Dina: Welcome, dear BDH, to the new edition of the Frinnterviews. Today we have two guests from a different Earth with us: Adaline Moore, Dimensional Breach Resource Assessor; and Elias McFeron, Guildmaster of Cold Chaos. Our chef prepared special refreshments and some snacks.
Elias: Are these… what are these?
Dina: They are gourmet triple chocolate cupcakes, and they are shaped like Guardian Guild emblems.
Elias: Why Guardians?
Dina: Orro thought you would have fun “devouring” them. Since they are your rivals.
Elias: I wouldn’t say the Guardians are our rivals. We all stride toward the same goal: repelling this invasion and protecting our planet.
Ada, rolling eyes.
Elias: What about those?
Dina: These are cheesecake bites with piped mauve flowers, and this is whiskey and honey panna cotta with chocolate Grasping Hand dipped in red wine glaze.
Elias: How did he make the red lattice?
Dina: I’m not sure. I think it’s a type of cookie called coral tulle.
Elias: I’ll try the cheesecake.
Ada: Are you allergic to nuts?
Elias: No. Are there nuts in these?
Ada: Yes.
Elias: Good to know. … These are incredibly delicious.
Ada: We are sitting inside a semi-sentient tree, disguised as a house, while it is generating its own space-time by bending the rules of physics, and you are eating cheesecake.
Elias: What can I say? I’m a man of courage.
Ada: Yes. Nerves of steel. And low blood sugar.
Elias, smiling: Things got a little heated in the Ft. Campbell breach. We came out barely an hour ago. It’s always a race to the gate once the anchor is destroyed.
Ada: Did 101 Airborne finally give up and call the guilds in?
Elias: We were asked to assist. I’m sure they had it well in hand.
Ada: Let me save you some time, Dina. You’re not going to get much out of him. He is in Guildmaster mode. He will give you smooth, political answers in a way that ensures that absolutely nothing he says could be used against him or Cold Chaos.
Dina: Is that true?
Elias: Depends on the nature of the question. While we are here, I have several questions myself, Ms. Moore.
Ada: I prefer Assessor Moore and I’m not here to answer your questions. I’m here as a courtesy to everyone who put us in the Amazon #1 bestseller spot. The authors worked very hard, and they are very proud.
Dina: Is she pleased?
Ada: She showed the #1 to the computer repair guys to get his desktop repaired faster.
Elias: That’s not pride. That’s communicating the urgency of a crisis requiring immediate resolution.
Dina: How did that go, by the way?
Elias: He might need a new motherboard. They adjusted the BIOS, and it’s working for now.
Ada: Our time in the spotlight was short. They’ve already shifted gears to working on the extra material for the special editions of This Kingdom.
Elias: Mhm. I’ve read it. It’s good. An interesting isekai.
Ada: I had no idea your vocabulary included that term. Perhaps, the vice-guildmaster’s influence?
Elias: I’m well read. Although I prefer LitRPG myself. Back to questions.
Ada: Dina, did you have any questions for me?
Dina: Yes. Are you planning on returning to your work as an Assessor?
Ada: That’s what I do. It’s my small way of contributing to our fight against the invaders.
Dina: Do you plan to make use of the knowledge acquired in the breach?
Ada: Of course. Assessors are constantly learning. We gather information in every breach we enter.
Dina: Elias, my next question is to you. Have you chosen the name for your cat?
Ada: You must be joking. My children watched him interact with Mellow. The guildmaster is definitely not a cat person.
Elias: It’s between Reaper and Buttercup right now. We will figure it out. Speaking of names, Dina, did you know that human linguistics is quite interesting? No matter what language it is, when people pronounce unfamiliar names for the first time, they tend to pause slightly. It’s an unconscious hesitation. Also, we tend to start sentences with names.”
Dina: I didn’t know that.
Elias: Curious, right? When one says something like Ighrr tsee Rakalan dresst, and the other person starts the next sentence with Rakalan, it’s a good bet that Rakalan is a name…
Ada: …
Elias: It’s interesting what a qualified linguist can glimpse from a recorded conversation. I have a whole bunch of names, Rakalan, gress, Tsu…
Ada: Dina, if you care about the survival of our Earth, expel him now.
