First mention of Death

Pg 31

"It is said that when a wizard is about to die Death himself turns up to claim him (instead of delegating the task to a subordinate, such as Disease or Famine, as is usually the case.)"

Death will appear later on in this book, having a somewhat different personality than the Death of the later novels.

I'll refer to that when it happens.

In future books, Death shows up for everybody - Disease and/or Famine, War and Pestilence become the four Horsepeople of the Apocolypse and we see them in Thief of Time.) They, like Death, have become avatars, humanoid figures who have gained human characteristics because of "living" among them for so long.