The Ringed Castle (II)
May. 16th, 2011 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petronia*gets bingo card out from desk drawer*
*crosses off 'animal familiar'*
Just, LOL at this series. XD
The book hasn't bothered to explain how Lymond acquired his daemon. (It's very Golden Compass in other obvious ways, too.) I would assume she came via Ivan, though? Flashy tribute gift from the nomadic tribes; one imagines the scene.
Slata Baba: *lookit those purty golden crest feathers*
Slata Baba: *suffocates a grown deer and tears out its eyeballs alive*
Ivan the Terrible: This totally reminds me of somebody!
I watched a bunch of YTubes of golden eagles, out of curiosity, and they are mean scary motherfuckers. You see one drag a goat twice its size off a cliff by its hind leg and let gravity do the hard work. Mongolians train them to kill small wolves. There's one video someone took of a grizzly bear that ran into a nesting pair, and holy shiznit did that bear take off like its ass was on fire. Dunnett wouldn't have had to go to the Caucasus to see one: they still nest in Scotland, causing Daily Mail handwringing over livestock snatchings, so if Lymond wanted to import some impressive falconry practices I suppose he could have. XD; I don't have any confidence the eagle will survive the book, though, because Dunnett is hard on birds. Look at what happened to that freaking aviary!! And I'm still traumatized by the "fried chicken" episode. Birds and baby animals of all stripes, s-sob
*crosses off 'animal familiar'*
Just, LOL at this series. XD
The book hasn't bothered to explain how Lymond acquired his daemon. (It's very Golden Compass in other obvious ways, too.) I would assume she came via Ivan, though? Flashy tribute gift from the nomadic tribes; one imagines the scene.
Slata Baba: *lookit those purty golden crest feathers*
Slata Baba: *suffocates a grown deer and tears out its eyeballs alive*
Ivan the Terrible: This totally reminds me of somebody!
I watched a bunch of YTubes of golden eagles, out of curiosity, and they are mean scary motherfuckers. You see one drag a goat twice its size off a cliff by its hind leg and let gravity do the hard work. Mongolians train them to kill small wolves. There's one video someone took of a grizzly bear that ran into a nesting pair, and holy shiznit did that bear take off like its ass was on fire. Dunnett wouldn't have had to go to the Caucasus to see one: they still nest in Scotland, causing Daily Mail handwringing over livestock snatchings, so if Lymond wanted to import some impressive falconry practices I suppose he could have. XD; I don't have any confidence the eagle will survive the book, though, because Dunnett is hard on birds. Look at what happened to that freaking aviary!! And I'm still traumatized by the "fried chicken" episode. Birds and baby animals of all stripes, s-sob
