Dionket
Names: DionketLord DionketLord HealerChief HealerPresident of the RedactorsDionket the HealerDionket the Lord HealerDionket Lord Healer
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 1Lord Dionket is Chief Healer of the Tanu and heads the Guild of Redactors.
- Ch 3Dionket is the Tanu Chief Healer and President of the Redactors; he reserved Sukey from the bidding and is allied with Mayvar.
- Ch 3Dionket uses his torc to compel Stein and Sukey to relax when they grow alarmed.
- Ch 7Lord Dionket, the Lord Healer, used his influence to arrange the unusual night visit.
- Ch 12His redactors worked three weeks to restore Anastasya within the Skin but failed due to trauma, her unsanity and a subconscious wish for oblivion.
- Ch 21Dionket, the Lord Healer, is old, sincere and non-manipulative, and leads a faction trying to change the Tanu's pitiless ways against the Host.
- Ch 35Dionket, Lord Healer and Redactor president, was unchallenged and delegated Culluket as Second Redactor.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 6Dionket, head of the Redactor Guild, joined Minanonn's Pyrenean enclave and urged Elizabeth to go with him.
- Ch 18Dionket, the Lord Healer, came from voluntary retirement in the Pyrénées to assist the birth using the Skin and a ruby scalpel.
- Ch 18Dionket uses redactive power to make Mercy forget her anxiety about Morna's refusal to name Agraynel's king.
- Ch 30Dionket, the Lord Healer, spends most of his time in the Pyrénées with Minanonn and the Peace Faction instead of fighting the Firvulag.
- Ch 34Dionket and Creyn, linked as a penstock, help Elizabeth even to the point of death while fearing Felice will destroy Elizabeth or Black Crag.
- Ch 34Dionket warned that if Elizabeth failed, Felice's blast could be turned outward on Black Crag or inward to her own annihilation.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 12Dionket is the Lord Healer, a First Comer from Duat who renders the party invisible to surveillance.
- Ch 28Dionket, former President of the Guild of Redactors, is Lord Healer and led the five-healer operation on Basil.
- Ch 33Dionket directs the redactors treating the black-torc babies and will phase in coercers the next day.
Connections
- ally ofThagdal
- leadsGuild of Redactors
- ally ofMayvar Kingmaker
- ally ofElizabeth Orme
- has memberCulluketdelegated Second Redactor
- ally ofMinanonn
- ally ofMercedes Lamballe
- family ofMiakonnson
- member ofPeace Faction
- ally ofCreyn
- ally ofAiken Drumhelped sustain his redaction
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 3Sukey's lullaby
Called to contribute her talent, Sukey sings a Welsh cradlesong that soothes the hall. Dionket declares her reserved for the Redactors.
- 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 21Elizabeth relieves black-torc child and receives call
Elizabeth eases a dying child, refuses to stay long-term, and then hears Angélique's telepathic call about sabotage of the torcworks, with Brede's help.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Secret meeting of the antibattle faction
In the Mount of Heroes, leaders plan around Aiken Drum's expected kingship. Leyr agrees to challenge Imidol, Minanonn conditionally pledges support, and captains volunteer for Aiken's cohort. Sugoll and Katlinel's betrothal is revealed.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Elizabeth wakes after the Mêlée
Elizabeth emerges from her fire cocoon, learns of the exotic woman's message, sees the flooded ruin of Muriah, and prepares to meet the survivors.
- Book 3 · Ch 18The new-style birth of Agraynel
Before hundreds of cloaked Tanu women, Mercy gives birth with Dionket's Skin and healing, aided by Morna and three maidens. The baby is bathed, swaddled and nursed.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Naming of Agraynel and Morna's prophecy
Morna fastens a golden tore on the baby and names her Agraynel ul-Mercy-Rosmar vur-Thagdal. She foresees Agraynel as queen but flees when asked about the king; Dionket makes Mercy forget.
- 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 3 · Ch 36Aiken recovers
Elizabeth's redaction restores Aiken. He learns the casualties, thanks Minanonn, and returns to cheering followers.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Aftermath of the gigantomachy
After the great psychocreative blast, Elizabeth and the Tanu descend to the ruined battlefield. Dionket and Creyn go to save Aiken and organize rescue.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Flight to Quicksilver Cave
Minanonn carries Elizabeth, Dionket and Creyn south before a storm, passing the caravan camp and discussing Duat, the Milieu and the time-gate before reaching Quicksilver Cave.
- Book 4 · Ch 12The chimaera shadow
In the cave the party sees a monstrous three-headed shadow engaged in a frenzied sexual display ending in a flash of light; Elizabeth recognizes it as a chimaera and rushes in.
- 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 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.