History Fridge / TheFifthElephant

** There's also the fact that "King" in Dwarfish really means something like "Chief Mining Engineer", so it's also rather like the selection of a new head of the Guild of Cunning Articifers
* The Schmaltzberger dwarfs won't accept any dwarfs named Glodsson as candidates for Low Kingship. Why? In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', a footnote states that thousands of copies of a dwarf named Glod were created by a curse imposed upon a human king by a dyslexic god (the king was trying to wish for ''gold'', you see). The deep-downers probably wouldn't see their offspring as 'real' dwarfs.
* Vimes and Sybil both privately hold the opinion that Carrot and Angua's relationship is under strain because of their concerns about not being able to have children - or at least, not being sure what nature those children would have. This is never brought up in either Carrot's or Angua's point of view sections, and it's made pretty clear that the problem actually stem from a completely unrelated source [[note]]Angua's anxieties that she will become more like her family and eventually turn on her non-werewolf friends, and that she can't be accepted by other species because she's neither a human nor a wolf[[/note]]. While it doesn't make much sense to apply this reasoning to Carrot and Angua, it actually makes complete sense for Vimes and Sybil to ''think'' like this, since it's a projection of their own situation: Vimes is afraid that they've missed their chance to have children by marrying in middle age; and Sybil is afraid because she's just discovered that she's pregnant with her first child, and is unsure of how Vimes will react, or the effect it will have on her health.

* Vimes telling Detritus to blow the doors off the Baron's castle with the Piecemaker isn't just a Moment of Awesome: it also gives Vimes the satisfaction of papering over the memory of one of his previous minor embarrassments. Namely, the time in ''Guards! Guards!'' when he got carried away by ''Dirty Harry'' tropes and ordered Colon to shoot the lock off a door with a bow and arrow. Turns out all he'd needed to get that scene right was different Sergeant wielding a big enough bow.

** Also, while the Scone may not be the original, there have been plenty of books confirming how Belief is a fundamental force on the Discworld, and actually reshapes reality. So it is dwarves' belief as much as any metaphysical properties that make the Scone work.

** Although given how much metal most dwarves wear (and the implication from ''Unseen Academicals'' that much of it is against the skin), a king lying while sitting on the Scone would probably be encased in his own melting armor.

* The Schmaltzberger dwarfs won't accept any dwarfs named Glodsson as candidates for Low Kingship. Why? In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', a footnote states that thousands of copies of a dwarf named Glod were created by a curse imposed upon a human king by a dyslexic god. The deep-downers probably wouldn't see their offspring as 'real' dwarfs.

* When Reg Shoe reports Sonky's murder to Fred Colon, Colon speculates that, if you made a copy of the replica Scone, you'd get the real one back. [[spoiler: This is exactly what happens in the end.]]

* Carrot's alarm when he asks Gaspode if the nearby villagers had killed the wolf they captured seems like an overreaction, given that it's unlikely they'd have used fire or silver against such an animal, so if (as he presumably fears) it was Angua in wolf-form, she'd potentially walk away unscathed. But if you recall the events of ''Literature/MenAtArms'', Gaspode's report of the wolf's capture becomes a ''lot'' more alarming: [[spoiler: it took Angua ''hours'' to revive when she was shot in that novel, and she didn't revert back to human shape while she appeared to be dead. So if the villagers had, say, riddled her with arrows until she dropped, they might well have burned her remains or, worse still, ''skinned her alive'' before she could wake up. (She'd look like a genuine dead wolf to them, and warm pelts are valuable in such a cold country.)]]

* Vimes and Sybil both privately hold the opinion that Carrot and Angua's relationship is under strain because of their concerns about not being able to have children. This is never brought up in either Carrot's or Angua's point of view sections, and it's made pretty clear that the problem actually stem from a completely unrelated source [[note]]Angua's anxieties that she will become more like her family and eventually turn on her non-werewolf friends, and that she can't be accepted by other species because she's neither a human nor a wolf[[/note]]. While it doesn't make much sense to apply this reasoning to Carrot and Angua, it actually makes complete sense for Vimes and Sybil to ''think'' like this, since it's a projection of their own situation: Vimes is afraid that they've missed their chance to have children by marrying in middle age; and Sybil is afraid because she's just discovered that she's pregnant with her first child, and is unsure of how Vimes will react, or the effect it will have on her health.