Dina: I’m sorry, the Guildmaster had to leave us early. Duty calls.
Ada: Thank you.
Dina: I understand the need for discretion. Secrecy is paramount to the very existence of the inns.
Ada: I appreciate you inviting us to visit. Before I go, I did want to ask one question.
Dina: Of course.
Ada: Have you ever heard of Baha-char?
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Confirmed 🥇
oh – another earth – that answers that one … and am i first?
“Have you ever heard of Baha-Char?” 😍
“Follow-up question… Have you ever heard of a Lees?”
Nuan. Phah.
😁
Fantastic. I’m already into the WHOLE series!
When I was a kid we had a dog named Buttercup. People were a little confused as she was a Newfoundland dogs (very friendly, all black dogs, over 100 lbs, with thick, long fur – often mistaken for small black bears). You can guess which name I voted for.
+1. What else would one name an all-black 100 lb dog?
I wanted her registered name to be Inkspot, “Spot” for short.
As in the old first grade Dick And Jane books? “See Spot run”?
Or in this case: See Spot ignore the stick and fetch the neighbor’s bicycle…
😂
ooh that would be cool 😎 . you can have a lot of fun with the name SPOT.
I’d pick Ripper over Reaper as a cat name (as in ripper of cushions)
+1
I was looking for Ripper in the name list
When we inherited our oldest cat, he came with the name Ollie.
He is also a complete git.
After I read to my kids about Olasard the Ripper of Souls, they insisted on that for his name :-))
That was hilarious! Loved the Baha-Char question at the end. Dina knows all about that. 😁😉
It will be interesting to see what the cat’s name becomes thanks to the Horde. **Mutters: Buttercup? Buttercup?! What a name for a cat. 😂”
Is that Princess Buttercup to all of us?
Oooh, nice one! And whenever the cat “asks” to be petted or given a treat, Elias should, of course, respond “As you wish”.
+1 lololol
Yes indeed!
+ one thousand percent!!!
+10000000000000000000
Absolutely!
❤️☺️
I’m still hoping for Steve.
thanks for answering some of my questions!
Steve would’ve been amazing! 😄
+1 for Steve!
The cat’s sadness was the key factor for my name choice… Buttercup indicates affection to my mind, which she needs and deserves. Plus it seems like a disarming codeword, if she comes up in conversations…
I picked CC for Chaos Cat but it’s really a tie with Buttercup. Chaos Cat because it’s alliterative and chaos for both the guild and the definition of chaos itself.
But I admit I’m looking forward to Elias saying “Suck it up, Buttercup” and then watching her literally do that with whatever bad alien is in front of them.
Thank you…this was fun!
Family stuff kept me busy until last night (note to self: run away from home for a day or so on 3/31:26!!) so I stayed up last night until I could finish reading The Inheritance. It was so worth it! Congrats for hitting #1 on the Amazon list….you so deserve it!!!! 😁
Elias is so sassy 🙂
Hee Hee
Sweet little Buttercup
HMS Pinafore, right?
I also thought about Gilbert and Sullivan!
Reaper Cushions the Not-Cat!
Yay I got to register 🙂 my time zone is not kind to the newsletter release sometime. I voted for reaper but I knew Buttercup will be chosen lol love the innterviews, it gives such great insites into how the author sees their characters.
I voted for buttercup, however I really cannot see Guildmaster Buttercup calling “Buttrecup” to come for dinner.
I love CC for Chaos Cat.
Ooo….love the last question!!
Thank you!!
Buttercup needs a Princess in front of it.
I still like Figment.
Hmm. I tried to vote in the poll and got this:
Unable to obtain lock for Poll ID #70
:S
Please refresh, there is no issue with voting, but your webpage may not have loaded properly 🙂
This is perhaps a question for the authors during the zoom chat but… special editions of This Kingdom?? Any details that can be shared at this time??
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that was awesome! love Ada. can’t wait for her to visit Baha Char.
