Cyndia Muldowney
Names: Cyndia MuldowneySíondaireSíondaire Ni MaoldhomhnaighGyndiaCyndiaCyndia RemillardChérie
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 54 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 20Rory's daughter, an engineer who supervises the armlann; Rory addresses her as Síondaire.
- Ch 20Cyndia, 24, is custodian of the armlann, appointed by her father after finishing her engineering studies two years earlier.
- Ch 20Cyndia is Rory's youngest daughter, a mechanic who seems a madcap socialite, which her father says serves as a smoke screen.
- Ch 20Before meeting him she wondered about Marc Remillard, feeling breathless anticipation.
- Ch 20Cyndia is the sister whom Marc loved instead of Hydra, according to Hydra's lament.
- Ch 21Cyndia is a Hibernian engineer and daughter of Rory Muldowney; she has a spine of 'pure cerametal' and is pregnant with a son due in November.
- Ch 21Cyndia confided in Rogi at his Hanover bookstore, asking who Mental Man was after hearing Marc's thought about it.
- Ch 21Cyndia refused to let Steinbrenner evaluate her unborn baby by amnioscopic CE, perhaps fearing Marc might abort it if it lacked paramount potential.
- Ch 21Cyndia agreed to have her unborn child educated in utero with experimental preceptorial methods intended for Mental Man.
- Ch 22Cyndia is revealed to be Marc's half-sister, since her natural father is Paul, not Rory Muldowney; she and Marc have a son, Hagen.
- Ch 23Cyndia smuggled 114 operant paramount embryos from CEREM to a hidden gestatorium beneath the Orcas Island house after warning from Boom-Boom Laroche.
- Ch 24An engineer from Hibernia who supervises the secret gestatorium holding the Mental fetuses; she loves Marc deeply but is troubled by the project's ethics.
- Ch 24Cyndia insisted on bearing Cloud and gave birth at a clinic in Eastsound, away from the house sheltering the secret gestatorium.
- Ch 24Cyndia has been secretly reassuring the fetuses about birth and loving foster parents, and is horrified that they will instead be encephalized; she resolves to continue supervising.
- Ch 24Cyndia vows to find a way to ensure no more paramount fetuses are made after the Rebellion succeeds, if she cannot help the existing ones.
- Ch 26Cyndia, who loves the children's father, felt relief at the deaths of Mental Man, which she had been too weak to bring about.
- Ch 26Cyndia learns from Denis that her true father is Paul Remillard, not Rory, making her a source of Mental Man's ova.
- Ch 28Cyndia secretly calls Earth on the subspace communicator after Marc leaves, to verify what the visitor told her about the Remillard family.
- Ch 28Cyndia sketches a mechanical device on Marc's CAD pad that could be hidden inside her body and would stop him from making more embryos with Rosamund Remillard's ova.
- Ch 28Cyndia orders parts from a supply house; one item must come from Earth and is back-ordered for over eight weeks. She memorizes the design and erases it.
- Ch 28Cyndia feels guilty for not preventing the suffering of the Mental Man children, which Marc wanted.
- Ch 28Cyndia concludes that only Marc remains of the Remillard family's dark secret.
- Ch 29Cyndia helped hide and nurture the Mental Man babies, believes the project is immoral, and insists she alone can stop Marc.
- Ch 29Cyndia is a skilled nanoengineer with a workshop; she hid Denis's actions from Marc and said persuasion was not what she had in mind.
- Ch 30Cyndia, Marc's lover, is dismayed at the plan to destroy Molakar and urges him to appeal to Davy MacGregor for a compromise.
- Ch 30Cyndia believes encephalizing babies and accelerating human evolution to Homo summus is intrinsically evil, and she hid a device in her pelvis to stop Marc.
- Ch 30Cyndia learned her true father is Rory Muldowney, so she is not biologically Marc's half-sister despite the accident involving Paul Remillard.
