Teppic slips into his assassin gear and breaks the girl, Ptraci, out of her cell that night.ĭios knows that Teppic is the one that set the girl free. While Teppic is residing over the courts, a young girl is brought in and Dios sentences her to death because those are the customs of the people, even though Teppic had pardoned her. Teppic knows that his father doesn't want to be in a pyramid but has construction on the largest pyramid ever started while in an argument with Dios. The high priest, Dios, has run everything in the kingdom for longer than anyone can remember and ignores most everything that Teppic says. Teppic returns home with ideas that are much different from those that are tradition in Djelibeybi. Shortly after landing on his head and dying, he realizes that the sun was coming out again but now no one can hear him, and he has to wait for a pyramid to be built before his soul can leave. There was an eclipse and before the sun came out again, the pharaoh jumped over the ledge to his death, thinking that he had failed his people.

Teppic's father, being the pharaoh and therefore half god, was responsible for making the sun come up everyday. On the day he graduates, he suddenly knows that his father has died. He finishes his final exam seven years later. Teppic is the son of the pharaoh, and when he is twelve years old he leaves home, Djelibeybi, to go to assassin school in Ankh-Morpork. Through the course of the story he will become an assassin, a king, and then leave to find his own way. Pyramids, by Terry Pratchett, depicts the life of a young pharaoh's struggle to change his home and save it from another dimension.

Pyramids by terry pratchett