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Sourcery Study Guide & Notes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Sourcery.
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Sourcery Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

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Sourcery by Terry Pratchett is the story of the wizards that live on Discworld and the struggle that ensues when a new sourcerer shows up. Rincewind, a most inept wizard and coward, will travel the world and face unimaginable odds, against his wishes, in order to save the dirty streets of Ankh-Morpork.

Wizardry is for men, and sourcery is for the gods and so sourcery has long been banned since it will destroy the world if used. Ipslore the Red was the eighth son of a wizard. He became a wizard and had an eighth son as well. The eighth son, a wizard squared and so a sourcerer, was only a baby when Death, the skeleton that shows up when you are close to death, came for Ipslore. Ipslore captures himself in his staff to cheat Death and leaves the staff for his son, naming his son Coin. Death...
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