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Fic Update: "Motherland"
Apr. 12th, 2010 07:17 pm I think I need a certain amount of external pressure to be productive. The pressure is on now, and my brain is flowing over.
Here is an exploration of Caeda I wrote 80% of last year and have polished up for publication. It's my attempt at depicting her between the wars, based on a curious glitch in the Archanean timeline. It would appear that, in Year 607 when the War of Heroes is about to erupt, that Caeda has arrived in Altea fairly recently-- she and Marth are just on the verge of getting married when the whole Grust diversion unfolds. Yet the War of Darkness wrapped up approximately two years prior, back in 605! That's a rather lengthy engagement-- wouldn't there be a certain amount of hurry-up involved, what with Marth being the last of his bloodline and all?
I present the following excuses:
1) One or both of them are deemed underage. This is pretty feasible, given Marth isn't crowned king immediately. Archanea, unlike primogeniture-happy European kingdoms, doesn't like child kings, and doesn't seem to go for child marriage, either. We know he can't be any older than seventeen in 605, and I suspect Caeda to be a year or two younger than that, and perhaps that's just too young. ("Old enough for war, but not for voting," I guess.)
2) Altea is a mess and needs to be stabilized first. OK-- but FE11 kind of indicates Caeda zips out there immediately, regardless. And she kicks her heels for two long years doing what-- playing dolls with Elice? Learning how to be a lady? Your guess is as good as mine.
3) Talys is a piece of unfinished business. Specifically, it's a recently unified "modern" kingdom, whose first king appears to have one (1) young daughter as his heir. Seriously, if Caeda had a brother or three, wouldn't they have popped up somewhere in the plot? Sending Caeda off to Altea to marry means that, in essence, Talys goes bye-bye in one generation. Married heiresses in Archanea hand over all their authority to their husbands. Witness Nyna. Witness Artemis. In the time it takes to say "I do," independent Talys becomes, in effect, an eastern province of Altea. A neglected province of Altea, given they're at opposite ends of the archipelago.
If I'd dedicated my life to making Talys one solid nation, I'd have second thoughts about that scenario. Wouldn't you?
Here is an exploration of Caeda I wrote 80% of last year and have polished up for publication. It's my attempt at depicting her between the wars, based on a curious glitch in the Archanean timeline. It would appear that, in Year 607 when the War of Heroes is about to erupt, that Caeda has arrived in Altea fairly recently-- she and Marth are just on the verge of getting married when the whole Grust diversion unfolds. Yet the War of Darkness wrapped up approximately two years prior, back in 605! That's a rather lengthy engagement-- wouldn't there be a certain amount of hurry-up involved, what with Marth being the last of his bloodline and all?
I present the following excuses:
1) One or both of them are deemed underage. This is pretty feasible, given Marth isn't crowned king immediately. Archanea, unlike primogeniture-happy European kingdoms, doesn't like child kings, and doesn't seem to go for child marriage, either. We know he can't be any older than seventeen in 605, and I suspect Caeda to be a year or two younger than that, and perhaps that's just too young. ("Old enough for war, but not for voting," I guess.)
2) Altea is a mess and needs to be stabilized first. OK-- but FE11 kind of indicates Caeda zips out there immediately, regardless. And she kicks her heels for two long years doing what-- playing dolls with Elice? Learning how to be a lady? Your guess is as good as mine.
3) Talys is a piece of unfinished business. Specifically, it's a recently unified "modern" kingdom, whose first king appears to have one (1) young daughter as his heir. Seriously, if Caeda had a brother or three, wouldn't they have popped up somewhere in the plot? Sending Caeda off to Altea to marry means that, in essence, Talys goes bye-bye in one generation. Married heiresses in Archanea hand over all their authority to their husbands. Witness Nyna. Witness Artemis. In the time it takes to say "I do," independent Talys becomes, in effect, an eastern province of Altea. A neglected province of Altea, given they're at opposite ends of the archipelago.
If I'd dedicated my life to making Talys one solid nation, I'd have second thoughts about that scenario. Wouldn't you?
