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First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 6Denis later explained to Rogatien that the brain reaches adult size at nine, when metafunctions solidify, and that identical twins might have achieved harmony.
- Ch 12Born 17 May 1967, he has an oversized head and was baptized Denis Rogatien; he is Don and Sunny's son and Rogi's nephew.
- Ch 12As a newborn he shows precocious telepathy, thinking logically and synthesizing concepts far beyond a normal infant, and he bonds strongly with Rogi.
- Ch 15Denis learned to speak at ten months but began speaking publicly at thirteen months; Rogi coached him to seem merely above average.
- Ch 15Denis could read before age two, taught himself long-sight amplification, and had a mind-screen neither Don nor Rogi could penetrate.
- Ch 15Denis has little interest in coercion or psychokinesis except as a tool, and levitates books and electronic parts while studying.
- Ch 15Denis favors the Fabré side, with Sunny's fair skin and blue eyes; he is shy, withdrawn, rarely sick, and frail-looking.
- Ch 15Denis used coercive influence on Don so that Don would never hurt him.
- Ch 18Denis is a brilliant, very young telepathic child whose farspeaking ability improves yearly; he is logical but puzzled by irrational human behavior.
- Ch 18Denis secretly bakes a birthday cake for his father Don and keeps it hidden from him, since Don would ridicule it as women's work.
- Ch 20Denis is a seven-year-old, highly intelligent boy with strong telepathic abilities, attending the Brebeuf academy and auditing college-level classes.
- Ch 20Denis wants to understand why and how the mind works, not just the brain, and believes a mind differs from a brain.
- Ch 20Denis can magnify distant scenes with farsight and project the images into another mind.
- Ch 20Denis reflected Victor's attempted mind-pinch back at him with his mental shield.
- Ch 20Denis has read about UFO sightings in New Hampshire and asks why aliens would visit Earth but keep secret.
- Ch 20Denis, a boy, senses that the hiker's mind is like theirs and is moved to tears, realising they are not alone.
- Ch 20Denis hopes that more minds like hers exist and wants to find a way to locate them.
- Ch 21Rogi's young relative Denis, a precocious child, read Elaine's memories and prepared Rogi for meeting her; Rogi later realises Denis could monitor all their thoughts.
- Ch 21Denis is Don's young son, a metapsychic who can hear Elaine and probe her memories; he attends Brebeuf Academy, a Jesuit school.
- Ch 26Denis was never seriously threatened by CIA or Pentagon operatives; Jesuit protectors and later the Coterie shielded him.
- Ch 26Denis can farspeak Rogi reliably over more than 100 km; their record was 166 km, Brebeuf to East Hampton, Long Island.
- Ch 26Denis theorized that telepathy has private (beamed) and public (broadcast) modes, and that unaware telepaths might not recognize his farspeech.
- Ch 26Denis completed a B.A. at Dartmouth in June 1980 and an M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School in 1983, aged sixteen.
- Ch 26Denis hid his extraordinary psychic powers during his studies but kept giving informal training to associates.
- Ch 26Denis completed a psychiatry residency and earned Ph.D.s in psychology and mathematics (cybernetics), then ran a small ESP research facility funded by anonymous benefactors.
- Ch 26In 1989, aged twenty-three, Denis joined the Dartmouth Medical School faculty as Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Parapsychology), alienated from his father and brother.
- Ch 26Denis's great mind was later lost to humanity in the prelude to the Metapsychic Rebellion.
- Ch 29Remillard is a young parapsychologist at Dartmouth who tests psychic students; he pursued Lucille from age eleven and for years after she arrived.
- Ch 30Denis is Don's eldest son, famous and powerful-minded, who can use seekersense. Don sees him as cold and intolerant.
- Ch 30Denis is expected to arrive soon at the logging site, driving cautiously on dirt logging roads.
- Ch 31Denis is a psychiatrist-researcher at Dartmouth with a lab of nearly forty psychic research assistants and subjects.
- Ch 31Denis blames himself for not saving Don from Victor and wants to find a way to checkmate Victor and redeem the psychic powers.
- Ch 31Denis can make tears vanish by creativity, a psychic power his group has just begun to investigate.
- Ch 31Denis urges Rogatien to move to Hanover for protection, and nearly coerces him.
- Ch 33Remillard is a Dartmouth professor whose best-selling book on experimentally verified telepathy and psychokinesis Kieran suspects is deliberately obscure and hides further psychic research.
- Ch 34Denis is a young genius professor who screens his private thoughts expertly; his reasoning was beyond Finster's ability to follow.
- Ch 35Denis avoided publicity, had not yet revealed he was a subject in his own experiments, and ran a lab in a saltbox on College Street, Hanover.
- Ch 35Denis is tutoring Rogi in seekersense and, per the Ghost, will buy the house at 15 East South Street in six years for his family.
- Ch 35Denis is engaged in a great work and would not believe Rogi if told about the Ghost.
- Ch 36Denis directs the Dartmouth lab, coined the term 'metaconcert', and is a powerful operant who can overpower another mind's resistance.
- Ch 36Denis warns that the Army is recruiting and pressuring parapsychology researchers for a secret Mind Wars unit; he vows to keep the military out of Dartmouth.
- Ch 36Denis coercively probes Lucille's mind to make sure she was not suborned by the Pentagon, then tells her all operants are glad she is one of them.
- Ch 37Denis, an operant conservative who published Metapsychology, favors delaying public announcement of EE until a thousand adepts exist, and will resist a demonstration.
- Ch 39Denis, Rogatien's nephew, runs a metapsychology lab at Dartmouth and is surrounded by the loyal Coterie; he published a book that caused a publicity splash.
- Ch 39Denis opposed MacGregor's premature Edinburgh demonstration but gave in, abandoning his plan for gradual disclosure of operant minds; this caused a serious rift with Rogatien.
- Ch 41Denis, author of Metapsychology, is summoned by the President to assess whether MacGregor's Edinburgh demonstration is authentic and workable.
- Ch 41Denis plans to reveal to the President that he is operant, and to decline chairing a public MetaBrainTrust, proposing himself as special advisor.
- Ch 41Denis urges Rogatien to stop dangerous meditation experiments alone and to let him help, and says solidarity is the only way forward.
- Ch 41Denis is a research-minded academic, not an administrator; he omitted his photo from the Metapsychology jacket.
- Ch 43Denis briefed the President for nearly a week and testified before Congressional committees and the Cabinet, accepting only an advisory role on the Presidential Commission on Metapsychology.
- Ch 43After Edinburgh and Washington, Denis became very famous; his Dartmouth lab accepted endowments from prestigious foundations, unlike the earlier discredited Pentagon grants.
- Ch 43Denis is Rogatien Remillard's nephew.
- Ch 44Remillard is a 24-year-old Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth who heads a psychic research lab and wrote the best-seller Metapsychology.
- Ch 44Remillard has strong metapsychic powers himself, including psychokinesis, aura-seeing, healing and awareness of others' emotions, and has used them since infancy.
- Ch 44He was the first presidential consultant on psychic affairs after the Edinburgh Demonstration, declined chairing the Advisory Commission on Metapsychology, and will head the American delegation to Alma-Ata.
- Ch 44As a child he hid his powers because he wanted to be like everyone else.
- Ch 44He proposes testing all Americans for latent mind-powers and training those with potential, treating the powers as a national resource.
- Ch 44Remillard denies feeling superior to normal people and says he would be a fool to think so, citing his many ordinary shortcomings.
- Ch 44He believes humanity is evolving toward universal operancy and speculates operants may be the first spores of an evolving World Mind, or an evolutionary dead end.
- Ch 44Remillard is a telepath and metapsychic theoretician who is interviewed on 60 Minutes; Moreno calls him an amazing man, perhaps a supermind.
- Ch 44Remillard uses slime molds as an analogy: humans may need to unite into one organism in order to survive, like cells in hard times.
- Ch 45Denis is Rogatien's nephew, a celebrated supermind who leads the Coterie at the Metapsychology Lab and demonstrated psychokinesis on television.
- Ch 47Denis proposed the Alma-Ata resolution for metapsychic testing of all people, and teaches coercive techniques; he is anxious to include Rogatien in the creativity project.
- Ch 47Denis tells Roger his powers will likely stay latent except under great mental stress, because educative techniques work best on the young.
- Ch 49Remillard is a Dartmouth professor and television figure who proposes an educational plan for people with metapsychic talents; Kieran calls him a charming coercer and idealist.
- Ch 50Denis is promoted to full professor and will head Dartmouth's new Department of Metapsychology; his book The Evolution of Mind is due.
- Ch 50Denis believes in God and theorizes that sexternions operating between the All and the physical universe are what religion calls angels.
- Ch 52Famous metapsychic who testified as expert witness for Weinstein's defense in Edinburgh; was distracted by global matters while Victor schemed.
- Ch 52Denis is anxious about Sunny, and Victor wants the marriage arranged before Denis learns of it.
