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Galder Weatherwax
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| Name | Galder Weatherwax |
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| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Archchancellor of the Unseen University |
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| Relatives | Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax, Lily Weatherwax |
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| Books | The Light Fantastic |
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Not much is known about Galder Weatherwax. He was the 304th Archchancellor of the Unseen University and he is believed to be a cousin of Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax. His full title is Supreme Grand Conjurer of the Ancient and Truly Original Brothers of the Silver Star, Lord Imperial of the Sacred Staff, Eight-Level Ipsissimus. This character appears in the novel The Light Fantastic. It is believed that while he was cunning and watchful enough to ward off most assassination attempts by ambitious seventh-level mages (especially Ymper Trymon), his foresight failed in matters relating to interior design, in that he commissioned a bathroom from Bergholt Stuttley Johnson without stopping to ask what might, on the basis of B.S. Johnson's past form, possibly go wrong. More is revealed about Archchancellor Weatherwax's bathroom in Hogfather, when a later Archchancellor discovers the fixture, and rather rashly has it set up for use. Again displaying uncharacteristic naivity about his fellow wizards, Weatherweax apparently survived his encounter with the bathroom, at least for long enought to nail up the door and put up a notice along the lines of "Never, ever, use again". His tenure as Archchancellor comes to an end when he is eaten, having mistakenly summoned The Luggage instead of Rincewind, paving the way for Trymon to become Archchancellor.
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James Cosmo of Highlander and Braveheart fame is to play him in the upcoming sky one adaptation The Colour of Magic.
