Hagen
Names: HagenHagen Remillardson of AbaddonYoung RemillardHag
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 3 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 3Hagen is Marc Remillard's child, who believes his father's powers have diminished and was never told of Marc's aborted plans for the children.
- Ch 14Hagen is Marc's son, in his mid-twenties, inheriting reddish-gold hair from Cyndia Muldowney; he is the most capable of the second generation.
- Ch 14Hagen rejects the star-search as hopeless and refuses to be shackled to it, provoking Marc to transform him into a tarpon.
- Ch 21Hagen is Marc's son, whom Marc supervises; he assists with the star-search as training and is meant to inherit the task.
- Ch 21Hagen is terrified of and hates the star-search machinery and his role, shouting 'Not me!' as he flees the observatory.
- Ch 29Hagen, Marc's son, led twenty-eight young people, including all the children and five grandbabies, in fleeing the island with weapons and equipment.
- Ch 29The fugitives destroyed every boat over six meters, and Hagen, Overton and young Keogh generated a squad that nearly wiped out the pursuers.
- Ch 32Hagen is captain of the combine and believes his father Marc is steering a storm to push the ship toward Africa.
- Ch 32Hagen yields and changes course to 115 degrees toward Africa, screaming at the sky and cursing his father.
- Ch 42Hagen is travelling toward Afaliah with companions and urges Cloud not to join the invasion of Aiken Drum's castle, since she must mediate with Papa.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 3Leads the expedition of runaway adult children of Ocala Island, crossing Pliocene Africa toward the Mediterranean to rendezvous with Cloud in Afaliah.
- Ch 3Chose to detour to view the Great Waterfall despite logic favoring a more direct eastern route.
- Ch 3Suspects his father Papa was crippled by Felice's attack and cannot use his full metapsychic powers, so must fight fair at close range.
- Ch 3Believes the Metapsychic Rebellion's hidden true purpose involved doing something terrible to human children, which drove his mother to try to murder Papa.
- Ch 7His armored vehicles, armed with Milieu weapons, were sighted approaching the Neck of Aven, threatening to reach Afaliah first.
- Ch 7Hagen, Marc's son, came to Europe with his contemporaries intending to reopen the time-gate.
- Ch 8A metapsychic who keeps night watch on linked ATVs, planning a land race to Afaliah; he fears the gold-tore force arriving ahead of him.
- Ch 8He dreams of being taken at age three to see his father Marc, a brain removed from its body, and he recoiled in horror.
- Ch 8After waking he finds two great circular indentations in the foredeck plass where the apparition had stood.
- Ch 8Hagen commands the pursuit force, forbids use of disruptors and photon arms against the chaliko riders, reserving them for troops from Calamosk, so as not to kill needed pilots or technicians.
- Ch 8Hagen identifies himself as Marc Remillard's son and offers to cooperate with the Calamosk power against their common enemy.
- Ch 9Hagen, Cloud's brother, brought the second generation of Rebel children to the Pliocene and supplied a big sigma.
- Ch 12Hagen suspects something is amiss with Aiken but has not probed him; he suggested engineer Dimitri Anastos might help the time-gate project.
- Ch 12Hagen resembles his father physically, but less so mentally; Aiken does not trust him out of sight.
- Ch 13Ordered Kyllikki scuttled when the Children of Rebellion fled Ocala.
- Ch 13Hagen is Marc's son; Marc considers him weak-willed and flawed, and his intimidation made Hagen hate him. Marc needs him at minimum.
- Ch 15Directs the Goriah project and orders Veikko to warn Basil and kill Marc on sight if he appears on the mountain.
- Ch 16Hagen ordered the shoot-to-kill against Marc at Monte Rosa; the King agreed because he wants the aircraft.
- Ch 18Hagen is a supercautious young North American leader, son of Marc Remillard, who led the attempted coup against Aiken by means of a metaconcert.
- Ch 21Hagen hates his father Marc and wants to set the Magistratum on him.
- Ch 24Marc once made Hagen believe he was a fish and played him; Hagen still bears a psychosomatic scar on his mouth.
- Ch 26Hagen, born in the Milieu, is angry and resentful of his father Marc and fears the Milieu's judgment for helping Felice cause the Gibraltar Flood.
- Ch 26Hagen was thoroughly instructed in the CE rig's operation by his father; Marc was ready to chain him to a backup suit of armor when they escaped Ocala.
- Ch 26Hagen asks whether Aiken could burn Marc, showing his fear and fascination; he reluctantly agrees to keep the peace.
- Ch 27Hagen wanted to hunt down Walter's ship but the King refused; he was unaware of what his daughter's father had done.
- Ch 28Hagen distrusts his father, keeps his mind barricaded, and resents being treated as raw material for a stud farm.
- Ch 28Hagen is one of the young Remillards, a child of Marc, who leaves with Aiken.
- Ch 29Hagen rejects his father's plan; he and Diane conceive to start a child, and he plans to take it to the Milieu.
- Ch 29Hagen says he could give Marc the other nut as a last resort to free himself from Marc.
