Verence's own father ran away from Lancre when he was young. He has a runny nose, a strong dislike of custard and absolutely no sense of humour - the latter because he was educated in the Fools' Guild, to which his abusive grandfather sent him as a child. He is a tall gangling man who walks bandilegged and prances in a half crouch so that he appears shorter than he really is. The Fool had served Verence I as had his father and grandfather before him. Verence first appears in the sixth novel of the Discworld series, Wyrd Sisters, as the court jester or Fool to the monarch of Lancre, Duke Felmet who ascended the throne following the murder of Verence I.
Go rent "Hogfather" or "The Colour of Magic" for a real introduction.Wyrd Sisters Fictional character biography
If you're already a Pratchett fan, stay far away from this ghastly thing, and if you're new to Discworld, don't judge Pratchett's fiction by this movie. As a result, a finely nuanced piece of literature comes through flat, lifeless and annoying. The producer and screenwriter simply took the book and stuffed it onto film, so it appears disjointed and random. Granny Weatherwas never screeches - she has a hard flat voice that doesn't come through here at all. The voices don't fit the characters at all. The animation is quite bad, on the level of a children's Saturday morning cartoon show. "Wyrd Sisters," the book is a complex interweaving of the plot of "Macbeth", and the lives of the people of Lancre, but none of this subtlety comes through in the adaptation: it's just a -pardon me- two dimensional portrayal of the witches, and everyone else, as stock figures that you can't possibly come to care about. I give it a vote of 1 only because I can't post negative numbers. I'm a longtime fan of Pratchett and his worlds, and that's why I write to steer people away from this abomination.
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