Ideas I’ve been mulling over for my Narnia story - (it’s set in the timeframe of the Silver Chair book)
-After Prince Rillian has come to his senses and changed into the clothes the rescue team brought for him they stole from his room he asks if they brought a sword for him as he no longer wants to use the one the Lady of the Green Kirtle gave to him. Oc has Damascus steel swords she has been engraving and decorating while learning to make swords. He sees she has one that has horses on it and is to commemorate Strawberry, Edmund’s steed Philip, Peter’s steed unicorn, Caspian’s steed Bree and Hwin. The prince has some moments of confusion and he questions her on why she would make a sword dedicated to horses when horses do not need swords. The talk dies down when the Centaur named Rune traveling with them compliments the blade and says the horses would be honored at the skill put into it. -this is mostly to possibly leave a hint she might have intended to offer it to Edmund since he never got a special sword from Santa and it wouldn’t be like one his brother could have. There’s a possible jealousy to build up for the prince on if oc could be gaining feelings for Edmund later on. -
The second sword he finds of her collection after he does not want one coated with horses is one he is surprised to find one with what he thinks to be his father’s name branded onto the leather braided hilt handle. He draws it and says with a grin he will use this one. He gets a better look unsheathing it and finds it’s a scene down the blade of his father’s horse speeding off alone rider-less and his father complete with head wound at 13 sprawled across the ground. The name on the hilt can now clearly be read as ‘Caspain’ and oc has to say she got through the scene before Trufflehunter pointed out she misspelled the name. It was the first Damascus steel sword she’d made that didn’t shatter on stress tests and she just hadn’t had the patience or nerve to try and mend the spelling error. Rillian fights to not laugh and sheaths the sword and accepts the sword honoring the pivotal moment when the reality of magic into his father’s life began with him being bashed in the head by a tree branch.
-Side note Damascus steel is mined in Narnia but no smith there can manage to make it yield to any use since the art once belonging to the centaurs was wiped out almost fully by the erasure of magical beings by Caspian’s uncle. Now there is one aged Centaur who can manage to make arrow heads and tries to pass on the skill to as many centaurs as she can hoping one may uncover the lost skill to bend the metal to their will and bring the skill back. Oc agrees to give their Damascus a shot post adventure and teaches Rune’s teenage son she’s good friends with to make his own sword to train with. Many Centaurs take turns learning from what oc knows about the metal and how to work it in a forge.
-the talking mice hearing the phrase “I’m just crackers about cheese” from oc they are curiously amused at in a conversation about offering fruit, cheese and crackers to their mousy band of warriors.
-While on the adventure the talking mice, centaur and prince are baffled at the cow shaped tent, it even has horns on it, oc has but Trufflehunter shares its enchanted to not be seen by others outside their travel party and is far more spacious inside than it seems. A nod at the magic internally expanded tents from HP.
-Oh and oc has a pop up ladder they use on the giant staircase on the broken bridge.
-Peter is married to a male Wood Dryad and there’s a magical way that they could have a child as the Dryad would sprout a bulb they could plant and oc trying not to chortle or snicker suggests they could make them a special pot when the day comes their little sprout could nestle into as a gift for the occasion. The dryad is touched and Edmund amongst others are losing it inside while Peter can’t help but laugh himself as he has in times alone of imagining his children would be little leafy buds he would have to spritz and keep in proper sunlight conditions until they were large enough to dig up like spiky grumpy potatoes as his husband has shared with him ages before.
-Oh also and there’s a fun bit where oc has to use her flying shark ship to have her, Rillian, Rune, Trufflehunter, Puddleglum, Peepiceek and other talking mice head to Romandu’s island to seek help in gathering more Ingredients to replace Lucy’s cordial when she’s been far too generous with it the past centuries and only had four drops left.
-that’s all for now but if anyone wants to hear more let me know. :)
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