Is Zilpha Horace Delaney's or Salish's daughter?

Is Zilpha Horace Delaney's or Salish's daughter? - Father and Daughter on Beach

At one point during the course of Taboo I learned that Zilpha isn't actually James's sister, but only his half-sister. But I don't actually recall it being said from whose side of the parentage, although I doubt it was kept unclarified and I probably just missed it (but am willing to be surprised).

On the one hand it makes sense for her to be Horace Delaney's daughter, since she was expected to inherit his stuff, especially Nootka Sound, which she already negotiated to sell to the East India Company. But on the other hand, seeing how James's relation to his mother Salish is much more "mystical" and she is generally the more "interesting" or significant parent from a plot perspective, it would make more sense for Zilpha to be Salish's daughter, especially with regards to James's and Zilpha's incestuous relationship and the "wilder" nature sleeping in Zilpha.

So when was it actually clarified if Zilpha was Horace Delaney's or Salish's daughter, if it was? (I doubt we know anything about her other parent, though?)






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Is Delaney in love with his sister?

Even in the first episode of this unapologetically bleak FX series, it was clear that star, co-creator, and half-naked guiding spirit Tom Hardy's character James Delaney had romantic feelings for his striking half-sister Zilpha Geary (Game of Thrones actress Oona Chaplin).

Who was James Delaney mother?

James Keziah Delaney was born in 1787 to Horace and Anna Delaney. At the age of eleven, in the year 1798, three years after his mother's death, James was put in as a cadet at the East India Company Military Seminary in Woolwich by Horace Delaney and his new bride.

Are James and Zilpha lovers?

Now, James and Zilpha have had a complicated relationship. It isn't fleshed out very well (as nothing is on this show). But it is revealed that at one time they had an incestuous relationship. Zilpha did not want to be with James though and married another man while James was in Africa.



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