


And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire's current ruler. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary.

"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld - especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life.
