Though Terry Pratchett has slowed on the Rincewind book releases, the bumbling wizard is still a fan favorite in Pratchett's Discworld universe. He is the most bumbling of wizards; inept at magic and proud of his cowardice; rarely ever able to perform any kind of sorcery and always ready to flee. He was unable to learn to use magic because of an accident in his student days that lead to one of the world's eight most powerful spells taking up residence in his brain and territorially preventing any other incantation from taking root there. Regularly embroiled in some ridiculous, terrifying situation, Rincewind is a Chosen One of The Lady, the Discworld's goddess of Luck and cheif rival of the diety known as Fate, which explains why the wizard is routinely caught up in some horrifying situation and always survives, in that he suffers and benefits from both extremes of luck, while fate seems determined to kill him in terribly inventive ways.
Rincewind survives everything, from a demon dimension, to befriending the most ruthless and feared barbarian on Discworld, to traveling into space in a wooden spaceship. His survival is also greatly aided by his pet wooden chest, The Luggage, which happens to be a magical unstoppable monster that follows its owner literally anywhere, that has been described as "half suitcase, half homicidal maniac." It can change from Bag of Holding to Bag of Devouring at will.
Probably the crowning moment of Rincewind's magical ineptitude comes in Sorcerery, when the only sorcerer to be born in thousands of years (a wizard is the 8th son of an 8th son. The 8th sons of wizards are the reasons why wizards are celibate) dispatches every wizard on the Disc opposed to his rule, leaving Rincewind alone because of his lack of magical aptitude. After a sharp word punctuates his cowardly default, Rincewind spends a sleepless, near-mad night, and then goes to dispatch the near omnipotent child himself, armed only with half a brick inside a sock. As you may have guessed from the rest of this description, he survives.
Death himself keeps the twisted hourglass that represents Rincewind's life span on his desk as a paperweight, "JUST TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT."
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