random Narnian thoughts
Misc fic/worldbuilding stuff I was thinking about while falling asleep last night:
The last rulers of Narnia before Jadis takes over are Queen Beacon and King Rue. She's the ruling queen; he's technically King Consort. For various reasons there was growing anti-Human sentiment among the Beasts and Beings and a desire for Narnia to be a human-free land like the Western Wild. Some of this was homegrown, but the Lady of the Green Kirtle (acting on Jadis's behalf) stirred that into a much stronger and more ideologically strident movement than might otherwise have existed. There was unrest and some local violent outbreaks before the Tree of Protection got chopped down.
Other members of the royal family between Frank & Helen and the disaster include:
-several other Franks and Helens (because why mess with a good thing)
-King Halfdan
-Queen Maude (probably more than one)
-Queen Bobbin, her sister Needle, and her brother Thread
-Queen Hickory
-King Meadowsweet
-King Cadwallader (because look, Archenland's Welsh flavor had to come from somewhere)
-Queen Artemisia
Then I started wondering if there might have been a King Robin, which lead me on to Robin Goodfellow and whether Puck and Shakespeare-type fairy courts might have a presence in Narnia, which is a fascinating topic I want to explore at some later time. :D
And then there was some other stuff that's more directly relevant to the story I've been beating my head against for the past month, so I won't post about that here. :DDD
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The last rulers of Narnia before Jadis takes over are Queen Beacon and King Rue. She's the ruling queen; he's technically King Consort. For various reasons there was growing anti-Human sentiment among the Beasts and Beings and a desire for Narnia to be a human-free land like the Western Wild. Some of this was homegrown, but the Lady of the Green Kirtle (acting on Jadis's behalf) stirred that into a much stronger and more ideologically strident movement than might otherwise have existed. There was unrest and some local violent outbreaks before the Tree of Protection got chopped down.
Other members of the royal family between Frank & Helen and the disaster include:
-several other Franks and Helens (because why mess with a good thing)
-King Halfdan
-Queen Maude (probably more than one)
-Queen Bobbin, her sister Needle, and her brother Thread
-Queen Hickory
-King Meadowsweet
-King Cadwallader (because look, Archenland's Welsh flavor had to come from somewhere)
-Queen Artemisia
Then I started wondering if there might have been a King Robin, which lead me on to Robin Goodfellow and whether Puck and Shakespeare-type fairy courts might have a presence in Narnia, which is a fascinating topic I want to explore at some later time. :D
And then there was some other stuff that's more directly relevant to the story I've been beating my head against for the past month, so I won't post about that here. :DDD
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