Attolia's Guard

[ornon.livejournal.com]

The perks of study abroad include being able to visit really cool museums that don't exist in your itty bitty home town. Even better perks include finding little bits of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis as I travel (especially since I've always associated the three more with Spain than anywhere else). This week I went to the Museo Naval (Navy Museum) in Madrid. It mostly had models of famous Spanish ships, but one really cool section included old weapons. Including these really cool muskets from 1600, 1525, and 1630 (top to bottom). They made me really excited since I can defintely see this being the type of gun issued to Attolia's guard. They're functional but ornate at the same time.

Pictures below cut. I have more if anyone's as interested in 17th century Spanish weaponry as I am.

  









Okay, I added a powder horn from the same time period as the muskets, the stock of the 1600 musket, a pair of firing mechanisms shaped like snakes/dragons, and Sounis' fleet right before Eugenides' plan gets to it.

Comments

[chachic.livejournal.com]

I was about to ask the same question and you answered it already! Wow, you really thought about this long and hard. What you said makes sense though.

The books mention somwhere that Eddisians are darker skinned (which I - probably in a very Western isolated manner - never interpreted as black but as sort of tan)

Me too, I thought they were more bronze, just darker than fair skinned people. And I live in Asia so it's not an isolated Western thought.

Also, thanks for uploading the pictures. Pretty weapons!