thestuffedalligator
Discworld is the only fantasy setting I know of that opens with The Magic Is Going Away and everyone is just kind of okay with it. Like “Welp, got to move with the times, can’t run a condom factory when there’s elves all over the place”
thestuffedalligator
And whenever The Magic Comes Back, some overtired reluctant protagonist has to roll their eyes and Put The Magic Back Where It Came From
In any other fantasy setting the return of dragons, sourcerers, elves or unicorns would be some kind of beautiful, bittersweet closing note, but in Discworld it prompts the same kind of response as a bat in the house












