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squirel52
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(12/6/02 4:21 am)
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what do we know about granny weatherwax and ridcully?
i remember in lords and ladies, the breif insite to a past between those 2, and i wondered if there had ever ben mention of it before that i hadn't picked up on.
There was another reference to it in equal rites i think, but my memory is a little foggy.

Do we actually know anything about them?

all i know
A) they went out at one stage in the past
B) Ridcully left to become a wizard
C) she's to busy being a witch to care for him now....

is there anything i've missed?

also, did the chick from equal rites ever go anywhere? i seem to have lost track of her

robcraine
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(12/6/02 9:25 am)
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Re: what do we know about granny weatherwax and ridcully?
not a lot.

there's the stuff in LL and that's about it: I think Ridcully used to holiday near Lancre, and one year he and Granny almost did something, but Esme was too fast a runner and didn't know how to find a good root to trip over. She ended up meeting the fairy queen instead. They certainly didn't... you know... *cough*.... if they had Granny wouldn't have been able to capture the Unicorn. Mustrum became a wizard and didn't return to Lancre for 50 years.

Ridcully is first heard of in MP (I think)... or was it RM? anyway. He was very talented as a youth. He became a 7th level mage (or something) at a very young age and then left to the country to run an estate. A few decades later he was summoned back to the UU to be archchancellor.

So, ridcully wasn't at the UU at the time of ER. What you might be thinking of is a mention of Galder Weatherwax, a distant cousin of Esme and once Archancellor of UU. He was the one who installed BSJ's bathroom, and subsequently ordered it boarded up.

as for C) well, I think Granny thinks its enough to know that everything happens somewhere.

Esk, and the now non-stuttering Simon have not been heard from since ER, and the traditions surrounding not letting women into the university seem unchanged.

rob

The Broken Drum
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(12/28/02 7:21 pm)
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Re: what do we know about granny weatherwax and ridcully?
maybe that was another of the prototype thingees, there. In ER, maybe he was toying with the idea of female mages, just like he was toying with the ideas for Angua when he created Ludmilla. Mayhap it just disgusted him so much that he decided never to go near the topic again.

The Broken Drum

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