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Hermit
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  		   Posted 1/10/2008 8:39 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
In the movie "The Messenger: the Joan of Arc Strory" they have these canon like contraptions that are basically a chute through which they roll carved boulders. In my Kumari Vale novel, I refer to them as "gravity cannons", but one of my readers took this to be something more scifi than fantasy despite my description of them. They are simply round holes drilled through the cliff at an angle through which the defenders drop rounded stones. They travel about fifty feet and shoot into the forces gathered at the cliff base.
So what's a more accurate name for them? Will appreciate any advice. Thanks.

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  		   Posted 1/10/2008 10:02 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Murder chutes, maybe?  I know murder holes or meurtrieres were holes above a gateway that enabled defenders to drop things, such as rocks, hot sand, or boiling water, upon attackers.

 

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  		   Posted 1/10/2008 11:11 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thunder holes or thunder chutes? Or is there a thunder or war god or fierce god in your novel's mythos? Perhaps it could be something like "Odin's Mouth" or "Odin's Maw." Or how about a Bloody Gutter?

Nicholas Ian Hawkins

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Hermit
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  		   Posted 1/11/2008 12:28 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Thanks. I'll have to go back and watch the movie again. Which is good, because I love it. Great combat scenes! And Dustin Hoffman as the Tempter . . . so much to love in that movie.

Anyway . . . thanks for the suggestions.

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