My cat is named Buttercup! I love it.
Fun! And it is nice to have it confirmed that Ada’s Earth is an alternate Earth to Dina’s
I am a newer member of the BDH, but so excited to be one. I love these Frinnterviews! Thank you glorious authors for giving us this fun extra material. Your #1 bestseller spot is well deserved. I am a fan of Chaos Cat, but love all the silly repartee that Buttercup could offer.
Meow meow my name is Buttercup and I will be glad to have you as a snack🤣
Thank you for including Dina in the Elias/Ada conversation🥰
I really love Chaos Cat for the name, but don’t love CC as a nickname. Though I suppose it might be to call her Chaos Cat every single time.
Buttercup is my second fave!
Oh! my world is complete…for today. 🙂 Dina and Ada have met. Now I just need to see Kate and Ada spar.
Very fun! thank you!!! And congrats again!!
I think it’s the wrong Earth for Kate, but if Ada’s at the inn, she and Maude would certainly be amazing!
So, a day late and a dollar short. while reading the interview the name Rip popped into my head. short for rest in peace or super cushions
Rippercushions
I was the 1,000th vote! We stan for Buttercup 🌼
Have you ever heard of Baha-char. 🤔 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had wondered what a linguist might make of the small amount of conversation recorded. So enjoyed this little peep into both characters, thanks!! And so looking forward to tomorrow!
Except that unless Elias and his crew found a second recording, nothing Ada said before destroying the witness included any of the names that Elias mentions in this interview. Either Elias found more recordings after the end of the book, or the authors are having a fun moment teasing us and their characters with an alternate reality interpretation.
Ada asked the Kael’gress for his witness, which appeared from somewhere in the room with them, but there was a backup witness on Buttercup’s collar that she didn’t get; therefore Elias saw everything up to where the Kael’gress died or his body was destroyed? I did see that those names showed up in the conversation she had with the assassin…
If the Tsuun are using biomes from alternate dimensions, is it possible we could see a corner of Unicorn Lane or the Honeycomb show up in a breach?
I’m right there with you regarding the backup witness starting as soon as Ada sliced the original one in half, and then stopping the recording as soon as he died. However, how would the second witness have gotten onto the cat’s collar with that force field up?
Gretchen, it’s a wireless receiver. The camera records and then transmits the recording to the storage device on the cat’s collar. This is how a wireless ring camera works. 🙂
omg Buttercup! That is our cat’s name (for the Princess Bride reference).
I think “our” kitty deserves a cute name but with respect….Mr Mittens 🙂 or Mr Tiny or Mr….
Thank you!
I had a hard morning. This lifted my spirits a bit.
I absolutely loved “Have you heard of Baja-char?” Although, I suppose their memories of the interviews gets wiped or something and this is NOT how she learns of it. So sad.😜
I absolutely forgot that with cats you usually put Mr. or something in front of the name. I may have to vote again.
I picked Reaper bc I wanted Just Cat. And “Chaos Cat” | nah.
But I’m not bitter.
I used Princes Buttercup for my mule in my RPG. She is huge and vicious with anyone who is not trained to handle her. So I had to pick Patience since she was waiting there for them.
This was a lovely distraction for Friday morning. Thanks for the treat!
Those are really fun choices on the name. I couldn’t initially see Elias calling for Buttercup, but then I kept thinking about Princess Bride. So Buttercup gets my vote!
Ada cut off the recording witness before asking about the Rakalan and Tsunn. So Elias doesn’t know about them. Did I perhaps miss something?
To quote Dr. Jones: “She talks in her sleep”?
Just guessing but maybe there were other recordings on the device such as the assassin assignment …
I figured it was a backup she didn’t know about.
I adore these interviews.
It’s also fun to imagine Elias running into Sean at some point, talking tactics. I can’t even imagine what Her Grace would do with him.
Ooooh …Caldenia and Ada!!! Plus Maude and Dina …. and maybe a “Boom-Baby!” moment of Arabella coming in as heavy artillery. Heh! I can totally see Arabella and Bear bonding as Best Girls Ever.
