Pyramids: A Discworld Novel: 7

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Master Poisoner: Mericet teaches Strategy and Poison in the Assassins' school and many of the traps he sets for Teppic are poisoned. O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After being unflattened IIa shows no interest in the cost of the new bridges, which initially worries Ptaclusp. However, it turns out that he's just preoccupied with the royal finances. Pyramids speaks to something of a bypass in Pratchett’s Discworld arrangement. The chief move makes put in the to this point new place that is known for Djelibeybi, situated in northern Klatch over the Circle Sea from Anhk-Morpork. This is a one of a kind domain of the Discworld, two miles wide and 150 miles in length. It is regularly alluded to as the Old Kingdom for a justifiable reason-it is very old, more than 7000 years of age truth be told. It is a betray arrive whose pharaohs are fixated on pyramid-building; other than bankrupting the nation, this fixation has additionally had the unanticipated outcome of keeping the nation immovably settled in previously. Villainous BSoD: Dios has one once his set in stone routine is irrevocably ruined, and is left with no idea what he's supposed to do next.

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Mix-and-Match Critters: The plight of the Sphinx, being a mix up of human, lion and eagle will give a creature one hell of an identity crisis, and a perpetual bad mood. Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his desert homeland to the city of Ankh-Morpork for the best education money can buy. Which just so happens to be at the Assassins’ Guild. Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Djelibeybi is, in the words of Stephen Briggs, " Ancient Egypt turned up until the knob falls off". Ephebe and Tsort are also based on Ancient Greece and Troy respectively. The Anticipator: Teppic considers inhuming Mericet, his Assassin's school examinator (managing to kill the examinator gets you an automatic pass, because it's nearly impossible), but decides against it. Mericet was in fact hiding as a gargoyle, tells Teppic where to go next (involving an obstacle course worthy of Assassin's Creed), and somehow shows up there before Teppic. He shrugged. It might be, for all he knew. “The point is, though, that everyone can do it. They’re very proud of it. Everyone has—” he hesitated again, certain now that things were amiss—“the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extractions. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lost of other people. But everyone apart from them. It’s a very enlightened civilization.”Stable Time Loop: Dios, to the point he may exist purely because of the loop — not even having been born but just existing. Teppic was born in Djelibeybi to the late Pharaoh Teppicymon XXVII and Queen Artela (The Great Cow of the Arch of the Sky). His mother had some strong opinions about his place in Djelibeybi and insisted that Teppic to be educated outside the kingdom – preferably as an Assassin, like her brother, his uncle Vyrt. Prior to leaving Djelibeybi, he was raised in the palace where he was educated by personal tutors, selected by his father, who left him alone to do whatever he pleased. In layman’s terms,’ the doctor sniffed, ‘he’s as dead as a doornail.’ ‘What are the complications?’ The doctor looked shifty. ‘He’s still breathing,’ he said. <><><>‘Well, what can you do about it?’ said Arthur. ‘Nothing. He’s dead. All the medical tests prove it. So, er … bury him, keep him nice and cool, and tell him to come and see me next week. In daylight, for preference.’ Cats Are Mean: Dios insists cats must be worshipped, but Teppic can't help but feel if he has to worship cats they should be elegant-looking creatures, not the vicious, yellow-eyed little bastards who claw him the minute he gets near.

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Go, tell the Ephebians... Subverted in that it's followed by "What kept you?" as the rest of the Ephebian army marches in. Calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus or ‘the calculus of infinitesimals,’ is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations. Quantum calculus is calculus without limits. It describes advanced properties of nature on an atomic scale.It isn’t easy, being a teenage pharaoh. As tradition dictates, the new king must build a monumental pyramid to honour his dead father. But this one might just bankrupt the kingdom, and warp the very fabric of time and space itself…