No-one noticed, because they evolved there and didn't know there should be fingles, but they could tell there was something missing somewhere, and it caused them deep psychological problems. This was, apparently, typical absent-mindedness he says he once created a world and completely forgot the fingles. After creating the Discworld, he left behind his personal grimoire, the Octavo. He was not responsible for creating the entire universe, and is somewhat disparaging of it, describing the Big Bang as 'showy'. It is clear that World Creation is purely a mechanical function and doesn't call for godlike attributes. He is a little rat-faced man with a put-upon voice made for complaining, who created the Discworld while the main universe was being built, and it was obviously on a budget. They are the main antagonists in three of the Death novels: Thief of Time, Reaper Man, and the Hogfather. There are exception to this rule, such as when the auditors create human bodies for themselves and differentiate in Thief of Time. They consult in groups of three to ensure that they don't become individuals with personalities, and if one is found to have done so they are immediately replaced with a new 'blank' one, so to speak. They prefer spheres moving in orbits to the chaos of the disc. The Auditors are Gray robes that despise life, as they keep order in the universe, and life causes chaos and illogicality. Personification seen in the novels The Auditors of Reality It might be the case that the 'gods' in Discworld are personifications that people pray to, consciously or subconsciously, with some even evolving into fully fledged religions. Lady Luck), despite personifying concepts, are better thought of as gods, since one has to believe in fate or luck for them to exist.

For example, Death is certainly a personification (since living things die whether or not people believe they do), as are his fellow Apocralyptic riders Kaos, War, Pestilence and Famine. (see The Hogfather.) Belief shapes how a personification manifests, not what it does. However, Anthropomorphic Personifications of the disc would cease to exist if total belief in them stopped. The difference between ' god' and 'anthropomorphic personification' in the Disc's pantheon is unclear essentially it appears to be that a 'god' is a being assigned a wide range of roles and powers by human belief, while personifications embody concepts and things that would exist whether people believed in them or not. In the Discworld fantasy realm created in the novels of the same name by Terry Pratchett, personifications are fully fledged characters whose personalities have evolved beyond their 'jobs'. An anthropomorphic personification is a natural process endowed with human form and personality.

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