

In the Agatean Empire, gold is as common as dirt so Twoflower, even though only a clerk, is rich compared to the inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork, which he keeps in a sentient pearwood chest that follows him everywhere on little legs (the Luggage).

The main character is an incompetent and cynical wizard named Rincewind, who is hired as a guide to naïve Twoflower, an insurance clerk from the Agatean Empire who has come to visit Ankh-Morpork. The story begins in Ankh-Morpork, the biggest city on the Discworld. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naïve tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet… Plot summary The Colour of Magic On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out.
