I'm read the first three of the Harold Shea novels, from the links on All The Tropes. And then I read the Wikipedia pages about the books, and noticed, well, that the story described on Wikipedia doesn't match what I read, and Belphebe's timeline started to diverge around the end of book 2. And then Wikipedia mentions a police officer character who was completely absent from my copy of book 3. I'm thinking that when these books were compiled to print, instead of the magazine form, they did a decent amount of rewriting, allowing Harold to "get the girl" at the end of "The Mathematics of Magic", instead of having her, uh, just show up outside "The Castle of Iron", having been enchanted to forget who she was.
Also the Wikipedia page pointed me to the fact that her name was sometimes Belphoebe in the original source, which means I now know how to pronounce it.
And thinking about her brings me back around to the Fate/stay night characters. First is that reading ahead to the fifth book (if Wikipedia is to be believed), Cuchulainn a.k.a Lancer has a crush on Belphebe, which would presumably come up. The other is: have we ever decided where in our timeline Artoria Pendragon is from? More specifically, is she from sub-Roman Britain (400-600) which is the most historically plausible date (heathen invaders would be Anglos/Saxons/Jutes); or is she from a later time like the invasion of Canute (800s, against Danes); or is she from a chivalric time, which is much later, like 1000-1300 in the High Middle Ages (no infidels nearby, but plenty of crusades)? The literary tradition is kind of a mess here. I guess Type Moon Wiki details info from the games and they go with the earlier Roman dates. But just the same there, the more detail they go into, the less sense it all makes.
Back on that original point, the time period affects a potential relationship between Belphebe and Artoria. And characters Harold Shea would have actually met before. And back to the even older point that lacking the writer who suggested F/sn, we have a whole bunch of pseudomythological characters with a slightly wrong backstory that no one wants to write. Can we trim down the cast to characters that we want to use? I don't think anyone actually wants Berzerker or Ilya, for instance. Its hard to say what the karass actually is because of all of the alternate routes.
Also the Wikipedia page pointed me to the fact that her name was sometimes Belphoebe in the original source, which means I now know how to pronounce it.
And thinking about her brings me back around to the Fate/stay night characters. First is that reading ahead to the fifth book (if Wikipedia is to be believed), Cuchulainn a.k.a Lancer has a crush on Belphebe, which would presumably come up. The other is: have we ever decided where in our timeline Artoria Pendragon is from? More specifically, is she from sub-Roman Britain (400-600) which is the most historically plausible date (heathen invaders would be Anglos/Saxons/Jutes); or is she from a later time like the invasion of Canute (800s, against Danes); or is she from a chivalric time, which is much later, like 1000-1300 in the High Middle Ages (no infidels nearby, but plenty of crusades)? The literary tradition is kind of a mess here. I guess Type Moon Wiki details info from the games and they go with the earlier Roman dates. But just the same there, the more detail they go into, the less sense it all makes.
Back on that original point, the time period affects a potential relationship between Belphebe and Artoria. And characters Harold Shea would have actually met before. And back to the even older point that lacking the writer who suggested F/sn, we have a whole bunch of pseudomythological characters with a slightly wrong backstory that no one wants to write. Can we trim down the cast to characters that we want to use? I don't think anyone actually wants Berzerker or Ilya, for instance. Its hard to say what the karass actually is because of all of the alternate routes.
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