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An eighth son of an eighth son is automatically a wizard.

If a wizard happens to have an eighth son, this child will be a "wizard squared" or "Sourcerer", as he generates his own magic and can therefore do just about anything with no effort.

Wizards grade magical ability in a series of levels, the highest of which is eight.

Like the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the UU Library features chained books – although at Oxford this is done to protect the books from the students, whereas at UU it is done to protect the students from the books.

The high concentration of magical lore has warped the Library interior into a locus of L-Space where the concepts of distance and direction are only vaguely defined

Within L-Space the Library contains every book ever written, possibly written, unwritten and yet to be written. Since the contents of all libraries are in L-Space, it is possible to enter a Library in one city and exit in another. Access to libraries of other times or other realities is restricted to the Librarian himself. People entering the deeper parts of the library usually carry chalk, until the chalk turns into something else.

Professor of Revolvings

Unlike his predecessors, Ridcully seems to have had a very successful and above all, injury free career as Archchancellor. He finally put a halt to the traditional method of promotion simply by being indestructible. This is related to his habit of springing up behind would-be assassins, shouting loudly at them and banging their head repeatedly in the door. He is also known as Ridcully the Brown, possibly as a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's wizards by color like Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the White or Radagast the Brown.

Ridcully has shown the occasional flash of magical skill.

the most important thing about magic is knowing when not to use it

The wizards are referred to by their offices, rather than names.

Senior Wrangler

Lecturer in Recent Runes

Chair of Oblique Frogs

Chair of Indefinite Studies

Lecturer in Creative Uncertainty

Reader in Esoteric Studies

Professor of Applied Anthropics

Professor of Extreme Horticulture

Professor of Dust, Fluff, and Miscellaneous Particles

Lecturer in Vindictive Astronomy

Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map-Folding

Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy

Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy