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Author: AgProv

Sep 6th 2016 at 1:32:58 AM

[[AC: {{Literature}}]] 
* In ''Discworld/TheLightFantastc'', a Change Spell affects the entire ''world'', beginning in Unseen University and rippling outwards to encompass the entire world. The wizards, who are trained to recognise and act on this sort of thing, realise what's happening and speed to a high vantage point to watch the ripple in reality spread out first over the city and then onwards. [[note]]This is done to save the life of the Wizzard Rincewind - mis-spelling deliberate - who in this time and place is the most important person in the world, for reasons that become clear later.[[/note]]. Creator/TerryPratchett is fond of this trope. it recurs in ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'' when the repentent super-magician, Coin, reverses the damage he has caused and restores the entire world. In ''Discworld/{{Mort}}'', a kind of ripple effect caused by Death's stand-in not killing a Queen when he should have done creates two worlds, superimposed on each other: the dominant world, where the Queen died, tries to restore order by rippling back into the second reality where she still lives.  And in books like ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', the History Monks are revealed to be the super-secret organisation that manages the time-line and seeks to stop things like this from happening.