Drum Billet, dying wizard, bloody-minded apple tree and reincarnated antĭave Langford reviewed Equal Rites for White Dwarf #87, and called it "screwy and dotty" and concluded that the book was "Good fun.".Esk and Simon go on to develop a new kind of magic, based on the notion that the greatest power is the ability not to use all the others. With the help of Granny Weatherwax and Archchancellor Cutangle, who have retrieved the staff, they both manage to transport themselves back into the Discworld. The extreme cold there causes the staff, now washed out to sea, to create a huge ice sheet, causing a storm that floods the university as well as the surrounding city.Įsk and Simon discover the weakness of the creatures from the Dungeon Dimensions-if you can use magic, but don't, they become scared and weakened. While attempting to rescue him, Esk ends up in the Dungeon Dimensions. Esk throws the staff away, believing that it attacked Simon. The staff, acting to protect Esk, strikes Simon on the head, closing the hole but trapping his mind in the Dungeon Dimensions. Simon's magic causes a hole to be opened into the Dungeon Dimensions while he is in Esk's presence. Simon is a natural talent who invents a whole new way of looking at the universe that reduces it to component numbers. While there, Esk witnesses the progress of an apprentice wizard named Simon, whom she had met earlier, on her way to Ankh-Morpork. Esk is unsuccessful in her first, direct, attempt to gain entry to the University, but Granny Weatherwax finds another way in as a servant.
As Esk grows up, it becomes apparent that she has uncontrollable powers, and the local witch Granny Weatherwax decides to travel with her to Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to help her gain the knowledge required to properly manage her powers.īut a female wizard is something completely unheard of on the Discworld. Since Billet notices his mistake too late, the staff passes on to her. However, the newborn child is actually a girl, Esk (full name Eskarina Smith).
Billet wants to pass his wizard's staff on to his successor. This signifies that the child is destined to become a wizard on the Discworld, the number eight has many of the magical properties that are sometimes ascribed to seven in other mythologies. The wizard Drum Billet knows that he will soon die and travels to a place where an eighth son of an eighth son is about to be born. Pratchett based the character Esk on his daughter Rhianna Pratchett. The protagonist Eskarina Smith does not return until I Shall Wear Midnight, which was published 23 years later. The novel introduces the character of Granny Weatherwax, who reappears in several later Discworld novels. The title is wordplay on the phrase " Equal Rights". Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the Discworld series and the first in which the main character is not Rincewind. Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett.
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