- Ch 53Denis is a psychiatrist with an M.D. earned twelve years ago, an alumnus of Brebeuf Academy, and an extremely powerful metapsychic operant, nearly 28.
- Ch 53Denis reports that a German study found disproportionate numbers of operant traits among con men and psychopaths in prisons and criminal asylums.
- Ch 53Denis fears the financial world and normals will be threatened by criminal operants, and receives hate mail from antioperant sentiment.
- Ch 53Denis feels guilty for avoiding his brother and for earlier negligence that cost lives; Ellsworth advises patience and absolves him.
- Ch 53Denis has little interest in sex and has never felt passionate attraction; he is considered a cold fish by colleagues.
- Ch 53Denis's metapsychic faculties exceed others' by several orders of magnitude, according to a University of Tokyo study.
- Ch 53Denis plans to propose to Lucille as an eugenic, rationally arranged marriage and asks Ellsworth to officiate.
- Ch 54Denis married Lucille Cartier on 22 July 1995 in a marriage arranged for genetic and metapsychic reasons, not romance; he believed love could be learned.
- Ch 54Denis was wiser, glacially efficient and just, and later retiring and scholarly; he died a martyr to Unity without ever knowing Unity.
- Ch 54Denis's coercion is powerful enough to figuratively freeze the ballocks of a brass baboon.
- Ch 54Denis and Lucille's children, in order: Philip, Maurice, Severin, Anne, Catherine, Adrien, plus Paul conceived after the Intervention; there were also a stillbirth and a miscarriage.
- Ch 54The couple's marriage succeeded largely through strict mutual politeness, treating each other as honored guests, extended to their children.
- Ch 54Denis and Lucille's children became the Seven Founding Magnates of the Human Polity.
- Ch 56Denis is an American professor with strong coercive power, who made waitresses carve the lamb's head, and who will present a paper on prenatal ethical education at the Congress.
- Ch 56Denis and his wife Lucille devised prenatal educational techniques for their new baby son Philip.
- Ch 56Finster regards Remillard as the most dangerous person on the platform, probably uncoercible, with a powerful mind that he rarely demonstrates publicly.
- Ch 58Denis and Tamara alone resisted the killer's mind-paralysis. Denis did not take part in the destructive metaconcert, as later proven by the Simbiari Proctorship in 2017.
- Ch 58After Alma-Ata, Denis became convinced that resolute pacifism was the only ethical course for operants and refused to kill Victor even to save his family.
- Ch 60Receives the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine in Stockholm for his synthesis of metapsychology; his seminal work Metapsychology was published thirteen years earlier.
- Ch 63Denis overviewed the unrest by farsense, deducing an Iranian air strike on Baku backed by local insurgents.
- Ch 67Denis is Rogi's nephew, an extremely powerful operant ('the Biggest Mindshot of the lot') who works at a lab and consults for the President.
- Ch 67Denis has only ever achieved metaconcert with Rogi and Lucille; Glenn says he is too wary of losing mental autonomy to be a team thinker.
- Ch 71Denis is a powerful operant who veils his eyes in conversation because his direct gaze paralyzes normals and panics other operants.
- Ch 71Denis agreed to probe Gerry only on the condition that nothing learned be used as evidence and that he never testify, and to report findings only to the President.
- Ch 71Denis placed four gray card-like devices in the room's corners to block any bugs, though the superintendent denied the room was bugged.
- Ch 71Thirty-three years earlier, as a twelve-year-old, Denis tested Gerry with Zener cards in a Barre, Vermont quarry and recruited him to Dartmouth and the Coterie.
- Ch 72Denis is Rogatien's 'newy' (nephew), who championed nonaggression at the Oslo Congress, and was mauled by the media afterward.
- Ch 72Denis, with Jamie and Vigdis, championed nonaggression at the Oslo political activism symposium.
- Ch 74Denis is Rogatien's nephew and a Nobel laureate whose staff is being cut by two thirds; he can scan minds and has deep-sight.
- Ch 75Denis is Chair of the Metapsychic Congress and is expected to give a speech that night; he has authorized massive extra police security at the hotel.
- Ch 75Denis is paged by the President and goes to take a call on a secure landline, setting up a possible trip to Washington.
- Ch 75Victor's brother Denis, with Shannon, told the government about the Zap-Star penetration; Victor calls them dead heads.
- Ch 76Denis was asked by the President to mind-ream Shannon and Victor; he farscanned the hotel and asked other scanners to watch for them.
- Ch 76Denis joined a metaconcert strike on an X-wing but was reluctant, and said he never tried to kill the crews and most others didn't either.
- Ch 77Denis proposes a grand metaconcert of operants and normals worldwide to reach the hearts of enemies rather than destroy them, upholding the Ethic.
- Ch 77Denis admits metaconcert frightens him; he has conjoined only with his wife and his uncle, and risks serious damage as coordinator.
- Ch 78Denis led the operants and normals around the world in a prayerful coadunate metaconcert from the chalet, and it succeeded.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 4Denis was Don's eldest child and Rogi's foster son; he and Lucille Cartier founded the Remillard Dynasty.
- Ch 4Denis and Colette Roy called Jack a prochronistic mutant, born too early in human evolution.
- Ch 5Denis leads the annual Good Friday metaconcert, praying for Victor's spiritual recovery; he refuses to let Victor be allowed to die. He is recovering from exhaustion and depression.
- Ch 5Denis looks younger than his twenty-six-year-old son Paul and wants Marc to take part in the metaconcert.
- Ch 5Denis took charge of his comatose brother Victor's care and refused to let him die, keeping him fed and nursed for over twenty-six years.
- Ch 5Denis designs and directs a family metaconcert at Victor's bedside, praying that Victor will repent and then recover or die peacefully.
- Ch 5Denis has extraordinarily bright blue eyes that can hold and coerce people; Rogi fears his immense power though he loves him.
- Ch 5Fury is a newborn mind-monster of vast evil, worse than Kieran O'Connor or Victor, that says it wants all of humanity and tries to take Rogi first.
- Ch 5Fury appeared in the aether during the metaconcert at Victor's bedside, and laughter in Victor's voice accompanied its presence.
- Ch 8Denis, a metapsychic pioneer, became Emeritus Professor of Metapsychology at Dartmouth's Metapsychic Institute and preferred academia to politics.
- Ch 10Denis is probably the premier aura-scanner of the Human Polity.
- Ch 11Fury is a mental voice that guides Hydra, promising that taking life force is the Ultimate Hightrip, and picks Brett as the victim.
- Ch 11Fury warns Hydra to stay quiet so that no one can farscan them, saying that discovery would end everything.
- Ch 18Denis cultivates orchids and has been married to Lucille for fifty-six years; he is a Grand Master metapsychic with immense but imperfectly trained seekersense.
- Ch 18Denis privately fears Brett's killer might be someone he believed dead, because Brett's burns matched a horrifying earlier sight he remembers.
- Ch 18In rage Denis farspoke Rogi and caught a brief involuntary response from far to the northwest, but his search across North America found nothing.
- Ch 18Denis kept Victor alive, leading yearly Good Friday metaconcert prayers, hoping Victor would feel remorse; he now fears Victor's mind may have passed into a family member.
- Ch 18Denis suspects the killer is a family member unknowingly possessed by Victor, and cannot be sure who was far from Rye Harbor except Lucille, Philip, Maurice and Severin.
- Ch 20Denis is Rogi's foster son, has a seekersense, and is searching for him.
- Ch 21Fury controls the Hydra and decides to risk bringing it to Dartmouth on Halloween to try to eliminate Davy MacGregor.
- Ch 21Fury sees Davy MacGregor's new wife, Margaret Strayhorn, as an attractive alternative way to strike at the Great Enemy.
- Ch 21Fury directs the Hydra, made it, and plans to kill the Great Enemy by devastating him through Margaret's death.
- Ch 21Fury will train the Hydra painfully during the hyperspace trip to Concilium Orb and says it underestimated Margaret's hidden masterly mind.
- Ch 21Fury can redactively reinforce Margaret's shock so she remembers nothing useful of the attack.
- Ch 22Rogatien considers Denis a self-effacing man with an incredible mind, a better coercer than Paul, who disapproves of the Proctorship's tyranny.
- Ch 22Denis answers Rogi's telepathic shout with a thought, finally locating him.
- Ch 23Fury directs Hydra by mindspeech, ordering Hydra to kill a newly arrived woman that night and warning that failure means being replaced.
- Ch 23Fury instructed that the victim's body be destroyed in a solid-waste destructor and a farewell message be forced from her after her willpower is destroyed.
- Ch 24Denis, eighty-four but looking early thirties, is a Nobel Laureate and Emeritus Professor of Metapsychology at Dartmouth who finds Rogi and chooses not to report him.
- Ch 24Denis declined to serve as a Magnate of the Concilium and says he values his family's and humanity's welfare above Galactic civilization.
