They offer him the right to call himself a Wizard, which he never actually earned, if he will let them send him to Agatea he agrees. Using the machine Hex, which has seemingly been augmenting its own infrastructure, they teleport him to the University from a desert island where he has been living since the events of Eric (just before being rescued by beautiful Amazons). As the spelling, 'Wizzard,' matches that on Rincewind's hat, the faculty decide to send him. The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork receives a demand that the 'Great Wizzard' be sent to the distant Agatean Empire, and he orders Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully of Unseen University to comply. Two gods, Fate and the Lady, oppose each other in a game over the outcome of the struggle for the throne of the Agatean Empire on the Counterweight Continent. The title refers to the common myth that there exists a Chinese curse ' may you live in interesting times'.

Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the seventeenth book in the Discworld series, set in the Aurient (a fictional analogue of the Orient).

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