#cutangle

[sofenart]

Archcancellor Cutangle

This is a quick sketch I did of Archchancellor Cutangle on my tablet using Autodesk's Sketchbook on my now retired Asus Zenpad 8.

He was the first Archchancellor we see at the Unseen University, when he meets up with Eskerina Smith, who's travelled a long way to try and become a Wizard there. He first laughs at her, telling her how no girls are allowed in. Much later she throws her staff away in the Ank for hurting her friend David, who she travelled there together with, so Granny Weatherwax and Archchancellor Cutangle go to search for it, just so she can become a Wizard there, till they eventually find it in the river Ankh.

After the staff is found, Eskerina is made into the first female Wizard, and he even offers Granny Weatherwax a part time job in teaching his male Wizards subjects they know nothing about, like herbalism, making witches potions, and milking goats.

[mrsmess]

“I think Esmerelda will suffice now. What with us having shared a broomstick and everything.”

[pratchettquotes]

Finally Cutangle spoke, very slowly and carefully.

"I look at it all like this," he said. "Before I heard him talk, I was like everyone else. You know what I mean? I was confused and uncertain about all the little details of life. But now," he brightened up, "while I'm still confused and uncertain it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe."

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

[puste--blume]

Shout out to Esk from Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rites" for sticking up for herself (and showing them all by saving the universe in the end) "But I can do wizard magic!" said Esk, the faintest suggestion of a tremble in her voice. Cutangle bent down until his face was level with hers. "No you can't," he hissed. "Because you are not a wizard. Women aren't wizards, do I make myself clear?" "Watch," said Esk.

[pratchettquotes]

"Ever been home again?" said Granny.

Cutangle shrugged. "When my father died. It's odd, I've never said this to anyone, but--well, there were my brothers, because I am an eighth son of course, and they had children and even grandchildren, and not one of them can hardly write his name. I could have bought the whole village. And they treated my like a king, but--I mean, I've been to places and seen things that would curdle their minds, I've faced down creatures wilder than their nightmares, I know secrets that are known to a very few--"

"You felt left out," said Granny. "There's nothing strange in that. It happens to all of us. It was our choice."

"Wizards should never go home," said Cutangle.

"I don't think they can go home," agreed Granny. "You can't cross the same river twice, I always say."

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

[gravelgirty]

For the Value of One-Half Dead

The second chapter of my Discworld fanfic, TOYS FOR HOGWATCH

I thought Cutangle was a delightful character and perhaps Mr. Pratchett hadn’t the heart to get rid of him. So I gave him a proper sendoff that links EQUAL RITES to GOING POSTAL, throws in Death, a properly coddled cat, and your typical/not typical Ankh-Morpork weather events. It is possible Death is a just little snarkier than Mr. Pratchett would write him...

GO HERE.