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* Carrot mentions that the grags in Ankh-Morpork have several Cubes. When the grags flee, it's mentioned that they took all of their Cubes with them, even though they left behind most of their other Devices. What happened to the other Cubes? They wouldn't have left them anywhere, but they didn't have them with them when they were captured.
* Finding out that two kings from two millennia ago thought that their peoples really should kiss and make up would normally end the rivalry about as effectively as the other million things that happened since it began.
** The key here is that a major source for that rivalry was the battle of Koom Valley. Both sides believed the other had ambushed their side when they were looking to make peace, so both sides had long standing animosity going toward that event. Finding out that the major "battle" that ''started'' the
*** To put that another way: The war-mongers on both sides have been using ''Remember Koom Valley!'' as a cry for going to war since Koom Valley, but now ''Remember Koom Valley!'' means something like ''Remember when trigger-happy fools made a peace-signing into a battle!''. There is also the noted fact that both sides ''have'' to work together to save their respective cultural heroes from being erased by Koom Valley, and that the leaders on both sides were implied or outright stated to be looking for a reason not to go to war even ''before'' they knew exactly what had happened in Koom Valley.
*** ''[[
**** Also worth noting that peace was a long time coming, Rhys and Mr. Shine both wanted it and had spent years getting the ground work down and there's still more to be done.
*** And ''[[Raising Steam]]'' shows that at least some of the combatants ''didn't'' agree to the peace.
* Why did Bashfulsson shout "Ha'ak!" right before attacking Ardent? Was he accusing Ardent of being a female dwarf? He doesn't seem like the type of character who would use such a derogatory term, and it's never clarified later on.
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*** I assumed it was sort of the dwarfish equivalent of ''treif'' in Judaism or ''haraam'' in Islam: forbidden or profane.
* I might have missed something, but in ''Thud''
** Perhaps there were several battles in Koom Valley prior to the botched peace meeting, the game coming from an earlier, less remembered one?
** [[Wild Mass Guessing|Perhaps]] [[Fridge Brilliance|that]] ''[[Fridge Brilliance|was]]'' [[Fridge Brilliance|the original "battle"]]?
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** He's a mad artist who painted details about Koom Valley and at least one Device into his paintings, was obsessed with a supposedly imaginary chicken, and died with a seemingly non-imaginary mouthful of feathers. Is there anything more you want explained? If so, the answer will probably be solidly in [[Fanon]].
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