[Fic] "The Raven, the Garden, and the Western Wild" -- Chronicles of Narnia

More belated internet housekeeping! This is a story I wrote for elementalraven as part of a 2023 Discord winter holiday gift swap. It is extremely self-indulgent worldbuilding and also contains a tiny illustration done in fine-point Sharpie marker.

The Raven, the Garden, and the Western Wild (1170 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, The Western Wild (Narnia), Ethics, Book: The Magician's Nephew, Storytelling, Oral History

Summary: When the world was young and its many peoples still learning the patterns of life, the story goes, a Raven flew west from Narnia all the way to the Garden On The Hill that stands at the edge of the world.

[Fic] "Ashes" -- Chronicles of Narnia

Internet housekeeping continues! This was my 2023 Narnia Fic Exchange entry, written for Lizzen.

Ashes (3748 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jadis | The White Witch & Jadis' Sister
Characters: Jadis | The White Witch, Jadis' Sister (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Charn, Worldbuilding, Backstory, Slavery, Murder, Psychopathology & Sociopathy, War, Fictional Religion & Theology

Summary: Cynara's army breached the city walls of Charn at dawn on the Day of Ashes.

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Someday I do still intend to write the full story of Jadis and Cynara's final conflict, but I got tangled up in battle tactics and also realized I would need to create so much court politics, so I hit a decent stopping point and quit while I was temporarily ahead. *wry*

Anyway, it is my firm belief that while Jadis's sister would have been less disastrous for both the universe in general and Charn in specific, she still wasn't remotely a good person -- just better at realizing that the world is where she keeps all her stuff, and that it's easier to rule if your subjects feel like you see them as people, not toys.

[Fic] "A Proposed Exploration of the Karst Topography of the Magarran River Gorge" -- Nine Worlds

And yet more internet housekeeping. This was my 2023 Yuletide fic, written for Orichalcum.

A Proposed Exploration of the Karst Topography of the Magarran River Gorge (2778 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hope Stornaway, Jemis Greenwing, Red Myrta (Nine Worlds Series)
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Geology, Worldbuilding<

Summary: Wherein Hope Stornaway secures Red Myrta's aid in exploring a peculiarity of the limestone around the Magarran Strid, by the judicious use of pastries and an appeal to their mutual curiosity.

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The title and the summary are pretty self-explanatory, you know? But anyway, this is set shortly after the events in The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul, and At the Feet of the Sun, which are all about six months later in the timeline than Plum Duff (the most recent Greenwing & Dart novel) -- in other words, it's late summer and I have made some vague assumptions about how things in Alinor might have been progressing.

Also I would like to say in light of the recently published Balancing Stone, I was 100% RIGHT about Hope wanting to do geological studies of south Fiellan, ha! :D

[Fic] "Two Through the Door" -- Chronicles of Narnia

This should be the last of tonight's internet housekeeping: my 2024 Narnia Fic Exchange story, written (again) for Lizzen.

Two Through the Door (1480 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Jadis | The White Witch
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Summary: Edmund is a little faster through the wardrobe and finds Lucy before the Witch.

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Another fairly self-explanatory summary, I feel? Anyway canon divergence -- or as I like to call it, kicking canon in the knees at a judiciously chosen point -- is my favorite type of AU and I am always pleased at the chance to indulge in it. :) This fic also doubles a little bit as an Edmund character study.