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bedlamsbardOkay, about an hour and a half before PC arrived and I lost all coherency, I was going through LWW capping certain things. For reference. Obviously. PC comps from caps online.
Cair Paravel. Hmm. I always think it's more of a castle-castle, but not really. But god, those white walls on those green hills kills me every time. Comparison to a cap from PC -- boy, that's not depressing at all.
The centaur honor guard really is traditional. Oh my God. I want fic or historical errata or something about how they fought to preserve that right -- I mean, it's like the bears always being marshals, but the centaurs are just a little more impressive, I'm sorry.
Okay. This is -- not just a moment of shallow. This is where the recurring scars thing in Dust came from, this and this from PC. For some reason, I was absolutely convinced that Peter had gotten cut in PC in the exact same place he had in LWW, and he didn't. I completely made that up. Damn it.
On the other hand, note that this is the coronation and he still has the mark! Means the coronation was really soon after the battle.
This I did not make up. This was completely supported by the film -- how summer in Narnia ends when the Pevensies do. That is friggin' autumn, guys. I ROCK.
Here we go with the geography. Eastern seaboard of Narnia, bonus army, bonus Peter and Aslan. Anyway, here is a picture from PC, and -- heh -- the eastern seaboard has changed rather a lot.
You know what this makes me think of? Naval tactics. Oh my God, they are going to reenact the battle of Salamis. (I am not kidding about the Narnian-Calormene Wars in Dust pretty much being the Greco-Persian Wars, by the way. I have a Thermopylae. I have a Marathon. I have a Plataea. And now I think I genuinely have an actual friggin' Salamis, thanks to PC.)
Shore of Cair Paravel, with Lucy. But hey, here's something interesting: look at this cap and this cap (the second one actually gives a pretty decent view of the islands/mainland). Deliberate mirroring, maybe? How many different islands broke off of the mainland, because there weren't any in LWW. Unless -- *squints at cap* There might be one there in the distance. But the geography's so different!
That is one thing I'm sure Adamson didn't think through, whether or not the geography's consistent between movies.
Okay, off to go look at pictures of castles and possibly eat something at some point. And stroke PC's case with admiring fingers.
Hmm, while I'm here, what do y'all think of this as a baseline for New Cair Paravel? Or the second one down here? Oh, man, these are gorgeous. Here, second one down. Huh. Maybe elements of the city walls, but --
Anyway, I'm not looking for any one castle in particular, just browsing. Thoughts?
Cair Paravel. Hmm. I always think it's more of a castle-castle, but not really. But god, those white walls on those green hills kills me every time. Comparison to a cap from PC -- boy, that's not depressing at all.
The centaur honor guard really is traditional. Oh my God. I want fic or historical errata or something about how they fought to preserve that right -- I mean, it's like the bears always being marshals, but the centaurs are just a little more impressive, I'm sorry.
Okay. This is -- not just a moment of shallow. This is where the recurring scars thing in Dust came from, this and this from PC. For some reason, I was absolutely convinced that Peter had gotten cut in PC in the exact same place he had in LWW, and he didn't. I completely made that up. Damn it.
On the other hand, note that this is the coronation and he still has the mark! Means the coronation was really soon after the battle.
This I did not make up. This was completely supported by the film -- how summer in Narnia ends when the Pevensies do. That is friggin' autumn, guys. I ROCK.
Here we go with the geography. Eastern seaboard of Narnia, bonus army, bonus Peter and Aslan. Anyway, here is a picture from PC, and -- heh -- the eastern seaboard has changed rather a lot.
You know what this makes me think of? Naval tactics. Oh my God, they are going to reenact the battle of Salamis. (I am not kidding about the Narnian-Calormene Wars in Dust pretty much being the Greco-Persian Wars, by the way. I have a Thermopylae. I have a Marathon. I have a Plataea. And now I think I genuinely have an actual friggin' Salamis, thanks to PC.)
Shore of Cair Paravel, with Lucy. But hey, here's something interesting: look at this cap and this cap (the second one actually gives a pretty decent view of the islands/mainland). Deliberate mirroring, maybe? How many different islands broke off of the mainland, because there weren't any in LWW. Unless -- *squints at cap* There might be one there in the distance. But the geography's so different!
That is one thing I'm sure Adamson didn't think through, whether or not the geography's consistent between movies.
Okay, off to go look at pictures of castles and possibly eat something at some point. And stroke PC's case with admiring fingers.
Hmm, while I'm here, what do y'all think of this as a baseline for New Cair Paravel? Or the second one down here? Oh, man, these are gorgeous. Here, second one down. Huh. Maybe elements of the city walls, but --
Anyway, I'm not looking for any one castle in particular, just browsing. Thoughts?