Amnesiac God: Om remembers he's a god at the beginning of the book, thanks to Brutha's proximity.Bishop Drunah, a member of La Résistance, is the secretary of The Congress of Iams in the Omnian Church, and as many of those people are old and of poor hearing, this is implied to give him the opportunity to alter records of the meeting.Almighty Janitor: Lu-Tze literally acts like a janitor, while secretly tweaking the timeline to avoid a war.I'm sorry." Also in the epilogue, where he decides to help said nemesis' soul to cross the desert. Especially notable in the climax, when his last words to his soon-to-be-dead nemesis, who is in the process of torturing Brutha to death, are "You are going to die. Afterlife Angst: At the end of the book, Vorbis is revealed to have spent nearly a hundred years in "the desert", a place where some souls are seen to go for Judgement (according to Death) because he was afraid to go on.Fortunately, the guards were all above ground at the ceremony." "Beneath the temple, Urn and sergeant Fergmen made their way through the tunnels of the citadel using the kind of nonchalant walk which would draw detailed and arrow-sharp attention to them in seconds.
Preceded by Witches Abroad, followed by Lords and Ladies. It's also been said by Pratchett that he was here able to more fully explore ideas he first introduced in Pyramids. This was eventually explained in Thief of Time as being due to the Timey-Wimey Ball. Small Gods is particularly renowned for its Zelda-like havoc-wreaking with the always-spotty Discworld timeline due to the appearance of Pyramids characters in the "young Brutha" segments yet the fact that the Omnianism that appears in later books is the more tolerant post-Brutha version. It claims to be Om himself, reduced to this pitiful state due to Discworld's gods needing belief to survive - and unfortunately for Om, it's starting to look like everyone in Omnia ( save the simple-minded Brutha) believes in the terrors that the Church will inflict on them for not adhering to their dogma more than they believe in Om himself. He finds a tortoise, dropped by an eagle in an unsuccessful attempt to smash its shell. At the bottom of the pecking order is the young novice Brutha, big and slow yet able to recite scripture on command.
Ruled by the Cenobiarch and his church military, the religion of Omnianism - the worship of the Great God ("holy horns") Om - dominates all aspects of life. Omnia is a theocratic empire, somewhere between Khomeini's Iran and inquisition-era Spain. The 13th Discworld novel and a standalone, although it uses some characters and locations from Pyramids and its events influence later works.
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