Marc Remillard
Names: Marc RemillardMarcthe saint's elder brotherthe fishermanthe Angel of the AbyssPapaAbaddonMr. IronassMr. Paramount Grand Masterthe faceless entitymysterious human operantthe DestroyerManionMarcAbaddonLe Ténébreuxthe starmind out of the western morningyour old mantheir fatherMarc the Paramount Badass Grand Masterthe Adversarythe KingRemillardthe arch-Rebelrebel leaderthe Golden AdversaryStar of MorningLuciferthe tall manSmudgerJack DiamondWhite Knight
First appears in Book 3: The nonborn king, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The nonborn king
- Ch 1Gomnol identifies Marc as the leader of the invaders, a Concilium magnate and brother of Jon Remillard, who is Jack the Bodiless.
- Ch 3Marc Remillard leads the exiled rebels on Ocala and spends his time searching Pliocene star systems for other coadunate minds, so far without success.
- Ch 3Hunting giant tarpon with a handmade bamboo flyrod, without using metapsychic force, is his only relaxation; this season he aims to land one of the Old Ones.
- Ch 3His body is self-rejuvenating and still powerful, but his face shows the pain of a failed idealist.
- Ch 3Last fall he combined the psychoenergies of forty-three rebels and thirty-two of their children and gave them to Felice Landry, filling the Empty Sea.
- Ch 14Marc fishes for tarpon alone and without using his metapsychic powers against the fish, except to steady his skiff, giving the fish a sporting chance.
- Ch 14Marc was the leader of the Metapsychic Rebellion, and is called Abaddon; he regards the star-search as his life's mission.
- Ch 14Marc forged the metaconcert linkage that bound Felice, and says docilization equipment could not hold her; she would need to be tricked into chaining herself.
- Ch 14Marc punishes Hagen's defiance by transforming him into a giant tarpon and hooking him, calling it the start of his training.
- Ch 14Marc sees that the plan to find Felice, conquer Europe and rebuild the time-gate is Elaby's, not Hagen's.
- Ch 21Marc is a powerful metapsychic exiled in the Pliocene, searching stars for a coadunate race to serve as a new base for his failed dream.
- Ch 21Marc is brooding over the young people's expedition to Spain, which he regards as an idiotic adventure, and watches them with farsight.
- Ch 21Marc forced Owen Blanchard to join the voyage using his coercion and charisma.
- Ch 21Marc resumes his star-search early, before recovering fully, to avoid thinking about events in Spain.
- Ch 21Over 25 years of exile Marc has mapped over 634 million stars and probed 36,443 of them.
- Ch 29Marc ends a twenty-day star-search, in which he scans stars by farsight for a world with a coadunate racial mind, and finds none.
- Ch 29Marc suspects he deliberately provoked the children's defection by dawdling over the final star system and delaying his return.
- Ch 29Marc rejects Patricia's and others' proposal to kill the fugitive children and chooses a risky plan to maroon them in Africa.
- Ch 29Marc plans to modify his star-search equipment, build a new vehicle, and go to Europe around the end of August.
- Ch 29Marc silences Helayne's outburst with a paralysis and muting of her speech, leaving her understanding intact.
- Ch 29Marc says Cloud and Hagen are all he has left of Cyndia, and that bringing them to the Pliocene was wrong but necessary.
- Ch 31Abaddon is a metapsychic wearing armored life-support gear that boosts his farsensing, speaking to Aiken from across the Atlantic in North America.
- Ch 31Abaddon has three associates already in Europe and offers their knowledge and cooperation in return for a deal whose terms he postpones until Felice is dealt with.
- Ch 31Abaddon says Felice threatens his designs more than Aiken does and that this planet is large enough for both of them.
- Ch 31Abaddon says Felice's eyrie is on the northern flank of Mount Mulhacén, and tells Aiken to meet his people in a week along the Río Genil.
- Ch 31Abaddon agrees to design and teach Aiken a more efficient metaconcert program, with Aiken holding the focus and Culluket monitoring.
