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bedlamsbardGiven Narnian resources, explosives knowledge, and a grudge, Peter and Edmund will:
a) introduce the concept of black powder to Narnia
b) raise holy hell
c) reconquer Narnia (for the THIRD TIME)
d) ALL OF THE ABOVE
ETA: I see y'all are opposed to the black powder notion. Tactical advantage. CANON, also, by the way; the Telmarines have fireworks, and I would be severely surprised if, three hundred years later, they had not managed to make those into weapons because that is what human beings do. And even if the Telmarine Narnians hadn't, the Calormenes most certainly would have unless they have some other resource that's going to take their place. Greek fire, yes; I don't remember if I ever explicitly stated it, but it was used in the Golden Age by Narnia and probably everyone else in the area, although they didn't call it Greek fire, obviously. And Greek fire is nastier than gunpowder.
And just for the record, the only way I'm going to have it in the story is if I decide they need to blow something up, which may or may not happen.
ETA2: Okay, y'all know what, I'm sick of talking about it. And I'd just like to point out that, one, nowhere did I actually say the words "guerilla war," and, two, China: gunpowder invented 850 AD, used in combat 919 AD, cannon invented 1126, firearms dated to 1290. (Source.) And talking about this is putting me in a bad mood, and now I am very tempted to introduce a plague for no good reason. I already burned half the forests in Narnia down; how much worse can their situation get?
a) introduce the concept of black powder to Narnia
b) raise holy hell
c) reconquer Narnia (for the THIRD TIME)
d) ALL OF THE ABOVE
ETA: I see y'all are opposed to the black powder notion. Tactical advantage. CANON, also, by the way; the Telmarines have fireworks, and I would be severely surprised if, three hundred years later, they had not managed to make those into weapons because that is what human beings do. And even if the Telmarine Narnians hadn't, the Calormenes most certainly would have unless they have some other resource that's going to take their place. Greek fire, yes; I don't remember if I ever explicitly stated it, but it was used in the Golden Age by Narnia and probably everyone else in the area, although they didn't call it Greek fire, obviously. And Greek fire is nastier than gunpowder.
And just for the record, the only way I'm going to have it in the story is if I decide they need to blow something up, which may or may not happen.
ETA2: Okay, y'all know what, I'm sick of talking about it. And I'd just like to point out that, one, nowhere did I actually say the words "guerilla war," and, two, China: gunpowder invented 850 AD, used in combat 919 AD, cannon invented 1126, firearms dated to 1290. (Source.) And talking about this is putting me in a bad mood, and now I am very tempted to introduce a plague for no good reason. I already burned half the forests in Narnia down; how much worse can their situation get?
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Date: 2008-10-09 03:52 pm (UTC)Some of the Narnians have gone extinct between LWW and PC, and there's a slight possibility that the Calormenes have hunted some species to extinction by the time "Dust" takes place; I'm debating the matter. The griffins would probably be one of those species. (seriously, I'm in debates to see how many people I can randomly kill off.)
Peter's an RAF combat pilot, and served in Burma during WWII (where he was shot down and declared MIA, thus causing his family to panic, and then walked out of the jungle three weeks later only looking vaguely bemused by this strange turn of events) and in Malaya a few years later. (He may or may not have served somewhere else in the interim; I'd have to do research on how often soldiers were deployed in the forties.) Edmund is an enlisted army infantryman, which means ground forces, the guys running around in the jungle. He got drafted; he wouldn't have joined otherwise, but Peter volunteered and he's in for life barring unforeseen other circumstances.
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Date: 2008-10-09 09:17 pm (UTC)Haha! Calormenes hunting them to extinction...in my mind that means rich ladies with griffin feather hats and leapard coats.
Peter, stop going missing! Edmund was drafted? Wow, my british history is even more spotty than I thought. What would he have done otherwise?
Pevensies in England fascinate me! I don't think I mentioned this, but I love Lucy in training as a nurse and then hestiating to heal Edmund. It's strange that the other Pevensies get older, but Lucy often seems to get younger. Peter is definitely a career military. Was Edmund in school? Susan?
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Date: 2008-10-09 09:30 pm (UTC)Edmund would have gone to university and then to law school, probably. Susan -- I'm not sure about Susan. She's not old enough to have been drafted; they let all the women go at the end of the war. (England was the only country to draft women in WWII.) Secretarial job, maybe, or there's a possibility she's working for the Secret Service. Not sure. *shrug* Should probably figure that out.
I like to think that Lucy and Edmund both got -- younger, to an extent; neither of them are quite on their game in "Dust." Edmund's a little more so just because he was doing basically the same kind of army stuff in Malaya.