Update on the Narnia Mapping Project
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gmtaslashY'know how Narnia is titchy-small, my mapping-peeps? WELL. Ettinsmoor is HUGE and Calormen is EVEN HUGER. I had to give up on the idea of mapping Calormen all the way from Arsheesh's house to the border with Archenland, because at the 1cm = 5 miles scale, that would require my map to be 12 sheets of A4 (landscape way up) long. As it is, it's 8 sheets long and 1.5 sheets wide. Lewis sure likes long skinny countries.
Some Points; I think Ettinsmoor is peat over granite bedrock. I'm basing it on Dartmoor in England.
Mt. Pire and the Archenland and Western Mountains are mapped and have contour lines and all. It's looking all mountainous. I'm proud.
Lewis DID NOT THINK about how the river that Shasta, Aravis and the horses follow to the pass into Archenland; it has to have a confluence with the Winding Arrow, yes? It can't be a tributary because the topography is wrong (water has to flow *down*hill, yo) and because Our Heroes approach it heading northwest, but if it's a branch of the Winding Arrow, then it'll flow into the desert. Which, um. No. So I've had to be sneaky with both Winding Arrow and Unnamed Convenient-For-The-Plot stream.
I am really impressed with Eustace and Jill. They walk the moors and live off the land for TEN DAYS before hitting the river with the giant's bridge. That's seriously good work there.
Some Points; I think Ettinsmoor is peat over granite bedrock. I'm basing it on Dartmoor in England.
Mt. Pire and the Archenland and Western Mountains are mapped and have contour lines and all. It's looking all mountainous. I'm proud.
Lewis DID NOT THINK about how the river that Shasta, Aravis and the horses follow to the pass into Archenland; it has to have a confluence with the Winding Arrow, yes? It can't be a tributary because the topography is wrong (water has to flow *down*hill, yo) and because Our Heroes approach it heading northwest, but if it's a branch of the Winding Arrow, then it'll flow into the desert. Which, um. No. So I've had to be sneaky with both Winding Arrow and Unnamed Convenient-For-The-Plot stream.
I am really impressed with Eustace and Jill. They walk the moors and live off the land for TEN DAYS before hitting the river with the giant's bridge. That's seriously good work there.
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:24 pm (UTC)Pssht, fossils. Preserved burials ftw.
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:28 pm (UTC)Who's up for a peat-digging expedition across Ettinsmoor? And a fossil-collecting mission on the coast near Cair Paravel?
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:31 pm (UTC)I'm all for a peat-digging expedition across Ettinsmoor. I think we'll find that the nastier elemets of Narnian society do live sacrificial burials... *glees*
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:02 am (UTC)I think the live sacrificial burials were perpetrated by Centaurs. I don't trust them. All that stargazing .. they're all Druidy...
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-10 12:09 am (UTC)Let's dock the Ship and have an expedition! We can take on supplies at the same time!
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:28 am (UTC)I could go looking for weapons and stuff. And then we could get the skelletons and see what weapons killed them!
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:33 am (UTC)If there were still people living there while the isthmus became an island, which it would probably have done by becoming an arch, then when the arch finally caved in there would have been chaos and panic ...
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Date: 2008-11-10 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-10 12:40 am (UTC)