MJSam asked Fletcher DeLancey:

Doing a re-read of the series and just wondered, was the six point bond and Salomen/Lhyn’s tyree bond always going to manifest or was it created by the one on one sharing they undertook in Uprising? I can’t see anywhere where Tal shares only with Lhyn or Salomen only with Ekatya. Is that why they don’t have the deeper bonds or would they not be tyrees even if they did share like that?

Fletcher DeLancey Great question! I think Salomen and Lhyn's bond would have manifested at some point regardless, but it was sped up by their one-on-one Sharing. (Which was a good thing, because it was the balance of those bonds that made the high-powered divine tyree orbital jump possible.) As for the six-point bond, that wasn't dependent on the one-on-one Sharing, but grew out of those repeated four-way Sharings.

Here's another interesting bit: Ekatya and Lhyn didn't become divine tyrees until that first four-way Sharing. It was Salomen's power completing the circuit that initiated their shift from normal tyrees to divine. That is why, when Lhyn asked Ekatya to touch the molwyn tree at the end of The Caphenon, nothing happened -- but when they tried again in Uprising, whoosh.

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