Coin

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In [[Sourcery]], the eighth son of disgraced [[wizard's magic|wizard]] [[Ipslore the Red]], Coin was of course a [[sourcerer]], pouring magic into the world wherever he went. Though due to die, Ipslore evaded his fate temporarily by hiding his immortal remains in the [[octiron]] staff he passed on to his immensely powerful son, giving new meaning to the phrase "living vicariously through one's children".

''Advised'' by the staff, the young Coin took over first [[Unseen University]] and then the whole city of [[Ankh-Morpork]], transforming the [[Havelock Vetinari|Patrician]] into a small lizard for the duration. As had [[Mage Wars|historically]] tended to happen when there were huge amounts of magical power around, a wizards' war soon began, nearly precipitating the [[Apocralypse]]. (The high casualty rate among UU wizards during this time may be the reason for the installation of [[Mustrum Ridcully|Ridcully the Brown]] as Archchancellor and the subsequent changing nature of the University.)

A stop was put to this when [[Rincewind]] eventually confronted him armed only with a halfbrick-inna-sock. Rather than kill such a ridiculously harmless figure, Coin turned against and destroyed the staff. But the problems presented by almost limitless power in a world as magically sensitive as the Disc didn't go away, and he finally created [[Maligree's Wonderful Garden|his own little paradisiacal pocket universe]], leaving the Disc behind forever.

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