![]() ![]() Granny and Nanny discover that a group of local girls, led by Diamanda Tockley and including Agnes Nitt, have formed a new coven whose activities include dancing naked at the Dancers. Along the way, they are joined by the Dwarfish lothario Casanunda. Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor of Unseen University, leads a small group of faculty to attend the wedding. ![]() She soon becomes bored with the courtly lifestyle and unsure of her place. When Nanny and Granny refuse to explain the situation to Magrat, she leaves the coven, disavows witchcraft, and moves into an apartment in Lancre Castle. They are normally kept away by a circle of magnetized iron standing stones known as the Dancers. Elves are capricious and amoral creatures that enter the minds of animals and sentient beings in a more destructive way than witches do, using "glamour" to alter human's perceptions of them. The sudden appearance of crop circles reveals to Nanny and Granny that it is now "circle time", a convergence of parallel universes when the Discworld is susceptible to incursions from the "parasite universe" of the Elves. Magrat is stunned when King Verence proclaims their imminent marriage, having already made all the arrangements in her absence. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick return to Lancre after their recent adventure in Genua. Some parts of the storyline spoof elements of Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lords and Ladies is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the fourteenth Discworld book. ![]()
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