- Ch 24Denis guides Rogi through butchering the moose by farspeech, a data-bank search and a diagram, and estimates the temperature at minus sixteen Celsius.
- Ch 24Denis was shaken by touching the fetus's mind and promised not to probe him again.
- Ch 24Denis learned that the family already knows Rogi and Teresa are alive and has decided not to press a search for them.
- Ch 26Hydra's manipulator, who calls her his firstborn and bestloved; he plans to recruit others and tells her to wait, as the situation must ripen.
- Ch 26Fury already knows Teresa is alive and carrying a supermind baby; he would have preferred recruiting Marc.
- Ch 28Fury watches from above, is angered that Davy MacGregor, the Great Enemy, was made Planetary Dirigent, and says it must be rectified.
- Ch 28Fury stands outside Unifex's prolepsis and admits its 'creature' is flawed, but says there are other fish in the sea.
- Ch 29Denis, a Grand Master, farspoke Rogi from Concilium Orb about the Conciliar Inauguration, 4000 lightyears away.
- Ch 30Denis arrives with Fred in a Poltroyan orbiter to take Teresa, Rogi and Jack to Kauai, where they will hide until pardons are secured.
- Ch 30Denis relays that Paul will not contact Teresa until the family lawyers assess the situation.
- Ch 31Denis is Marc's grandfather, who found where Marc hid his mother and Rogi and moved them; he knows the academic world well.
- Ch 31Denis collected Teresa, Jack and Rogi from Ape Lake two months earlier and hid them on Kauai.
- Ch 31Fury is a powerful mind who forbids a hostile mind to kill Marc, saying Marc unknowingly furthers his great plan.
- Ch 31Fury has given a hostile mind free access to the nerve-bomb and plans to energize it without being detected.
- Ch 33Fury directs Hydra to take the swimmer far out to sea, then tells her to rest and wait, since a period of danger is coming.
- Ch 33Denis believes his old friend Davy MacGregor will grant executive clemency to Teresa and Rogi.
- Ch 33Fury is a strange mind that sustains, controls and loves Hydra. Jack thinks Marc would call both evil.
- Ch 34The name Jack gave the human mind controlling Hydra; Marc believes it is a Remillard family member who was at Victor's deathbed.
- Ch 34Fury told Rogi he was newborn and wanted all of them; he also tried to seize Jack's mind during birth.
- Ch 34Paul confided in Denis because of his special knowledge of Victor.
- Ch 37Fury is an unknown human who supposedly controls Hydra; Jack's testimony via Marc is the only source for this.
- Ch 42Fury speaks in Marc's dreams, urging him to help destroy the Galactic Milieu and Unity, and threatens agonizing death for opponents.
- Ch 42Fury denies being Victor, insisting he is Fury, 'born inevitably', and says Jack is greater but will die.
- Ch 42Marc believes Fury and Hydra are trying to reach and harm him, possibly through tampering with his equipment.
- Ch 43Fury had only meant to frighten Marc and did not want him killed; Hydra defied his orders.
- Ch 43Fury now regards Jack as the Great Enemy, whom he must kill himself, replacing Davy MacGregor in that role.
- Ch 43Denis explains Assembly politics: a vote on twenty new ethnic planets for Africa and Asia waiving the twenty-percent operant requirement.
- Ch 44Marc believes Fury is a mature, cold, goal-oriented adult, possibly a Remillard who hates the Galactic Milieu and plans to destroy it.
- Ch 44Fury reached Marc through the CE helmet and tried to make him crash into the Woodsville Bridge; Marc was tempted by his recruitment offer.
- Ch 44Denis and Rogi lied to Lucille and Catherine that Gordo's death was quick; it was not.
- Ch 45Fury started the fire in Jack's room with a wick-fitted bottle of j-fuel, tore out the oxygen line to feed the flames, and fled.
- Ch 45Fury psychocreatively fuzzed his own image so room cameras and the security company recorded no identifiable picture of him.
- Ch 46Fury directs the four surviving Hydra heads to the farm, tells them where the key is and that food is stocked, and promises to explain later when safe.
- Ch 47Fury covered his protégés' tracks better than Marc had for Teresa and Rogatien; satellites that might have tracked the stolen egg mysteriously malfunctioned.
- Ch 47Fury's fate is entangled in the Metapsychic Rebellion.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1Fury was a malignant entity whose Hydras committed metapsychic vampire crimes; Rogi still suffers dreams of them.
- Ch 3Fury is a disembodied, invisible monster that secretly infiltrates Dartmouth, undetected by humans, operants, exotic beings and machines; it hates Jack and calls him the Great Enemy.
- Ch 3Fury learned to activate devices by psychokinesis by watching Jack the Bodiless; it cannot harm Jack physically or penetrate his mental screen.
- Ch 3Fury is undecided whether Marc is a true antagonist or a potential ally in its grand scheme.
- Ch 3Fury needs powerful new cerebroenergetic equipment for its Hydra component, so it wants the E15 to succeed.
- Ch 3Fury plans to replace the Edinburgh research files with innocuous material and keep the three Scots from discovering the substitution.
- Ch 3Fury used psychokinesis and metacoercion to prompt Marc to hand the micromanipulator comset to Jack.
- Ch 3Denis is Dartmouth's nonagenarian Emeritus Professor of Metapsychology, a living legend, Marc's grandfather and husband of Lucille Cartier; he is writing a book on criminal insanity.
- Ch 3Fury is a disembodied monster with no genuine physical presence, even less substantial than the Lylmik, and depends on Hydra to act physically.
- Ch 3Fury plans to destroy the present galactic confederation and establish a Second Milieu, using a CE-equipped Hydra acting in metaconcert with it.
- Ch 3Fury decides the three Edinburgh researchers must die, because destroying their data would not stop them reconstructing it, and assigns Hydra the task.
- Ch 3Fury's periods of activity are limited by enforced dormancy, and its current window of activity is about to close.
- Ch 3Fury has been silent to Hydra for over three years, and tells Hydra it will soon feast on masterclass operant lifeforce.
- Ch 5A monster that later tried to intimidate and destroy Dorothea, also calling her Dody.
- Ch 6Fury gave Hydra the broad plan and instructed them to eliminate the three researchers.
- Ch 6Fury is Hydra's controller, who claims to love Hydra, created Hydra and others, and has a grand scheme for a Second Milieu.
- Ch 6Fury orders Hydra to go to Anami-o-Shima, gives new identities, funds and the front company Lernaeus Limited, and orders limited feeding and prompt body destruction.
- Ch 7Fury is a newborn mind-devouring entity that appeared at Victor's death in 2040, apparently conjured by him; it tried to take Rogatien.
- Ch 7Fury controls the Hydra and may be a Remillard with a split personality, which would let it evade ordinary mental interrogation.
- Ch 8Denis is the Remillard siblings' father, with a boyish look, and is expected to arrive at the family council.
- Ch 8Fury is Hydra's adult controller, whose identity and motive are unknown; the family suspects Fury is one of them.
- Ch 8Fury apparently changed the children's mental signatures and altered vital-statistic databases galaxy-wide, requiring a gigawatt-range shaped PK-creative impulse.
- Ch 8Rogi says that at Victor's deathbed Fury, asked what it wanted, answered 'all of us'; Denis wonders if it wants the whole Human Polity.
- Ch 8Denis, family patriarch and metapsychologist, theorises Fury may be a multiple-personality disorder persona in one of the family, driven by Victor's morality.
- Ch 8Denis blames himself for leading the prayer gathering at Victor's deathbed on Good Friday; Anne reassures him.
- Ch 8Fury may be a malignant persona within an innocent core personality, possibly one that could be excised without harming the host.
- Ch 8Paul summarily condemns Fury and the four Hydra-units to death, subject to Lylmik approval.
- Ch 8Denis asks whether the innocent core persona would be put to death with the guilty one; Paul has no answer.
- Ch 12Denis is ninety-six but looks mid-twenties; he refuses to join the Concilium's telepathic colloquium, finding it chaotic and lacking reticence.
- Ch 12Denis believes humanity must eventually be Unified and that Unity is not a soul-destroying hive-mind.
- Ch 12Fury's identity remains a complete mystery to Denis and the family.
- Ch 13Fury is the master Hydra depends on and serves; Fury conceived using dream therapy to make Marc vulnerable through a limbic path.
- Ch 14Fury watched Jack and Rogi and learned of Dorothea; it first saw her as a Second Great Enemy, then as a potential new creature to tempt.
- Ch 14Fury believes Dorothea is guarded by mundane protectors and immune to Hydra's coercive attack, so it will bide its time and let the Lylmik force her into operancy.
- Ch 16Controller of Hydra, believed to be a prominent Remillard family member; Marc is a strong suspect.
- Ch 17Fury is a disembodied-seeming mind, full of rage against the universe and its Creator, which impersonated Dee's mother in her dream to win her over.
