Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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ONE SALT SEA open thread!

To celebrate the release of One Salt Sea, 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!
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vixyish

September 7 2011, 20:21:32 UTC 5 years ago

Seanan has said this publicly elsewhere, so I'm not spoiling anything-- Amandine (and by extension, Toby) cannot *add* something to the blood that wasn't already there. She couldn't have *added* human blood to Toby's mix. She could change the balance, the percentage, and she could *remove* things... but her powers don't include *introducing* human blood to a pureblood. (Or, I'm guessing on this part, adding any other race's blood to anyone who wasn't born with at least a small amount of that blood.)

So no... Toby's human father is her biological father. She had to have gotten her human blood from somewhere.

This does not make it impossible for there to have been other connections to Simon...

cupcakery

September 7 2011, 23:57:01 UTC 5 years ago

My thought is that Amandine did something to Simon's blood that would count as her taking something away from him.

yoneit

September 8 2011, 03:26:50 UTC 5 years ago

I'm remembering a comment in Late Eclipses, I think, that indicated that Toby was not the only child Amandine had had and that the others had been killed. There was an implication that Simon was the father of one of those dead children. Amandine had had Toby as a kind of emotional replacement by her human husband and was desperate to keep her alive. Having her be more human than fae was part of keeping her alive.

cupcakery

September 8 2011, 04:07:37 UTC 5 years ago

Hm. Considering that Amandine's mad anyway and the presented idea of mixing blood being not good for the sanity, one has to wonder what a Dochas/Daoine Sidhe mix would've been like.

seanan_mcguire

September 8 2011, 18:22:50 UTC 5 years ago

Since the Daoine Sidhe are Oberon/Titania, and the Dochas Sidhe are Oberon/unknown, probably not bad. They have an ancestor in common, and that's usually what makes for stable mixes.

cupcakery

September 10 2011, 19:52:20 UTC 5 years ago

So then if a faerie made only by Maeve (like Undine - I think you have them as being made from Maeve's tears) and a Daoine Sidhe had kids, the mix would tend to the off-kilter side?

seanan_mcguire

September 11 2011, 03:12:34 UTC 5 years ago

Yup.

rymenhild

September 23 2011, 00:55:45 UTC 5 years ago

I'm thinking about Raysel's bloodline now. Sylvester is Daoine Sidhe (Oberon/Titania). Luna's parents, Blind Michael and Acacia are children of Maeve... with no involvement from Oberon, then?

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2011, 14:44:09 UTC 5 years ago

Incorrect. Blind Michael is Oberon/Maeve, Acacia is Titania. That said, Luna is not a mammal. Raysel should never have been conceived.