Big Bang Fic: To Every Thing There Is a Season, part 3
Title: To Every Thing There Is a Season
Author: Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Rating: PG-13ish?
Characters: Ilgamuth Tarkaan, Prince Rabadash, many OCs, several named canon characters who might as well be OCs, and various horses
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia is the intellectual property of C. S. Lewis and his estate. No money is being made from this ( Read more... )
Author: Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Rating: PG-13ish?
Characters: Ilgamuth Tarkaan, Prince Rabadash, many OCs, several named canon characters who might as well be OCs, and various horses
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia is the intellectual property of C. S. Lewis and his estate. No money is being made from this ( Read more... )
It was fun writing Shezan from Ilgamuth's point of view -- for one thing, it's a lot easier to describe what she looks like and how she moves. And I'm glad that Zubidah came across vividly. I wish I'd been able to do more with her and her family, though. There's a whole story there that Ilgamuth only sees glimpses of. I think I must bring her back in the post-HHB story, if only because I think I made an offhand reference in "Out of Season" to Rachegra and Drinachlala still arguing over taxes with the Tisroc twelve years after this rebellion and it would be tidy to go full circle and force Ilgamuth and Rabadash to resolve that issue again. (Hopefully Rabadash' inability to go to war, plus Shezan's input, will make it stick better the second time around.)
I don't think Ilgamuth is a terrible poet. He does seem to think in metaphors at times -- the honey-thick golden air after he and Kinboor kill the guard, likening the chase to an airless nightmare with an unseen monster -- but given that I would have to write any poetry he might create, and I am pretty sure I am not an especially gifted poet, I am going to put my foot down and say that he will remain an amateur at best, no matter how much confidence he gains as he grows up. *wry*
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