The Colour of Magic is a collection of four stories set on Discworld, a flat planet that is carried by four huge elephants that stand on the back of the giant turtle Great A’Tuin. The stories pivot on the hapless failed wizard Rincewind. In the first adventure, Rincewind is required to act as guide and protector to Twoflower, a wealthy insurance salesman from the Counterweight Continent who has come as the first-ever tourist to Ankh-Morpork, Discworld’s biggest city. Twoflower’s wealth attracts thieves and assassins, but Rincewind and Twoflower’s Luggage—an overprotective traveling trunk with legs, teeth, and the ability to locate its master anywhere—keep him from harm. Meanwhile, Twoflower sells fire insurance to the owner of the Broken Drum tavern, and the owner then sets the tavern on fire. The conflagration consumes the city, but Rincewind and Twoflower escape.