- Ch 30Cyndia hoped to spare Marc, but his plan to use their children Hagen and Cloud as parents of Mental Man convinced her to activate the device, and she died.
- Ch 30Cyndia intended to destroy Madeleine's body and sterilize herself and the children, with Marie's help, to end the Mental Man project.
Connections
- partner ofMarcmarried on Hibernia in 2080
- family ofRory Muldowneyfather and daughter
- related toTomás Daltúnsucceeded him as armlann custodian
- family ofHagenson
- family ofMarchusband and wife
- family ofSaraolder sister
- ally ofBoom-Boom Laroche
- family ofClouddaughter
- ally ofSaskia Apeldoorncolleague in gestatorium
- ally ofMarc
- family ofPaultrue father
- ally ofDenis
- family ofRogi Remillardniece by marriage
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 20Marc meets Cyndia in the armlann
Rory leads the Council on a tour; when Marc takes Cyndia's hand a flare of his aura erupts. They recognise each other and leave together, shocking Rory.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Wedding of Marc and Cyndia
Marc and Cyndia wed in a small evening ceremony at Saint Patrick's Cathedral's Lady Chapel on Hibernia. Hibernian reservations dissolved in joy, and the couple exchanged Claddagh rings.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Cyndia confides in Rogi, and Rogi confronts Marc
Cyndia tells Rogi she is pregnant and that Marc has withdrawn, fixated on Mental Man. Rogi explains the project, then tells Marc to attend to his wife and eventually tell her.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Birth and christening of Hagen
Hagen was born on 21 November 2080; Marc missed the birth but attended the christening at Emmanuel Church. Assay revealed only latent paramount potential, disappointing Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Mental Man project terminated
On 6 January 2082 Krondak agents shut down the project at CEREM and confiscated embryos, but Cyndia had already hidden 114 paramount embryos on Orcas Island.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Marc reveals Molakar mobilization
Marc tells Cyndia of Milieu starships massing at Molakar; the Rebels will arm Astrakhan's colonial ships, and he expects two to three years before crisis.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Revised Mental Man plan
Marc announces encephalization of the fetuses within two weeks, then transfer to a secret Okanagon facility; Cyndia hides her dismay and agrees to supervise.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Conlan's tantrum
Fetus Conlan demands Reward and squeezes his umbilical cord to set off alarms; Saskia goes to program calming artificial redaction.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Conlan sedated into sleep
After Conlan's angry telepathic outburst, he loses consciousness and his monitors calm him; Cyndia resolves to find a way to stop more such children being made.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Death of Mental Man
During an aftershock the Mental Man brains are electrocuted. Trevor dies last. Denis confronts Cyndia and claims to have killed them.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Denis warns Cyndia
Denis reveals the dead children were Hydras, that Cyndia's father is Paul Remillard, and urges her to sterilize Marc and verify through Rogi.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Cyndia calls Rogi
Cyndia secretly phones Rogi on Earth, learns the visitor was really Batège and is now dead, and that only Marc remains of the family's dark secret.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Cyndia plans a device against Marc
Cyndia designs a concealed device, memorizes it, erases it, and orders components, one needing weeks to arrive from Earth.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Cyndia reveals the Mental Man secret
On Okanagon, Cyndia admits Marc kept the Mental Man embryos, that Denis killed the babies, and that Marc will restart the project. She refuses help and makes Rogi promise silence.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Marc and Cyndia discuss Molakar
Back home, Marc explains the exercise's limits and his plan to destroy Molakar; Cyndia begs him to ask Davy MacGregor for a compromise, and he reluctantly appears to agree.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Marc reveals his plan for Mental Man
In bed on New Year 2083, Marc tells Cyndia of his dilemma over Madeleine's ova and that their own children could parent Mental Man, convincing Cyndia she must stop him.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Cyndia's sacrifice
At the climax of lovemaking Cyndia activates the hidden device, killing herself and damaging Marc. He farsees it and, in reflex, strikes back, causing her death.