Nowhere was this more evident on the wide blue expanse of the Discworld than in those areas that had been the scene of the great battles of the Mage Wars, which had happened very shortly after Creation. In those days magic in its raw state had been widely available, and had been eagerly utilized by the First Men in their war against the gods.
There are too many non-plot advancing asides (aka info-dumps). I seem to have a low threshold for tolerating such digressions.
