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Its function is to act as both a luggage carrier and bodyguard for its owner, against whom no threatening motion should be made. The Luggage is fiercely defensive of its owner, and is generally homicidal in nature, killing and or eating several people and monsters throughout the books. The inside area of The Luggage does not appear to be constrained by its external dimensions to any great degree. Even when it has just devoured a monster, the next time it opens the owner will find his underwear, neatly pressed.

One of the greatest features of The Luggage is its ability to follow its current owner anywhere including such places as inside the Octavo, off the edge of the Disc, and Death's Domain. You name it, it has been there. Hopefully when its owner was there as well, because like all luggage, it's constantly getting lost and having to track its owner down...

The Luggage first appears as the property of Twoflower the tourist in The Colour of Magic. When Twoflower returns home in The Light FantasticThe Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published in 1986. The title is a quote from a poem by John Milton and in the original context referred to dancing lightly with extravagance. The e he gives the luggage to RincewindDiscworld characters Rincewind is a fictional character appearing in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, several of which feature him as the central character. He is a failed student at the Unseen University for wizards in Ankh-Morpork, often describ, and it follows him through several sequels. Twoflower says he got it by asking for "travelling luggage" at the store - which is exactly what he got. When Rincewind eventually visits the Counterweight ContinentThe Counterweight Continent is a landmass on the Discworld, the fantasy world that is the setting of Terry Pratchett's fantasy novels. It is situated on the opposite side of the Discworld (not the flip side; just the other edge of the same side) from the, Twoflower's home, he finds many similar items of Luggage travelling with their masters.

Terry says (at the beginning of SourcerySourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1988. The title is a pun on " sorcery on the Discworld, a sourcerer is a special type of wizard who is a source of magic. The first few pages of the novel deal with the sourcerer's fat) that he got the idea for the Luggage when he saw a suitcase with dozens of little wheels.

The Luggage savages passers-by in:

• The Colour of Magic
• The Light FantasticThe Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published in 1986. The title is a quote from a poem by John Milton and in the original context referred to dancing lightly with extravagance. The e
• SourcerySourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1988. The title is a pun on " sorcery on the Discworld, a sourcerer is a special type of wizard who is a source of magic. The first few pages of the novel deal with the sourcerer's fat
• Eric
• Interesting Times
• The Last Continent
• The Last Hero