Dawn is the sacred hour
2016-09-19 06:44In which I join the majority of the internet who write fic for the Chronicles of Narnia, apparently.
The thing is, I feel quite positively toward lions. But![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cyphomandra mentioned Assyrian lion hunts and it shook something about Calormene religion loose in my head. Fair warning: I did no research for this story whatsoever. It is almost certainly not canon-compliant; I did not re-read either The Horse and His Boy (1954) or The Last Battle (1956) mostly because I don't have ready access to copies of either, but frankly not having to read the latter again, even for research purposes, very likely made me happier than the alternative. Lewis' Calormen is a mess of Orientalist motifs more than actual cultures, so I took the chance that knowing almost nothing about the Ottoman or Mughal Empires or whatever his original vague models might have been would not totally wreck me. I worked with a heavy fictionalization of Persian history and the Neo-Assyrians instead. Fingers crossed it didn't just turn out terrible in a different direction. I feel as though I have essentially forgotten how fiction works. There are diacritics in all the names because I like them. I'm going to bed for three hours.
( Not a Tame Lion )
The thing is, I feel quite positively toward lions. But
cyphomandra mentioned Assyrian lion hunts and it shook something about Calormene religion loose in my head. Fair warning: I did no research for this story whatsoever. It is almost certainly not canon-compliant; I did not re-read either The Horse and His Boy (1954) or The Last Battle (1956) mostly because I don't have ready access to copies of either, but frankly not having to read the latter again, even for research purposes, very likely made me happier than the alternative. Lewis' Calormen is a mess of Orientalist motifs more than actual cultures, so I took the chance that knowing almost nothing about the Ottoman or Mughal Empires or whatever his original vague models might have been would not totally wreck me. I worked with a heavy fictionalization of Persian history and the Neo-Assyrians instead. Fingers crossed it didn't just turn out terrible in a different direction. I feel as though I have essentially forgotten how fiction works. There are diacritics in all the names because I like them. I'm going to bed for three hours.( Not a Tame Lion )
