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This one is different I can't ignore the history of what has gone before Granny Weatherwax first turned up in Equal Rites In Wyrd Sisters she beca of the easy-going, rat, she of the red nose and unkempt hair and tendency to be soppy about raindrops and roses and whiskers on kittens

And what took place was a plot not unadjacent to a play about a Scottish king, which ended with Verence II beco of the little hilly, forested country of Lancre

Technically, this shouldn't have happened, since strictly speaking he was not the heir, but to the witches he looked like being the best man for the job and, as they say, all's well that ends well It also ended with Magrat reaching a very tentative Understanding with Verencevery tentative indeed, since both of theot whatever it was they were going to say to one another whenever theythe other one misunderstood it and took offence, and both of the what the other one was thinking This

In Witches Abroad the three witches had to travel half-way across the continent to face down the Godmother (who had made Destiny an offer it couldn't refuse)

This is the story of what happened when they arrived home

NOW READ ON

Now read on

When does it start?

There are very few starts Oh, sos

The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired[1] but that's not the start The play, the game, the war is just a littleon a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years The point is, there's always so before It's always a case of Now Read On

Much hu the ultimate Before

The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:

In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded

Other theories about the ulti the universe out of the ribs, entrails, and testicles of their father[2] There are quite a lot of these They are interesting, not for what they tell you about cosy, but for what they say about people Hey, kids, which part do you think they made your town out of?

But this story starts on the Discworld, which travels through space on the back of four giant elephants which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle and is not made of any bits of anyone's bodies