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=== Death of the Discworld === | === Death of the Discworld === | ||
[[File:Death in Pratfall.png|thumb|right|235px|Death in [[the Desert]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pratfall (short story)|Pratfall]]'')]]The Death of the [[Discworld]] appeared as a tall skeletal figure with a | [[File:Death in Pratfall.png|thumb|right|235px|Death in [[the Desert]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pratfall (short story)|Pratfall]]'')]]The Death of the [[Discworld]] appeared as a tall skeletal figure with a “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_colors stygian blue]” glow emanating from his eye sockets, wearing “a hooded cloak the color of a black hole’s event horizon”. He spoke in “exactly the voice of someone who would see every living thing from the creation of the universe until its final end”. | ||
This Death was calm and polite, performing his duty with quiet dignity, neither reluctant nor gleeful. He was famous for being extremely punctual. He usually greeted mortals who had just died in [[the Desert]], an otherworldly, seemingly infinite desert that served as the antechamber of the Discworld's afterlife. He had dominion over the [[Life-timer]]s, supernatural hourglasses that represented all living things' allotted lifespans. | This Death was calm and polite, performing his duty with quiet dignity, neither reluctant nor gleeful. He was famous for being extremely punctual. He usually greeted mortals who had just died in [[the Desert]], an otherworldly, seemingly infinite desert that served as the antechamber of the Discworld's afterlife. He had dominion over the [[Life-timer]]s, supernatural hourglasses that represented all living things' allotted lifespans. |
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