- Ch 17Fury controls the Hydra, ordered it to kill Dee's mother, uncle and aunt, and aims to destroy the Galactic Milieu and rule a new confederation.
- Ch 17Fury shares a human body with an unaware second mind and is a product of a Remillard mind; nobody knows whose brain hosts it.
- Ch 17Fury cannot easily coerce people, so it hopes to convert Dee to follow it willingly; it can farspeak across interstellar distances.
- Ch 18Fury invaded Dorothée's dreams on Caledonia pretending to be her dead mother, and has appeared in her sleep since, trying to convert her.
- Ch 18The Remillard family believes Fury is a manifestation of multiple-personality disorder, possibly unknown to the host persona whose body it shares.
- Ch 18Fury wants Dorothée to develop her metafaculties and join the Milieu operant community; it seems more determined than ever and has new recruits.
- Ch 18Fury can alter the superficial mental signatures of the Hydras, letting them remain at large.
- Ch 19Fury distrusts the Girl, fears she may be in contact with the Great Enemy, and wants her observed at Marc's party.
- Ch 19Fury is limited in reifying and hopes to take charge of a body and become free and One.
- Ch 19Denis designs metaconcert programs and is wary of artificial augmentation of brainpower; he will work with Jack on modifying them.
- Ch 19Fury is a Hydra mind who speaks to Alvarez about a scheme for the Second Milieu, which can carry on without him through other units.
- Ch 20Fury appears in Dee's dreams posing as her loving 'Mummie', offering the Choice: a Cosmic Mind would enter her body and she would lead the Second Milieu.
- Ch 20When Dee asks whose body the Mind inhabits, Fury drops its pretence, calls her a liar, blames her for Quentin's death, and vows to kill her slowly.
- Ch 20Fury is an abnormal adjunct persona hiding within a Remillard host's brain, served by human minions called Hydra.
- Ch 20Fury claims Malama is a witch doctor and that Jack and Marc are secret servants of the Lylmik; Dee suspects these are lies.
- Ch 20Fury is the controlling voice that directs the plot to kill Dee; the others are unsure what it is and Maddy believes they die without it.
- Ch 20Fury says the group cannot kill Dee unless she is first weakened by injury, trauma, fatigue or distraction, and urges an assault before she goes to Orb.
- Ch 20Fury has repeatedly shown the group they are not good enough to lead the Second Milieu, and previously targeted Marc, Jack in utero and a Remillard woman.
- Ch 21Fury appeared to Anne in dreams as Pallas Athene from 2054, tempting her with a Second Milieu in which she would lead humanity.
- Ch 21Fury seeks to place a host in the highest levels of galactic government; Anne says Fury picked her as acolyte.
- Ch 21Denis and Lucille, Anne's parents, helped her through her breakdown and told Denis assured her she could banish Fury by will.
- Ch 26Denis is revealed to Rogi by Anne Remillard to be Fury.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 2Denis, Rogatien's nephew, adopted him as a father figure after Don failed him; he was a Dartmouth professor, famed metapsychic researcher and Nobel laureate.
- Ch 2Denis has fair, slight, gentle appearance but electric blue eyes and strong coercive power.
- Ch 2Denis integrated the minds of operants and well-meaning humans into a worldwide benevolent metaconcert at the 2013 Congress, prompting the Great Intervention.
- Ch 3An unknown murderer probably belonging to the Remillard Dynasty; the Magistratum and Lylmik know and have sealed evidence of its crimes.
- Ch 3Anne Remillard reveals she believes her father Denis is Fury, suffering a dissociative disorder.
- Ch 3Anne's father and Rogi's relative, living with Lucille nearby in Hanover.
- Ch 5Denis is an emeritus Dartmouth metapsychology professor and Nobel laureate; Anne believes he has a dyscrasic shadow persona, Fury, of which his core self is unaware.
- Ch 5Fury physically entered Baby Jack's hospital room in 2054 and started the fire meant to kill him; the intruder blurred his image and wiped the guard's mind.
- Ch 5At about age three Denis coerced a drunken, enraged Don into helplessness, saying 'Papa won't ever hurt me'; Anne reads this as meaning 'again'.
- Ch 5Denis insisted on keeping the mind-zapped Victor alive, and the Dynasty prayed for him in metaconcert each Good Friday; he died in 2040.
- Ch 5Fury's trick on the Concilium Orb database computer, helping Hydra escape Scotland, suggests it almost certainly has paramount metacreativity, a formidable weapon.
- Ch 5Fury has worked mostly through Hydra rather than using its own mind as a weapon, except for setting Jack's fire; the reason is unknown.
- Ch 5Denis never had a thorough metapsychic assay and avoided appointment as Magnate, so he escaped the Lylmik mind-sifting; he could be paramount in every faculty.
- Ch 6Fury communicates telepathically with Hydra, treats her as a dependent, and says she is under certain constraints that cause surveillance to drop out.
- Ch 6Fury regards Anne Remillard and another target as threats to her life; she says she will be invincible again when both are dead.
- Ch 7Fury is a single warped individual with only two Hydra-units left as agents; Dorothea has had it inside her mind and fears it exploits human weakness.
- Ch 8Denis heard Rogi's farsqueak, dived into the lake, cut him free from the bottom, and pulled him ashore.
- Ch 8Denis has blond hair and the same vivid coercer-blue eyes as Ti-Jean, leading Rogi to mistake him for Jack the Bodiless.
- Ch 10Denis saved Rogatien from Hydra, giving hope that he is not Fury.
- Ch 10Rogi believes the Dynasty must now take responsibility for the fates of Denis and Anne.
- Ch 10Fury has been condemned to death in camera by the First Magnate of the Human Polity, as had the Hydra.
- Ch 11Fury is a hidden enemy who calls Hydra its last living servant, plans to engender 'New Ones' and rule a Second Milieu, and fears detection and extinction.
- Ch 11Fury is secretly planting a plan in Marc's unconscious, to be reinforced through Hydra's dream visits, aiming eventually to possess him.
- Ch 11Jack and Dorothea plan a dangerous metaconcert healing of Denis, using the Dynasty with CE helmets, to remove a possible Fury persona.
- Ch 15Denis is a gentle scholar, orchid hobbyist and loving husband and father who wrote An Ontological Interpretation of Unity and looks forward to Unity.
- Ch 15Anne's theory casts Denis as Fury's alter ego; Rogatien speculates Fury may be Anne, or someone never suspected.
- Ch 16Denis, premier authority on mental science, retired emeritus from the college's Metapsychology Department and has long avoided public power, valuing his privacy.
- Ch 16Denis agrees to accept a Concilium seat if the Lylmik nominate him again.
- Ch 16Fury is a monster threatening the Milieu with galactic ambitions; Denis may be Fury or hosts a dissociative persona.
- Ch 16Fury tempted Anne, Dorothea Macdonald and Severin, pretending to be someone else to enhance its coercion; Paul insists it is not really Victor.
- Ch 16Fury turned Quint, Celine, Gordo, Parni and Madeleine into Hydras.
- Ch 17Denis is lured to the farmhouse cellar on Christmas Eve, where his children coerce him onto a couch and restrain him for the integration.
- Ch 17Denis and Fury exist as a dissociated pair of personalities, a binary mind split by a trauma caused by Donny.
- Ch 17Fury is the destructive personality dissociated from Denis; Denis's mind and Fury's coexisted since a 'necessary bifurcation' of the self.
- Ch 17Denis's integrated personality vanished, replaced by a new entity symbolized by a green star; the family faked his death on Christmas morning.
- Ch 17Denis was a Nobel Laureate and the revered Grand Old Man of Metapsychology.
- Ch 17His parents and eight of his nine siblings are buried in the old cemetery in Berlin, New Hampshire, where the fake ashes were interred.
- Ch 17The new entity lived on for three and a half years and died in autumn 2082 on Mount Washington; the narrator is his foster father.
- Ch 17His genuine ashes are buried near the summit of Mount Washington, in a place known only to Lucille and the narrator.
- Ch 18Denis vanished from restraints in the farmhouse when a metaconcert tried to integrate him with Fury; his fate (dead, hidden, or teleported) is unknown.
- Ch 18Dorothea believes Fury is dead, though Fury was integrated into Denis and the outcome remains uncertain.
- Ch 18Jack worries that Fury may not be dead.
- Ch 19Fury calls the original core persona the 'Last Great Enemy' and fears it would betray them to the Dynasty or Magistratum.
- Ch 20Fury consoles Hydra after the setback and promises the plans will change but they will still win, destroying Marc and Cyndia.
- Ch 22Fury is a powerful metapsychic monster who feeds on lifeforce; the intervals between his needed feedings are shortening and his farsenses and self-redaction are weakening.
- Ch 22Fury works for the Rebel cause, coercing officials and magnates, and is overextended managing Astrakhan, Blois ship production, and nine Concilium fence-sitters.
