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Buying a horse, Rincewind tries to leave the city but his horse is shot by the guards.

Word soon spreads that a large amount of gold has entered Ankh-Morpork and various thieves start to come together.īack at the Broken Drum, Rincewind has been hired to be a guide to Twoflower but after receiving pay he runs off. The Alchemist says that it is 'technically false coinage' (local coins contain less gold then seawater). Speaking in Trob, Rincewind and Twoflower talk to each other while Broadman runs to an Alchemist to check the gold coins that Twoflower had given him. Twoflower pays for his room (using more money than the inn and staff are worth) and is followed in by the Luggage which gets Rincewind's attention because it is made of sapient pearwood. He attracts the attention of Blind Hugh who sends Cripple Wa to tell the two greatest thieves in Ankh-Morpork, Ymor and Stren Withel, and Hugh himself leads Twoflower to the Broken Drum, a local inn owned by Broadman. He has a large amount of gold (which makes various men try and rob him) that he thinks is not a lot of money. Several days ago Twoflower had arrived from the Agatean Empire that is on the infamous Counterweight Continent. Rincewind then explains to the two local heroes his story about how he had met Twoflower. They are joined shortly after by Rincewind (a failed wizard who had looked at the great spell book the Octavo and then flunked out of the Unseen University) and the Disc's first tourist Twoflower (who has passed out after falling off his horse which he failed to ride) and after them comes the Luggage (a walking suitcase that has half a mind of its own and has a homicidal attitude to anything threatening). This burning is being watched by two of the local heroes, Bravd the Hublander and his partner Weasel.

On the Disc it is further known that the small kingdom of Krull has been sending teams of men over the Edge to look at the Turtle and the four Elephants and proved that they are real, but they do not know the sex of Great A'Tuin.įar away in the hubwards direction Ankh-Morpork, the most famous and oldest city on the Disc, is burning. The world itself is a flat disc that rests on the back of four giant elephants named Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen, who (in turn) rest on the large shell of a giant World Turtle called Great A'Tuin who swims through space. The story starts with the telling of the manner of the Discworld.

There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet. On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out.