Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: excited
  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "Uffington Hill."

Question time! Because Toby trivia is fun.

It's been a while since we've done this, and with A Red-Rose Chain coming up, I figure it's time to once again offer to answer your questions about the world. So...

I will make ten blog posts detailing aspects of Toby's universe. Ask me anything! I will not answer every question, but will select the questions 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. Remember that nothing I answer here is full canon until it appears in a book: I will always reserve the right to change things if the series shifts between now and then.

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!
Tags: continuity checking, toby daye
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anna_en_route

August 3 2015, 23:59:45 UTC 1 year ago

So far most of the Fae seem to be adhering to European/Chinese/Japanese mythology, are there other branches of mythology that you plan to incorporate into Toby's world and if so, are there any ways in which they contribute to Toby's world which you feel comfortable describing?

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2015, 00:10:50 UTC 1 year ago

No.

Basically, the only way something is "fae" is a) if it is European, or b) if the creator myths are flexible enough that I can incorporate it without being disrespectful. It would be enormously appropriative and wrong to say "oh, all the North American spirits are fae descended from these three European figures," so I will not do it. Honestly, if I could go back to me in college (when I was setting this world up) and slap me around, there wouldn't be any Asian fae either, not to make it whiter, but to make it less borderline appropriative.

anna_en_route

August 4 2015, 00:39:00 UTC 1 year ago

Fair enough, thank you for answering :)

museclio

August 4 2015, 01:45:15 UTC 1 year ago

And this is one of the reasons that you are one of my favorite authors.

zapaper

August 8 2015, 02:05:29 UTC 1 year ago

So you would incorporate African/Asian/ North/South American folklore as long as you didn't classify them as fae?

seanan_mcguire

August 8 2015, 02:08:25 UTC 1 year ago

No.

In this world, the fae are the only magical things that exist. That is one of the core pillars of the cosmology, and changing it now would be difficult verging on impossible, with no positive effects apart from going "here's all this other stuff that I will never touch on again, because it's not part of the plot." It would be appropriative, bordering on pandering. That's part of why InCryptid is so kitchen sink: so I could have a wider world.