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[kaberett]

I am grumpily insomniac; I have given up on sleep for the time being and have curled up in a blanket with some hot chocolate and a book; and probably this would be working better if The Fifth Season (which I am belatedly reading for Hugo purposes) wasn't Wrong about both geology and horses.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

:(

[kaberett]

1. For endurance riding, when you don't have post inns to change horses at, it is trad to trot not to alternate cantering and walking to maximise speed and minimise risk.

2. What kind of a name is Feldspar. It is so generic as to be useless. Why not Orthoclase! or Microcline! or Pigeonite! or Labradorite!

3. You might very well argue that a mineral called Labradorite does not make sense in the context of a world that does not, in fact, have Labrador. But frankly at this point I'll be mildly surprised if we don't end up with an orogene called Cummingtonite. ONLY I WON'T BE BECAUSE WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT WHEN SHE COULD JUST NAME A CHARACTER "AMPHIBOLE".

[gehayi]

What's Amphibole?

[recessional]

A VERY COOL ROCK.

[the_quorum]

ahh, I thought this would be the "Horses are basically big dogs, right? Chill cuz they're herbivores- dogs that don't pounce on stuff. Big, chill dogs. Yep." thing that a lot of fantasy writers do.

K was telling me about a fantasy series where this order of mages turn into horses to be the steeds for the next generation of the order, and I guess that's one way of working around it- just make every horse a wizard-horse.

[forthwritten]

WHY would you alternate cantering and walking for endurance riding? Better yet, if there's serious, in-world-common endurance riding, why not have a horse capable of ambling?

[recessional]

Horses AND geology. That is just too much.