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Of Lancard and Lady Trent
6 May 2019 04:43 amI have been re-reading A Natural History of Dragons in installments, very slowly, not so much because I want to savour the writing, although it enables me to do so, but because I am rather dreading reaching the remembered end of the story -- hindsight makes the whole thing horribly poignant. I keep thinking 'oh no, it's this next bit' and then finding that there are some more 'safe' bits of the story to enjoy before then....( sequel )
Further news on Lancard: he definitely gets to keep his name after all. We really can't have a whole load of scenes between "Raoul and Roncard", apart from anything else! Instead Lagarde (after a prolonged study of a handy Google-scanned book of French surnames beginning with L, their meanings and origins) will become "Laporte", which is a similarly slightly-lower-class-sounding name with close enough connotations (his ancestors lived by the gate instead of guarding it :-p)
I think Lancard and Laporte can decently appear on board the same ship without causing confusion, just as Reux and Raoul can: we have lost the repeated "ard" towards the end of both, and P and C are more distinct than G and C...
Still not sure what I'm going to do with Lancard (currently still functioning as translator; I've managed to put myself in a situation where only one person is fluent in all the languages spoken by all the people in the scene, and it isn't the viewpoint character!) in the next part of the story. Presumably he will appear in the tickertape parade at the end?
Further news on Lancard: he definitely gets to keep his name after all. We really can't have a whole load of scenes between "Raoul and Roncard", apart from anything else! Instead Lagarde (after a prolonged study of a handy Google-scanned book of French surnames beginning with L, their meanings and origins) will become "Laporte", which is a similarly slightly-lower-class-sounding name with close enough connotations (his ancestors lived by the gate instead of guarding it :-p)
I think Lancard and Laporte can decently appear on board the same ship without causing confusion, just as Reux and Raoul can: we have lost the repeated "ard" towards the end of both, and P and C are more distinct than G and C...
Still not sure what I'm going to do with Lancard (currently still functioning as translator; I've managed to put myself in a situation where only one person is fluent in all the languages spoken by all the people in the scene, and it isn't the viewpoint character!) in the next part of the story. Presumably he will appear in the tickertape parade at the end?