Welcome to our third discussion of The Colour of Magic. Fasten your seatbelts as we continue our tour of the Discworld (with a detour to our Roundworld). Remember to keep your Luggage with you at all times. Beware dragons!
SUMMARY
THE LURE OF THE WYRM
Rincewind, Twoflower and Hrun pause their journey near the magical mountain, the Wyrmberg. They toss coins to test the magical field then flee.
An old half-dead wizard called Griecha and his daughter Liessa watch them. Liessa sets her sights on Hrun to help her become ruler of the Wyrmberg. Riding her dragon, she catches up with him, Rincewind and Twoflower. Hrun and Twoflower are captured but Rincewind escapes into a forest. Rincewind finds Hrun’s magic sword Kring and flies to the Wyrmberg to rescue Hrun and Twoflower. He enters a cavern full of dragons and dragonriders. Urged on by Kring, he fights the chief dragonrider Lio’rt. He dodges Death then falls…
Meanwhile, Twoflower and Hrun discuss dragons in the dungeon. Liessa bursts in with some bowmen. She has some tests for Hrun. In another cell, Twoflower thinks up a dragon. The dragon helps him escape. On the way, Twoflower hears creatures from the Dungeon Dimensions beyond time and space.
Griecha is sitting in a chamber surrounded by coffins. He recognises that Twoflower has the Power to summon dragons. He explains how dragons come into being and the different types of dragon. Twoflower and Rincewind escape but end up falling. As Rincewind falls he starts to say the spell in his mind but can’t say the eighth and final word.
On top of the mountain, Griecha’s sons and daughter fight to succeed him as ruler of the Wyrmberg. Hrun challenges Lio!rt and Liartes on behalf of Liessa. Their chosen weapon is dragons. Hrun defeats them despite not being able to ride a dragon. Their dragons disappear once they are unconscious. Liessa banishes her brothers and gets together with Hrun.
Rincewind and Twoflower fly towards the top of the Wyrmberg. Their dragon swoops down and catches Hrun. Death comes to claim Griecha’s soul. Twoflower passes out and they drop out of the sky as his dragon disappears. Hrun lands on Liessa’s dragon as she flies by.
Rincewind tries unsuccessfully to imagine another dragon. He flees from Death again and ends up on an aeroplane in our world (the Roundworld) with Twoflower. Rincewind somehow manages to thwart a bomb attack on the plane. Rincewind and Twoflower take on the identities of Dr Rijnswand (a nuclear scientist) and Jack Zweiblumen (German for Twoflower). They’ve both just appeared on the plane and always been there. The Luggage comes running up the aisle.
Rincewind and Twoflower hurtle towards the Discworld and land in the Circle Sea, followed by the Luggage, which they use as a raft.