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Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch whose growth into her job forms one of the many arcs in the Discworld series. She is the main character in The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith. According to The Art of Discworld Terry Pratchett has plans for a fourth novel featuring Tiffany. I Shall Wear Midnight has been given as the possible title. Tiffany is intended to age a number of years between each novel, and not be stuck in her youth, like the Famous Five.
A very young witch (13 at her last appearance), who hails from the chalk downland Rimward of the Ramtops. Her grandmother, Sarah Aching, was a shepherd, and by Ramtop standards was also a witch, although witchcraft was frowned upon on the Chalk until Tiffany's arrival. Granny Aching was a friend of the Chalk Clan of Nac Mac Feegle, (an army of tiny, blue, rowdy, drunken and vaguely Scottish ne'er-do-wells) and they have befriended Tiffany as the new "hag o' the hills". As Tiffany was their Kelda (Queen) for a short time, the Nac Mac Feegle see her as their responsibility and there is no time in Tiffany's life since then when they have not (in)discreetly watched her
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