Witches 11, Wizards 9
Tales from the Drum
English - September 13, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsComedy Fiction Fiction Arts Books discworld pratchett culture history storytelling teaching learning felines memoirs fantasy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Not that we're keeping score. This week we begin to explore the vast and often tumbled landscape of the topic of the Disc's witches and wizards. The wizards' level-based heirarchical approach to magic atrophies over time. By the later books wizards are best known for the magic they do not do; the tradition of Dead Men's Shoes is firmly in the past; and political bickering and jockeying for position have long since taken the place of magical duels.
Witches' magic, on the other hand, becomes clearer and clearer of apprehension, and is more and more in evidence, over the course of the books. This couldn't be a commentary on the relative usefulness of the two groups, could it? Nah. I thought not.
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