Black Crag Lodge
Names: Black Crag Lodgethe chaletBlack Craghunting lodgeMontagne Noirethe lodgeBlack Crag chalet
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 6 (5)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 34During the six-hour descent Felice's psychic discharge formed a storm cloud over Black Crag, killing wildlife and sending the retainers fleeing.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 5A peak shaped like a papal tiara, topped by a lodge guarded by farsensors and Tanu mind-benders; hidden lights guide visitors along the trail.
- Ch 34Black Crag is evacuated by aircraft after the black-torc children are healed, with Peace Faction staff and mothers taken to Goriah.
Connections
- inLac Provençalhalf-day's ride from the lake's western end
- containsDedraexecutive housekeeper
- related toElizabeth OrmeElizabeth is on Black Crag
- led byDedrachatelaine
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 6Inspection of Black Crag Lodge
Elizabeth and friends lunch at the chalet; Elizabeth approves it as her retreat, with Creyn staying. Basil, Burke and Amerie say farewell and leave for Hidden Springs.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Elizabeth reveals Felice is alive
Elizabeth tells Amerie that Felice survived and describes her torture by Culluket, her psychosis and her calls to him.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Elizabeth's confession
Amerie hears Elizabeth's confession of pride, hubris and despair, and absolves her.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Elizabeth and Creyn argue Brede's legacy
Elizabeth voices her fear that replacing Brede repeats the sin of forcing destiny, drawing parallels to the Metapsychic Rebellion; Creyn answers with felix culpa.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Felice agrees to be healed
After Elizabeth shows Felice her brain, opens her own mind to prove her sincerity, and explains the plan using the room without doors, Felice agrees to stay and undergo redaction.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Felice attacks Elizabeth's mind
Felice's mind-grip lunges at Elizabeth, who blocks it with an adamant barrier; Felice claims she did not mean it.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Final descent into Felice's mind
Elizabeth, aided by Dionket and Creyn, spends six hours redacting Felice's madness while the psychic discharge devastates Black Crag's surroundings.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Felice awakens sane
Felice wakes sane, rejects being like Elizabeth, chooses herself, thanks Elizabeth and vanishes, leaving Elizabeth drained and tempted by death until the Tanu healers comfort her.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Anatoly's climb to Black Crag
Robbed of his chaliko, Anatoly climbs to Black Crag in fog, nearly falls off a cliff, then is guided by mysterious lights to the lodge trail.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Marc's third apparition
Elizabeth and Creyn probe a silhouette of Marc on the balcony; Elizabeth pleads for peace and mediation, but it fades unanswered.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Creyn's plea refused
Elizabeth weeps over her inadequacy; Creyn offers love and she refuses, explaining she cannot make him operant. He consoles her and they discuss stars and Tanu belief.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Friar Anatoly bursts into the conference
Brother Anatoly evades the retainers and barges into the salon. Minanonn freezes everyone, and Anatoly announces that Amerie Roccaro sent him as Elizabeth's spiritual adviser. Elizabeth lets him go, and he leaves.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Anatoly's prayer and exit
Anatoly argues with Mary-Dedra over the experiment, is rebuked by Elizabeth, then, bolstered by Minanonn's mental touch, recites a prayer and leaves with Dedra to the spring.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Redaction of Brendan's mind
Elizabeth and Minanonn spend eight hours rewiring the baby's brain; briefly he functions operantly without his tore, but Minanonn is exhausted and they must rest three days.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Marc Remillard appears
Marc Remillard hovers outside the nursery window after a hyperspatial jump, offers a greeting, which Elizabeth refuses, and says Brendan's problem interests him.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Marc visits Black Crag
Marc arrives to intensify Brendan's redaction. Elizabeth has Anatoly fetch him clothes and attend. Marc mind-reads Anatoly, then they discuss Marc's failure and loneliness.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Brendan's redaction completed
Over a night, Elizabeth and Marc finalize Brendan's brain redaction. Elizabeth cannot handle the boost, Marc seizes control, forces her subordinate, and completes it. Brendan becomes operant and healed.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Creyn petitions the Adversary
At dawn Creyn asks Marc to raise him to operancy, offering the Guild's mitigator and truth. Marc disbelieves, then vanishes; Creyn suggests they talk next time.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Elizabeth confides in Anatoly
Anatoly gives Elizabeth breakfast and laced coffee; she discusses Marc's surprising skill and mercy and asks what he wants.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Anatoly reveals the coverall gambit
Anatoly admits he stole and then returned a man's coverall, a futile attempt to stop him d-jumping, then leaves with a chuckle after being asked about his offer of spiritual assistance.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Council agrees to meet Marc
After Hagen explains the CE rig's limits, Aiken, Hagen and Cloud agree to go to Black Crag to hear Marc, under Elizabeth's demand for oaths and redactive probing.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Marc and Anatoly discuss damnation
In the Montagne Noire, Marc and Brother Anatoly finish the cognac and debate imputability and Marc's own damnation, while Marc checks on Kyllikki's safety.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Basil healed in Skin
Basil wakes after two days in Tanu Skin, his ankle restored using Remillard's modified program. Creyn tells him about the Adversary, and Basil learns Remillard and Elizabeth work mind to mind.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Marc reveals the Mental Man truth
Marc tells Hagen and Cloud they are the parents of Mental Man and the last source of his immortal strain; he proposes they lead the project on a conquered planet.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Aiken asserts control
When Marc warns of the Milieu and the time-gate, Aiken seizes Hagen and Cloud in a psychocreative shield, declaring the decision his. Marc backs down.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Aiken and the young Remillards depart
Aiken asks for time to consider Marc's demands; Marc gives two days. Aiken, Cloud and Hagen fly off into the storm through the French windows.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Anatoly confronts Marc and Elizabeth
Anatoly offers the mulled wine, which Elizabeth refuses before leaving. He tells Marc that coercing or maiming the children would damn him, and Marc admits he is weighing it.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Creyn reveals his idea to Elizabeth
Creyn shared his idea for Marc's new work; Elizabeth, horrified, made him promise never to speak of it, then prepared to meet the petitioning mothers.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Marc delivers the redactive program
Marc teleports to Black Crag, gives Elizabeth the adapted redactive program excluding her from the metaconcert, warns he will oppose the gate, offers her another world, and departs after she refuses.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Plan to flee to the Blessed Isles
Minanonn reveals the King's news of Marc's escape and possible Firvulag alliance, and proposes evacuating the babies and Peaceful Folk on the captured Kyllikki to the Blessed Isles.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Elizabeth refuses and flees
Elizabeth declines to leave, reveals her despair, and runs into the night; Minanonn and Dionket decide not to follow.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Evacuation of Black Crag
After the children are healed, Black Crag is evacuated. Minanonn, Creyn, Anatoly and Basil plan to fly to Nionel to find Remillard and appeal to him.