marvelous evil plot ideas!
May. 7th, 2004 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingGot back from the Commons. I have extra tea-light candles for tomorrow, which is good. But I couldn't find any longer generic non-pillar candles, which is bad because I kind of need one as a lighter. Must email Marcia and ask her to bring a few.
In other news, I was working on Secrets just now, and it occurred to me that I have an actual plot reason for keeping Sir Vladislav von Pitula in the story, besides just liking him. See, he's the enchanted armor of a guy who was a member of the Teutonic Knights, who had what ammounted to a kingdom in what's now northern Poland, back from maybe 1190 to about 1525, give or take, at which point they quit being an ecclesiastical fighting order and turned the remaining bit of their land into a hereditary dukedom -- ie, East Prussia.
Anyway, they were German. (And yes, I do have valid backstory reasons why a knight with a mostly Polish name was a member of a mostly ethnically German order. And they will get into the story in very abbreviated form, sooner or later.) And the incantation Tom has Ginny do to hook their life-forces together and allow him to possess her is in German.
I was going to have her look it up in the library, but now that I have Sir Vladislav as a character, who knows German, it's all going to be much easier. And simpler.
Plus, hey, magically animated suit of armor vs. a magically animated memory from a diary. Man, my Ginny does make the weirdest friends...
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The band on the slope is now playing a mediocre cover of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. Good song, but the original is so much better... Wah!
[Edited to fix dates on secularization of the Ordenstaat. Not that anyone will ever notice, but I am hideously embarrassed at being off by over 50 years. 1525-ish, not 1460-ish. *facepalm*]
In other news, I was working on Secrets just now, and it occurred to me that I have an actual plot reason for keeping Sir Vladislav von Pitula in the story, besides just liking him. See, he's the enchanted armor of a guy who was a member of the Teutonic Knights, who had what ammounted to a kingdom in what's now northern Poland, back from maybe 1190 to about 1525, give or take, at which point they quit being an ecclesiastical fighting order and turned the remaining bit of their land into a hereditary dukedom -- ie, East Prussia.
Anyway, they were German. (And yes, I do have valid backstory reasons why a knight with a mostly Polish name was a member of a mostly ethnically German order. And they will get into the story in very abbreviated form, sooner or later.) And the incantation Tom has Ginny do to hook their life-forces together and allow him to possess her is in German.
I was going to have her look it up in the library, but now that I have Sir Vladislav as a character, who knows German, it's all going to be much easier. And simpler.
Plus, hey, magically animated suit of armor vs. a magically animated memory from a diary. Man, my Ginny does make the weirdest friends...
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The band on the slope is now playing a mediocre cover of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. Good song, but the original is so much better... Wah!
[Edited to fix dates on secularization of the Ordenstaat. Not that anyone will ever notice, but I am hideously embarrassed at being off by over 50 years. 1525-ish, not 1460-ish. *facepalm*]
