There is a particular scene which has come to bother me more over time, in part because I've heard other readers discussing implications which I honestly would not have thought of as a child. That is Aravis's scars received from Aslan, and his explanation of why. I do understand that it was, at leas...

Well... It's possible that Jadis' war was about destroying an opposing ideology. But I'd give equal credit to the possibility that a woman who would go out of her way to uncover a kill-all weapon, is the sort of woman who is interested in taking or maintaining power whether or not she particularly h...

Ah, alrighty.
I'm not sure if my fic ideas are up to 100--I shall need to count sometime--but I do think I know the feeling.
I am glad that the thread can be of some use in your brainstorming.

^_^ You say you're writing a fic about this... I'm a bit curious who is the main character. Are you mostly focusing on Jadis, or her sister, or a bystander in one of their armies? I've had a Charn-fic percolating in my head, also--but not focused on the Last War. And I'm not sure how soon it would b...

Is it? Perhaps even "evil" characters have a code of honor. Jadis approved her ancestor's murder of his nobles apparently on the basis that he believed they were plotting treason. She thought there was a proper order to things--magicians with the proper look and blood were to be respected,...

On the Jadis/sister conflict... I don't think the sister was a saint, but I'm not sure how dark she was, either... it might have been black and black morality, or black and gray-ish morality, so to speak. Like, the sister could have been sick and tired of watching her men get slaughtered, and convin...

Well... I think polytheistic is a given. Maybe also some theocratic overlap with minor magic-blooded royalty being used as priesthood (thus able to manufacture miracles to bolster the faith and fear of the commoners), and possibly ancestor-worship of the jinn who helped birth the royal line? I would...

I've got an idea, and I'm trying to figure out how to say it right. It's not coming well into its words. But basically, I think oldness may not be the same thing as grown-ness or maturity. I don't know if there is anything to support this aside from Susan, but if "old" meant something more...