#archchancellor

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Mustrum Ridcully

(Discworld fanart by mari.o)

[terrypratchettparadise]

"If all else fails, we will find volunteers from the student body," said Ridcully.

"Corpse might be a better word."

- Terry Pratchett - Unseen University

[terrypratchettparadise]

After a while the Senior Wrangler said, "Do you know, I read the other day that every atom in your body is changed every seven years? New ones keep getting attached and old ones keep on dropping off. It goes on all the time. Marvelous, really." The Senior Wrangler could do to a conversation what it takes quite thick treacle to do to the pedals of a precision watch. "Yes? What happens to the old ones?" said Ridcully, interested despite himself. "Dunno. They just float around in the air, I suppose, until they get attached to someone else." The Archchancellor looked affronted. "What, even wizards?" "Oh, yes. Everyone. It's part of the miracle of existence." "Is it? Sounds like bad hygiene to me," said the Archchancellor. "I suppose there's no way of stopping it?" "I shouldn't think so," said the Senior Wrangler, doubtfully. "I don't think you're supposed to stop miracles of existence." "But that means everythin' is made up of everythin' else," said Ridcully. "Yes. Isn't it amazing?”

Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man

[terrypratchettparadise]

Unfortunately, like many people who are instinctively bad at something, the Archchancellor prided himself on how good at it he was. Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. His mental approach to it could be visualised as a sort of business flowchart with, at the top, a circle entitled “Me, who does the telling” and, connected below it by a line, a large circle entitled “Everyone else.”

Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent

[wpmorse]

The Archchancellor was old, but a lifetime of survival in the world of competitive wizardry in the Byzantine politics of unseen university meant that he could whip up a defensive argument in a split second. You didn’t remain archchancellor for long if you let that sort of ingenious remark whizz past your ear.

“My Dragon?“ He said.

Guards! Guards! Peed 143

The Archchancellor of Unseen University is put on the spot over what the wizards can do about the dragon.

I first imagined this picture with the city counselors looking down the table at the wizard. Unfortunately, there wasn't any room so I did a portrait.

This Archchancellor isn't named. He seems to be a placeholder between the one from Sourcery and Ridicully, who first appears in Moving Pictures.

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Archchancellor.

Master of Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork and the official leader of all the wizards on the Disc (a polite fiction on a par with the Queen of England also being Queen of Australia). Once upon a time this would have meant that he was the most powerful in the handling of magic, but in more quiet times senior wizards tend to look upon actual magic as a bit beneath them. They prefer administration, which is safer and nearly as much fun, and also big dinners.

The Archchancellor is elected on the Eve of Small Gods. Well, not exactly elected, because wizards don't have any truck with the undignified business of voting, and it is well known that Archchancellors are selected by the gods (which wizards don't believe in). The double doors to the Great Hall are locked and triple-barred. An incoming Archchancellor has to request entry three times before they will be unlocked, signifying that he is appointed with the consent of wizardry in general.

In more recent times, the lifespan of Archchancellors has been seen to be a bit on the short side, as wizardry's natural ambition took its toll. Unseen University has been in existence for thousands of years, and over the last fifty the average Archchancellor remained in office for about eleven months.

Unseen University has had many different kinds of Archchancellor over the years: big ones, small ones, cunning ones, slightly insane ones, extremely insane ones - they've come, they've served (in some cases not long enough for anyone to be able to complete the official painting to be hung in the Great Hall) and they've died. The senior wizard in a world of magic has the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo-stick tester in a mine-field.

It should be noted that Mustrum Ridcully, at the time of writing, seems to have had a very successful and, above all, injury-free career as AC, and appears to be ushering UU into one of its quieter periods.

Other Archchancellors include:

Badger, William

Bewdely

Buckleby

Churn, Ezrolith

Cutangle

Hopkins, 'Trouter'

Scrawn

Spold, Greyhald 'Tudgy'

Trymon, Ymper (305th)

Wayzygoose, Virrid (didn't actually make it)

Weatherwax, Galder (304th)