Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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LATE ECLIPSES open thread. Have a party.

To celebrate the release of Late Eclipses [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence.

Have fun!
Tags: late eclipses, toby daye
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hasufin

March 7 2011, 06:05:43 UTC 6 years ago

1) My question in the previous post about insanity totally made you cackle, didn't it? I had NO IDEA that Amandine was a Firstborn when I asked that. Go, go accidental irony!

2) I see what you did there! I love that you foreshadowed with Grianne about and her dancers; it didn't click with me until they were hunting for Oleander that you'd explained the poisoning method practically in the beginning. Nicely done.

3) I had to reread the dream sequence maybe five times to figure out what we were seeing. Mostly it was "Huh. Why would Amandine refer to Daoine Sidhe that way? Isn't she Daoine Sidhe?"
But this means that Oleander knew that Amanandine isn't Daoine Sidhe (and apparently what she is). DOes this mean Simon knows, too?

4) How do we progress from Firstborn to race? I assume that each Firstborn is unique - that there aren't born two proto-dryads like Acacia, nor two beings like the Luideag. So how does a single Firstborn give rise to a Fae race? Do they have children by another Firstborn, and those children then have more children, etc., until they even out into something recognizable as a race which has some consistent combination of abilities?

seanan_mcguire

March 7 2011, 16:11:39 UTC 6 years ago

1) Yes. Yes, it did.

2) Thank you.

3) Good question.

4) Every child of Oberon, Maeve, or Titania is Firstborn. They're not necessarily of their descendant race; they have a lot more abilities, and are very, very hard to kill. They will, however, be similar to their descendant race. Any children they have will belong to their descendant race. If a Firstborn hooks up with another Firstborn, they'll be able to create another descendant race. So Acacia alone = Dryads, Blind Michael alone = Silene, and the two of them together = Blodynbryd.

hasufin

March 7 2011, 17:11:43 UTC 6 years ago

I'm trying to not be crude, but might fail. I assume that, for the most part, Fae have children sexually. Which, when referring to two unique individuals, will yield children who are themselves unique. The only way I can see for this to eventually offer races with consistent traits is, well, a whole lot of inbreeding. Is this what happened?

seanan_mcguire

March 7 2011, 17:12:49 UTC 6 years ago

Yes.

Fae genetics don't work like human genetics, and for the most part, inbreeding isn't an issue. Also, the hope chests change the equation. Remember that, when Faerie was young, before they were lost, there were multiple hope chests available, and very few changelings.