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Dóchas Sidhe are a type of land fae known for their bloodworking. They are descended from Amandine and claimed by Oberon.

Now, you may be asking yourselves, ‘How is she up and wandering around and coming to see what we’re up to after the beat-down we gave her earlier’?...You may also be asking yourselves, ‘What do we know about her species?’ I mean, that’s what I’d be doing, if I were you. That, and maybe running like hell.

October Daye, Ashes of Honor

About[]

There are only two known Dóchas Sidhe in existence: October Daye and August Torquill.[1] Gillian Marks was born a Dóchas Sidhe Changeling, but the heritage has since been removed.[2] As descendants of Oberon, they tend toward heroism. The race is prophesized to "bring Oberon home", which as of A Killing Frost has been completed. [citation needed]

Physical Description[]

Save their Firstborn, there are only two female Dóchas Sidhe in existence - one pureblood and one changeling - so it is unclear what all pureblood Dóchas Sidhe, much less a male, are supposed to look like. October notes that her hair and skin is getting lighter as she inches closer to her Fae nature, and imagines that if she became pureblood, she would look like the colorless outline of a woman waiting to be filled in[3]. August, who has the Torquill trademark red hair and gold eyes, has color-saturated features that mirror a watercolor painting, the infamous Torquill colours being washed out and lightened.

Abilities[]

  • Blood Magic: ability to garner memories from people's blood arguably even more so than a Daoine Sidhe.[4]
  • Can smell magical signatures like a bloodhound, and are even able to follow the trail they leave behind, regardless of how old it is,[5]
  • Can change the balance of someone's blood like a living hope chest - the Luidaeg notes that they are stronger than a hope chesst.
    • Can alter their own blood balance either consciously or unconsciously if either a mixed blood or changeling, including shifting them all the way in one direction.[6]
    • Toby, the only Dóchas Sidhe changeling currently in existence, is unable to shift her own blood all the way to human because the magic would not allow her in a form of a defence mechanism. The fae blood can be taken out of her by someone else, but she can't do it to herself.[6]
    • A bloodline that is once taken out cannot be given back.[7]
  • Ability to break shape-shifting spells depending on the balance of their blood - because of Amandine's influence, the transformation brought on Toby took 14 years to break, longer than what Simon intended.[8]
  • Advanced healing: As a partial takeaway from the immortality curse Maeve placed on Janet Carter, Dóchas Sidhe inherited the ability to heal from almost any wound, including coming back from the dead if they are given the chance to recover. Toby's healed injuries include a fall from a great height in Arden's knowe to the point where she broke bones that Jin considered unbreakable, while August had survived a skull fracture and healed within minutes.[3] Healing also borders into regeneration, as Toby reforms a piece of her spine when Torin's knife removed it in the process of stabbing her. Their blood can be used in regeneration potions as proven with Siwan Yates and the Silences royal family when the limbs they lost at the hands of King Rhys were restored.[7]
  • Changelings and mixed-bloods show resilience to forced blood change: it is implied that August would have ripped Toby's fae blood out completely if she wasn't Dóchas Sidhe and able to resist.[1]
  • Can borrow magic like Daoine Sidhe, but it is unclear if they can create blood charms as Toby had drank the blood of both the Windermere twins directly.[6]
  • Can communicate with unconscious fae by using their blood, as long as at least one of either party is a mixed-blood or a changeling, because the magic needs something in the blood to shift for it to work.[1]
  • There's a suggestion that if they knew what they were looking for, they could un-knot that mess that happens in changelings that gives them all of the power and none of the blocks against what should or should not be possible for their breed.[citation needed]
  • Consuming any blood can be used to bolster their magic. Toby had shifted her blood slightly further to Fae when she was afflicted by goblin fruit after consuming a blood lozenge by the Luidaeg. The blood of herself, Tybalt, and the Luidaeg had been used to kickstart her advanced healing.
  • Dochas Sidhe can break geases that even Firstborn had cast. The Luidaeg said that her binding can be removed by Toby.

Drawbacks[]

  • If a Dóchas Sidhe uses their blood for fuel, they need to constantly eat to replenish their strength, especially since their healing factors rely on their metabolism. Sometimes blood has to be used to kickstart their healing as well when they are injured very gravely.
  • In order to borrow another fae's powers, the Dóchas Sidhe must tap into their subject's specific memory of using those powers while riding their blood.[6]
  • Riding blood has the same risks as a Daoine Sidhe: follow a dead fae's memories too far, and risk dying oneself.[4]
  • If a Dóchas Sidhe is injured to the point of unconsciousness, that leaves them vulnerable despite their advanced healing:
    • The Luidaeg notes that Toby is unbreakable, but not unkillable, implying that enough grave injuries that leave them defenceless would kill her.[citation needed]
    • August suffers a severe skull fracture and although she regenerates within minutes, she is still unconscious and thus could be easily restrained with duct tape.[1]
    • Torin of Bluefish impaled Toby and removed a piece of her spine in the process - while she was able to heal, this left her immobile, barely conscious and helpless.
  • Dóchas Sidhe are especially susceptible to transformation magic, as well as more able to break it.
    • As Toby is more human than fae when she is transformed into a fish, it took her longer than Simon intended to break the enchantment.[1]
    • The Luidaeg notes how easy Toby is to transform.[9]
  • Consuming anything blood-based can trigger memories. Toby can't consume anything cooked rare without glimpsing the memories of the animal she consumed,[10] and Amandine states that even maple syrup tastes like trees screaming.[11]
  • It is unclear if it is a pureblooded trait or not, but Toby has to draw blood to use her native blood magic, while all August and Amandine have to do is touch whomever they want to shift.
  • Dochas Sidhe changelings are more vulnerable to goblin fruit - the high can cause them to subconsciously shift their blood further to their human side to make goblin fruit more enjoyable.

Dóchas Sidhe Characters[]

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Ahead are significant details from Be the Serpent (2022). Read at your own risk!


  • October Daye (changeling, inching closer to fae, barely human as of A Killing Frost)
  • August Torquill (formerly mixed blood, rendered pureblood by Amandine)
  • Gillian Marks (formerly thinblooded changeling, removed, currently Roane)
  • unborn child (Dochas Sidhe/Cait Sidhe changeling child of October Daye and Tybalt)

Quotes[]

  • "I have no idea what Dad was thinking when he made you people. We didn’t need bloodhounds with an attitude, we already had the Cu Sidhe." - The Luidaeg about the Dóchas Sidhe[5]

Trivia[]

  • Their advanced healing factor was an influence from the curse Maeve inflicted upon Amandine's mother Janet, which literally prevents her from dying from any means possible. The Luidaeg confirmed that their susceptibility to transformation magic was inherited from Janet as a consequence of her enduring constant transformations to break Maeve's Ride.
  • Dochas Sidhe so far have the smallest population among Fae, seeing as there are only two in existence (formerly three prior to Gillian making her Choice).
  • There would be only two lines of Dochas Sidhe in existence if Toby and August have more children, unless Amandine conceives more descendants.

Mythology[]

"Dóchas" is Irish for hope and expectancy,[12] a reference to them being hope chests with thumbs, while "sidhe" refers to the fairy mounds of Ireland. Together, the name reflects the hope that the Dóchas Sidhe are the hope of Faerie and will bring back the Roane and Oberon himself.[13]

"Sidhe" means "people."

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