- Ch 22Fury d-jumped into the CEREM campus, turned invisible, and entered Steinbrenner's mind through the assay helmet, posing as a bespeaking voice.
- Ch 22Fury avoids letting Hydra have unsupervised access to Cyndia Muldowney, though Hydra is better at subliminal coercion of Marc.
- Ch 22Fury revealed to Steinbrenner that Cyndia is Marc's half-sister, and that Fury (speaking as Madeleine) has an ovary for the project.
- Ch 22Fury appears to Rogi as a slightly built fair-haired man with blood on his face, after Sam's blow, in the nursery.
- Ch 22Denis appears as an apparition, pleading for Rogi's help for Hagen, Cyndia, humanity and the Galactic Milieu, and warns he and Marc are dangerous.
- Ch 23Denis is believed to be fused with the Fury persona and may be able to teleport; Rogi saw him in agony, begging for help.
- Ch 25Fury is a malevolent persona sharing the body of Denis Remillard, disguised as Ruslan Terekev, and feeds on victims' life force.
- Ch 25Fury says Marc's Rebellion will pave the way for his own Second Milieu, and he needs Marc, though Marc is not yet his Hydra.
- Ch 25Fury cannot be mentally harmed by an operant child, since no operant child can exert mental duress on a parent.
- Ch 25Denis, Paul's father, briefly resurfaced after Fred's attack, wept, and begged Paul to tell him how to end Fury.
- Ch 25Denis and Fury are at war inside one body; Denis breaks free at odd intervals and frustrates Fury's plans.
- Ch 26Denis, Marc's grandfather, whose death was a hoax, claims to have killed the Mental Man brains and urges Cyndia to stop Marc from siring more.
- Ch 26Denis tells Cyndia the dead Mental Man children were Hydras, and that Madeleine corrupted them; he claims he cannot neutralize Madeleine or Marc himself.
- Ch 26Denis urges Cyndia to sterilize Marc by sonic disruption of his sperm DNA, since only his wife can reach him with defenses down.
- Ch 26Denis tells Cyndia to call Uncle Rogi in two days, speaking circumspectly about a paradoxical relative, to verify his account.
- Ch 27Denis rescues Rogi in a shed near the Gulf Tank using redaction and PK, and had planted the suggestion that Rogi hike the mountain.
- Ch 27Denis shares his body with Fury and can take control only briefly when Fury weakens; he asks Rogi to kill the body.
- Ch 27Denis says he was on Okanagon the day before, destroying the first generation of Mental Man, and warned Marc that the infants had become Hydras.
- Ch 27Fury feeds on lifeforce to keep ascendancy, fears Denis, and installed a permanent inhibition in the Hydras to stop them turning on him.
- Ch 27Fury can d-jump (teleport) out of any trap, so Denis believes only Rogi can kill the body.
- Ch 27Fury retakes control of Denis's body just as Rogi conjures the metacreative energy, laughing as Denis's eyes open.
- Ch 27Fury is a monster wearing Denis's form; he says all his Hydra children are dead but will be reborn, as he himself was.
- Ch 27Fury cannot coerce or kill the narrator with mindpower, so he tries to throw him into a blizzard using psychokinesis and physical force.
- Ch 27Fury said the reason the narrator's love did not prevent what happened was that 'Love failed.'
- Ch 27Denis seems to survive within or beyond the monster; after the discharge he leaves a pile of powder, speaks to his father and says goodbye.
- Ch 28The visitor, calling himself Denis, is identified by Rogi as Batège, a Remillard relative who died the day before Cyndia's call.
- Ch 28Rebel rumor held that Fury, the killer of Davy MacGregor's wife, was a multiple-personality aspect of a senior Remillard, likely the First Magnate or Marc.
- Ch 29Denis was revealed to be Fury; he was an uncertified paramount metapsychic able to teleport, and he died on Mount Washington.
- Ch 29Denis killed the Mental Man babies at CEREM by electrocution, telling Cyndia they were Hydras, psychic vampires, then vanished.
- Ch 29Denis told Rogi to give the Great Carbuncle to Jack, giving no reason, and warned that Marc might do something awful to Hagen.
Connections
- family ofDonson
- family ofRogi Remillarduncle and godfather at baptism
- family ofMarie-Madeleine Fabreson
- partner ofLucillelater wife
- family ofVictorbrothers
- leadsDartmouth Coterie
- enemy ofVictor
- member ofHanover
- family ofPaulfuture youngest son
- createdMetapsychologyauthor
- leads45 College Street
- enemy ofArmy Research and Development Centeropposes its recruitment of researchers
- ally ofGlenn Dalembertlab associate
- ally ofColette Roylab colleague
- ally ofTukwila Barneslab colleague
- ally ofJamie MacGregor
- partner ofTamaraimplied by kiss image
- related toGerardassociate who runs his lab's public affairs
- leadsDartmouth Research Facility
- related toVangelder Foundationawarded research grant to his lab
- related toCarlos Morenointerviewer and interviewee
- related toJared Ellsworthformer teacher and priest/confessor
- family ofRemillard's brotherbrother
- related toLucillecolleague he plans to propose to
- friend ofTamaracolleague
- friend ofUrgyen Bhotia
- family ofLucillemarried 22 July 1995
- family ofPhilipchild
- family ofMauricechild
- family ofSeverinchild
- family ofAnnechild
- family ofCatherinechild
- family ofAdrienchild
- ally ofGerardcolleague on the same research team, but resentful
- related toAyeesha Al-Joalynanny to his children
- ally ofPresident Baumgartnerconsults for him
- friend ofGerardlongtime friend and Coterie member
- enemy ofKieran O'Connor
- createdRemillard Dynasty
- ally ofHydraHydra serves and obeys Fury
- friend ofDavid
- createdHydraFury calls Hydra one of the dear ones created with loving care
- enemy ofAtoning Unifex
- enemy ofDavid
- family ofJackgrandfather
- friend ofFred
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- family ofMarcgrandson
- leadsHydrasustains and controls it
- enemy ofMarcseeks to recruit him
- enemy ofJack
- related toHydraHydra is a component of Furycontrolled by Fury
- enemy ofDiamond Mask
- friend ofFritiso-Prontinalinacademic colleague
- related toRemillard Dynastyproduct of a Remillard mind
- friend ofLucille
- createdMadeleineMaddy says Fury created them
- has memberHydraHydra is Fury's servant
- related toAnneAnne tells Rogi that Denis is Fury
- related toRogi Remillardrescued Rogi from drowning
- has memberParnellserves Fury as controller and god
- ally ofParnell
- ally ofMadeleine
- related toVictorSeverin believes Fury is Victor's reborn spirit; Paul denies it
- related toJackfaked Denis's death with a simulacrum body
- related toSeverinsigned false death certificate
- ally ofRebellion
- related toMadeleinewas once chosen by Fury along with four Hydra-units; now secretly keeps the New Ones from Fury's command
- ally ofMarcFury needs Marc's Rebellion
- ally ofCyndia Muldowney
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 12Denis's baptism and first mindspeech
At baptism, cold water makes the infant Denis cry; Rogi soothes him telepathically and Denis responds with a logical mental synthesis, bonding with Rogi.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Rogi reveals the truth to Sunny
Rogi tells Sunny about telepathy and Denis's gifts; she denies it, so he uses PK and coercion, calms her, and persuades her to have Don teach Denis.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Don agrees to teach Denis
Rogi tells Don; after an argument, Sunny's passionate defense wins Don over and he agrees to mindspeak with Denis.
- Book 1 · Ch 15The LSD cocoa incident
In February 1970 Don offered Rogi cocoa laced with LSD. Denis had read the plan from Don's mind and warned Sunny, who slapped the cup away. Her telepathy training by Denis was revealed.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Don bars Rogi from the house
After Denis coerced Don never to harm him, Don ended Rogi's evening visits and announced Sunny's pregnancy. Denis privately told Rogi they would find a way to continue.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Northfield Hall scholarship collapses
Don refuses Denis's place at Northfield Hall and angers the school, splitting the Remillard family; Rogatien is left frustrated.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Denis visits Rogi at the hotel
Rogi picks up Denis and shows him the White Mountain Resort Hotel. Denis confides that his mother has withdrawn and his father favours Victor, who torments the twin babies.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Cog railway trip up Mount Washington
Rogi and Denis ride the cog railway to the summit, discussing the nature of mind, local legends and UFOs, and exploring the summit.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Denis detects another telepath
From the summit, Denis farsees a line of hikers and hears the mind of the woman leading them. She is another person like them. Rogi shares the farspeech and hears her joyful, faint thoughts.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Rogi and Denis sense a telepath
Rogi and Denis perceive a woman hiker whose mind radiates music and farspeech. Denis confirms she is a telepath like them. Rogi is overwhelmed by love for her, and they decide to miss the train and wait for her.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Waiting at Summit House
Rogi carries Denis into Summit House, where a climber helps them. Denis wants to buy guidebooks, maps and tissues, and they go to tidy up before the woman arrives.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Rogi meets Elaine
Aided by Denis's mind-reading, Rogi meets Elaine at Summit House; she arranges to give him a copy of Visitant that night at the hotel's Grotto Lounge.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Roger tells Father Ellsworth about Denis
In early September Roger returned Denis to Brebeuf Academy and revealed his metapsychic abilities to Father Ellsworth, as the Ghost had instructed.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Rogi redirects Denis from Georgetown to Dartmouth
Following the Ghost's advice, Rogi tells Fathers Ellsworth and Dubois that Denis will attend Dartmouth, not Georgetown, citing infiltration risks in Washington.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Invention of Operation Witch Hazel
On a November walk, Denis and Rogi conceive dowsing for telepaths with a forked witch hazel stick and a map, leading to the seekersense.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Founding of the Dartmouth Coterie
Using seekersense from 1979, Denis locates Glenn Dalembert, Sally Doyle and others, then more operants at Dartmouth, forming the Coterie.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Denis becomes Dartmouth faculty
After years of cautious research with his Coterie, Denis was admitted in 1989 to the Dartmouth Medical School faculty as Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Parapsychology).
