However, Hwel, the playwright, maintains that there is something wrong with the plot of the play, something that just doesn't feel right. The company make their way to Lancre, and perform the play for the King as asked. He sends the court Fool to Ankh-Morpork to recruit the same acting company that Tomjon was given to, which now resides in the Dysk Theatre on the river Ankh. He thinks this will cause the witches to lose their power, and the people will like him. Meanwhile, the duke has decided to have a play written and performed that portrays him in a favourable light and the witches in a negative light. Granny Weatherwax, with help from the other two witches, manages to cast a spell over the entire kingdom to send it forward in time by 15 years. The witches realise that it will be at least 15 years until Tomjon is able to return and save the kingdom, but by then irreparable damage will have been done.

However, the kingdom is angry about the way the new King is mistreating the land and his subjects. They acknowledge that destiny will eventually take its course and that the child, Tomjon, will grow up to defeat Duke Felmet and take his rightful place as king. The witches hand the child to a troupe of travelling actors, and hide the crown in the props-box. The King's crown and child are given by an escaping servant to the three witches. King Verence I of Lancre is murdered by his cousin, Duke Felmet, after his ambitious wife persuades him to do so. Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs and owner of the most evil cat in the world and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewelry, covens, and bubbling cauldrons, much to the annoyance of the other two. It re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites. Wyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick, Verence II.Shakespeare, especially Macbeth and Hamlet.

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