Mustrum Ridcully

Mustrum Ridcully is a fictional character in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett. He was introduced in Moving Pictures as the latest Archchancellor of Unseen University. He is also known as Ridcully the Brown, possibly as a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's Radagast the Brown. At the time he became Archchancellor, he had not been seen at the University for forty years, having become a Seventh Level Wizard (there are, naturally, eight levels of wiz... more

Mustrum Ridcully is a fictional character in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett. He was introduced in Moving Pictures as the latest Archchancellor of Unseen University. He is also known as Ridcully the Brown, possibly as a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's Radagast the Brown. At the time he became Archchancellor, he had not been seen at the University for forty years, having become a Seventh Level Wizard (there are, naturally, eight levels of wizardry on the Discworld) at the exceptionally young age of twenty-seven, before leaving the university to look after his family's land. Knowing he liked the countryside, most people assume Ridcully to be a "roams the forests with every beast his brother" type (thus explaining his occasional title 'Ridcully The Brown'). This is true only inasmuch as his fondness for hunting; he owns several crossbows and is much given to using the corridors of Unseen University as a shooting range. In Lords and Ladies, we learn that he does a lot for rare... less