Yes, there's shades of that- although I'm not touching the Abusive Miraz thing, it's a) unpleasant and b) done too often for my liking. Basically, poor ole Caspian doesn't know how to have friends. I'm not sure he even knows how to have fun.
Yep, that's what I needed Catamite for. Cornelius gets to give Caspian a pointed lecture about not puppy-dogging at Peter's heels, because the Telmarine lords will not be pleased if their king is this Narnian upstart's catamite. And then Susan is going to forcibly dance Caspian around the ballroom and threaten to string him up by his heels and castrate him if he doesn't leave Peter alone. And then they all leave and Caspian's back to square one.
Caspian *is* such an ass. Also a bit of an arse. And he likes BEING the arse. It's all rather complicated.
I'm thinking the Narnian Telmarines may actually have conquered Archenland. Which is important, because they control the mountain pass. And also there are priceless silver deposits in the Archen mountains, which Telmarine Narnia needs to support its economy in the absence of sea trade. See also mountain passes and desert routes.
Oh, and they DIDN'T find Narnia bereft of humans. That's received mythology Dr Cornelius picked up from his dwarfish roots. There were humans in Narnia when the Telmarines arrived- and naturally they were absorbed into the Telmarine population. Or the Telmarines were absorbed into the Narnian population, depending on how you look at it. Working example here is the Norman Conquest of England. So Caspian speaks something which can best be termed Telmonarnian. For convenience, we will inhibit language development in order that Telmonarnian be intelligible to speakers of Old Narnian, which is not actually the language spoken in the Golden Age, but the language spoken by 'Old Narnians'. The language of the Golden Age, which Dr Cornelius has termed Old High Narnian, is not quite intelligible to speakers of Old Narnian but is relatively easy to learn. Caspian must've learnt it, since he read Susan's treaty. This is actually quite a clever political move, as far as establishing himself in Narnian good books goes. DRINIAN, on the other hand, speaks CalormoTelmarine as his mother tongue.
The Pevensies understand all this because of Magic. Also Old Narnian is intelligible to speakers of Old High Narnian but not the other way around. Anyway, it is Aslan's Will that the Pevensies speak any language necessary for them.
Oh, and the Lone Islands speaks something close to Telmonarnian. Let's call it Narnimarine. It's the common tongue of the island nations, not exactly parrallel to Telmonarnian, because Telmarine Narnia has been isolated due to hydrophobia. But mutually intelligible.
YEAH I PUT WAY TOO MUCH THOUGHT INTO THESE THINGS.
In other news, I have written a title on my paper for monday. That's all. Time to panic now.
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Yep, that's what I needed Catamite for. Cornelius gets to give Caspian a pointed lecture about not puppy-dogging at Peter's heels, because the Telmarine lords will not be pleased if their king is this Narnian upstart's catamite. And then Susan is going to forcibly dance Caspian around the ballroom and threaten to string him up by his heels and castrate him if he doesn't leave Peter alone. And then they all leave and Caspian's back to square one.
Caspian *is* such an ass. Also a bit of an arse. And he likes BEING the arse. It's all rather complicated.
I'm thinking the Narnian Telmarines may actually have conquered Archenland. Which is important, because they control the mountain pass. And also there are priceless silver deposits in the Archen mountains, which Telmarine Narnia needs to support its economy in the absence of sea trade. See also mountain passes and desert routes.
Oh, and they DIDN'T find Narnia bereft of humans. That's received mythology Dr Cornelius picked up from his dwarfish roots. There were humans in Narnia when the Telmarines arrived- and naturally they were absorbed into the Telmarine population. Or the Telmarines were absorbed into the Narnian population, depending on how you look at it. Working example here is the Norman Conquest of England. So Caspian speaks something which can best be termed Telmonarnian. For convenience, we will inhibit language development in order that Telmonarnian be intelligible to speakers of Old Narnian, which is not actually the language spoken in the Golden Age, but the language spoken by 'Old Narnians'. The language of the Golden Age, which Dr Cornelius has termed Old High Narnian, is not quite intelligible to speakers of Old Narnian but is relatively easy to learn. Caspian must've learnt it, since he read Susan's treaty. This is actually quite a clever political move, as far as establishing himself in Narnian good books goes.
DRINIAN, on the other hand, speaks CalormoTelmarine as his mother tongue.
The Pevensies understand all this because of Magic. Also Old Narnian is intelligible to speakers of Old High Narnian but not the other way around. Anyway, it is Aslan's Will that the Pevensies speak any language necessary for them.
Oh, and the Lone Islands speaks something close to Telmonarnian. Let's call it Narnimarine. It's the common tongue of the island nations, not exactly parrallel to Telmonarnian, because Telmarine Narnia has been isolated due to hydrophobia. But mutually intelligible.
YEAH I PUT WAY TOO MUCH THOUGHT INTO THESE THINGS.
In other news, I have written a title on my paper for monday. That's all. Time to panic now.