- Ch 32Marc is Hagen's father and is suspected of using psychic power to steer the storm to divert the combine to Africa.
- Ch 35Marc agreed to let Aiken focus the psychozap; Elaby suspects either confidence in Aiken or manipulation.
- Ch 35Marc is a Paramount Grand Master farsensor, coercer and creator, second only to his brother Jon as a mental coordinator.
- Ch 35Marc has guessed the rebels' intention to open the time-gate, ending their secrecy.
- Ch 35Abaddon is a powerful metaconcert director linked with Aiken; Culluket thinks he is indifferent to who rules the Many-Colored Land.
- Ch 36Marc Remillard controls the Mind's defensive aspect and keeps an independent farsense watch from North America, adding his own creative faculty.
- Ch 36Abaddon supplied the program and armature for assembling the metaconcert and calculated Felice's creativity at about the six-hundredth order of magnitude.
- Ch 36Marc scolds Aiken for using the wrong channels for the creative blast and coaches him to channelize the megazap correctly.
- Ch 36Marc injected a makeshift reinforcement into the defensive screen after Owen Blanchard died, letting Aiken deliver the second blast, but afterwards stopped answering.
- Ch 36Abaddon warned Aiken that Felice had d-jumped, then ended their alliance until Aiken must fulfill his bargain, with no communication until then.
- Ch 37Abaddon is a powerful human metapsychic in North America; Nodonn thinks him far stronger than Aiken or himself, and Celadeyr suspects he let Felice brain-burn Aiken.
- Ch 39Called Abaddon during the Rebellion, he was a Paramount Grand Master and led the 2083 human Rebellion against the Milieu, which failed.
- Ch 39He gave Aiken Drum a metaconcert program that would likely have killed Aiken if used at full power, intending both Felice and Aiken to die.
- Ch 39He has been incommunicado for over a month after the fight; Hagen suspects Felice's d-jump let her injure him badly enough to need a regen tank.
- Ch 42Cloud and Hagen's father is possibly in a regeneration tank and has not answered Cloud's calls; they fear he will pursue them when he recovers.
- Ch 45Marc Remillard is a powerful metapsychic who has recovered from a recent injury; his conscious mind is tranquil again, though scarred.
- Ch 45Marc says Abaddon takes a lot of killing, that he was taken by surprise, and that it will not happen again.
- Ch 45Marc plans to go to the Grand Tourney, because if he does not, his foe will come to him.
- Ch 45Marc found the mental absorption ploy used against him unusual and baroque, though interesting; he had never heard of a human doing it.
Book 4: The adversary
- Ch 1Marc secretly augmented the mental blast to eliminate Aiken and Felice; he survives gravely injured inside his CE armor, his mind wrecked and tormented.
- Ch 1Inside the armor Marc raves in French about Cyndia's death, calls himself the Dark One, and declares that Cyndia, Jack and Diamond are dead.
- Ch 1Marc was gravely injured in the experiment: armor-sealed body below the neck was burned by psychocreative fire, destroying hands, feet and genitals, but his brain and genes were saved.
- Ch 1Marc diverted all his creative flux to his head when Felice struck, saved his brain, and forced her out of his armor in under half a second.
- Ch 1Marc says he will recover fully after three months in the regeneration tank, and orders the group to prepare to go to Europe.
- Ch 1Marc plans to destroy the deep geological structure of the time-gate site, disrupting geomagnetic input to the tau-field, avoiding direct confrontation with the children and Aiken Drum.
- Ch 1In a delirious farspeech moment Marc exults that he is free of 'Mental Man'; his thoughts are haunted by pine scent, pain and memories of a baby and a dying 'young Jack'.
- Ch 3Was Felice's victim: she rode his peripheral and fire-flayed him; he has floated in a regeneration tank since June.
- Ch 3Plans to come to Europe with the enhancer, master computer and X-laser array on a four-masted schooner; warned Hagen not to contact Aiken Drum.
- Ch 4The human operant Abaddon is ready to leave North America and is coming to Aiken, according to Elizabeth's farspoken message.
