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Riktor
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| Name | Riktor |
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| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Wizard |
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| Residence | Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork |
| Death | died some time ago |
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| Books | Moving Pictures |
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Also known as "Numbers Riktor" and "Riktor the Tinkerer". This wizard was convinced that the universe is made out of numbers. (Oddly enough, or perhaps fittingly enough, in Equal Rites, when Simon is taken hostage by the Things in the Dungeon Dimensions, he demonstrates various models of sustainable worlds to an audience of nightmares. When you get past the weirdness of a spherical world, and the sinister nature of one encircled by a self-devouring serpent with a tree growing through its hub, this is exactly what he demonstrates all matter to be made of. Swirling, ever-changing numbers.)
Ignorant of Simon, and to prove his point, Riktor has invented several machines:
- The resograph (a "thingness-writer"), which measures disturbances in reality, which expels steel balls from small apertures with a 'plib' sound when reality is being disturbed. During the events of Moving Pictures these were being expelled at a rate entirely unheard of in the Disc's history.
- The Star Enumerator
- The Mouse Counter
- The Swamp Meter
- The Rev Counter for Use in Ecclesiastical Areas
Annotation
The resograph is based on a second-century, Han Dynasty seismograph. Look it up: it's fascinating.
In keeping with the seismograph and with measuring things numerically, Riktor is pronounced like Richter, of earthquake-intensity fame.
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