[ SECRET POST #1670 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1670 ⌋


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Notes:

Going to be short posts this week, LJ being down half the week means less secrets total, sorry about that.

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 204 secrets from Secret Submission Post #239.
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Comments

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it personally (hence my not really directly criticizing the work in question, so much as the "that's how it was back then" defense, which is my major pet peeve in fantasy).

Well, there's your problem. It's not a 'fantasy world' in the sense that she just made it up and took inspiration from the era. It's period-accurate Napoleonic War era, but with dragons dropped into it. Dragons are the only concession to fantasy (and firebreathing/poison-spitting/divine wind stuff, but that's still dragon related). Novik works hard to make it as period-accurate as possible, including the ideals of the time and how those would relate to talking sentient dragons used as an airforce. Lawrence himself is actually fairly liberal for his time, and the dragon abolition ideas that Temeraire puts together are considered ridiculously radical.

'That's how it was back then' is entirely the point of the series. Besides the Temeraire/Lawrence epic bromance.