- Ch 5Appears as a cyborg-like image to Elizabeth and Creyn on the balcony for the third time, silent, and vanishes during her pleas for peace.
- Ch 5He is preparing a voyage on the Kyllikki with his children and much matériel, alarming Aiken.
- Ch 5Marc Remillard and his people proved in the Milieu that permanent mental crutches bar Unity.
- Ch 7Seen through Aiken's farsensing on the Kyllikki, he smiles at Aiken and speaks to him across the ocean.
- Ch 7Marc is father of Hagen and Cloud, and is preparing to sail after more than twenty-seven years in the place he is leaving.
- Ch 7Marc tells Aiken that the rebellious young want to reopen the time-gate from the Pliocene side, and urges him to consider the consequences before cooperating.
- Ch 7Marc communicates with Aiken by farsensed contact, which fades as the sun rises and becomes painful to Aiken.
- Ch 7Marc suggests the young want to 'return home' to the Milieu, and he opposes this.
- Ch 8Hagen's father, a brain kept alive in a CE rig, who aspired to be more than Mental Man's brother and said he would have been his father.
- Ch 8Marc Remillard is the father of Hagen and Cloud and has learned to d-jump; the hidden voice says he calls them the enemy.
- Ch 9Marc Remillard, thought dead in the Rebellion, lived in North America for 27 years and is now sailing to Europe to stop his children's gate-building.
- Ch 9Marc will do his utmost to prevent the gate opening, and Aiken's alliance with the Children will make Marc his enemy.
- Ch 10Travelling to Europe with confederates to stop the time-gate being reopened; he appears outside Elizabeth's window by hyperspatial translation, using a CE rig, and shows interest in Brendan's problem.
- Ch 10Marc is the Milieu's challenger, projecting himself to Elizabeth across a d-jump with cerebroenergetic equipment; he is currently unstable at his end of the jump.
- Ch 10Marc claims everything he does is out of love for his children and for Mental Man yet to be born.
- Ch 10Marc offers to join Elizabeth in the baby's redaction, as coercer-inferior with Elizabeth keeping executive function, magnifying coercive loading to finish in about a hundred hours.
- Ch 10Marc needs about a week for Manion, Kramer and himself to solve the stasis problem and stop the rubberband effect pulling him back.
- Ch 10Marc opposes the building of a Pliocene time-gate and is heading toward Europe with his ship.
- Ch 12Marc can d-jump (teleport), though not yet under control; he materialized inside Elizabeth's chalet at Black Crag without threatening her.
- Ch 12Marc is much weaker than before because Felice injured his body and brain, but may still be stronger than Aiken.
- Ch 13Can d-jump (teleport) across vast distances without a ship; he jumped 18,627 light-years to Poltroy and back, with about thirty subjective seconds per jump.
- Ch 13Torments Alexis Manion with a convulsive mental attack on hearing of the murders, yet leaves him not seriously harmed.
- Ch 13D-jumping can carry his armor, leave it in the superficies, or send it home; pain increases geometrically with distance.
- Ch 13Marc is physically restored by a regeneration tank, but his body is covered in keloid scars below the neck; only hands and genitals are perfect.
- Ch 13Marc has been unable to achieve sexual climax since before the Rebellion, following Cyndia's death; he secretly considers it nonviability, perhaps a defect of will, curable by success.
- Ch 13Marc's opposition to using force against the children was not fear of Milieu retaliation; he calls that a smokescreen aimed at the children and doubtful followers.
- Ch 13Marc plans to prevent the time-gate opening by destroying laboratories, schematics and key manufacturing apparatus, after warning the children so they can evacuate.
- Ch 13Marc believes his d-jump can be scaled up to carry other people, so the exiles can rescue themselves without awaiting another coadúnate race.
- Ch 13Marc intends to moor Kyllikki off Breton Island opposite Aiken Drum's castle, using X-lasers to pressure Drum into capitulating.
- Ch 14Marc arrived at Black Crag by d-jump wearing a wet coverall with function monitors, after a side trip to the Many-Colored Land where he stole clothes.