- Book 1 · Ch 26Investigators rebuffed
Investigators tried to reach Denis through his father Don, but were driven off by curses and menaces from Victor.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Lucille defies the Coterie
Lucille bikes to Remillard's laboratory building, mentally defies him and rudely gestures at it, then realizes he isn't there.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Victor calms Sunny and enlists Denis
Victor comforts Sunny, has Denis phoned to track Don with seekersense, and takes his mother home. Don wakes at dawn somewhere in the woods.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Don's funeral
Don is buried with a large attendance; Denis and Victor's coercion helps produce a verdict of death by misadventure.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Breakfast with Denis
Denis tells Rogatien that Victor suppressed his siblings' powers and drove Don to suicide, and urges him to join the Hanover group. Rogatien deflects with a plan for a bookstore.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Kieran briefs Finster on Remillard
After hearing Finster has secured Senator Scrope, Kieran sends him to Dartmouth to investigate Denis Remillard's ESP research and associates, warning of danger.
- Book 1 · Ch 35The Ghost reveals the Remillards' destiny
At 15 East South Street, the Ghost foretells the Denis–Lucille marriage, their descendants leading the Human Polity, and tasks Rogi with steering Lucille away from Sampson. It explains the Milieu and the coming Great Intervention.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Publication of Metapsychology
Denis's book appears in 1990, causing uproar, legitimizing psychic research, and bringing operants out of hiding.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Denis probes Lucille
Denis tells Lucille of the Army's Mind Wars recruitment, then coercively reads her mind to confirm she has not been suborned, leaving her humiliated and uncertain whether she belongs among operants.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rift over the Edinburgh demonstration
Rogatien learns telepathically that Denis has yielded to MacGregor's plan for a public demonstration; they quarrel and become estranged.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Rogatien farspeaks Denis
Rogatien uses the out-spiral chakra meditation to hail Denis mentally; Denis, boarding a helicopter to Washington, explains the President's summons, MacGregor's reasons, and urges him to join the group.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Denis summoned by the President
After the Edinburgh telecast the President calls Denis, who is flown from West Lebanon to Burlington to catch a Washington flight to assess the demonstration's authenticity.
- Book 1 · Ch 43Denis advises Washington
Denis briefed the President and testified to Congress and the Cabinet, then returned to Dartmouth to find his lab swamped by media attention and endowments.
- Book 1 · Ch 4360 Minutes interview arranged
Tremblay arranged a November 1991 CBS 60 Minutes hour with Denis and a tour of the lab, a program that Rogatien says became nearly as memorable as MacGregor's Edinburgh demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Bookshop psychokinesis demonstration
At a signing, Remillard balances books in midair with psychokinesis for a fan and cameras; Uncle Roger then calls the books to him, revealing his own ability.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Moreno interviews Remillard in his office
Remillard explains latency, operancy, inhibitors, auras and his plants, defends his testing program against fears of an elite, and discusses evolution toward a World Mind.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Remillard explains the World Mind to Moreno
Using a slime mold analogy, Remillard tells Moreno that human minds may unite into a World Mind, and cites next year's Alma-Ata congress as its first tentative step. Moreno closes the segment predicting superminds will change the world.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Roger agrees to the experiments
Ume persuades Roger to join her creativity experiments, promising to keep Lucille away and respect his wish for noninvolvement.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Experiments fail; Lucille reconciles
After eight weeks Roger is dismissed as a nonstarter. Lucille forgives him and gives him a kitten at Christmas 1992.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Shannon announces she is leaving
Shannon confronts Kieran over his Mental Mafia ambitions and announces she will leave for Dartmouth to join Remillard's program; Kieran begins explaining the persecution of metapsychics.
- Book 1 · Ch 53Denis confides in Ellsworth about his criminal brother
Under the seal of confession, Denis reveals his brother is a metapsychic criminal who has killed and suppressed siblings; lacking proof, he accepts Ellsworth's advice to wait and absolution.
- Book 1 · Ch 53Denis decides to marry Lucille
After debating whether he owes humanity offspring, Denis decides on a eugenic marriage to Lucille and asks Ellsworth to officiate.
- Book 1 · Ch 54Wedding of Denis and Lucille
On 22 July 1995, Denis Remillard and Lucille Cartier wed in Hanover's Catholic church, attended by Glenn Dalembert and Ume Kimura, then left for a symposium in Brussels.
- Book 1 · Ch 54Starting a family
The couple bought 15 East South Street in 1996 and had six children between 1997 and 2011, following their Prenatal Curriculum, with a stillbirth and a miscarriage in between.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Pyotr's birthday feast
Pyotr's family and guests celebrate with a lamb's head feast; Denis rescues it by coercion. Tamara privately explains Kremlin politics and organizes nine minds to protect the General Secretary.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Delegates destroy Finster
As Finster approaches the General Secretary with the bouquet, the audience's minds meld into metaconcert, with Remillard and Tamara trying to hold back, and incinerate him. Sergei dies watching.
- Book 1 · Ch 58UN committee analyzes the Retributory Incident
After a year-long investigation, Soviet forensics found the assassination was by explosive, and a UN committee concluded the killer was incinerated by operants' concerted psychoenergy, recommending legal and ethical study.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Nobel ceremony in Stockholm
At the Konserthuset, Queen Victoria Ingrid presents the 2003 Nobel Prizes; Xiong Ping-yung and Denis Remillard receive theirs while Lucille and Gerry watch from the loges amid the backlash against operants.
- Book 1 · Ch 63Central Asian and Azerbaidzhán uprisings
Alma-Ata's university is bombed and Baku's oil facilities are struck in coordinated attacks. The Coterie watches by excorporeal farsensing, and Barnes collapses from the horror.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Denis asks Rogi to join a metaconcert
Denis visits Rogi late at night after the President's call about a Chinese anomaly and asks for his help in a joint farsight excursion.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Metaconcert over Wuhan
Denis and Rogi fly mentally to Wuhan and watch a test subject trigger a mirrored dome mind-screen in a lab. They fail to penetrate it, and Rogi is left in agony.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Denis leaves shaken
Denis, drained, says the screen can be stopped only by destroying the generator and leaves, while Rogi fears the geopolitical consequences.
- Book 1 · Ch 71Denis probes Gerry Tremblay
In a prison room shielded against bugs, Denis gets Gerry's consent, probes his mind about Kieran O'Connor's alleged conspiracy and Zap-Star, and tries to crack the loyalty inhibition. He then wipes Gerry's memory of the visit.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Breakfast amid tension
The Remillard family breakfasts uneasily as pickets gather again. Denis offers to send the boys home, but Severin stays, and Rogi takes him to help set up for MacGregor's demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Denis is summoned by the President
As security tightens around the hotel, Denis is paged and goes to take a secure call from the President, leaving Lucille worried he will miss his speech.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Victor takes over O'Connor's empire
An SEC official notices a huge asset transfer to a Canadian dummy company controlled by Victor Remillard; the President tells Denis, who agrees to hunt for Victor and Shannon.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Cog train toward the chalet
Victor takes Rogi and O'Connor by cog train toward the chalet. Near Jacob's Ladder, Victor's aircraft approach and Rogi escapes, warning Denis of the attack.
- Book 1 · Ch 76X-wings brought down
Psychocreative fireballs from the chalet, led by an unfamiliar powerful mind and joined by Denis, disable both X-wings, which crash-land on Mount Clay's flank.
- Book 1 · Ch 77Denis proposes a pacifist grand metaconcert
Besieged in the chalet, Denis tells the delegates that Victor and Kieran are behind the attack and proposes a worldwide non-coercive metaconcert to reach the attackers' hearts, if the group chooses to uphold the Ethic.
