*whimpers*

[bedlamsbard]

Narnia got urbanized. I feel horrible. Tirian is all, "God, it's good to be home, even when home has been taken over by a foreign invader," and Peter is pretty much, "This is not Narnia. This should never be Narnia. May Aslan forgive us," because Golden Age Narnia never had towns, let alone cities. The closest they got was the semi-permanent Shifting Market and family- and clan- groups of Narnians -- not villages, not towns, and definitely not cities. Because towns are for humans, and Golden Age Narnia almost never had enough humans to form something like that. *shakes head* Especially not the seething mass of urbanity that is Cair Paravel.

Poor bastard.

ETA: Gee, Lewis, thanks for breaking my mythological brain. Why are there, like, no male river spirits aside from the suitably vague "river gods", and hello, I'm not actually going to say "river god" in Dust. Naiad, yes, and I may just say "potamaeid" and confuse ten million people (ha, like ten million people read my journal). Except that the MALE river spirit is canon for book and movie. *growls*

La la la, Peter is having a crisis, Tirian is actually being useful, because our boy Tirian is a city boy born and raised, Eustace is...not doing much of anything.

Comments

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

We discussed this briefly before, I think. I don't see how she could have killed *all* the humans-some would have made it to the borders right before her reach...and she's a comparatively recent effect, too. Narnia had how many centuries of pastoral peace and development under King Frank and Queen Helen's line's rule?

Jadis might well have targeted elders and various long-lived leaders, so as to eliminate the source of stories and truth, and stamp out any underground resistance more easily. If the survivors didn't really know from personal experience, just their parents' or grandparents' stories that there used to be humans living in the isolated area of X ,what have you, then it *would* be hard to trust and believe in dimly-remembered legends.

Besides, it's not like the Pevensies met *all* of the Narnians, or even the most sophistated bunch of them, when they came through.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I think by the time of LWW there weren't any humans within Narnia's borders. And in the Warsverse, at least, she either killed or turned to stone all authority figures, elders, clan leaders, etc., so anybody who remembered humans is probably dead, turned to stone, or in denial by the time LWW happens.