1 | * {{Applicability}}: Prachett got letters from both Christians and Secular Humanists (of which he was a proud member) who found the book a respectful representation of their worldviews. |
2 | * GeniusBonus: |
3 | ** When Om re-ascends to full godhood, it's described as "theophany", Ancient Greek for "the appearance of a God". Which it certainly is. |
4 | ** Ephebe is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Greece. The name of the country derives from the Greek word for an adolescent boy, making it a sly reference to the Greek practice of pederasty (It's the root word for "Ephebophile"). |
5 | ** "Septateuch" is a reference to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, sometimes called the Pentateuch. |
6 | ** Brutha has the nickname of the "Dumb Ox" - as did St. Thomas Aquinas, known for bridging Christian theology and Greek philosophy. |
7 | * GrowingTheBeard: While there's naturally some disagreement among fans about when the series really became its best, this is the latest book you're likely to hear named as that moment. |
8 | * JerkassWoobie: |
9 | ** Om, sometimes. He's a [[JerkassGods selfish prick]], but it's hard not to feel occasional sympathy for him given [[LossOfIdentity what he faces]] if he loses his last believer, and he does [[TookALevelInKindness become a significantly better person (well, god)]] through CharacterDevelopment. |
10 | ** Simony. Also a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, at least until [[WhatTheHellHero he gets called out on it]], but given what Omnia is like to its own citizens a person from a conquered nation would have a very hard life. [[HarmfulToMinors And he was only a kid at the time.]] |
11 | * MoralEventHorizon: Vorbis, being head of the Quisition, seems to have crossed this point well before the start of the book. [[spoiler: The death of Brother Murduck happened quite a while ago, and his plan to get through the desert, clearly costing a lot of lives, was even before that.]] |
12 | * NightmareFuel: The Iron Turtle torture device that Vorbis invents is very simple in its nastiness. It's simply a massive iron turtle sculpture with the victim [[CrucifiedHeroShot manacled on its back]] that is heated by a fire from underneath, very gradually working up to the temperature where the prisoner will be roasted alive. [[spoiler:And Brutha was going to be executed on it, if Om hadn't saved him.]] |
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