Sebi-Gomnol
Names: Sebi-GomnolEusebio Gomez-NolanGomnolLord CoercerLord GomnolGumballEusebiothe Coercer LordPresident of the Coercer Guildthe psychobiologistSebi-Gomnol the Lord CoercerGumball—babyManipulatorSebi-Gomnol Lord CoercerSecond Coercer
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 41 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 1Human psychotechnicians under Lord Gomnol screen who may safely receive gray torcs.
- Ch 1Sebi-Gomnol is a human wearing the gold torc who heads the Coercer Guild; Creyn feels revulsion about how he got his gold.
- Ch 2Eusebio, a psychobiologist, improved the rama torcs about forty years ago, was named Gomnol, and proved a superlative latent coercer.
- Ch 2After receiving a golden torc and going meta, Gomnol realized that Tanu and normal humans are all latents to varying degrees.
- Ch 2Gomnol, described as an inspired psychobiologist, devised the mental assay device and invented the silver and gray torcs.
- Ch 4Gomnol, a human who became President of the Coercer Guild, is sterile and schemes to breed Elizabeth with the Thagdal to produce operant offspring.
- Ch 5Gomnol is a human, Eusebio Gomez-Nolan, President of the Coercer Guild and a psychobiologist who has worn a torc forty years; he has strong coercive power plus PK, farspeak and redact.
- Ch 5Gomnol read Bryan's disrespectful thought and briefly overpowered his mind to demonstrate how he rules the Coercers, then released him.
- Ch 5Gomnol furnishes his office in Victorian style with twenty-second-century antiques, cigars, whisky and a Chihuahua, and he and Culluket want to interrogate Aiken Drum.
- Ch 5Gomnol explains that Aiken Drum is probably a pseudo-operant whose shock-induced powers override the silver torc but will burn out.
- Ch 5Gomnol modified the Tanu's rama torc into a psychoregulator for humans, the gray torc, adding pleasure-pain circuitry and farspeak augmentation.
- Ch 5Gomnol is really Eusebio Gomez-Nolan, who designed the original docilization device at Berkeley as Eisenmann's graduate assistant; Eisenmann took the fame.
- Ch 5Gomnol resents Eisenmann and the Stockholm establishment and plans, with allies, to make the exotics transtechnological and superior to the Milieu using a new generation of operants.
- Ch 5Gomnol hopes genetic manipulation involving Elizabeth will advance his ambitions; he claims forty years of shaping the culture.
- Ch 5Gomnol became wary when Bryan mentioned that Epone had tested his Group, and was evasive about the research work being done.
- Ch 6Lord Gomnol provided devices that indicate whether deranged patients can feasibly be restored to sanity.
- Ch 7Human Lord Coercer who earlier triumphed on the White Silver Plain; Mayvar rejected him as sterile with lethal genes.
- Ch 12A human-born torced gold who devised a plan to breed Tanu with the operant human Elizabeth; the King endorses it.
- Ch 12He claims Aiken Drum is a mental nova who will burn out, but admits he never tested him because Mayvar refused.
- Ch 16Gomnol, the Lord Coercer, coldly argues Finiah is badly situated and organized the initial disaster relief; he is concerned with limiting the socioeconomic impact.
- Ch 16Gomnol proposes building Velteyn a new Finiah on the Lac de Bresse with all time-travelers of the next two years as its population.
- Ch 23Gomnol, the Lord Coercer, is an aging human who has revised his opinion of Aiken Drum and offers him help.
- Ch 23Gomnol notes that Mayvar and Bunone Warteacher praise Aiken Drum as a formidable contender in the upcoming games.
- Ch 25The Lord Coercer is suspected of allying with Aiken Drum, but Culluket thinks he would not destroy his own torc factory power base.
- Ch 27Gomnol has forty years of experience with the Tanu and fears being declared an outlaw human if the Host proves his treason.
- Ch 27As Lord Coercer he is the maker of torcs, and has arranged neutral observers to vouch for his zeal against the saboteurs.
- Ch 27Gomnol and Aiken do not know what became of the Spear and aircraft after Finiah and want to find out.
- Ch 28Lord Coercer Gomnol, a short human with a large nose and humorous eyes, had expected a sabotage attempt but guarded the wrong approach, the rear of the keep.
- Ch 28Gomnol is killed by the combined minds of the Host, who plan to claim he died a hero, victim of Felice, while suspecting him of conspiring with Aiken Drum.
- Ch 28Eusebio Gomez-Nolan, speaking within Gomnol's dying mind, protests that Tana forbids combining against a brother.
- Ch 29Gomnol argued that the ceremonial death of the old folks was strategically necessary; Aiken thought him sadistic. Aiken sensed Gomnol's psychic pattern obliterated, meaning Gomnol died.
