeak Gag
The Colour of Magic / int_f2a5f7f2	comment	Expospeak Gag: reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits->echo-gnomics->economics.
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The Colour of Magic / int_f4edd0ac	type	In Mysterious Ways
The Colour of Magic / int_f4edd0ac	comment	In Mysterious Ways: The gods not only play dice with the universe, they play Dungeons & Dragons. Many of the seemingly capricious plot events that befall Rincewind and Twoflower are manifestations of an exciting tabletop gaming session between Fate and The Lady.
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The Colour of Magic / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Colour of Magic / int_f9f2c33	comment	The Bel-Shamharoth example is subject to an Running Gag of Discworld and Rincewind, and even the book's narration dancing around the number:
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The Colour of Magic / int_fca239bc	type	Society-on-Edge Episode
The Colour of Magic / int_fca239bc	comment	Society-on-Edge Episode: As an Establishing Character Moment for Ankh-Morporkians as a whole: a fire started in the rougher part of town soon spreads. Rich citizens are soon selfishly hacking down the bridges that span the river so the panicking crowds won't be able to invade.
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The Colour of Magic / int_ff1a13ad	comment	Accidental Incantation: The heroes end up in the lair of Bel-Shamharoth, a.k.a. the Soul Eater, an Eldritch Abomination so horrible even Time doesn't go near it. Rincewind realizes exactly where they are; and since he knows that eight is its sacred number, tells everyone not to say the number that corresponds to the sum of seven plus one, or three plus five, or ten minus two... (Even the narration gets in on it, describing the 7a passages as branching off from the room with four times two walls). Cue Hrun's talking sword asking why Rincewind doesn't want them to say "eight"; the words "EIGHT, Hate, ate" echoing around the temple without fading away; and of course, Bel-Shamharoth waking up.
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The Colour of Magic / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Colour of Magic / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Rincewind, who has been our Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist for a majority of the book, saves a frog from going over the edge, not realising that it's The Lady in disguise.
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The Colour of Magic / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Colour of Magic / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Before he created the Discworld, Pratchett wrote science fiction, and put some thought into the nature of climate and physics for a functional discworld. Hence the hub is arctic, the edge equatorial (because the sun passes close to the edge). It would also have eight seasons (two summers, when the sun sets or rises near you, two winters when it doesn't, two springs and two falls), hence the general affection for the number eight. The earliest books are really the only ones to make much mention of it, thought the characterization lasts. He just focuses more on the stories and people than on The Science of Discworld. With one or two exceptions. Every other book ignores the fact that a Disc year is 800 days long and treats 'a year' as being like one on Earth. This was explained in the Discworld Companion as farmers treating the 400 days' single cycle through the seasons as 'a year' and ignoring the fact that the sun rises on different sides in alternating years, and most ordinary people use the farmers' definition rather than the wizards' one. "You plough, you sow, it grows, you harvest — that's a year, no matter what some daft man in Ankh-Morpork says".
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The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Comet of Doom / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Confused Question Mark / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Continuity Drift / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Cool Sword / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Cosmic Chess Game / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Critical Staffing Shortage / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Dark-Skinned Blond / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Divine Assistance / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Dragon Rider / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Eldritch Ocean Abyss / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Empathic Weapon / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Enemies with Death / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	English Literature / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Everybody Hates Hades / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Evil Weapon / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Exotic Entree / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Exposed Extraterrestrials / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Expospeak Gag / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Fantastic Fallout / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Fantasy Aliens / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Flat World / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Flip-Flop of God / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Floating Water / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Forbidden Chekhov's Gun / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Foreign Queasine / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Go for the Eye / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Going to See the Elephant / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Gravity Screw / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Heads, Tails, Edge / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Hufflepuff House / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Hurricane of Euphemisms / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	I Ate WHAT?! / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	I Like Those Odds / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	In Mysterious Ways / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Inevitable Waterfall / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Instant Messenger Pigeon / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Just the Introduction to the Opposites / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Keep It Foreign / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	King on His Deathbed / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Language Equals Thought / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Literal Cliffhanger / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Literal Metaphor / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Load-Bearing Boss / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Magic from Technology / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Monster-Shaped Mountain / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Mugged for Disguise / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Mushroom Samba / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	NaÃ¯ve Animal Lover / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Named After the Injury / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Nature Spirit / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	No Immortal Inertia / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	No More for Me / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Offhand Backhand / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Old Magic / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Once Upon a Time / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Pet Rat / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Quiet Cry for Help / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Random Encounters / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Random Events Plot / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Rejected by the Empathic Weapon / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Relieving the Reaper / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Ride the Lightning / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Ridiculous Exchange Rates / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Royal Rapier / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Serial Prostheses / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Shoot the Builder / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Society-on-Edge Episode / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Something-Nauts / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Sudden Name Change / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Talking Weapon / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	The Great Fire / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	The Necrocracy / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	The Problem with Fighting Death / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	This Is My Name on Foreign / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	This Is Not a Floor / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Throwing Your Sword Always Works / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Time Stands Still / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Translation: "Yes" / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Traveling Landmass / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Trivial Title / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Un-Paused / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Unreliable Illustrator / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Unwanted Rescue / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Villain Baal / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Wacky Wayside Tribe / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Wake Up Fighting / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Weapon Wields You / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Weaponized Camera / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Wide-Eyed Idealist / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	You Are Already Dead / int_1bfb41c6
The Colour of Magic	hasFeature	Your Princess Is in Another Castle! / int_1bfb41c6

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