- Ch 14Marc has puncture wounds above his eyebrows from cerebroenergetic enhancer needles, which he says self-heal; his body is self-rejuvenating.
- Ch 14Marc cannot yet carry objects along with him on a d-jump, but says he is working on it.
- Ch 14Marc was once a Paramount Grand Master and hero, champion of the Mental Man concept, before leading his famous Rebellion.
- Ch 14Marc seems to think of himself as a failed angel, and refuses Anatoly's offer of prayers, telling him to save them for Elizabeth.
- Ch 14Marc used coercion and mind-reading on Anatoly, taking his memories in a brain-ream, then restored him to relaxed calm.
- Ch 15Able to d-jump but carrying no weapons; Hagen and Veikko fear he could attack the climbers with a mental push.
- Ch 16Marc seized control of the final stage of the redaction, forcing Elizabeth into the subordinate mode, but did not harm her, saying the end justified the means.
- Ch 16Marc brought Elizabeth an edelweiss from Monte Rosa via d-jump, his first such transport of an object, and asked her to tell his son.
- Ch 16Marc says he will not oppose the aircraft salvage and does not intend to revisit Monte Rosa soon, but insists his children must not pass into the Milieu.
- Ch 16Marc wanted to engender Mental Man, freeing a billion immortal minds as his children; he says he loved Cyndia and his children Hagen and Cloud.
- Ch 19Marc is the father of Cloud and Hagen; he appears only in simulacrum and begs to meet them to explain why they must not return to the Milieu.
- Ch 19Marc admits he was harsh to Hagen, including an incident with a tarpon, which he calls misguided therapy.
- Ch 21Marc can jump through the superficies, hide his aura, and so far carry only small objects that fit inside his armor, not large equipment.
- Ch 21Marc is seen by Elizabeth as having his own strange code of honor; some Tanu think he is the Adversary who will start the Nightfall War.
- Ch 24Marc helped trigger an avalanche on Firvulag threatening the climbing party, and admires those with unmitigated gall.
- Ch 24He compared Walter's punishment to the Little Mermaid, who walked as if on invisible knives.
- Ch 26Marc is at Black Crag; his d-jump ability now moves significant matter outside his enhancer, and he brought Basil Wimborne from Monte Rosa by d-jump.
- Ch 26Marc promises not to coerce his children and says he has something new about their genetic heritage to discuss.
- Ch 26Marc lost his X-lasers, which he had hoped to use to breach the SR-35 sigma-field.
- Ch 26Marc spends the evening in the Montagne Noire drinking cognac with Brother Anatoly, debating the theology of his own damnation.
- Ch 26Marc uses farsight to check Kyllikki, which is sailing safely north of a new depression on the course he gave Walter Saastamoinen.
- Ch 27Marc, called the King, has been the voice of reason, refusing to harm the rebels while other magnates favored striking them hard.
- Ch 28Remillard, called the Adversary, modified the Skin program to heal Basil, based on a procedure used on the housekeeper's infant.
- Ch 28Remillard and Elizabeth together cured the chalet housekeeper's baby of black-torc syndrome and raised it to torcless operancy.
- Ch 28Marc is self-rejuvenating and sterile; his mind cannot reintegrate restored gonads, so he lacks fertility and needs his children's germ plasm.
- Ch 28Marc plans to d-jump everyone to a high-tech world, conquer it, and have Hagen and Cloud run the Mental Man project there.
- Ch 28Marc believes the Milieu would treat Hagen, Cloud and Aiken as threats; he commands Anatoly to stay by mental force.
- Ch 28Marc gives Aiken, Cloud and Hagen two days to decide on his proposal, saying no longer.
- Ch 28Marc telepathically tells his masked son and daughter he loves them, asks forgiveness for hurting them, and urges them not to let Aiken coerce them.
- Ch 28Marc is considering forcing or mutilating the young Remillards again, and is unsure whether it is worth the cost.
- Ch 29Marc plans Mental Man as bodiless immortal brains in cerebroenergetic enhancers, and has a second suit of armor waiting for Hagen in Kyllikki.
