In the fathomless deeps of space… Yes we do know this has been done before. So we will do it differently. Theirs a Turtle it may be big, it may be tiny (Its all a mater of comparison really) and it is known at the great A`Tuin to many. That is to say that we have no proof that it was the last egg to hatch and is known to his friends and family as little Jimmy. But on its back sits four elephants I am sure they have been named at some time but I am afraid that I just am`nt the type that remembers J Oh wait after a quick glance at my fateful companion (and that is the book not my dog) Berilia, Tubul, Great T`Phon and Jerakeen. And on their back sits the Discworld. Personally I admire the elephants they must be something special to put up with that amount of friction burn, even more so when they have to lift their leg so the Discworld tiny orbiting sun can pass trough every day.
Now the Discworld is an unpredictable place. Any Place would be when its mainly made up of belief and of course the trouser legs of time .A slightly confusing guideline which states that simple choice would generally lead to a different out come, as in you put you foot in this leg first and just might bang your toe off the electric heater which you meant to have fixed and suddenly your standing in the area where our house used to be having a nice conversation with a tall figure in a hood, (where’s the confusing bit you ask well no matter what way you put your feet in both still smell just as cheesy). When traveling in this strange land we recommend you cover for every eventuality such as swamp dragons with zigzag trout, dwarfs with political problems over stone confectionary and, and um crazed assassins trying to inhume the Hog Father. There is also some worries about one of those elephants shaking lose and crashing back into the disc, engulfing everything in flaming piles of hot fat and ivory. (But it has
Rincewind if nothing else has a habit of not dieing, sounds useful, doesn’t it. Unfortunately all he wants is a nice bit of piece and quite. He found his best time as assistant librarian at the disc’s premier university for wizards (see Unseen U.U) We are sure that being an orangutans assistant could get only partly dull. He has survived many terrible things tusfar (mainly by running away) and has saved his world more times than not, and yet his superiors find it hard to remember his name. This could be put down to the fact that he spends most of his time off on meaningless and dangerous quests. He puts up with all this because he has an unchangeable belief that his role in life is to be a wizard and this belief has not been changed by the fact that he isn’t any good at it. If fact it has been proven somewhere that if Rincewind died the whole worlds magical average would go up by a percent.
Rincewind some years ago came into possession of the luggage. Well not so much possession as companion ship. It is best described as a treasure chest on lots of legs and some knots with the uncanny ability to look like a face. It is made from sapient pearwood a magical material on the disc, and is able to follow its owner anywhere. It can kill sharks, fight armies, um… eat armies, and travel trough time or space. It often has been wondered how it can chow down on an attacking outlaw on Sunday and have Rincewind's dirty laundry clean and dry by Monday.