*blinkblink*

[bedlamsbard]

Hey, y'all know those days when you wake up and you know exactly what's going to happen in the next chapter? YEAH.

Lucy! Plot! Jill! Tirian! Vespasian! Mysteries! Baby hippogriffs!

I will also have to go back to the prologue and change one thing. (This is the problem of writing a WIP, but at least LJ has a good edit function.)

Comments

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

...Vespasian?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

...not that Vespasian. Vespasian is Tirian's older cousin and heir, and he's been at the Archenland court since the Calormenes took over.

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Ah. Right. Blame Lindsey Davis, but Vespasian is my favourite Roman emperor, you see, so I had a pre-coffee moment of "Narnia/Rome crossover wtf?" Which might actually be sort of awesome. *G*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

That's one crossover I haven't done yet!

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Even better, Narnia/Falco crossover. omg. Susan and Helena would get on so well and Falco and Petronius would teach Edmund a dozen dirty tricks he didn't know already and Falco would really hate Peter and his sense of goddamn royal entitlement. It'd be hysterical.

...OK, I'm alone out here, but I still like it.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

...I just wrote Narnia/Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

I AM A NUTCASE.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

heh. ARCHENLAND section! I can has action! i can has sniping! I can has Glozelle! (I also possibly can has Lucy teaching the archenland smaller children how to fleece people at cards...)

For some reason my wolves have decided they want saxon names. Aethelstan? WTF? Except they have east end accents. Don't ask.

though, uh, problem. How the fuck do the Telmarine believe the talking beasts and centaurs are extinct/mythical if they're around in Archenland, which is only just over the border? I've got the Telmarines being pretty isolationist along with the books, but... uh...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

OH MAN I HAVE ARCHENLAND TOO. Because Tirian's cousin Vespasian (who also happens to be his heir) has been at the Archenland court ever since the Calormenes took over, and now he's coming back to Narnia (because hot damn, that horn didn't just call back the Pevensies (if it called the Pevensies back at all), it called back everybody who might help Narnia or has a drop of Narnian blood. Heard across the entirety of the ancient borders of Narnia, heard by Vespasian in Archenland, heard by the Red Company in Greater Shoushan, heard by the Black Fleet in the Great Eastern Ocean, heard in the isles...).

Don't even talk to me about names, oh my god. Modern Narnian names are Spanish, the Calormenes are vaguely Persian and/or Middle Eastern, the Red Company's going to be more English-y, same with Archenland...and then, very occasionally, we get Narnians with actual Narnian names. And then I have to name places, which means I pull out the old English dictionary and make shit up.

*shrug* Isolationism more or less covers it pretty well. And if they think they're better than the Archenlanders, then it's also a case of, "Oh, those crazy superstitious bastards."