- Ch 29Marc d-jumped 14,000 light-years carrying three tons of rock to the star he named Goal, judging it the most promising cradle for Mental Man.
- Ch 29Marc knows that in six million years no trace of Mental Man will remain, and he is depressed after observing the Goal world.
- Ch 29Marc says he cannot think of a way to break the children's defenses and is not sure he should try, tempted toward virtue.
- Ch 29Marc orders Kyllikki to sail up the river at modest speed with dense camouflage, then says he will go fishing.
- Ch 29Marc says there can be no Mental Man without the children, Cloud and Hagen.
- Ch 30He has been silent for four days after Elizabeth brought news that his children rejected him; Aiken believes he sincerely loves them and cannot predict his next move.
- Ch 31Marc's Rebel followers are losing morale since he doubted his vision; only Patricia and Cordelia Warshaw remain unswervingly committed.
- Ch 31Marc considers using force to stop the time-gate, since persuading the children failed, and compares himself to the enfeebled Anfortas with only twenty-four minds.
- Ch 31Marc agreed to think over a group black-torc redaction using coercers and redactors, without promising anything.
- Ch 31Marc spotted Aiken's aircraft landing at a hidden human outpost in Fennoscandia and overheard a human cursing dysprosium before the thought cut off.
- Ch 32Marc is learning to teleport himself and heavy cerametal armor rigs, though he cannot yet manage the power-modules by teleportation.
- Ch 32Marc gave Elizabeth an adaptation of Brendan's program for the redactive operation, shortened and designed for a manageable metaconcert that excludes her.
- Ch 32Marc tells Elizabeth he will oppose the opening of the gate to the Milieu and will win one way or another.
- Ch 32Marc offered Elizabeth a place on another world with endless educative challenge; she refused.
- Ch 32Marc rescued Tony, Alice and Kalipin from the Yotunag, seized the dysprosium, extraction equipment and concentrate, and took Tony back to his ship by d-jump.
- Ch 32Marc is accused of planning to kill Hagen and Cloud, harvest his children's genes and coerce survivors to a Goal world.
- Ch 32The armored mind attempting to jump through hyperspace becomes trapped in gray limbo because no upsilon-field can open; armor life support will last at least five days.
- Ch 32Marc, freed and fully powered, teleports the CE complex, weapons and supplies, over eleven tons, to a hidden gully and shuts the gateway on his pursuer.
- Ch 32Marc hides in an enlarged cave in a camouflaged dry gully, formerly used by Madame Guderian and Claude Majewski; animals flee his cold mind.
- Ch 33Marc is at large with his mind-enhancing equipment, but has lost his base and confederates; he cannot break into Castle Gateway directly.
- Ch 33Marc may offer to reorganize Firvulag metaconcert in return for help breaking Castle Gateway's defenses; he could channel their psychoenergy from Nionel.
- Ch 34Marc Remillard, calling himself Star of Morning, arrives at Sharn's enclosure and is expected by the Firvulag King.
- Ch 34Aiken fears Marc will persuade the Firvulag to fight in metaconcert and sees him as a homegrown Lucifer; Marc made no attempt at a deal.
- Ch 35Attends the Grand Tourney incognito as a tall man in white pants and a black t-shirt, watching the second day's events.
- Ch 35Probes Anatoly's mind when Anatoly mentions the Firvulag King turning down his offer, then agrees to hear Creyn out.
- Ch 36Marc d-jumped to Goal, fourteen thousand light-years away, using a mitigator program that removes most hyperspace-crossing pain, given to him by a Tanu as a bribe.
- Ch 36Marc wants the Firvulag to help him subdue Aiken, who holds Marc's children captive in Castle Gateway, and plans to take his children to Goal.
- Ch 36Marc offered the Firvulag a metaconcert offensive program five times more efficient than theirs in exchange for a single act of cooperation.
- Ch 36Marc entered the joust as honorary Nionel citizen 'Jack Diamond' in Sugoll's armor and unhorsed the Bottle Knight.
