Well, Rosemary and Rue has been on bookstore shelves for a month, and that means it's time for me to split off the Toby Daye FAQ into its own page. What questions would you like to see answered? I'm dividing them roughly, for now, into "series" (IE, publication dates, number of books, typos), "world" (Toby's world), and per-book, but this could change.
Please expect mild spoilers in the comments on this thread, with the stress being on mild. I won't answer FAQ questions that read like "on page 189 you say, but on page 317...," since that's way too much of a spoiler for a publicly-accessible website.
Maybe some general bits about the fae races would be fun and interesting and not too spoilery. Because there are places to look these things up, but a lot of them say differing things from each other; it'd be fun to know what definitions apply to Toby's world.
From things like "What are the Cait Sidhe/Daoine Sidhe/Twlwyth Teg (dear god I can never spell that one)/etc." to things like a brief description other races we don't see as much or at all, like the... I'm blanking on the proper name of the doglike Sidhe, and the fae cattle.
Also the monsters, like the barghests and the kelpies.
yes to this. That was one of my biggest complaints. Not knowing anything about the different kinds of Fae would trip up my reading, but I wanted to find out what would happen next more than I wanted to go to the interwebs to look them up.
Again, this would have to be a whole individual site, because there are a lot of types of fae. It's an awesome question. I just don't have the time to write all this up, and it would make the FAQ essentially unusable due to sticking SO MUCH DATA on the page.
I think this would have to be a completely separate site, like an encyclopedia of the fae in Toby's world. Because wow are there a lot of them, even when you're just dealing with the relatively small number of races introduced in Rosemary.
How about a single FAQ question for it, that says something like this? And maybe a pointer at good resources if the reader wants to see some of the original source material, but that's probably not strictly needed. The "too much material here" answer will probably help reduce the number of times you get asked, though.
tired
September 30 2009, 16:23:55 UTC 7 years ago
From things like "What are the Cait Sidhe/Daoine Sidhe/Twlwyth Teg (dear god I can never spell that one)/etc." to things like a brief description other races we don't see as much or at all, like the... I'm blanking on the proper name of the doglike Sidhe, and the fae cattle.
Also the monsters, like the barghests and the kelpies.
Maybe just a line each, or something.
September 30 2009, 16:46:26 UTC 7 years ago
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September 30 2009, 17:44:49 UTC 7 years ago
cu sidhe and crodh mara, respectively, IIRC.
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