Tales Of The Calormene Trickster

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Series Begun:
2014-09-21
Series Updated:
2021-03-05
Description:

A series of short stories featuring the Calormene Trickster and their role in The Horse And His Boy And The Mare and Her Girl set in and around the Golden Age of the House of Pevensie and the years following.

Notes:

This tale has its origins in the femgenficathon in 2011 for the following prompt:

"My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines."
Trieu Thi Trinh (225-248), 3rd-century Vietnamese revolutionary who led a rebellion against Chinese invaders. Known as "the Vietnamese Joan of Arc."

The story I wrote, Horse and Her Girl, was never posted on AO3. Since 2011, I played with various ideas begun in the original version of that short story -- Hwin returning to Narnia and becoming an Ambassador (Herd Mentality), Bree joining the Army (Herd Mentality), the activity of the Trickster as an important deity in the Calormene pantheon (Rat, Cat and Trickster, That we may hear whispers of the gods, and Flee From Memory), the hostility of the Archenlanders to Aravis as Cor’s Queen to be (That we may hear whispers of the gods), and that Aravis and Cor are both gender non-conforming (That we may hear whispers of the gods). These all are part of the groundwork of a collection I’ve always wanted to do.

So, let’s try putting some of this together.

Rat and Cat is Story 1 of the Tales of the Calormene Trickster. Story 2, Flee From Memory, addresses the aftermath of the Siege of Archenland. (Caution that chapter 3 of that story is a darker look at Tumnus’s bitter point of view, Aslan’s manipulation of memory, and a world where, ultimately, Lucy and Edmund are ripped from their spouses and children. Skip that chapter if you wish -- it’s pretty unpopular and I’ve gotten a lot of nasty about it over the years.) Story 3, One Step Back, Two Steps Forward is taken partly from the earlier story never posted here. Story 4 is That we may hear whispers of the gods. The concluding, Story 5, is a work in progress.

 

Stats:
Words:
45,351
Works:
5
Complete:
No
Bookmarks:
21

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