Like many of the early books that introduce characters it is amusing to see this early version of Granny Weatherwax. Something that will turn the wizarding world on its head! Granny decides to take Esk to Ankh-Morpork & enrol her in the Unseen University, the Disc’s premier college of magic. Men are wizards & women are witches, it is the way things have always been.Īs Esk grows up her magical powers begin to grow & Granny Weatherwax realises that she isn’t going to be a witch…she is destined to be a wizard. No female has ever been a wizard it’s unheard of on the Disc. He completes the ceremony & passes his staff onto…a baby girl, Eskarina Smith (Esk for short). Billet, like many wizards, doesn’t have much time for women so refuses to listen to the midwife when she tries to tell him something. He travels to pass on his staff to a soon to be born eighth son of an eighth son. The wizard Drum Billet is soon to die, something that he is all too aware of. An eight son of an eight son is destined to be a wizard. So everyone knows how you get a wizard right? It’s the eight son of an eight son, eight being a number that has magical properties on the Disc.
Instead this book introduces another series favourite, the witch Granny Weatherwax. The third Discworld is also the first to not have everyone’s favourite failed wizard as the main character.
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