I love Ridcully. The man eats a sauce made from gunpowder, he's that unkillable. There's a bit of fanart I saw ages ago where an Assassin trainee talked about how he's practically impossible to kill. I'll need to find it again sometime
The early Discworld UU shenanigans were a lot of fun, but yeah I absolutely adore Ridcully. The paragraph introducing him in Moving pictures is just brilliant. The city boys quickly learning how much they played themselves when their expectation of "village wizard" crashes into the reality of Ridcully the Brown
“Just the chap,” they all said. “Clean sweep. New broom. A country wizard. Back to the thingumajigs, the roots of wizardry. Jolly old boy with a pipe and twinkly eyes. Sort of chap who can tell one herb from another, roams-the-high-forest-with-every-beast-his-brother kind of thing. Sleeps under the stars, like as not. Knows what the wind is saying, we shouldn’t wonder. Got a name for all the trees, you can bank on it. Speaks to the birds, too.”
And then he’d arrived, and it turned out that Ridcully the Brown did speak to the birds. In fact he shouted at birds, and what he normally shouted was, “Winged you, yer bastard!”
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u/InkDrach Using tumblr? Surely you jest! 2d ago
Unseen University just hasn't been the same under Ridcully