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WMGs for Discworld: The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight. Warning: Potential unmarked spoilers.

The Nac Mac Feegle are right.
The Nac Mac Feegle believe that Discworld is their afterlife; more specifically, their equivalent to Valhalla, because why else would it be so perfect for them? Canonically, everyone gets the kind of afterlife they believe in (so History Monks get reincarnated, the Omnians all have to cross a lonely desert, etc.). So if the Nac Mac Feegle believe the Discworld is their afterlife, then quite possibly, it is!
  • That would certainly explain why Death didn't appear in The Wee Free Men: the only people who die in that book except in flashbacks or Fairyland (which is not his jurisdiction) are pictsies. And he only collects souls that are on their way to the afterlife, not the ones going the other way.

Granny Aching's sheepdogs were werewolves
In The Fifth Elephant, Angua mentions that one of her brothers was a yennork, a werewolf that can't shapeshift that became a champion sheepdog. She implies that such "outliers" may lead to strains of exceptionally intelligent dogs or fairy-tale-level cruel wolves. Thunder and Lightning are very strongly implied to understand human speech far beyond herding commands; possibly they and their numerous progeny on the Chalk owe their skill to some distant werewolf ancestry.


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