- Ch 30He is dead, killed by the Host after rumors of conspiracy; his death weakens Aiken's ability to suppress Stein's thoughts.
- Ch 31Sebi-Gomnol is dead, so the Coercer Guild needs a new leader; he had hidden an iron tool beneath a granite sett in Coercer House.
- Ch 35Sebi-Gomnol, Lord Coercer, has died, leaving the presidency of the Guild of Coercers vacant.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 1A human gold-torc latent from the future, he is Leyr's Second Coercer, whose coercive power nearly rivals Leyr's; he privately hates Nodonn.
- Ch 1Gomnol urged allying with the rebel operants, but Nodonn refused, and Nodonn revealed he knew of the humans' secret farspeech mode.
- Ch 1After Leyr's injury, Gomnol consolidated his position and resolved to challenge Leyr at the next year's Manifestation of Powers.
- Ch 28Gomnol promoted Tanu eugenic schemes and urged miscegenation as a short-cut to operancy.
Connections
- createdgolden torcdevised the silver and gray system
- leadsCoercer GuildPresident
- createdmental assay device
- enemy ofLord Imidol
- related toMevaguards his antechamber as secretary or sentry
- enemy ofEisenmannFormer student and assistant whose work Eisenmann took credit for
- related toBryan GrenfellGuarded visitor deceiving Gomnol while being given a tour
- ally ofThagdalLord Coercer and adviser
- ally ofAiken Drumsecret treasonous alliance
- related toAiken Drumaccused by the Host of conniving with him
- member ofLeyrserves as his human Second Coercer
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 2Thagdal explains Tanu breeding and torcs
Over the supper Thagdal and Nontusvel explain his sovereignty by fertility, the eugenic program with human help, and how honorary golden torcs were granted to key human arrivals.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Thagdal explains Tanu history of torcs
Thagdal tells the human guests how Gomnol discovered human latency and invented the assay device, silver and gray torcs, which let the Tanu dominate the Firvulag.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Siblings press the Queen to kill Elizabeth
In the garden, Culluket, Imidol and Riganone persuade Nontusvel that Elizabeth threatens the dynasty through Gomnol's breeding scheme and cannot be allowed to flee. They agree she must die.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Gomnol overpowers Bryan's mind
Gomnol hears Bryan's thought about how he became Coercer President and briefly crushes Bryan's mind, then releases him. He sends Ogmol away and takes Bryan to tour the torc factory.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Torc factory tour
Gomnol shows Bryan the torc works, explains psychoregulators and Tanu genetics, and Bryan asks how the Firvulag fit in.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Gomnol reveals his past and ambition
While touring the workshops, Gomnol bitterly reveals he designed the docilization device credited to Eisenmann and states his plan to build a superior culture with new operants; Bryan conceals his alarm.
- Book 2 · Ch 5News of Felice's revolt
Gomnol questions Bryan about Felice, revealing that her caravan revolted en route to Finiah, killing Epone and the gray-torc escort; Felice and three others remain free.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Dispute over Gomnol's plan for Elizabeth
The Host demands Elizabeth's death, fearing hybrid operants; Gomnol and Eadone defend the plan. Aiken Drum's possible challenge is raised, and the Queen proposes demanding a ruling from Brede.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Arrival of new time-travelers
At dawn, Pitkin receives several batches of costumed time-travelers and cargo at the time-portal under the watch of the Tanu leaders; guardians frisk them for iron and sort them.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Dispute over the fate of Finiah
The leaders debate rebuilding Finiah. Nodonn wants a fortified mining outpost and blames the time-gate; Thagdal and Gomnol offer a new city; Velteyn accepts and vows revenge at the Grand Combat.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Gomnol approaches Aiken Drum
Gomnol invites Aiken Drum for a talk, offers help and proposes human unity amid an approaching power struggle. He tosses Aiken a cigar clipper marked as Solingen inox steel.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Aiken Drum and Gomnol examined
Culluket and Gomnol probe Aiken Drum's mind and find nothing, raising suspicion that Gomnol is allied with him.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Aiken and Gomnol plot the ambush
On the Guild Headquarters turret, Aiken and Gomnol discuss the incoming saboteurs, their fear of the Host, and plan to catch the rebels red-handed while keeping Stein alive.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Aiken deceives Felice's group
Aiken meets the saboteurs in a cave, talks Felice out of attacking him, offers a false plan and map, and leaves with the Spear, then reports to Gomnol that they bought it.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Murder of Gomnol
Gomnol arrives and thanks the Host, but Imidol and the Host combine their minds against him and kill him, planning to blame Felice.
- 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.