Narnian headcanon week, 1.

[heliopausa]

Fifty years today since C. S. Lewis died (and other famous people, as rthstewart has reminded me!) and to mark the week (since it is also almost 115 years since he was born) I'm offering a week's-worth of scraps of my Narnian head-canon.

First in the series:


There was, in a multinational pirate crew, two Swedish-Russian pirates (as it might be, AU forms of Krusenstern and von Kotzebue, who sailed together through the Pacific mapping and naming various islands).  These two were part of the crew which landed on one of the Micronesian islands - one which was used to some interaction with the archipelagoes later called the Philippines and Indonesia.  The genetic inheritance from these two ancestors very occasionally (because the gene is recessive) gave rise the rarity of a fair-haired Telmarine - such as Prince Caspian.

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[edenfalling]

It's also entirely possible that the Telmarines have intermarried with native human Narnians -- it's only the Talking Beasts and other Beings they seem to have abhorred and driven into hiding. They may also have intermarried with the inhabitants of neighboring countries, such as Archenland -- both before and after they invaded Narnia -- which again could bring some blond genes into the mix. :-)

[heliopausa]

For sure! And also intermarried with the descendants of Dryads or Dwarfs and so on, without really recognising it.
I was partly just taken with the story of the Krusenstern, whom I'd only recently come across - I had never thought of Russians/Poles exploring the Pacific! (i.e. my blinkered understanding of Pacific history had recently been opened up a fraction, and the fun of that went to my head! :D )