chances are this would be easier in a non-visual-based medium

[bedlamsbard]

Jesus Christ, I think Dust 10 just won some kind of medal for needing the most research of any chapter (or story so far); I think I spent more time on Wikipedia than I did writing, and I'm only 2K in.

And all I did was write about armor! Also tent-pegging. And horses. Guys, I never wanted to know this much about horses, ever. I DON'T CARE.

Except apparently I do. *beats head into desk*

The Calormene horses that the Pevensies ride in Dust 4 are Barbs. The big Calormene warhorses that we see in The Horse and His Boy are Arabians. (And since Bree and Hwin were able to pass as Calormene horses, I would guess that Narnian talking horses are probably Thoroughbreds, although there may be a chance that talking horses are as diverse as any other kind of horses. I wouldn't bet on it, though. I mean, it's not like we've seen talking ponies.) (You have no idea how close I came to making regular Calormene horses Caspian horses, just because it amused me. (Not that this ever comes up in the story, mind; hell if the Pevensies know anything about Earth horses.) But Caspian horses are way too small.) Narnians haven't ridden talking horses to war in sixteen hundred years; no talking horse will let a human onto its back.

Apparently, Jewel is an Andalusian with a horn. (Well, the unicorn in LWW was an Andalusian, so it stands to reason Jewel would be too.) Also, if I have to think about centaurs, I'm introducing a plague, I swear to God.

And don't even get me started on armor. Oh, yeah, you can totally tell I'm reading Stirling right now.

You know, I thought that the Telmarine cavalry in PC used lances (which is, uh, why they have lances in Water), but upon rewatching? Nope. Swords. Which is surprising. The centaurs in LWW serve as lancers, though, and in Dust we are going to see a full balls out charge with knights in shining armor, which is why I've been looking this stuff up. (That scene doesn't come till way later, though; it's just that Dust 10 starts with Vespasian practicing tentpegging. In full armor. On a big warmblooded destrier, sixteen hands, also in full armor. Oh, sweet lord, if this is what I do for fantasy I am greatly relieved I feel no particular urge to write historical fiction.)

And then I remembered that I had other plot points besides sheer world-building and now have the lovely Narnian curse of, "Shadowmaster take your soul and drag it beneath the ice!" which doesn't work quite so well it's King Edmund, the original Shadowmaster, that you're addressing.

Excuse me. I have to go wax rhapsodic on the Red Company's scouting uniform, which involves me backspacing out the chain mail and adding in swords, bows, and shields.

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[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

"Shadowmaster take your soul and drag it beneath the ice!" - This, was this said directly to Edmund? Man, they're in trouble, yeah?



I don't remember where you said it (I don't remember if this was what you were looking for...) But I seem to recall that somewhere you said that you would really like an icon with a picture of the Pevensies in LWW on their thrones and one in PC? Well I stumbled over this one and I thought I'd show it to you.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t274/evester1/narnia%2050/narnia029_evester.png

Made by evester at evie_icons

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yep, some idiot said that directly to Edmund. They're lucky he was in a hurry. When the people you summon are your demigods, it might do you some good to remember where your blessings and curses come from.

OOH. OH PEVENSIES WHY SO TRAGIC?

[redangel618.livejournal.com]

you know Peter loved his sword when he was in the Red Company.

you have all of these great epithets for peter and edmund, what are the girls called?

and before i forget my email is redangel618@yahoo.com for that thing.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Fun fact: we actually see Peter's Red Company sword in On a Summer Sunday (http://bedlamsbard.livejournal.com/340263.html) -- sixteen hundred years later they're using backswords (or at least Alleyne Seaworth's squadron are), but during the Golden Age they used longswords.

Susan: Queen of Spring, Heartsbane, Widowmaker
Lucy: Queen of Morning, Strongheart (by Narnians), Stoneheart (by foreigners)

Possibly others, I don't kow. *shrugs*

[pcan.livejournal.com]

but you are learning things and enhancing your google/wiki-fu?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*whimpers*

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

This? Is why history geeks are so the coolest people evar.

mmmm... tasty, tasty research.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*dramatic sigh* This is why I'm doomed to be a history major, I think.