- Book 1 · Ch 78Prayer in metaconcert saves the chalet
Mountain vibrations and calming greenish light accompany a global prayer led by Denis. Pete destroys Victor's detonator pack, and the storm calms.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Family gathers at Victor's house
Denis and Paul arrive; Louis and Leon report Victor's worsening anemia. Paul refuses to let Marc join the metaconcert and Denis yields, then prepares in Victor's room.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Denis explains Victor's condition
Denis tells nurse Mrs. Gilbert that Victor's mind remains active and that his decline is his own wish, ordering no special measures to stop it.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Family metaconcert at Victor's bedside
The Remillards gather to pray; Denis links their minds in a metaconcert for Victor, but Rogi keeps his shields up and is confronted by the monstrous Fury, then rescued by a red sphere.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Hydra's night with Fury
At the family bonfire Fury contacts the Hydra, promising an Ultimate Hightrip by taking someone's life force, and tells it to wait until after midnight.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Murder of Brett
At the yacht club the Hydra, coached by Fury, coerces and sedates Cat, then attacks Brett. At dawn Cat finds his burned body with seven flower-shaped ash marks.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Denis's farspeech search for Rogi
Enraged, Denis calls Rogi mentally, catches a faint response from the northwest, and scans across North America without locating him.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Remillard family conference
The seven siblings and parents learn Teresa and Rogi are alive, Paul decides not to report them, Anne is assigned to take Marc to Orb, and Catherine accepts her Concilium duty.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Denis reveals the ash-pattern link to Victor
Denis tells Philip, Maurice, Severin and Lucille that Brett's ash patterns match Shannon's, killed by Victor, and fears Victor's mind passed to a family member.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Family agrees to wait and plan a probe
The family agrees to leave the investigation to the Magistratum; Denis will design a human metaconcert probe, seeking Krondak help at Concilium Orb, and no one will act beforehand.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Fury brings the Hydra to the President's House
On Halloween, Fury has the Hydra lurk in the shrubbery near the President's House, intending possibly to attack Davy MacGregor, and orders it to study MacGregor and Strayhorn silently.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Dinner party at the President's House
Socorro Ortega hosts a Mesoamerican dinner for the Poltroyans, MacGregors and Remillards; talk covers Poltroyan fetal education, proctor races and coadunation, and Margaret's pregnancy is toasted.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Hydra attacks Margaret Strayhorn
Margaret answers the door to trick-or-treaters, who are disguised operant children. The Hydra strikes at her crown chakra, burning her scalp in a lotus pattern. She blocks it and collapses, survives, and recalls only a presence.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Fury rebukes and recommits the Hydra
Fury and the Hydra communicate mentally after the failed attack. Fury promises painful further training during the trip to Orb, and the Hydra will try again.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Denis finds Rogi
Rogi's triumphant telepathic shout, sent along Teresa's intimate mode, reaches Denis, who replies 'Gotcha Uncle Rogi!'
- Book 2 · Ch 23Fury orders the killing
Fury tells Hydra to drain and destroy the newly arrived woman tonight, disposing of the body and forcing a farewell note.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Denis finds Rogi and guides the moose butchering
Denis locates Rogi mentally, promises not to expose him, reveals the family already knows, and instructs him in butchering and caching the moose before a storm.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Denis touches Jack's mind
Denis probes Teresa's fetus; Jack identifies him, greets him as Grandpère and slams down an extraordinary screen, leaving Denis shaken.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rogi confides about the Family Ghost, then collapses and is rescued
Rogi tells Denis about the Lylmik Family Ghost and the Great Carbuncle, falls ill from overeating, collapses on Ape Lake's ice hallucinating Elaine, and wakes in the cabin tended by Teresa.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Hydra and Fury confer
Hydra proposes recruiting Jack; Fury tells her to stay away from Davy and wait, promising a nervebomb.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Lylmik hint at Denis's secret return
Homologous Trend suggests to Lucille that Denis could go home to Earth with the Poltroyans Fred and Minnie, who can evade security undetected.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Unifex and Fury spar
Fury and Unifex exchange telepathic words, each insisting on opposed futures; Unifex warns of other fishers beyond them.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Labor begins in the cabin
On Epiphany in extreme cold, Teresa prepares the cabin and bed for birth; Rogi lies to Denis about the labor and Teresa's waters break.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Denis rescues the fugitives
Before dawn, Denis and Fred arrive in a Poltroyan orbiter above the cabin, terrifying Jack, and announce they will take Teresa, Rogi and Jack to Kauai to hide until pardons are arranged.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Jack meets Denis
Jack meets his grandfather Denis, accepts a pat but refuses mental contact and says he cannot love him. Denis then reports that Paul will not see them yet.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc reunites with his mother
Mama farspeaks that she and Jack are back; Marc rides through the sleet to his grandfather's farm and finds her with the baby, under house arrest pending arraignment.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Hostile mind and Fury discuss Marc
A hostile mind boasts of deflecting Marc's will through the CE helmet and asks to kill him; Fury refuses, and they discuss energizing it secretly.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Fury sends Hydra after Adrienne
Fury and Hydra watch Adrienne swim toward the catamaran under coercion; Fury tells Hydra to take her out to sea as her last mindmeal of the summer.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Pardon denied
Paul reports to the family that the Directorate voted five to four against pardoning Teresa and Rogi. Denis expects clemency from Davy MacGregor, and Teresa plans to sing Turandot.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Jack reveals Adrienne's death
Jack admits spying on Marc's kiss with Adrienne, then tells Marc she was killed minutes earlier by a Hydra controlled by Fury. Marc cannot find her aura.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Paul and Denis learn of Hydra
Marc transmits Jack's memory of Adrienne's killing, the seven drained chakras and the fivefold Hydra image to Paul and Denis, who urge secrecy.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Marc tells Rogi about Fury
Marc reveals to Rogi the hidden controller Fury; Rogi recalls meeting Fury on Good Friday and at Jack's birth, and Marc proves by mind-contact that he himself is not Fury.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Fury contacts Marc on the river
While practicing on the frozen river, Marc is pulled into a real mental contact with Fury, who tries to recruit him; Marc resists but feels he almost recognizes Fury.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Hydra plots to kill Marc
The five heads of Hydra argue and agree on Gordo's plan to T-bone Marc during the ice-cycle race, burn his fuel and drown him, against Fury's wishes.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Ice-cycle race crash
At the loop, an out-of-control bike strikes Marc's Honda and explodes. Marc, warned by Jack, survives; the other rider, Gordon McAllister, dies.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Fury names Jack the Great Enemy
Furious at Hydra's failure, Fury concludes that Jack, who recognized Gordo's Hydra face, is the new Great Enemy he must kill himself.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc wakes in hospital
Marc wakes after the race crash, learns his injuries and that his attacker was his cousin Gordo, who died. Family visits and advises him to tell police only facts.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc reveals Hydra theory to Rogi
Marc farspeaks Rogi, explaining Gordo was Hydra, that Hydra is five prenatally touched children, and that an adult Fury is behind it. He asks Rogi to guard Jack.
- Book 2 · Ch 45Fire in Jack's hospital room
An intruder coerces the guard, enters Jack's locked room and starts a fire, feeding it with the oxygen line. Firefighters, Marc and Rogi break through the sigma-field and door.
