Questions about Visitor

[Alicorn]

Yeah, what kappa said.

[DanielH]

I thought it would have to be primarily plot. Why did you make Silver's world flat? It’s quite close to the standard mortal world.

[Alicorn]

We decided that in Nexus only Earth is noisy and that is the only place fairies (who write books) have been.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

So in Make My Characters Talk To Each Other, Holly and Crystal demonstrated that envassaling one occupant of a body doesn't necessarily vassalize the other, if a body has multiple occupants. So...

I assume that if relevantly-envassaling food is consumed everyone in the body gets envassaled. If you're currently in a fey-fed body can you escape the vassalization by moving into a different body?

In a world where people don't consider multiple people sharing a body to be normal, if the parents name a child something and the child turns out to be multiple people, each of whom names themself something different than their joint birth name, what name counts to vassalize them? How is this affected if the two people are only sometimes distinct individuals and sometimes one template fusion kind of person?

[Alicorn]

I'm... wobbly on whether you can escape food vassalization by exiting a body. I think probably yes if you weren't operating the body when it ate the food, mmmmaybe doesn't help if you were.

All of the occupants of Holly's body were in fact called Holly before they managed to make their multiplicity clear. I'm fuzzy on what happens with a template fusion.

[ErinFlight]

Do you know what's above fairyland?
Does the air extend up infinitely forever?

Also, I was wondering, I don't know if you've read A Fire Upon The Deep.
In it, the aliens are dog-like beings that form a consciousness by joining together in groups.
A single individual isn't sentient. You need at least three to join together.
Each individual carries a syllable of a name, and the entities name is the individuals syllables combined together.

They do have nicknames, but those come later in life.

Any ideas to how this would work in fairyland? Would a fairy have to know the syllables of all of the parts?

[Alicorn]

The air thins out more slowly than a regular atmosphere and then there's nothing.

I started AFUtD but couldn't stand it and have no opinion on Fairyland wolfythings.

[Bluelantern]

The air thins out more slowly than a regular atmosphere and then there's nothing.

I started AFUtD but couldn't stand it and have no opinion on Fairyland wolfythings.

What was the problem with the book?

[Alicorn]

The concept of the wolfythings was neat but everything else about it bored me (other perspectives it visited, the plot, the prose, the execution).

[pedromvilar]

So, I want to throw a Sadde at fairyland and I have a bunch of questions about it (many just out of curiosity):

Has a decision been made about whether fairy name syllables work to envassal them at all? Can a human play the guessing game with fairy name syllables and also have them magically click in their mind?

How much understanding of an order is necessary to obey it? How does the divide between obeying the letter of an order and its spirit behave? How strong is the compulsion to obey "different levels" of an order (like, answering "yes" to a question that implied clarification was desired), and is that something you can detect upon exploring the feeling the compulsion causes inside your head?

How does sorcery power work? That is, is it only a matter of knowledge and practice or is there a natural skill component? If the latter, do humans vary in their skill, and how much compared to fairies?

How are new spells invented or learnt? How much room for personal creativity is there? What's the learning curve like?

Are breeders as immortal as non-breeders?

Not even the Queen keeps a million vassals around. If you don't count the Queen there probably even aren't extended networks of allies or satellite courts that size. 335 is a reasonably-sized breeder court and if it gets about three or four times that big somebody's going to manage to slip away, and if it's somebody with names, they'll take a chunk of court with them.

Can you get around this by phrasing an order like "do not take actions that have the intent of causing you to be freed from me by however many degrees of causal remove" or something along those lines? Could you write a contract and then order a vassal to read it and make their best attempt at understanding it and its spirit and then not disobeying it?