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xxlucyferxx) wrote2008-09-06 03:04 pm
xxlucyferxx) wrote2008-09-06 03:04 pm
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Ineptshieldmaid, I'm kinda aiming this at you...
Or anyone else who just happens to be a history buff. Although I don't think I have any others on my flist.
I really need some vampire mythology that Dr. Cornelius could feasibly have unearthed at some point during one of his magical escapades. I'm working on this section in Sanguinis Vinculum where he's been going through some ancient books he has about vampires, incubi/succubi, etc. I won't explain the whole scene here, but I really want to be able to quote a relevant passage or two from these books.
Problem: my knowledge of vampire mythology is fantastic when it comes to the 19th century, but that's far too modern for a Narnian setting. I need something that sounds as if it could have been written in a medieval book of the occult, or something along those lines. I tried to write my own passage, but I really don't know enough medieval literature to pull off that sort of thing. So basically, if you can give me a positive answer to one of the following three questions, I will love you forever:
a) Do you have access to any suitably ancient writings about the vampire, which I could use as a reference point and/or quote in my writing?
OR
b) Do you have any skill at all in writing in a way that might sound appropriate to the sort of literature PC-era Narnians/Telmarines might have had access to, and would you be at all willing to sacrifice a bit of time to help me construct something that won't sound completely embarrassing?
OR
c) Do you know a person who COULD help me with either of the above, and could you direct me to them?
I really need some vampire mythology that Dr. Cornelius could feasibly have unearthed at some point during one of his magical escapades. I'm working on this section in Sanguinis Vinculum where he's been going through some ancient books he has about vampires, incubi/succubi, etc. I won't explain the whole scene here, but I really want to be able to quote a relevant passage or two from these books.
Problem: my knowledge of vampire mythology is fantastic when it comes to the 19th century, but that's far too modern for a Narnian setting. I need something that sounds as if it could have been written in a medieval book of the occult, or something along those lines. I tried to write my own passage, but I really don't know enough medieval literature to pull off that sort of thing. So basically, if you can give me a positive answer to one of the following three questions, I will love you forever:
a) Do you have access to any suitably ancient writings about the vampire, which I could use as a reference point and/or quote in my writing?
OR
b) Do you have any skill at all in writing in a way that might sound appropriate to the sort of literature PC-era Narnians/Telmarines might have had access to, and would you be at all willing to sacrifice a bit of time to help me construct something that won't sound completely embarrassing?
OR
c) Do you know a person who COULD help me with either of the above, and could you direct me to them?
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I really like the royal record idea...I'm pretty sure there was another royal vampire crisis a while back, possibly during Caspian II's reign...
I'll look into the Greek mythology, as well. I hadn't thought of that one either.
And good luck with the uni stuff!
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Royal record- you could have fun with that if it's written by someone who thinks the peasants are all a bunch of stupid gullible twits, and of COURSE these things aren't true. You'd only get sketchy details from such a source, and it would be just enough for Dr Cornelius to tell there's something really important going on, but few hard details.
On the other hand, you could go for something like Rev Robert Kirk's Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/): ie, a text written by a well educated person, who lives in a part of the country where the existence of (in this case) Vampires is just taken as fact. Said person's work might be regarded as ridiculous by mainstream Telmarine society (and perhaps, like Kirk's, languish in obscurity for years on end), and good ole Dr Cornelius might dig it out.
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Actually, the former option could tie in perfectly with this mission the Doc keeps on insisting he needs to gallivant off on...ooh, I think I just got a thread of inspiration.
*excited*
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Guh. *I* keep getting inspirations that want to have me chasing off in all sorts of directions... I realised I need to write in a) Drinian b) Eustace c) Peter and d) Digory for the VOTD cycle (although thankfully the final two don't come in until the very end), AND the backstory keeps esploding on me so that if I'm not careful I'll be writing PC-as-remembered-on-VOTD. And my brain keeps careering off on ideas like 'what are the basic understandings about sexuality in Telmarine Narnia' and 'how did Golden Age Narnia understand sexuality' and 'wtf is up with Caspian, freakin' moron'. And I just invented a Telmarine empire, a war with Calormen, and pirates.
And somewhere in there I have to figure out what to do with Caspian and Edmund. Poor darlings, they spent two weeks fighting and screwing, and now they're on a boat where they CAN'T fight and it is inadvisable to bicker publically. What are they supposed to DO? They're not even friends...