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When Twoflower returns home in The Light Fantastic he gives the luggage to Rincewind, and it follows him through several sequels.

The Luggage first appears as the property of Twoflower the Disc's first tourist in The Colour of Magic. It has only one way of overcoming obstacles, and that is by simply ignoring them and smashing a hole through them - including a wall to a magick shop that had since relocated to another city by magical means. Like all luggage, it's constantly getting lost and having to track its owner down. One of the greatest features of The Luggage is its ability to follow its current owner anywhere including such places as inside its owner's mind, off the edge of the Disc, Death's Domain, inside the Octavo, the Dungeon Dimensions, and even (literally) to Hell and back. Its mouth, the feature often remarked upon by those it is about to consume, contains "lots of big square teeth, white as sycamore, and a pulsating tongue, red as mahogany." The inside area of The Luggage does not appear to be constrained by its external dimensions, and contains many conveniences: even when it has just devoured a monster, the next time it opens the owner will find his underwear, neatly pressed and smelling slightly of lavender.

The Luggage is fiercely defensive of its owner, and is generally homicidal in nature, killing or eating several people and monsters and destroying various ships, walls, doors, and other obstacles throughout the books. Its function is to act as both a luggage carrier and bodyguard for its owner, against whom no threatening motion should be made. It has been described as "half suitcase, half homicidal maniac" ( Sourcery paperback p22). It can produce hundreds of little legs protruding from its underside and can move very fast if the need arises. It is a large chest made of Sapient Pearwood (a magical, intelligent plant which is nearly extinct, impervious to magic, and only grows in a few places outside the Agatean Empire, generally on sites of very old magic, such as Indian burial grounds and ancient monolithic sites). The Luggage is a fictional object that appears in several of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett.