Anthony's kingdom is a lot like northern New Mexico, especially Bandelier, And the culture is kind of a blend of the precolumbian Pueblo peoples, and pre-Helenistic Persian culture, whereas the Cantash are a mix of Aztec, Inca, and Mesopotamian culture, minus the human sacrifice. The technology is Neolithic transitioning to Bronze Age levels.
Part of it is just where I'm coming from with it. I started thinking about all the things I didn't like about Urban Fantasy, from thie kind of shallow (all the protagonists seem to be between 16 and 35 year old hot, physically fit, able-bodied women, usually white, and disproportionately red headed, so I thought how would the genre deal with a 45 year old, chubby protagonist, who covers up her grays with red hair dye) to much larger ones, like the way the genre tends to eroticize violence, especially preditory behavior on the part of men, and to give us the dynamic of human female/magical male so regularly. Sorcha's teacher plays the role of seductor, but he is always first and formost a threat. He preyed on her innocence.
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Date: 2012-01-17 10:26 pm (UTC)Part of it is just where I'm coming from with it. I started thinking about all the things I didn't like about Urban Fantasy, from thie kind of shallow (all the protagonists seem to be between 16 and 35 year old hot, physically fit, able-bodied women, usually white, and disproportionately red headed, so I thought how would the genre deal with a 45 year old, chubby protagonist, who covers up her grays with red hair dye) to much larger ones, like the way the genre tends to eroticize violence, especially preditory behavior on the part of men, and to give us the dynamic of human female/magical male so regularly. Sorcha's teacher plays the role of seductor, but he is always first and formost a threat. He preyed on her innocence.