History Headscratchers / WyrdSisters

** The fifteen year gap neatly explains the absence of witch input into ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''. You can be sure witches would either have been infected by the magical war going on and taken part -- with a vengeance. Or the stronger ones would have fought like Hell against a Sourceror bringing about the end of the world -- knowing Granny W, she'd have found some neat way of finessing the situation and bringing down Coin and Ipslore, one which simply would not have occurred to any Wizard. If the War of the Sourceror happened during Lancre's effective removal from the circles of the world, the country would have been insulated and protected and simply would not have noticed. Even so, witches not in Lancre would have been drawn in? For instance, what would Hilta Goatfounder, Mrs Proust or even Granny Aching have noticed going on and how would they have dealt with it?

* What happened to Tomjon's mother the Queen? Surely she didn't die in childbirth, not with NannyOgg in attendance.

** It's only on approximately my 40th rereading of the book I've notice that zero mention is made of the Queen, and how odd that is - and considering how young an infant TomJon is at the beginning, childbirth seems the most obvious culprit for her death. She can't have had much chance to meet with accident SINCE then, after all. However good both Granny and Nanny are at midwifery, even they can't have 0% mortality - but what's odd, if one of the witches did attend the birth, is that they wouldn't mention it over the course of the story. And that when the populace begin to turn against the witches, a 'failure' in the Queen's labour isn't brought up. Still, maybe the Queen had an external doctor attend the birth or something and the witches weren't involved .It's also strange that Verence I doesn't wonder if he'll encounter his wife's ghost if she is recently deceased, though.

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* Why did Tomjon refuse the throne? He was the true heir, he could have had enough money to care for Vitoller, and besides he could have acted his way through the role of king.
** Because he didn't want to be king. He didn't care about being the true heir, and he didn't want to act ''only'' as the king for the rest of his life.

** Or they would have simply encountered empty fields, and spread rumors about a mystical and idyllic kingdom that only appeared once every fifteen years. It would be the perfect place for a ''{{Brigadoon}}'' joke, but Pterry didn't go in that direction.

** What does Lord Vetinari's dog have to do with Lancre?? But anyway, as the previous poster explained, ''Thief of Time'' explicitely states that the Time Monks move time around, and have been moving a lot of time from the deep sea and high mountains into Ankh-Morpork to allow all those inventors enough time to speed up development, but and this is important, without actually making all the ''people'' in the city age faster. Societal and technological progress simply moves faster in the cities than in the countryside.

** Wuffles is 16 at the time of ''The Truth'', which chronologically takes place about 16 years after ''Sourcery''. This troper's theory is that Coin turned him back into a puppy at the end of that novel, to make amends for Vetinari being deposed and turned into a lizard.