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[[File:Paul Kidby Discworld.jpg|frame|[[Discworld/Small Gods|The turtle moves!]]]]
{{quote|''Stories are important. People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way round. Stories... have evolved... The strongest have survived, and they have grown fat... Stories etch grooves deep enough for people to follow... A thousand wolves have eaten grandmother, a thousand princesses have been kissed... Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats.''
|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]''' in ''Witches Abroad,'' describing the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]}}
''A world, and a mirror of worlds.''
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** Wizards in full regalia probably count, as well. They are likened to what would happen if you found a way to inflate a Bird of Paradise covered in glitter.
* [[Playing with a Trope]]: The creator's ''entire body of work'' does this.
* [[Power Limiter]]: The [[Wizarding School|Unseen University]] of the Wizards is full of bureaucracy, bickering, eating, lazing around and pointless activities in general - all of which are found to have been '''very''' necessary when the system is temporarily overturned in ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' and ''[[
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Vetinari does not actually rule his realm with an iron fist. He has the novel idea of maintaining control by making people actually ''want'' to keep him in charge, or at the very least, make removing him from power an unsavory prospect. See [[Vetinari Job Security]].
** The problem is that the Guild leaders and nobility all hate each other too much to support any other candidate. There's also the fact that virtually every other Patrician before Vetinari has turned out to be insane, or has become insane once they've taken the position.
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