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And why, oh why, is it just a given that magic works in fantasy worlds but not in our own?.Why are all elves tall, beautiful, and shoot bows, but all dwarves are short, bulbous, and favor axes when they aren't sniffing out gold in their mines?.How come all wizards are old bachelors with staffs and ZZ-Top beards?.In other words, welcome to Discworld.Īn avid reader of fantasy novels in his youth, Terry Pratchett found himself wondering one day why all fantasy novels followed the same rules if they were supposed to be works of the pure imagination. Welcome to a world where barbarian adventurer is a totally legit career path, a dragon-filled mountain can plant its peak firmly in the ground without a care for what geologists might think, Death needs a better daily planner thanks to gambling deities mucking up his system with their dice games, and where a giant turtle swims through the cosmos as four elephants teeter on its shell under the weight of an all-together flat planet.
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