Galactic Milieu

Denis later explained to Rogatien that the brain reaches adult size at nine, when metafunctions solidify, and that identical twins might have achieved harmony.

Rogi is a tall, skinny, shabby bookseller in Hanover who owns The Eloquent Page; he calls himself the most insignificant Remillard.

Marc became the greatest mass murderer in human history through the Rebellion; Rogi loved him like a son and he grew up in Rogi's bookshop.

Jack, whom Rogi calls Ti-Jean, is regarded as a saint by the exotics and is dead.

Paul will be Denis and Lucille's youngest son, father of Marc and Jon, and the first human on the Galactic Concilium.

Lucille Carrier became Denis's wife; some Milieu historians claim her psychic impetus was needed for Denis's great work.

Diamond Mask is a woman whose life was entwined with the Remillard family.

Source of the 'bodiless' mutagene in the Remillard line, according to Rogatien.

Victor led the Sons of Earth to infamy.

David is Jamie and Jean's child who, with Katie, uses repeating TV jingles as a thought-screen.

Anne is the only unmarried Remillard sibling and an Intendant Associate with ice-blue eyes.

The Ghost claims to be a Lylmik charged with guiding the Remillard family through Rogi, and never shows itself.