History Literature / Wintersmith

* DesignatedHero: [[spoiler: Roland. By the Feegles, poor boy.]]

* TheLibby: Annagramma, though Tiffany is actually quite a bit well more liked and respected. However, [[LovableLibby she's not all bad]] such as when [[spoiler:she instantly launches a fireball at the Wintersmith when she thinks he's attacking Tiffany.

* StalkerWithACrush

* TheTalk (sort of): Delivered by [[DirtyOldWoman Nanny Ogg]].
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Roland learns pretty fast once he finds out he's the DesignatedHero.]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Death really dislikes the Nac Mac Feegle.

* WorldOfSilence: Tiffany receives visions of the Wintersmith's version of this ([[spoiler: and the Summer Lady's]]), seeing what happens when there is ''no'' balance to nature.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Either Granny gets her student appointed as witch and people see how good Tiffany can be (and by extension Granny's style of teaching), or Mrs Earwig gets her student in, who'll be dreadful, showing how poor a teacher she is, and requiring Tiffany's help to shape up where everyone will see how good a teacher Granny is]].

** You is a small, white kitten. Who, upon meeting him, [[spoiler:makes it so Greebo will never even think of bothering her.]]

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: See {{Awesome.Discworld}}
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See {{Funny.Discworld}}
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: See {{Heartwarming.Discworld}}

* {{Defictionalization}}: Some fans danced an actual Dark Morris (sans magic) for Pterry at a Chicago bookshop, which he described in this novel's 'Author's Note' as beautifully done, but a bit creepy.
** Although this actually happened quite a while before this book was written. It was mentioned years before it was given focus.

** Actually, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation I read that as]], [[spoiler: he'd thrown his jacket onto the fire ''and instantly regretted'' so much that he tried to get it back from the fire itself. It was just ''that cold.'']]

** Possibly also You and Greebo, if he ever dares come within a mile of her again.

** Except that it's implied heavily near the end that [[spoiler: Granny set it up to make Tiffany THINK that, but actually was improving Annagramma or somesuch. It's a bit vague.]]
*** That's what makes it so smart: [[spoiler: it shows off Granny's teaching abilities ''and'' turns Annagramma into a decent witch. Double-payoff.]]
**** I was under the impression that Granny's trick was to get Tiffany to get the other witches to help put Annagramma, so people would see Tiffany (and by extension Granny) were better than Mrs. Earwig.
***** Although knowing Granny it could be all of the above.
** She also knows, better than any of the other witches, that Tiffany is already irremovably bonded to her own territory.
* YouFailBiologyForever: Wintersmith. Nobody thought to mention to him that it is the arrangement of elements within the body that creates life, not the elements themselves.
** Or he didn't understand the last three lines because they weren't physical elements:

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* ShoutOut: Tir Nani Ogg is a pretty obvious [[ShoutOut shout out]] to Tir Na Nog'th from the [[BookOfAmber Amber series]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: See {{CrowningMoment.Discworld}}

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: See {{HeartwarmingMoment.Discworld}}

Tiffany begins receiving gifts from the Wintersmith: every single snowflake is a tiny Tiffany, he grows roses of ice in the garden, and erects an iceberg in her image. Miss Treason is unable to help her, as she dies the next Friday (at a little bit past 6:30...) and Annagramma Hawkin, self-appointed leader of the young witches' coven and a student of [=MagiK=] with Mrs Earwig, gets the cottage. Granny Weatherwax comes for Tiffany and escorts her to Nanny Ogg's house after getting rid of Tiffany's necklace, which the Wintersmith is using to track her.

Miss Tick, Nanny and Granny explain to Tiffany that during the Morris dance, she became slightly mixed up with the embodiment of summer, the Summer Lady. As it turns out, Tiffany gains some of her powers. Wherever she walks, [[FertileFeet plantlife springs from the ground]] (or the floorboards...). After a warning from Anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers, a cornucopia lands in the garden. The cornucopia provides any foodstuff possible.

The winter grows progressively worse, and Annagramma is growing mad in her new duties as a witch. Her brand of magic is useless in day-to-day life for the villagers, and Tiffany petitions for the other young witches around the mountain to help her adjust and learn. The Wintersmith, at the same time, having heard a children's song, begins to gather raw materials to create a human body for him to use to woo Tiffany, but doesn't understand what it means to be human. Meanwhile, the Ramtops suffers a long and harsh winter and the witches work overtime to help the folk survive.

The Nac Mac Feegle train Roland, a prince of the Chalk and Tiffany's penpal (possibly more), to be a hero. With them, he travels to the underworld to free the Summer Lady. The Wintersmith finds Tiffany again, but she confronts him and convinces him to let summer and winter return to their natural cycle.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Not the "old man" actually; after leading a private campaign of defiance against his usurping, embezzling aunts for most of the book, Roland finally stops even pretending to be polite when they threaten to involve his sick father.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Granny, by letting Mrs Earwig's choice win the cottage but Granny's way of witchcraft win the war.]]

* MayflyDecemberRomance: With a very young mayfly, at that, and fortunately mostly subverted, with Tiffany and the Wintersmith

* XanatosSucker: [[spoiler: Annagramma and Mrs. Earwig, and - to her serious annoyance - Tiffany.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Tiffany's father nearly throws ''himself'' onto the bonfire when there's nothing else left to burn, as he's convinced Tiffany and Wentworth will both freeze to death if her frost-to-fire spell fails. Averted by the other Chalk shepherds, who are GenreSavvy enough to grab him first.]]

* Defictionalization: Some fans danced an actual Dark Morris for Pterry at a Chicago bookshop, which he described in this novel's 'Author's Note' as beautifully done, but a bit creepy.