Anastasya-Bybar
Names: Anastasya-BybarTashaAnastasya AstaurovaTasha-BybarLady Bybar
First appears in Book 2: The Golden Torc, chapter 2 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 2Anastasya-Bybar, a human time-traveler, taught the Tanu to reverse the sterilization of human women, saving latent ova; she arrived about ten years after the gate opened.
- Ch 6Tasha-Bybar is a golden-torced human woman with an artificially enhanced body, wearing only bells, who performs a hypnotic dance that overwhelms Sukey.
- Ch 6Tasha-Bybar is to perform a procedure on Sukey, apparently forced sterilization or abortion-like gynecological work, before her apprenticeship begins.
- Ch 7Human gynecologist who first taught the Tanu to reverse female sterilization about sixty years ago; insane, with no metafaculties, honorary gold torc.
- Ch 7Tasha-Bybar is a celebrated Redactor doctor who is a transsexual: genetically male, with a female body that cannot bear children.
- Ch 12Dead after an impalement, she lies in state in Redact House; she was a human surgeon who pioneered the operation that opened human wombs for Tanu survival.
- Ch 12Bybar is a dead sister for whom the Song was previously sung.
Connections
- member ofCollege of Redactors
- enemy ofStein Oleson
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 2Thagdal explains Tanu breeding and torcs
Over the supper Thagdal and Nontusvel explain his sovereignty by fertility, the eugenic program with human help, and how honorary golden torcs were granted to key human arrivals.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Tasha-Bybar's dance
Left alone in the turret room with a clamped table, Sukey tries to flee but is held by Olar; Tasha-Bybar's bell dance overwhelms her and she loses consciousness.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Journey to Redact House
Dedra and Stein ride by calèche toward Redact House, stopping at a fountain where Dedra tidies up and explains Tasha-Bybar's role.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Stein kills Tasha-Bybar
Dedra brings Stein to the Redactor Guild tower to see Sukey. In her recovery room, Tasha-Bybar taunts him with a bell dance and he kills her with his sword despite Sukey and Dedra's attempts to restrain him.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Mourning Anastasya
The High Table members gather at Redact House, link minds and sing the Song over Anastasya's body, then debate her legacy.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Nontusvel calls for a Song for the living
After Eadone and Kuhal discuss Brede's role and uncertain choice, Nontusvel asks the group to link minds again and sing the Song for all exiles on the planet, not for dead Bybar.