- Ch 36Marc believes a reopened time-gate would bring more Milieu humans, weapons and possibly operant metapsychics against him.
- Ch 37Wears a King's Own Elite Guard uniform, says the time-gate is not yet working, and is told by Aiken to be gone when he returns.
- Ch 37After the Firvulag defeat he offers Sharn and Ayfa a metaconcert program, requiring them to submit to his coercive function.
- Ch 37Abaddon says he has no interest in this world and wants their minds' help to break into Castle Gateway.
- Ch 37Abaddon promises to free the co-monarchs afterward, with no strings attached, and to give them his metaconcert program.
- Ch 37Abaddon is a dark armored mass with an inhuman mind, lurking at the back of the royal enclosure.
- Ch 37Abaddon says he will have what he wants secure on a world fourteen thousand light-years away.
- Ch 38Marc, the Adversary, breaks Castle Gateway's defenses in a cerebroenergetic enhancer rig, paralyzes his children and has Elizabeth open her mind to him.
- Ch 38Marc sends Hagen, Cloud, Kuhal and Diane through the time-gate to Madame Guderian's rose garden near Lyon in the Milieu.
- Ch 38Marc had promised the Firvulag never to use his destructive potential against them, and gave them an unrescindable metaconcert program.
- Ch 38Marc departs after the battle, naming Aiken High King; he is gone when the wildfire ends.
- Ch 38Marc intends to reorient the Galactic Mind, stuck in a mental evolutionary dead end because of golden tores.
- Ch 39Marc d-jumps much like a Ship, with short Earth jaunts nearly instantaneous in subjective time.
- Ch 39Marc said the jump to Poltroy nearly reached his normal-function limit, putting his df threshold around 18,000.
Connections
- family ofJon Remillardbrothers
- leadsLowlives
- family ofHagenchild of
- family ofCloudchild of
- leadsMetapsychic Rebellion
- ally ofFelice Landryaided her from afar
- inOcala Island
- partner ofCyndia MuldowneyCyndia was the mother of Hagen and Cloud, long dead
- ally ofOwen Blancharddeputy
- createdFelice Landryforged the metaconcert linkage
- family ofJilliandaughter
- partner ofPatricia Castellane
- ally ofDr. Warshaw
- ally ofAiken Drumtentative deal to defeat Felice
- part ofOrganic Mindcontrols defense and adds creative power
- enemy ofJon Remillarddefeated his Rebellion
- enemy ofAiken Drumwary; Marc hopes to make him an ally
- enemy ofAlexis ManionMarc zombied Manion with the docilator
- ally ofSteinbrenner
- ally ofPatricia Castellane
- related toAiken DrumMarc addresses Aiken as king and warns him
- enemy ofHagen
- enemy ofthe children
- enemy ofElizabeth Orme
- enemy ofGalactic Milieuchallenger of the Milieu
- ally ofAlexis Manion
- ally ofJordan Kramer
- related toElizabeth Ormeworked together on Brendan's cure
- enemy ofWalter Saastamoinen
- ally ofElizabeth Ormeacts as his emissary
- family ofCyndia Muldowneywife, now dead
- ally ofRagnar Gathen
- friend ofBrother Anatoly Gorchakovworked with him in his garden
- friend ofAlexis Manion
- partner ofElizabeth Orme
- related tocerebroenergetic rigprotected by its armor when d-jumping
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 1Council at the force-field
Tanu leaders learn from Gomnol's mindspeech that the invaders are defeated rebels seeking only to leave for North America. Nodonn rejects Gomnol's alliance plea and orders them destroyed.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Marc waits for a giant tarpon
Hidden in the Suwanee estuary, Marc Remillard prepares his handmade flyrod and fragile line to catch one of the giant Old Ones, while the rebellious children spy on him with farsense.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Recollection of Felice's rescue
Last fall, Marc combined the psychoenergies of the rebels and their children and gave them to Felice Landry, so the Empty Sea filled.
- 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 watches the ketch
Brooding on his verandah, Marc uses farsight to observe the ketch crossing the Sargasso and Owen Blanchard's troubled sleep, then rages at them all.
