Currently rereading The Horse and His Boy for a project, and I can't help but be fascinated by some of the world-building for Calormen, Telmar, Archenland and Narnia. Because Narnia is not the planet, it's a country on the unnamed world. Which means Aslan is heavily invested in the geopolitical state of one part of his world, not the world itself.
What does it mean to not be God's favorite? Archenland is friendly to Narnia and shown as morally upright, and (seemingly as a consequence) is well-off and thriving, but Telmar and Calormen both tried to conquer Narnia and were rebuffed, and they've been left in the dust. Both have their societal problems, for sure, but I can't help but wonder if they thought it terribly unfair that Aslan was the god of Narnia, and not of them, too.
I also can't help but wonder if Telmar and Calormen ever fought. Telmar conquered Narnia in the 13 centuries after the golden age; did the desert or the Calormenes stop them?
