I've been watching this play by play, as I'm sort of wrestling with an exchange between Morgan and Sallowpad. There are so many elements to this. Morgan and Edmund do discuss some of this in Two Hearts Day and back in Narnia. So, Aslan is a Lion? Really a Lion? And you really did just come from nowhere? And you really defeated the Witch? In my head canon, the Bankers are a very practical group, with no particular spirituality and no tradition of magic. At the very least, they are going to assume there is some rational, non-supernatural explanation first. For them, Aslan isn't any more or less probable than Tash and the other Calormene gods, and while the Calormenes have a healthy respect for such things (at least the Tisroc seems to in HHB), to the Bankers it's all pretty fantastical. What I am wondering, and I've not read enough fan fic to know, is whether it really is commonly reported, 10 years later, that Edmund turned traitor. The older Beasts, those who were there when the Witch claimed Edmund at the camp, and the Beavers, they know/knew. But, is that really something that is going to be commonly told? Is that part of the oral tradition that fell out? I'm assuming it is commonly known that Edmund was her prisoner but not that he was traitor? I've sort of assumed that the mercy he shows is attributed first to his title as Just -- and not the "even a traitor may mend" personal history. Thoughts?