The Chest ( The Luggage ) is a character in the books of the Flat World series by Terry Pratchett . This is a large, iron-forged chest made of Sapient pearwood (a magical intelligent plant that has almost disappeared from the face of the Flat World , is immune to magic ; grows only in a few places outside the Agate Empire ). If necessary, can move on hundreds of its small legs.
| Book characters Terry Pratchett Flat World Series | |
 Rincewind riding a Chest (illustration by Josh Kirby ) | |
| Details | |
| Full name: | Chest |
| Description: | Pear Reasonable Wood Chest |
| Story connections: | Twoflower, Rincewind |
| Location: | Ankh-Morpork and the whole Flat World |
| Appearance in books | |
| First appearance: | The Color of Magic |
| Other details | |
| Remarks: | Accompanies his master everywhere |
He is both a chest and a bodyguard of his master, against whom it is better not to commit any threatening actions. The chest fiercely guards its owner and has a deadly character, killing or eating several people or monsters in all books (here you should also include dragging sharks to the shore and jumping over them). His mouth, which is often seen by those whom he intends to devour, has "a multitude of large square whites, like sycamore, teeth and mahogany tongue." The internal contents of the chest do not suffer from its external changes, and there is evidence for this: even if he just swallowed the next monster, the next time he opens, the owner will only find his underwear, cleanly washed and ironed. Although he has a keyhole, it cannot be opened if he is in a closed mood.
One of the features of the Chest is its ability to follow its master everywhere, including places like Octavo , beyond the edge of the Disc and the Domain of Death . Like any baggage, he is constantly lost, and he has to track down his master.
For the first time, the Chest appears in the book β Color of Magic β and belongs to the tourist Twoflower . In Crazy Star , when Twoflower decides to return home, he gives it to Rincewind , who follows the wizard in the rest of the books. Twoflower says that he bought it in a shop, asking for a "travel chest" - and, in general, he received it, because the "travel chest" and the "traveling chest" in English sound the same. When Rincewind finally finds himself on the Counterweight Continent , the birthplace of Twoflower, he encounters many such chests traveling with their masters. In the same book, Interesting Times , the Chest has a wife and children.
Character Origin
At the beginning of The Staff and the Hats , Pratchett writes that the idea of ββthe Chest came to him when he saw an American tourist dragging a checkered suitcase on a dozen wheels, moving as if it had its own life. However, in The Art of a Flat World, he also claimed that the Chest appeared on the basis of the from the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons , a modification of which he designed. Pratchett endowed the Chest with the ability to suddenly disappear with all things, and return empty. This creature accurately performed only what was ordered to him.
Appears in the following books:
- "The color of magic "
- Crazy Star
- " Staff and hat "
- Eric
- " Interesting times "
- " The Last Continent "
- " The last hero "
- Invisible Academics
Sources
- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs β The Discworld Companion β (3rd ed.), London: Gollancz, 2003
- Andrew M. Butler. An unofficial companion to the novels of Terry Pratchett. - Greenwood World Pub., 2007. - 472 p. - ISBN 9781846450433 .
- Tim Martin Terry Pratchett's 10 best Discworld characters . The Daily Telegraph (November 6, 2016). Date of appeal April 17, 2017.