It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea...: seanan

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea...

I promised you a treat to celebrate the impending release of Ashes of Honor, and here it is:

A brand-new story about the Luidaeg, "In Sea-Salt Tears," has been posted on the equally brand-new Toby Daye short fiction page. It is available in ePub, MOBI, and PDF formats, and is free for download. (So far, this is the only free Toby-universe short story. We'll be adding listings for the published-in-books shorts in a little while, but it's not hyper-high priority.)

This story is best read after One Salt Sea, and it further details the relationship between the Luidaeg and Elizabeth Ryan, the Selkie clan leader we met at the very end of the book. Please download rather than trying to read locally; my server will thank you.

Cover graphics are by Tara O'Shea. All short story electronic conversion thus far has been done by

scifantasy. As both of them are awesome, we applaud them now.

Go forth, read, and please feel free to use this as a discussion post, which means there may be spoilers in the comments. Tread carefully.

Enjoy.

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seanan_mcguire

August 23 2012, 17:30:03 UTC 4 years ago

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1) The Luidaeg is the Roane Firstborn.
2) Selkies were created when another Firstborn told a bunch of jerks how to skin Roane so as to keep their magic.
3) So basically, all Selkies are wearing the Luidaeg's dead babies on their backs.

Nothing major.

spectralbovine

August 23 2012, 17:40:30 UTC 4 years ago

Ooooh, right, that! Thanks. The only thing better than clubbing baby seals is wearing them!

(And, ha, I wasn't actually expecting you to answer; I figured a zealous fan would be prepared to supply such information. WHERE IS THE TOBY DAYE WIKI. YOU ARE FALLING DOWN ON THE JOB FANDOM.)

(What the shit, the first hit for "toby daye wiki" is actually my review of Rosemary and Rue.)

scifantasy

August 23 2012, 18:15:20 UTC 4 years ago

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OctoberDaye if you can afford a week of the black hole...

August 23 2012, 18:22:29 UTC 4 years ago

Right, I saw that, but that is not a wiki. That is an alphabetical list of tropes that does not help me when the new book comes out and I want to refresh my memory on all the salient facts of the series.