- 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 29Council debates the fugitive children
Marc's co-conspirators debate; Warshaw, Patricia and Van Wyk vote to kill the children, but the rest choose Marc's riskier plan to blow them back or onto Africa's coast.
- Book 3 · Ch 29Marc commits to marooning the children
The former Concilium members reaffirm Marc's leadership; he plans to contact Owen, build a new vehicle, and maroon the defectors in Africa.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Abaddon contacts Aiken
Abaddon farspeaks Aiken from across the Atlantic, reveals Felice's hideout near Mount Mulhacén, and they agree to a deal including a stronger metaconcert program and a rendezvous at the Río Genil in a week.
- 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 36Fleet sails up the Genil; metaconcert assembled
Aiken addresses his army on the plan, then the fleet's rivercraft head up the Genil while operants assemble the Organic Mind. Abaddon hands it to Aiken as executive director.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Raid on Felice's cave
Aiken sneaks into the cave as a spiderling, takes the Spear and tores, stashes them along the ridge, and destroys the lair with a metaconcert blast. The blast nearly harms him, and Marc coaches him as the army retreats.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Aiken kills Felice with the metaconcert
Aiken blasts Felice, who d-jumps overhead as Owen Blanchard's death breaks the shield. Marc Remillard patches it and Aiken's second full blast destroys her. A cliff collapses into the Genil.
- Book 3 · Ch 37Nodonn and Mercy reunite
The lovers reunite, confess their defilements, and discuss deposing Aiken, Mercy's foreseen death, Abaddon and Cloud Remillard. Nodonn asks she may have to return to Aiken, though she may stay a while.
- Book 3 · Ch 39Cloud tells Kuhal the Remillard history
While healing in the Skin, Cloud tells Kuhal of the Remillards, the failed 2083 Rebellion, exile in the Pliocene, Ocala, and why her generation broke from Marc.
- Book 3 · Ch 39Cloud analyzes the fight with Felice
Cloud explains Marc likely set Aiken up to die via the metaconcert program, that Felice d-jumped and may have hurt Marc, and warns that Aiken is a common threat to Tanu and humans.
- Book 3 · Ch 45Marc recovers and decides to attend the Grand Tourney
After witnessing the drama played out in Europe, Marc tells Patricia he is recovered and still intends to go to the Grand Tourney. They consider attending together and retire to the house.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Marc confirmed alive on Ocala
The Rebels bring Manion off the docilator; he analyzes the event, confirms Felice's d-jump, and identifies Marc inside the CE armor. Marc is divested, raving and in pain.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Marc's report after the failed experiment
Gravely injured, Marc tells his helpers the experiment was a qualified success: Felice is gone, Aiken Drum damaged. He orders the CE rig repaired and sent to Europe for a plan to destroy the time-gate site.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Marc withdraws into the regen tank
Marc, in agony, refuses help, goes alone to the regeneration tank and shuts off communication.
- 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 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 7Aiken's night of turmoil
Aiken revisits the emptied royal apartments, rebuffs Olone, reflects on his weakened powers, and farsenses Marc Remillard aboard the Kyllikki, who smiles at him.
- 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 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 10Marc confronts Elizabeth
Marc, projected across a d-jump, argues with Elizabeth over the time-gate and his children. She begs him to let them go and turn back.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Marc offers to help heal the baby
Marc examines Elizabeth's redaction program, says it can cure the baby but is too slow, and proposes joint work after solving his stasis problem. Elizabeth tentatively accepts.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Marc returns from Poltroy
Marc returns from a successful d-jump test to Poltroy, learns of the murders, and brutally punishes Manion's taunting with a mental attack.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Marc confesses his impotence
After lovemaking, Patricia glimpses Marc's secret; he admits he has been unable to reach climax since Cyndia's death and swears her to secrecy, as it could ruin morale.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Alex's theory undermines Marc's plan
Patricia reveals Alex Manion's theory that the time-gate site cannot be destroyed. Marc rejects it but will question Manion, and outlines alternative plans.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Marc reveals d-jump rescue plan
Marc promises regular conferences and shows Patricia that d-jump could carry others, ending their exile without outside rescue.
