I just stumbled across this, and I think it's funny that you and I have such similar head-canons (which I didn't realize when I posted Lost and Found over on AO3!). In mine the taboo is emotional rather than cultural -- the queen, and to some extent Lune, can't stand to talk about Cor's disappearance, so nobody does. I think by the time the Narnians meet Shasta again on the way to breaking the siege at Anvard, Edmund (who has earlier deduced Cor's existence from Archenlandish naming conventions) has figured out that Cor isn't dead and that Shasta is Cor. But of course Edmund's got other things on his mind just then.
I also had a similar explanation for the "wise old centaur in Narnia," that Cor misunderstood what he had been told, which is why in my story the centaur is a Narnian living in Archenland.
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head-canon collision
Date: 2014-11-20 01:49 am (UTC)I also had a similar explanation for the "wise old centaur in Narnia," that Cor misunderstood what he had been told, which is why in my story the centaur is a Narnian living in Archenland.