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

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

I know what you're talking about. Old-fashioned stuff from the Renaissance, especially weaponry (and fancy jackets), always makes me think of QT. These are great pictures! I can definitely see Costis using one of these to blow the lock off a door. What other kinds of stuff did you take pictures of?

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. I'd love to see more pictures.

But then I love the arms and armory sections in good museums... the contrast between the weapon's intended use and their elegant decoration is always so fascinating.

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

I can see the guard using those, especially with the brown drawing replaced with Attolian blue and gold

[diadactic.livejournal.com]

You think of Spain and not Greece? Why's that?

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

These pictures are awesome! I LOVE old weapons... so much artistry involved.

I picture the guns in Attolia being of the wheellock variety... I'm not sure why? Maybe because it's an earlier design (though very state-of-the-art in its time), and for some reason I think of guns as being a relatively new technology in Attolia.

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

Wow, this are gorgeous. Fantastic carving - looks like ivory. Probably the ink-in-carving method? did it say?

Thanks for the pics!

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Heh the fleet! Haha, Sounis. Lovely.