Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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ONCE BROKEN FAITH open thread!

To celebrate the release of Once Broken Faith, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you have had time, and I'd really, really rather book discussion (sometimes including spoilers) didn't crop up on other posts.

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. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.

You can also start a 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, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
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lazzchan

September 8 2016, 05:10:56 UTC 10 months ago

If Toby can shift the blood of the the changelings to go one way or another, what is the possibility she could... change the selkies all the way back to Roane? That's a disturbing thought all in its own, but Toby's power is very strong and not cataloged to all of what it can accomplish.

ivymutant

September 8 2016, 21:41:35 UTC 10 months ago

The Selkies aren't fae by blood, though, I don't think. All their power is in their skins. Before they inherit a skin, they're human, with the skin they're skin shifter fae and when they want to die they give away their skin and they die as a human. If I remember info from one salt sea correctly (since we learn the kidnappers steal a skin, and use it to get through the wards as the wards are set to just recognise the selkie skin itself, not the individual Selkie).

dragonsong

September 14 2016, 14:28:40 UTC 10 months ago

What I got from One Salt Sea was the the Luidaeg was giving the Selkie's time to organize their skins, and anybody without one was going to be screwed and left out forever. Maybe the magic in the skin is enough to shift them back to Roane?

bree_ramsey314

September 14 2016, 17:04:39 UTC 10 months ago

I'm thinking that over the generations the magic of the skins has 'seeped into' the Selkies. They're described as basically human without their skins, but they're treated as purebloods. It could be that the span of time changed them, enough that Toby can shift their blood and restore the Roane.