Talking Animal names in Narnia follow two patterns. The first are descriptive and in English, like Pattertwig or Slinkey. The second are from the natural sounds the animal makes. Lewis never calls it a language, though that is surely what it is. Examples are the names Bree and Hwin for horses (I go into …
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Worldbuilding Wednesday 6/3/26: What’s New in Narniaworld for 2026 (Narnia LVII)
What new things have been planned for Narniaworld for the Summer of 2026? First of all, the Fire Festival! Based on Edinburgh’s world-famous solstice celebration, this event is for one night only, the shortest one of the year in fact. A parade, stilt-walkers, dancers, acrobats, fire jugglers and the like will entertain guests from sunset …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 5/26/26: Magic of the Five Senses (The Box of Breath Weaponry)
I’m giving this magic item of the Taste School its own entry, because frankly it’s such a neat concept. One of best-known enchanted items native to the Five Senses magic system, The Box of Breath Weaponry comes in many sizes and shapes. Basically, it’s a lidded or latched container, of any shape, divided into at …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 5/20/26: Magic of the Five Senses (The School of Taste)
At any Five Senses university, the School of Taste is the largest and most profitable, a cash cow, one might say, to support the other four. It is also the school with the most non-mage students. Aspiring chef apprentices as well as seasoned masters from all over the world enroll to develop and train their …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 4/8/26: Magic of the Five Senses (Taste)
Though The School of Taste belongs to the three minor sense schools, along with Smell and Touch, it is by far the most popular and generates the most income for the greater college. Why? Because of the quality of its culinary instruction, which creates the world’s finest chefs and chef-mages, professions highly in demand among …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/18/26: Old Christian Sects and Denominations
I’m gonna do something different this week. Religious sects! Christian ones specifically. There are, and were, dozens, and hundreds, of these. A lot of them arose in the early days of the Catholic Church when it was spreading rapidly and there was no central authority to set the dogma in stone. Thus we get Gnosticism, …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/4/26: Magic of the Five Senses (The School of Smell)
I went only minimally into the School of Smell in the WW post for 1-14-26. Today I’ll go into further detail. The School of Smell is considered one of the minor schools, along with Taste and Touch. This isn’t to say the sense is valued less, only that Sight and Hearing are more popular with students, …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 2/18/26: Magic of the Five Senses (Overview)
I realized I went all-in on WW 1/14/26 on describing magic centering around the sense of smell, but didn’t give any background information. Today I’m going to rectify that. First I’d like call attention to the marvelous illustration above by Wenjing Yang. It’s typical of the artists’s style, using fresh, garish pastels, futuristic shapes, and …
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