Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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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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eksleebriss

August 24 2015, 09:18:20 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  August 24 2015, 09:18:59 UTC

I am chock-full of curiosity about the Tuatha de Danann and their teleportation, as any kid who grew up with Star Trek would be.

You explained in an earlier answer in this series that when the Three have children with the same non-Three parent, they "would get a cluster of Firstborn who were physically extremely similar, and had complimentary magical gifts." You mentioned the Tuatha specifically, and so I was wondering if we could have some expansion on how the children of Elton's and Amorica's lines can benefit one another, maybe some detail about how their magics differ, and what it means when the lines become "utterly entangled" (as I am imagining is the case with Gilad's line, since he and his kids seem to have eyes of two different colors, while Etienne's and Chelsea's are just one (not that I'm asking specific questions about characters, but it's something I noticed, and so I presume you put it there for us to see)).

With regard to their teleportation, how does it work? I don't mean the physics of it, exactly, but in the case of Chelsea, we seem to be shown that there was some kind of sympathy at work, her teleporting to places that shared names with the street she was on, for example. Are there range limits? Can they be superceded, like when a mom lifts a car under which her child is trapped, as seemed to happen with Etienne chasing Chelsea in AOH?