Tammy: And Roald and Shinkokami have a daughter, Lianokami.
Tammy: The fiefdoms are not all governed by primogeniture–if the only heir is female, it goes to her. And Jonathan and Thayet, as co-monarchs, quietly put it through that succession is no longer secured to the male line, but the royal line, to ensure more heirs. Not [...]
Archive for August, 2007
28 Aug
Liankokami and Succession to the Throne
28 Aug
Peachblossom’s Former Owner
Who WAS Peachblossom’s former owner? Because when Kel asks Stefan who made his mouth so hard, he says, “Don’t worry. He won’t be harmin’ any nore horses,” or something like that.
Tammy: He’s just a knight with two knees shattered beyond the healers’ ability to repair. So sad.
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28 Aug
Daine, Invertebrates, and Chickens
We know how she feels about hunting – she won’t eat game, but will eat animals that are not hunted. We know she cares about letting the underdog survive. But what does she think about insects?
Tammy: She can’t talk to invertebrates at all. She can talk to the kraken–his neural net is huge, so it [...]
28 Aug
George’s birthyear and a Spiffy Timeline
Terrier tells us it’s 400 H.E.
But basic math says it’s 412 H.E.
Kel’s second year as a page is 453 H.E. (according to Page). Fourteen years before was when Jon was crowned and Alanna killed Josiane. (In First Test Joren tells us, “The King’s Champion killed a Copper Island princess thirteen years ago.” Now, unless Alanna [...]
28 Aug
“The baby, Thayet…found.”
In Lioness Rampant when Alanna, Liam and Coram meet Buri and Thayet, Buri explains that they are headed towards The Mother of Waters in Rachia because most of the children and teenagers in their little party were students of the convent Mother of Mountains. (Which we can assume was destroyed in the civil war in [...]
28 Aug
Kaddar, Kally, and Daine
Tammy: Kally, like other characters who “disappear,” ran afoul of the problem that a good book has to be about the main character and those characters who are involved directly in his or her own story. A lot of people wanted to know why a bunch of characters from Kel’s training days “disappeared” in LADY [...]
28 Aug
Sacherell and Turomot
Is Turomot related to Sacharell of Wellam?
Tammy: He’s his great-uncle, with a wife and a whole bunch of kids and grandkids. And Sacherell is A) a knight, B) married, and C) a dad.
Life goes on, and House Wellam is a big and prosperous one.
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28 Aug
Vania, Ilane, and Thayet
…so there’s another one?
Tammy: Vania, the youngest of the royals.
Wow, she and Ilane are machine women.
Tammy: Actually, there are woman today who have that many routinely. Of course, there are major health risks in our world, and to the women who can’t afford the best mages or who have serious physical complications during birth in [...]
28 Aug
Beka’s Memory
Tammy: In Beka’s case, though, she mentions at least once at first, and often later in the book, that they are trained to remember everything exactly, and that she uses her journal to keep her memory skills sharp. Medieval people were taught to remember far better than we are, because they didn’t have access to [...]
28 Aug
Future releases
Tammy: So far it’s
TERRIER
BLOODHOUND — originally the Provost’s Dog, now just the Beka
ELKHOUND Cooper trilogy
the Numair book (still don’t have a real title)
Maura of Dunlath’s book (she’s from WOLF SPEAKER)
those are under contract
After that, I think I’ll be doing the
Kel-and-her-squire book (maybe 2)
Neal’s daughter for certain
and who knows what else?
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28 Aug
Nicknames of Riders’ Groups
Tammy: There are a lot more of them now, but these are the ones who were extant by the end of REALMS OF THE GODS:
technical name — nickname (if they have one)
1. First Riders Group — The First
2. Second Riders Group — Ghostwind
3. Third — Webspinners
4. Fourth — Queen’s Rabbits
5. Fifth — Clouds
6. Sixth — [...]
28 Aug
Pregnancies and the Goddess
Tammy: One thing: I think some of you are confusing rape with sex (one person did mention it’s about power and control). If it were truly about sex, people wouldn’t rape tiny children and old people. It’s about power, violence, humiliation, and rage. No power can protect people from that, or Jon would have employed [...]
28 Aug
Pregnancies and Choices
Tammy: Sarralyn is definitely loved, anyway. I don’t think Daine could even have safely had an abortion (she was more than three months along when she even realized she was pregnant)–though abortions are done by potions or spells–but she wouldn’t have wanted one. She was 24, after all, and while she wouldn’t have chosen a [...]
28 Aug
Port Udayapar
In TQ, Kyprioth mentions to Aly that two thieves, one a horse nomad living east of “Port Udayapar” would help steal and hide the Sun and Moon shields(pg. 251). Since this place was unimportant to the plot and only mentioned that once, it’s not in the Glossary or on the maps. Can you please tell [...]
28 Aug
Gift Colors
Tammy: Assuming I knew what I was doing at the time . . .
I did start out going by eye color, before I realized that I was going to run into repetitions in a hurry. Then I began to get creative, and discovered I’d get repetitions anyway. That’s when I came up with no visibility [...]
28 Aug
Nobility, King’s Own, and Liberalizing
Tammy: In a country where they have things like the Books of Gold and Silver to track bloodlines, there’s no way a commoner can fake nobility–everyone knows everyone’s bloodlines. Alan takes a lot of sneerage in his training as a page and squire, because his father is newly ennobled, even if his mother is bluer [...]
28 Aug
Jon and the Chamber of Ordeal
In regards to a recent thread in the Dove where we were pondering what exactly the King saw in the Chmaber of the Ordeal (both as a knight and as a king)? There was something in ITHOTG that he kept on waking up screaming from his dreams of it.
Tammy: What was disturbing enough to trouble [...]
28 Aug
Sunbirds
OK, the question again- Sunbirds- are they gods?
Tammy: They’re divine creatures, made only to live in the Divine Realms. There are a bunch of them–I only mentioned those.
Of course, it might be interesting if somehow someone brought one to the Mortal Realms.
Of course, it depends on the circumstances. The race of sunbirds is sacred to [...]
28 Aug
Kaddar and Wolves
Does the idea of the nephew of the Emperor of Carthak come from the movie The King and I? Because I was watching that last night and The Emperor of Siam seemed so much like the nephew who later turns into the emperor, I was struck by the resembalance. Also, I was reading the Lion,the [...]
28 Aug
On the Road to Forgiveness…
Tammy: It was after Kel’s page term was finished that Alanna returned to Corus. She forgave Jon mildly in Kel’s second year, but they met outside Corus. By Kel’s third year Alanna and Jon were on pretty good terms again. She thought she was pulling the wool over his eyes with her secret gifts to [...]
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