- Ch 29Hagen and Cloud decide to return to the Galactic Milieu, telling Marc that Mental Man should be human children with bodies, linked to the Unity.
- Ch 36Hagen leads the technical work on the Guderian Project and tested the machine with a potassium wafer.
- Ch 38Hagen and his sister Cloud are Marc Remillard's children, fleeing his reach through the Guderian device.
Connections
- family ofMarc Remillardchild of
- family ofCloudbrother and sister
- partner ofDiane
- related toTrudinurse who leads him in the dream
- enemy ofMarc Remillard
- ally ofVilkasbetrayed Aiken to the North Americans
- ally ofAiken Drum
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 14Marc loses the tarpon
After a sixteen-hour fight, Marc is blinded by the young people's beacon, and the great tarpon snaps the line and escapes; he releases it unharmed.
- Book 3 · Ch 14The Europe expedition is debated
The young people propose capturing Felice, taking Europe and rebuilding the time-gate. Marc learns Elaby is the planner, permits four to go, and sends Owen Blanchard instead of Hagen.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Hagen turned into a tarpon
When Hagen refuses to be bound to the star-search, Marc transforms him into a silvery tarpon, which falls into the water; Marc hooks him with his fly.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Marc begins a 20-day star-search
Marc and Hagen select a hundred stars, and Hagen sets Marc into the life-support casing and launches him up to the observatory dome; Hagen then flees in hatred.
- Book 3 · Ch 29Marc ends his star-search and learns of the defection
Marc returns from the last star, Elirion, and Patricia tells him Hagen and 27 others fled with weapons and equipment four days ago.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Combine diverted toward Africa
Phil detects an unnatural storm likely steered by Marc. Unable to outrun or resist it, Hagen changes course to southeast toward Africa to spare the children a hurricane.
- Book 3 · Ch 42Cloud agrees to help
Cloud tells Hagen she will use her redaction to help Nodonn take the aircraft; Hagen objects but warns her to avoid the invasion of Goriah.
- 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 3Hagen contacts Cloud by farspeech
Hagen and Cloud learn Papa is coming, probably crippled. They discuss Aiken Drum's subsumption of Nodonn and the plan to bargain with Aiken. They also learn Kuhal faces execution.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Marc reveals the rebels' true goal
Marc tells Aiken by farsensed contact that the young people, including Hagen and Cloud, want to reopen the time-gate from the Pliocene side to return to the Milieu, and warns him to be careful.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Hagen's nightmare of Marc
During night watch Hagen dreams of seeing his brain-in-rig father as a child and confronts him as an adult; he wakes to find physical indentations on the deck.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Ambush of the pursuit force
While chasing chaliko riders at max speed, Hagen's vehicles are halted by green energy blasts and a thunderous mental voice threatening to zap the leader, forcing the pursuers to stop.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Parley and summons to Calamosk
Cloud and Hagen offer cooperation against their mutual enemy and reveal that he has learned to d-jump. The voice, after a silence, orders them to wait three hours then come to Calamosk disarmed.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Aiken's proposal to the Bastards
Aiken tells them the Remillard children plan a second time-gate and want the Bastards to fly and maintain aircraft. He keeps them torced and demonstrates his power. Basil agrees to cooperate.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Hagen and Veikko confer by farspeech
Veikko reports from Camp Bettaforca; Hagen discusses Goriah's progress, Kyllikki's approach and Marc's threat, and orders Veikko to kill Marc on sight if he appears.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Converter attack
During the first blow of the Bessemer converter, the North Americans apparently turned it with their minds to burn Aiken's party. Aiken shielded everyone in a force globe and floated them to the floor.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Aiken subdues the coup and executes Vilkas
Aiken coerced Hagen into acknowledging his authority, forced all present to affirm his kingship, then read Vilkas's mind and killed him through his tore.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Marc pleads with Cloud
Marc's simulacrum contacts Cloud, asking to meet her and Hagen face to face to explain why they mustn't return to the Milieu; she promises only to tell Hagen.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Elizabeth conveys Marc's proposal
Elizabeth tells Hagen and Cloud that the Milieu would accept them after atonement, then relays Marc's invitation to meet at Black Crag, with a hint about their genetic heritage.
- 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 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 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 29Marc scouts Goal
Marc d-jumps to Goal with three tons of rock, observes the saurischian humanoids for two days, then returns to Kyllikki and receives his children's refusal.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Aiken shields the Guderian Project
Aiken moves the Guderian Project to Castle Gateway under a 900-power sigma-field, takes Cloud and Hagen under his protection, and offers Marc a truce invitation to the Grand Tourney.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Tony ordered to Fennoscandia
Contaminated dysprosium threatens the time-gate wire; Aiken sends Tony Wayland to Fennoscandia to ensure proper refining despite Yotunag danger.
- Book 4 · Ch 36First power-up of the tau-generator
The Guderian device is tested with a potassium wafer on a stool; the stool is sliced and the potassium returns dated ~11.78 million years old, proving the gate works but is only a handspan wide.
- 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.