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Any decent universe has the unseen but inferred element [[Narrativium|'''narrativium''']] dictating how it should develop, and how any half-decent story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

A set of narrative laws dictate and clarify how this works. For instance:

-Any homely featured man who for whatever reason has to disguise himself as a woman will inevitably become attractive to some otherwise perfectly sane men, with, as the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results. (However, in the case of [[Gulli, Gulli and Beti]], the laws were fighting against the fact of [[Nobby Nobbs]], and gave up.)

[[Lily Weatherwax|Lilith de Tempscire]] knows all about the laws of narrative causality, and takes advantage of them to rule a state as the éminence grise behind the [[Duc]]'s throne. The whole of {{WA}} develops the theme of the eternally recurring story, and the weight of momentum that a good narrative carries as it seeks to roll all before it.

All urban legends are self-contained little nuggets of 100% pure Narrative Causality. The dead grandmother in the rolled blanket; the snake in the car that bites the driver while the non-driving passengers sit in mute paralysed fear, while the driverless vehicle crashes into the chemical tanker; the tarantula that laid its eggs in the ornamental cactus, which of course you put in the hottest driest part of the house (perfect incubating conditions for a thousand baby spiders, all of which are venomous from the egg)... all these little gems have potent narrative force and may be acting themselves out, even now, in a universe near ''you''.

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Rene at 09:34, 23 April 2009