Squeeeeee! May writing that have brought you as much joy to you as reading it has to me!
Buttercup all the way as a wink and a nod to Kate and Curran.
Did we know before this exactly how much Elias knew of the sophonts in the breach….. (haven’t finished my complete reread after reading the last chapters…..so, apologies if an ignorant question) And thank you for being SO descriptive re: the dessert icing colors. That attention to detail makes your writing top shelf. And check out Ada pulling out the concern card (mom? Or something else?) to ensure Elias isn’t allergic to nuts..
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Sending peace, health and safety to all!
I believe at one point Ada speculates that many of the major guild assault teams must have run into sophonts previously, but she had no direct knowledge of it. Ada concluded that the DDC must be suppressing the info.
The section of Chapter 13 from Elias’s POV confirms that Elias previously met sophonts twice, but didn’t know what to make of them. Elias also concludes that the DDC is suppressing info about sophonts.
So no, before the publication of the Inheritance we didn’t know anything about Elias’ experience with sophonts in the breaches.
How about ‘none of the above’ on the names. This was a female, so Sherman doesn’t work at all. I think Texas would be a good name.
Where did you see that the cat was female? The novel only ever refers to it as “cat” or “it”?
What’s weird is that I also thought it was a she – I thought Samantha called it a she – so I was frowning over some of the names. But I just went back to the chapter and Samantha doesn’t say she at any point. I have to blame the fact that I couldn’t stop reading last night, and so finished the book around 3am.
The chocolate cupcakes sound delicious!
Speaking of semi-sentient trees, after rereading Sweep of the Heart, I realize the Magnolia Green cutting will make a great “mother-in-law suite”. When Diana’s parents are found, they can retire there and be close to their daughters and grandkid(s). Klaus can visit them since they’re not on Earth.
Fun! I’m waiting for the print book on the edge of my seat! ❤️ Looking forward to reading about Ada threatening Elias & Elias gaining a cat!
Aaaaah!! Frinnterview cliff-hanger!! But seriously, yay for the visit with Dina, the “hostess with the mostest”, and Orro’s wonderful pastry selections for tea!! Hoping for a longer Dina and Ada conversation in the future.
Also, Elias in armor – hottie, hot, hot!! – :: fans self ::
Looking forward to the vid post next week – tomorrow is my niece’s wedding, so my Saturday is full to bursting already!!
She asked the bestest person possible if she’d ever heard of Baha-char. That’s awesome.
+1
Waiting for the Lees Shoe to drop (or get traded) 😀
“Unable to obtain lock for Poll ID #70” —–> that’s what the blog showed after I voted. what’s that mean? did i break it? i broke it, didn’t i?
why would you name a red cat “yellow?” of course, my cat went from “Felix” to “felix von fuzzy pants, king of fuzz, the third” thanks to my darling child so whatever name the cat starts with isn’t going to be the name long term.
that being said, #teambuttercup!
because Ada’s cat is named Mellow, so together the two cats would be Mellow Yellow…
I like Cici, it’s cute but official.
Also “She showed the #1 to the computer repair guys to get his desktop repaired faster.” !!!!! Now who’s being chalant?
I’ve been spoiled. I can’t get into any other story that’s not HA!
Jane
Kitty is DEFINITELY going to be Elias’ princess so Buttercup fits 💗
I voted for Reaper mostly because I keep picturing Leo looking for the cat, not finding it, and having to announce to the Cold Chaos teams that “the Reaper is loose!”
Yay! Friday Innterviews!
And yum. I had to go eat some chocolate, after reading about the treats. Seriously, cookbook! Barsa, Barsa, Barsa! Or, you know, a Pinterest page.
Ooooh, commiserate “that sucks” re: motherboard replacement. I am nursing an older laptop along with weird peripherals to keep it talking to all its parts. I should just save all the data to a hard drive, but …
Ordered the print version from Amazon today.
Ebook from Ilona. Had never used book fennel before, took me a couple of days of thinking about it before I made up my mind and downloaded the app. It did make it easier to download the ebooks to Kindle I had purchased from HA.