Ask me anything: Toby's world Q&A.

[seanan_mcguire]

Since I have a book coming out in fifteen days, I figure it's time to once again offer to answer your questions about the world. So

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[digitaleopard]

Having just reread all the books to prepare for the latest, I find myself wondering about two things

[seanan_mcguire]

These are great questions, but they're all very character-specific, and as such, would be spoilers if answered.

[gwisteria]

Will Toby ever have a healed closure with her daughter or exhusband? I know mundane question but it weighs on me.

[vixyish]

I'm gonna guess that "will x happen?" questions aren't within the scope of this offer, since they'd necessarily involve spoilers and/or things that aren't certain because they haven't been written yet. :)

[seanan_mcguire]

Sadly, my "no spoilers" rule remains firmly in effect here.

[gwisteria]

Of course, i am sorry, that makes total sense, i think i temporarily lost reason ....i saw ask me anything and went were my mind went....
Mmm we have seen water, land, and even air fae i believe is there fire faeries or would their life span too short to warrant conscieouness ( spelling is not my strong suit)

[semperfiona]

Do you have a convenient link to the previous question-answering posts?

[seanan_mcguire]

Nope. Sorry. But if you try the "a few facts" link, you should find most of them.

[vixyish]

Helpful cat is helpful! Also links to the question posts, which contain many shorter answers in the comments.

An early post on marriage and divorce

Feb 2011 question post
How history is written
Fosterage
Fae politics/Court hierarchy
Cait Sidhe court structure
Fae madness

Aug 2011 question post
The Changeling's Choice
Fae geography & biology
Fae races & where they come from
Shapeshifters
Merlins

[semperfiona]

Wow! Thank you!

[peachtales]

Not a question, just a "SQUEE!" about the 15 day time frame. :)

[seanan_mcguire]

Heh.

[fordprfct]

How, exactly, do we go from Oberon + (Maeve or Titania) --> Firstborn --> various lines?

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?

[seanan_mcguire]

This was actually covered last time, in the "where do fae races come from?" question.

[fordprfct]

...and you answered this last time, which I found out as I went looking for the older posts to help somebody else here.

Never mind. :)

[vixyish]

Just added a link to the previous question posts and the answer posts, which cover a lot of these questions, though possibly not all.