1) Well, it is a hasty outline. I promise you, it's not like that at all (I hope). It's hard to explain and I may be better able to explain later in the year when I've got a clearer outline. All I can say is, part of the point of the story is, "You don't have to be a warrior or male to kick ass."
2) Well, she can. But, only so much. Most of the usual stuff she can hand off to underlings, but if somebody requires a "Petticoat of Seduction" or whatever, she's on her own. If word gets out that she doesn't know what she's doing, she loses her job to a woman that she doesn't trust as far as she can sling a piano. So, she practices a lot and keeps her fingers crossed. It helps that few garments are ever actually thrown away (fairly standard practice in at least a few royal wardrobes). So when the fashion changes or clothing gets handed down, she can pick it apart and try to reverse engineer spells. Thus, she learns how the spells fit together, and how to do it herself.
3) I gotcha. I'm doing my damndest to not make my favorite subject in history turn into "LOL TEH WEST R TEH GR8EST".
4) Nuff said. I'll probably ask around and see if there's any sort of cultural nuances I'm missing.
5) Will do, though it rings oddly to me. I'll go through and see what I can do to make it work.
6) Well, yes, in a way. I've been calling it "SteamEarth". Granted, some areas haven't been named because I haven't needed them yet. Greece I needed, or an equivalent, so "Hellas" was coined. Italy remains city states, the most prominent being "Serenissima", "Remia", and "Etruria". The rest from there gets a little obscure. I'm allowing myself as many real-life parallels as I need to make it go, with some fast-and-loose on certain historical details for personal amusement and only really with American History (Emperor Norton I is sending his children, Grand Duke Ezekiel and Grand Duchess Lucy, to represent the Pacifican Empire at the coronation, because I &heart Castle Falkenstein).
That's understandable. You've spotted a number of issues I needed to hash out and that's why I started planning this early in the year.
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Re: Apologies for the belated reply!
on 2010-06-24 04:11 am (UTC)2) Well, she can. But, only so much. Most of the usual stuff she can hand off to underlings, but if somebody requires a "Petticoat of Seduction" or whatever, she's on her own. If word gets out that she doesn't know what she's doing, she loses her job to a woman that she doesn't trust as far as she can sling a piano. So, she practices a lot and keeps her fingers crossed. It helps that few garments are ever actually thrown away (fairly standard practice in at least a few royal wardrobes). So when the fashion changes or clothing gets handed down, she can pick it apart and try to reverse engineer spells. Thus, she learns how the spells fit together, and how to do it herself.
3) I gotcha. I'm doing my damndest to not make my favorite subject in history turn into "LOL TEH WEST R TEH GR8EST".
4) Nuff said. I'll probably ask around and see if there's any sort of cultural nuances I'm missing.
5) Will do, though it rings oddly to me. I'll go through and see what I can do to make it work.
6) Well, yes, in a way. I've been calling it "SteamEarth". Granted, some areas haven't been named because I haven't needed them yet. Greece I needed, or an equivalent, so "Hellas" was coined. Italy remains city states, the most prominent being "Serenissima", "Remia", and "Etruria". The rest from there gets a little obscure. I'm allowing myself as many real-life parallels as I need to make it go, with some fast-and-loose on certain historical details for personal amusement and only really with American History (Emperor Norton I is sending his children, Grand Duke Ezekiel and Grand Duchess Lucy, to represent the Pacifican Empire at the coronation, because I &heart Castle Falkenstein).
That's understandable. You've spotted a number of issues I needed to hash out and that's why I started planning this early in the year.