Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: contemplative
  • Music: Taylor Swift, "Long Live."

What do you want to know?

With Late Eclipses approaching fast, I am naturally spending a lot of time thinking about Toby's world, and blogging about Toby's world, since I want everyone to be as excited as I am. So here is your invitation:

Ask me a question.

This has no connection to the current ARC giveaway, which asks you to ask simple, FAQ-style questions that don't require extensive spoilers or flowcharts. What this is connected to is, well, the big questions. Like when I posted about the rules governing fae marriage. The ones that require serious thought, and a genuine desire to know.

How does fae marriage work? Where did the Changeling's Choice begin? What happened to the Roane? Questions too big, and too complicated, to answer in the FAQ. Now, because I apparently wasn't clear enough the first time, I WILL NOT GIVE SPOILERS. Please don't ask me where someone is, or whether someone else is coming back, or whether you're ever going to see Gillian again (a question which has started to make me clench my teeth). Ask me about laws and rules and universe, about etiquette and speciation and trends in fashion.

The five best questions will get full blog posts about them, explaining whatever facet or facets of Faerie they touch on. I get to determine "best," although you're all welcome to weigh in or ask secondary questions.
Tags: common questions, continuity checking, requesting things, toby daye
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sumeria

February 3 2011, 20:18:17 UTC 6 years ago

I have two questions, both actually originating from the same passages in An Artifical Night. (And either or both of these may be more appropriate as FAQ-type questions, I just don't have a good way to know how involved the answers would be.)

The first is, how relevant really is the existence of "royal" members of the Cait Sidhe, if they determine the ruler by combat? I had assumed there was no real royal family until Tybalt made such a big deal of Raj being the only younger royal there was and Toby seemed to assume that Raj would one day replace Tybalt. Or is it just that only royals can fight for the right to rule? (also, the assumption that Tybalt will be replaced seems odd to me, just in that if he's immortal, he should theoretically grow stronger, not weaken with age)

The second question is about the use of the word "pureblood". In Rosemary and Rue, I got the impression that that just referred to people with entirely fae, and no human ancestry. But some of the useages in An Artifical Night made me think it was also (or possibly, rather) used to delineate purity of species, ie, Raj's heritage is entirely Cait Sidhe with no other kind of fae involved. So I guess I was just wondering if you could say more about how that term is used, and how inheritance of "species" of fae worked in the case of cross-species pairings?

tereshkova2001

February 3 2011, 22:05:48 UTC 6 years ago

Tybalt might die in battle or some other fight; the fae do it all the time.

sumeria

February 4 2011, 13:46:45 UTC 6 years ago

Which is certainly true, but it seemed to be be being treated as more of a given than a possibility, so I wondered if there was a reason I'd missed, or if I was just reading in a confused way.