- Book 2 · Ch 46Hydras take refuge on Islay
Following Fury's instructions, the four Hydra heads land the red egg at Sanaigmore Farm, hide it in the barn, and settle into the farmhouse to wait for the uproar to cool.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Rogi agrees to the dream-filter
Rogi reluctantly allows the Ghost to install a dream-filter against Fury nightmares so he can write Dorothée's story on Kauai, refusing any Unity programming.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury checks the Edinburgh research
Fury enters Denis Remillard's office and, via his terminal, reads a restricted précis of the Edinburgh research that threatens the E15. It resolves to replace the files.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury induces Marc to let Jack work
After Marc's modified ECI fails in simulation, Fury coerces him to hand Jack the comset. Jack disincarnates and quickly redesigns the ECI.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury plans to eliminate the Edinburgh researchers
After witnessing Marc and Jack's E15 breakthrough, Fury decides the three Scottish researchers threatening the project must be killed by Hydra, lured out of the university and eliminated without trace.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury contacts Hydra after three years
Fury breaks its long silence and tells Hydra that its grand scheme for a Second Milieu has advanced and that a feast of masterclass operant lifeforce is coming.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Hydra plots the ambush
Telepathically, Hydra members revise their plan: leave Dee and Ken alive, lure the three researchers to Geodh Ghille Mhóire and subdue them silently to feed.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Hydra reports to Fury and flees
At Unst Starport, Hydra tells Fury of the Krondaku's discovery. Fury sends Hydra to Anami-o-Shima with new identities and a new corporate base, with orders to feed sparingly.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Victor's death and Fury's birth
On Good Friday 2040 Victor died during the family prayer vigil. Fury appeared and tried to take Rogatien, who escaped with the Family Ghost's help.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Family conference under sigma shield
Paul tells the Remillard magnates and Denis that Hydra killed three researchers on Islay, that the Lylmik want it kept secret, and that Fury altered vital-statistic databases to hide the fugitives.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Family agrees to hunt Fury and Hydra
After debating Fury's identity, motives and Rebel politics, the siblings reluctantly agree they must kill Fury and Hydra themselves; Denis then raises that Marc might be Fury.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Paul's decision on Marc and the Fury hunt
After family debate, Paul rules that Marc's research continues, condemns Fury and the Hydra-units subject to Lylmik approval, and assigns every family member a role in the hunt, coordinating with him.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Meeting ends
Paul reminds the family of the next day's Magistratum interrogation, turns off the sigma-field and leaves; the family says good night.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Saint Patrick's Day party at Orb
The Remillards attend the Poltroyans' Irish-themed party; Denis and Lucille avoid Rory Muldowney and discuss Marc, Unity and the Hydra.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Fury spies on Rogi and Jack
Fury overhears their discussion and decides Dorothea may become a new creature to tempt rather than be eliminated, planning to wait.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Fury's false dream visit
Fury impersonates Dee's dead mother in a dream, praises her potential, disparages Jack and her farm companions, and urges secrecy. Dee later realizes the deception.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Dee agrees to play along with Fury
Her angel explains Fury and Hydra and suggests letting Fury keep contacting her to learn its plans. Dee secretly agrees, privately plotting something the angel cannot read.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Dorothée confides her secret
Dorothée tells Rogi about Fury and Hydra, her mother's death, Fury's dreams, and her Remillard suspect probabilities, after Rogi was hurt by her probing.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Fury instructs Hydra
Fury orders the paired minds to attend Marc's party and watch the Girl for contact with the Great Enemy; they urge killing her.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Halloween party on Orcas Island
Marc hosts a masquerade for metas at his house. Satsuma visitors, Dynasty members and friends mingle in costume.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Alvarez dies in custody
After saying farewell to Fury, Alvarez dies in his cell. He is later identified as the fugitive Quentin Remillard, and the case is closed.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Final dream with Fury
Fury, posing as Dee's mother, offers the Choice. Dee asks where the Cosmic Mind lives now, Fury's mask drops, and it threatens to kill her slowly, ending the dreams.
- Book 3 · Ch 20The conspirators regroup under Fury
Fury consoles the failed attackers, promises Celine's arrival in thirty-three days and urges a stronger assault before Dee goes to Orb; Parni and Maddy voice doubts about Fury.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Anne's account of Fury's temptation
Anne recounts dreams of Pallas Athene from 2054–2058 offering a Second Milieu, her realization that Athene was Fury, her breakdown, recovery with her parents and entry into the Jesuits.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Anne refuses to name Fury
Paul begs, probes and orders Anne to reveal her suspicions of Fury's identity; she blocks him and refuses, citing Milieu law and possible greater evil.
- Book 4 · Ch 22013 Congress and the Great Intervention
Rogatien recalls the attack plot on the delegates at Summit Chalet. Denis united minds in a worldwide metaconcert, and starships appeared, inducting humanity into the Milieu.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Rogi and Kyle discuss the Fury secret
Rogi insists Kyle keep secret that Fury is probably a Remillard, explaining the cover-up and the need to keep Davy MacGregor ignorant; Kyle reluctantly agrees.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Anne reveals Denis is Fury
Anne Remillard arrives unexpectedly in the snowstorm and tells Rogi she suspects her father Denis has a split personality and is Fury.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Anne names Denis as Fury
Over an omelet in Rogi's kitchen, Anne lays out evidence, the 2054 hospital fire timing, her dream-temptation and Denis's psychology, that her father Denis is Fury. Rogi, after initial denial, nearly accepts it.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Plan to cure Denis agreed
Anne and Rogi plan a secret CE-enhanced coercive-redactive metaconcert to cure Denis and destroy Fury, with Jack building equipment and Dorothée probing Rogi's memories; the plan is kept from the rest of the family.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Hydra sabotages Anne Remillard's courier
From a docked maintenance craft, Hydra coerces the courier's pilot into a suicidal full-power descent onto the Okanagon Sector Base. Anne survives the crash badly burned.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Hydra reports failure to Fury
Hydra tells Fury that Anne will be incommunicado for months, plans to use her cover to join the investigation, and worries about Parnell's plan.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Rogi's rescue from the springhole
After nearly drowning and a near-death experience, Rogi is revived on shore by Denis and Marc using redaction, and accuses Parnell of the attempt on his life.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Flight to Colebrook
Marc and Denis load Rogi into Marc's egg at the lodge and fly him to the hospital in Colebrook; Rogi discovers Denis was his rescuer.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Fury and Hydra confer
Hydra wants to attack the newlyweds but Fury forbids it, planning to draw Marc into its New Ones scheme and sending Hydra to Astrakhan after seducing Marc in dreams.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Honeymoon arrival on Kauai
Jack and Dorothea see the green flash, discuss Rogi's revelations and plans to heal Denis, and arrive at Jack's fortified Lawai Kai home.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Rogatien's depression and dread
After recovering over the summer, Rogatien grows depressed in autumn 2078, rejecting that Denis is Fury yet knowing the metaconcert redaction of Denis will proceed at Christmas with his own participation.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Lucille persuades Denis
Before midnight mass, Lucille urges Denis to become a Concilium Magnate to champion Unity against the Rebels; he agrees if the Lylmik ask again.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Philip and Maurice prepare the operation
At midnight mass, Philip and Maurice privately discuss their plan to use CE metaconcert on their unsuspecting father, anguished over risks and addiction.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Dummy-unit plan agreed
Jack proposes using Severin as a sedated dummy participant, as done on the Siberian planet. Paul agrees to proceed, and prepares to cue the others and bring Denis downstairs.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Integration of Denis and Fury
Rogi lures Denis to the cellar, where eight minds forge a metaconcert, subdue him, and force the fusion of Denis and Fury, leaving an unnamed merged personality that then vanishes.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Denis's faked death
After Denis vanishes, Lucille confronts the narrator. Jack fabricates a body, Severin signs the death certificate, and the First Magnate arranges formalities. Fake ashes are interred in Berlin, New Hampshire, and memorials follow.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Death of the new entity
The narrator reveals that Denis's foster-son-narrated successor entity finally died in autumn 2082 on Mount Washington, where his true ashes were buried.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Fury consoles Hydra
After the meeting fails, Fury comforts Hydra, promising the plan will succeed using her ova and the Hydraseduction of the fetuses.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Fury infiltrates Steinbrenner at CEREM
Fury d-jumps into the Mental Man facility, mentally dominates Steinbrenner during an embryo assay, reveals Cyndia's parentage, and orders Madeleine's ovary used, with embryos brought to term.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Sam Ontaratu repels Fury
Fury tries to coerce a Dene derelict, perhaps to feed, but Sam breaks his nose with a bottle and Fury vanishes, disoriented.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Fury appears before Rogi
While babysitting Hagen, Rogi hears the Family Ghost's warning about danger from Marc, then turns to see a bloodied fair-haired man in the nursery.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Denis's apparition in the nursery
A vision of Denis begs Rogi for help to save humanity and the Milieu, then vanishes, leaving Rogi alone with a crying baby.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Rogi's ream and argument
Dorothée reams Rogi's memory of seeing Denis's spectre; the result is inconclusive. Rogi argues with Jack and Dorothée over Marc, whom they fear is preparing for war.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Fury attacks Paul and kills Fred
In Hellfire Lane, Fury, disguised as Terekev, coerces Paul and brainburns him. Fred claws Fury and is killed. Denis briefly surfaces and Fury abandons the feeding, escaping by d-jump to Wester Killiecrankie Starport.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Jack and Dorothea analyze the attack
They conclude that Fury attacked Paul, identify three suspects, and deduce that Denis's resurgence saved Paul. Dorothea plans a pro-Unity campaign.
- 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 27Denis reveals the truth about Fury
Denis rescues Rogi, shares the history of Fury and the Hydras, and begs Rogi to kill his body to end Fury. Rogi tries to conjure metacreative energy, but Fury takes over.
- Book 4 · Ch 27The Carbuncle destroys Fury
As Fury tries to throw the narrator into the blizzard, the narrator raises the Great Carbuncle and completes a golden energy spiral. A neural discharge hurls him outside, and Fury vanishes, leaving only a cone of powder.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Denis's farewell
Denis speaks mentally to his father, tells him to call for help and take the Carbuncle to Jack in Hawaii, then bids him adieu. The narrator weeps alone.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Rogi tells Jack of Denis's death
On Kauai, Rogi tells Jack most of the story of Denis/Fury's death and gives him the Great Carbuncle. Jack resolves to keep Fury's identity secret.
- 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.