Twoflower is a fictional character featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
He is a native of the Agatean Empire, on the Counterweight Continent, where he works as an "inn-sewer-ants" clerk, and is the first tourist ever on the Discworld. After his return, he wrote "What I did on My Holidays".
He is described as having "four eyes" by a beggar at the docks in The Colour of Magic "found himself looking up into a face with four eyes", implyin...
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Twoflower is a fictional character featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
He is a native of the Agatean Empire, on the Counterweight Continent, where he works as an "inn-sewer-ants" clerk, and is the first tourist ever on the Discworld. After his return, he wrote "What I did on My Holidays".
He is described as having "four eyes" by a beggar at the docks in The Colour of Magic "found himself looking up into a face with four eyes", implying he actually wears glasses. He also wears dentures, a concept which inspires Cohen the Barbarian to have a set made for himself—out of troll's teeth (diamonds).
His adventures begin in The Colour of Magic, when he decides to visit the city of Ankh-Morpork, where he meets the inept wizard Rincewind whom he hires as a guide. Throughout the first two novels, he is followed by The Luggage, a homicidally vicious travel chest which moves on hundreds of little legs, carrying his belongings.
Twoflower is the optimistic-but-naive tourist (probably...
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