I will make five blog posts detailing aspects of Toby's universe. Ask me anything! I will not answer every question, but will select the five that I think are the most interesting/fun/relevant, and will detail them to my heart's content. There's a lot to learn and know, and asking loses you nothing.
Leave your questions on this post. I'm declaring comment-reply amnesty for any that I choose not to answer this time, since otherwise, my wee head may explode.
Game on!
ETA: Things covered last two times we did this: inheritance, fosterage, madness, historical records, Cait Sidhe court structure, the Changeling's Choice, locational biology, where fae races come from, shapeshifters, and merlins.
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August 20 2012, 17:37:09 UTC 4 years ago
And since I find myself oddly biased towards smaller animals = potential fae, what about buffalo or elephant fae?
August 20 2012, 17:39:23 UTC 4 years ago
No elephant or buffalo fae, currently, as there was no way to fit that into the pre-existing mythos without committing massive cultural appropriation.
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Also, anything you can say about fairy craftspeople and making stuff -- I know it was addressed a bit in the second book (especially that the more craftsmen-oriented fae use changelings to handle ironwork), but I like hearing about how stuff gets made. I know to some extent, even a changeling like Toby has to be able to make a decent dress from raw materials and magic, but is there a difference between 'stuff i need right now so I make (and don't care if it turns back to leaves at dawn as long as I'm not still wearing it)' and 'old, well-made stuff'.
August 20 2012, 18:14:46 UTC 4 years ago
But just to note for reference: Toby making a dress from raw materials and magic is her crafting an illusion. It turns back to leaves at dawn because it isn't actually real in the first place. She's still got jeans on underneath. (This is why she tries not to do it for the Queen's court-- the Queen likes to change Toby's real actual clothing into real actual something else, and she's fond of her jeans.)
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Question 2: Answered.
August 20 2012, 17:55:01 UTC 4 years ago
First, May. If the Night-Haunts only die by becoming Fetches, and fetches die when their...um...selectee dies, does that mean that May will outlive Toby now that Toby's blood has been shifted? May really has become her own (rather more cheerful) person, but outliving Toby would be hard, if it's even possible. But becoming a fetch means shifting to match your selectee, and there's no reason why the shifting has to stop. Is May going to slowly change until she's a match for Toby again?
Personally, I think it's amusing - The Devin-haunt asking "Why aren't you *dead*?" Literally willing to do something unprecedented to figure out why this one odd changeling, clearly suffering with a major death-wish, keeps spilling all that blood and not doing the rational thing and just -stopping-. Toby confuses them terribly, and the Night-haunts, more even than most purebloods, deal with change poorly. Shows what you get for not socializing more.
Second, Amandine and the Dochas Sidhe. When Toby was dying, Amandine showed up - within seconds, a very few minutes at most - and did what was necessary to save her from the Elf-shot. How did she know? Is she so tied to her daughter's blood that she felt it slowing in Toby's body? Would any pureblood of her line be the same? How deep does the tie go? Did she feel what happened when Toby was transformed, did she spend all those years feeling everything fish-Toby was feeing? Is *this* what drove Amandine to her self-imposed exile? Did she drift into madness naturally, or was the strain on her blood too great for immortal flesh and spirit to endure?
Amandine seems to approve of May. She kept her from dying when Toby was elf-shot - by ordering her to stay. That's a neat trick. Is there a link between the Dochas Sidhe and the Night-Haunts? The memories of the fey are tasted in their blood; It's what the Night-Haunts seek. They're no less blood-workers than Amandine's line - possibly moreso, as they literally take on the persona of those they eat.
Wait - that's three questions. Oh, well.
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Did the firstborn interbreed to produce the different lines? If so, then how was it decided that the resulting children were one line or another? Or was it as simple as "All Night Haunts are Amandine+Michael, all Blodynbryds are Acacia+Michael, etc"?
Or did they breed with the humans to produce the various descendants of their line? Would this explain why most fae are so much weaker than the Firstborn, because they are *all* changelings of different strengths?
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(For context, I mean that cats are very fond of scent-marking things as theirs; do Cait Sidhe do that too?)
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August 20 2012, 20:37:52 UTC 4 years ago
(She can't be addressing human readers, who aren't supposed to know anything about the fae. She doesn't seem to be addressing fae readers, who presumably don't need to be told the basics about their own kind.)
(I was recently trying to describe that aspect of the books to a friend, and put it as "expository lumps leavened with snark". I suppose that might sound more uncomplimentary than I intended, but she took it as the joke that it was supposed to be. She's been enjoying Rosemary and Rue.)
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Details on people we haven't met yet count as spoilers, and I don't want to commit myself to anything.
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Spoilers for One Salt Sea!
August 20 2012, 22:10:56 UTC 4 years ago
What are relations like between the Selkies and the Roane? I know that there was at least one character who was half-Selkie and half-Roane, but is there tension/resentment between the two groups? What will happen to the Selkies when the time the Luideag spoke of is up?
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But alas, that is still in flux, so I cannot explain it to you.
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What games do they play? Anything have special significance for them?
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Would the court dissolve or would they try to hunt up another King or Queen to take over?
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In particular -- the Buffalo Paddock and or the Conservatory of Flowers? Because they're both awesome.
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I'm particularly interested by the use of what seems to be Irish for some of the race names - daoine sidhe, dochas sidhe, etc. (I admit to be slightly bugged by the singular of daoine sidhe being daoine sidhe but I keep telling myself that Fae =/= Irish).
August 27 2012, 17:53:49 UTC 4 years ago
What should the singular be? Curious cat is curious!
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