Granny Weatherwax: Well, the journey was worth taking and I saw many wonderful things along the way, including you, my reliable friend. Shall we go now?
Death: Madam, we've already gone.
Death: Madam, we've already gone.
- Granny Weatherwax's death (especially when experienced readers realise she's changing her I ATEN'T DEAD card), and the aftermath. Particularly when Ridcully comes to pay his last respects; he was still in love with her, even after all those years.
- Even the dedication is getting in on it. "For Esmerelda Weatherwax - mind how you go."
- Becomes even worse with a bit more background: this is how members of the Pratchett family generally say goodbye, and it was also Rhianna Pratchett's last words to both her grandfather and to her father, Terry himself.
- Especially if you consider that she was always a bit of an Author Avatar (at least in terms of her opinions about what makes a good person), so this whole sequence is a stand-in for PTerry's creation saying goodbye to him. That would explain why so many people around the Discworld instantly take notice of what happened like it's a Disturbance in the Force, and deeply mourn her, even if they never interacted much with her, like for example Vetinari.
- What's Nanny Ogg's first reaction to the event? "It should have been me." Expounded on later; she genuinely never believed that she would outlive her friend due to her far less healthy lifestyle, smoking and drinking and such. The rest of the book has small hints that she may be suffering severe depression afterward and is doing all she can to cover it up.
- Even the dedication is getting in on it. "For Esmerelda Weatherwax - mind how you go."
- This is the last Discworld book there will ever be. If that doesn't deserve a few tears, nothing does.
- Nightshade's death, just when she was realizing she could be a good person, and she liked the feeling. She was trying so hard, and to see her genuine efforts wind up all for nothing is cruel.
- Plenty of the Elves' acts of cruelty: slaughtering several lumberjacks who commit a Heroic Sacrifice to save two young boys. Hypnotizing a teenaged girl so she isn't paying attention to her little sister and the unattended little girl possibly drowns in the river. More innocent animals being attacked as Herne the Hunted hides nearby (with it being ambiguous as to whether he saves those ones like in Lords and Ladies).
