Sourcery

[animate_mush]

So, I've been trying to get off of my Doctor Who kick by getting onto a Discworld kick. (Really, I'm very overdue for an Arthur or Beowulf kick - it's just been a whole lotta Doctor Who and Discworld lately).

Anway, watching the BBC adaptation of The Color of Magic reminded me how much I like Rincewind, which in turn reminded me how much I like

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[karakael]

Reading this while rereading Equal Rights made me wonder where Esk and Simon were during the events of Sorcery. It seems that they wouldn't have gotten pulled into the whole fight...and I'd hate to think they got axed because of it. :(

...which then, in my fanfiction addled brain, resulted in me picturing them camped out in the Library with a bitty Ponder Stibbons, while Simon explained discworld physics and Esk maps L-space with the Librarian. So it goes.

[animate_mush]

Yeah, that's a good and disturbing question.

I don't think they're in the library, since the library burns and the librarian escapes with the patrician, wuffles, and the books over to the Tower of Art. And when Rincewind finds them that seems to be everybody.

I have two thoughts.

(1) They're off some otherwhere on the Disc Not-Doing magic for all they're worth trying to hold the world together.
(2) At some point they wandered off through L-Space and left the world entirely, so they're just not here. They're itinerrant math professors having wacky adventures through time and space.

...I like (2) better. And it works with your scenario having happened at some point in the past :)

[karakael]

I like (2) too. Simon and Esk Not!Time Lords! Watch, as they navigate the most tangled knots of time, not doing anything and thereby saving the universe! Comedy! Romance! Probably History Monks!

Out of curiosity, how old would Ponder have been during Sorcery? Does he have a family back home (I swear there's a mention of it somewhere in Hogfather, but I might be getting his and the Lecture of Recent Runes backstory messed up.)

[animate_mush]

Having just read I Shall Wear Midnight (Thanks, by the way!) I'd like to call this CONFIRMED.

Oooh, Discworld Chronology is always hard. I'm sure there's a wiki out there. I think the bit you're thinking of from Hogfather is where one of the older wizards is complaining about there always being some kid who thinks he's smarter than everyone else and wins all the games, and Ponder reflecting sheepishly that he may have been that kid.

[karakael]

Yes~ Esk the Time Space Witch is amazing, is she not?

That makes sense. I wonder if Pratchett will ever give us a canon hint at his past, rather than leaving us guessing?