Laura M.C.
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Lynn Buchanan:
One thing I've been wondering about dolls... what happens when they are SOLD, and then their dollmaker dies? Specially artisan dollas, which are everywhere? Does this produce a huge challenge in that all dolls, even after being sold and changing masters, still go cuckoo-crazy after their maker's death, and have to be tracked down to be burried... or does changing masters preserves them after their maker's death?
Lynn Buchanan
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(view spoiler)[Good question! When a dollmaker dies, two things happen to their dolls--they collapse/"die" themselves, and a formal process goes into motion to recall them. Sometimes, when a dollmaker is dying of natural and/or trackable causes (old age, an illness, etc.) their dolls are recalled/retired before they die; if a dollmaker dies unexpectedly, it's part of the Licensing Guilds' duty to collect their remaining dolls immediately. With artisan dolls in particular, doll owners are required to surrender them to their local dollmakers upon their dolls' creators' deaths, who then handle the process of getting the dolls to the Licensing Guild, or (on the Guild's behalf) directly to the Graveyard. Once a dollmaker dies, you have at least a month to get their dolls buried, maybe more--a month is the shortest time between the death of a dollmaker and one of their dolls going "cuckoo-crazy."
All of this is a large reason why it's illegal for foreigners to purchase or take dolls out of the country called One--of course, people break the law and do so, and suffer the subsequent consequences. One way or another, dolls always find their way back to where their creators made them. (hide spoiler)]
All of this is a large reason why it's illegal for foreigners to purchase or take dolls out of the country called One--of course, people break the law and do so, and suffer the subsequent consequences. One way or another, dolls always find their way back to where their creators made them. (hide spoiler)]
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