Diane
Names: DianeDiane Manion
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 21 (7)
Appearances
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B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 3Uses redactive metafunction to calm the Cubs; Cloud says she loves Hagen and works on his brooding.
- Ch 15Has qualms about how the Milieu will receive them, and half believes it would be better to stay here.
- Ch 29Diane initially favors Marc's plan, since Hagen could sire millions of children, but she screams when Hagen reveals the children are to be bodiless.
Connections
- partner ofHagen
- family ofAlexis Maniondaughter
- partner ofKuhalin tandem
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 3The convoy reaches the Great Waterfall
The convoy climbs a ridge at Gibraltar and the group views the Waterfall by moonlight, until fog covers it.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Hagen shows Diane Marc's plan
Hagen reveals to Diane that Mental Man means bodiless brains. They resolve to flee to the Milieu with Aiken's help and conceive a child, then find the King and his laboratory gone.
- Book 4 · Ch 38The Adversary breaches Castle Gateway
Marc, empowered in the CE rig, shatters the dome and shields, captures his paralyzed children, takes Elizabeth's surrender and sends four people through the time-gate to the Milieu.