- 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 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 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 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 24Marc and Walter aboard Kyllikki
Marc admits helping the climbers and likens Walter's punishment to the Little Mermaid. Steve Vanier takes the helm, and Walter limps to his cabin leaving bloody footprints.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Elizabeth and Minanonn arrive at the Castle of Glass
Flying through storms, they land at Goriah and Aiken greets them; Elizabeth reveals she has come on Marc's behalf and that Marc d-jumped Basil Wimborne from Monte Rosa.
- 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 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 27Walter contacts Veikko
Walter, near Goriah aboard Kyllikki, tells Veikko of Marc's final appeal and advises him to wait for the proposal.
- 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 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 29Marc decides to sail upriver
Marc tells the magnates the children refused him. He cannot see a way through the defenses, orders Kyllikki camouflaged and sailed up the river, then says he will go fishing.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Survey of the Seine
Aiken, Dougal and Betsy scanned the Seine from high altitude seeking Marc's hiding place and found only a hopping anomaly, which Aiken chose not to probe.
- 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 31Marc contacted by Elizabeth
While fishing from Kyllikki, Marc is farspoken by Elizabeth, who asks help for the black-torc children. He also notices Aiken's flight to Fennoscandia before a catfish hits his line.
- 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 32Kramer joins the mutiny
Walter and Manion persuade Kramer, using his children's safety, to join a plot to mind-meld against Marc's loyalists and trap Marc in gray limbo; Kramer frees Manion from the docilator.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Marc rescues and seizes the dysprosium workers
Marc blasts the Yotunag besieging Tony, Alice and Kalipin, coerces them to hand over dysprosium, concentrate and the ion extractor, then d-jumps with the materials and Tony to his ship.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Marc escapes Kyllikki
Patricia, Jeff and Cordelia overload themselves to restore power; Patricia dies. Marc teleports his equipment to a camouflaged gully near Castle Gateway.
- 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 34The Flying Hunt and Star of Morning
Aiken demonstrates overwhelming psychokinetic power, shaking Sharn. Sharn presses Sugoll, then receives Marc Remillard, who calls himself Star of Morning.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Anatoly accosts Marc at the games
Anatoly reveals he knows Marc's identity and says Creyn and Basil have information. Marc probes his mind, finds him truthful, and goes to meet Creyn.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Elizabeth dances at the Ground-Star Ball
Aiken persuades Elizabeth to open her mind and she sees a galaxy vision. She then finds herself dancing with Marc, who confronts her about loving him, before Aiken holds her again as the music ends.
- Book 4 · Ch 36Marc courts the Firvulag
Marc d-jumps to the Firvulag box, reveals his trip to Goal and offers a metaconcert program for an alliance; Sharn stalls, and Marc enters the jousts as Jack Diamond.
- Book 4 · Ch 36Marc unhorses the Bottle Knight
Marc defeats the Bottle Knight, who is Aiken in disguise; Aiken says it makes the Firvulag overconfident, and they agree the mind tug-of-war is tomorrow.
- Book 4 · Ch 37Aiken takes Elizabeth away
Aiken arrives with advisors and removes Elizabeth for a ride, warning Marc to be gone when he returns.
- Book 4 · Ch 37The co-monarchs yield to Abaddon
Abaddon offers Sharn and Ayfa freedom and his metaconcert program in exchange for their minds' help breaking into Castle Gateway. Despite their fears of enslavement, they open themselves to his mind and join with him.
- 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.
- Book 4 · Ch 38Aiken's blast on the Rainbow Bridge
Marc lends Aiken the CE rig; Aiken strikes the Firvulag leaders, killing Sharn, Ayfa and over half their host in a wildfire, and wakes to be named High King.
- Book 4 · Ch 38Marc and Elizabeth reach the Duat Galaxy
After a final jump, Marc and Elizabeth emerge in the Duat Galaxy, where crystalline creatures and Song greet them.