sometimes, it's the non-magical that has the most power - for being non-magical.
what if, the lion in question, were a mythical anti-magical creature? that surely would suit the temperament of the lion knights, as you suggest. it might also have variants such as the sealion (for the marines)?
or, perhaps, the lion in question was actually a person, a great archaic hero ... a fact very few know ... the lion's head being a (mis)representation of his face - craggy, bearded, long-haired, scarred. a man familiar to many from statuary and the like. but in one place in the empire, perhaps his tomb, is the image from which the lion's got their totem ...
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Date: 2011-01-20 01:44 am (UTC)what if, the lion in question, were a mythical anti-magical creature? that surely would suit the temperament of the lion knights, as you suggest. it might also have variants such as the sealion (for the marines)?
or, perhaps, the lion in question was actually a person, a great archaic hero ... a fact very few know ... the lion's head being a (mis)representation of his face - craggy, bearded, long-haired, scarred. a man familiar to many from statuary and the like. but in one place in the empire, perhaps his tomb, is the image from which the lion's got their totem ...