Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy).
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War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities.
This always puzzled me. Is it refering to the author Tom Clancy?
I never thought of it that way. I always assumed it was just a “goes to show you” thing, like Death’s horse being named Binky. War may be the personification of strife and violence, but he’s also a father and his daughter is his little girl.
I’ve always taken it to be a Tom Clancy reference, given how he always loves to write about warfare. Not the most subtle or clever of gags, but there you go.
According to pterry himself:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=830476251snz%40unseen.demon.co.uk