Madeleine
Names: MadeleineMaddyMadeleine RemillardMagdala MacKendalthe dark-haired womanLynelle RogersLynelleCitizen RogersLynell RogersMaddyinawetsuitLyudmila ArsanovaHydraLyudmila Pavlovna ArsanovaLyudmilaMilaArsanovaCitizen ArsanovaSaskiaSaskia ApeldoornFury
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 32Madeleine, twelve, claimed to have seen a shark fin while sailing on the days two operants vanished.
- Ch 33Maddy killed a moth to teach Jack empathy and wanted to kill a sparrow; Jack says he dislikes her.
- Ch 39Maddy, thirteen, studied cerebroenergetics with Jack and had Marc dismantle his homemade CE helmet to explain it.
- Ch 44Madeleine, with Celine, Quint and Parni, tricked Rogi with a false story that housekeeper Jacqui had collapsed, trying to coerce him inside.
- Ch 46Maddy uses her seekersense to detect many bright auras of natural suboperants along Islay's south coast, and sees this as why Fury chose the place.
- Ch 46Maddy insists the group be extremely careful and not deplete the natural resources, as they may be holed up for as long as a year.
- Ch 47Paul claimed Madeleine was studying on Poltroyan planet Toropon-su-Makon under an exchange program, hiding that she was a fugitive suspect.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 4Magdala MacKendal is a striking woman in scarlet who tells Dee the Kilnave Fiend story and bows to her after a strong mental thrust fails.
- Ch 4Magdala MacKendal has a melodious, coercive voice and told Dee the story of the Kilnave Fiend; she left her book-plaque behind.
- Ch 6Maddy is a Hydra member who insists on a quiet kill with no outcry, and that Dee be left alone.
- Ch 7Brilliant, cold and beautiful Hydra; third child of Paul and Teresa, Marc's younger sister. Graduated summa cum laude from Harvard home-study and earned a Milieu law degree.
- Ch 7As a child she was cruel to her brother Luc and tried to ingratiate herself with baby Jack, probably to bring him into Fury's orbit.
- Ch 11Twenty-three-year-old special assistant to Okanagon's Dirigent-Designate Patricia Castellane, with grandmasterclass metafaculties, unmarried and strikingly beautiful; Rogi finds her both desirable and menacing.
- Ch 13Lynelle Rogers is a senior staffer to Dirigent Castellane of Okanagon, but is in fact a Hydra unit sent to seduce Marc and lure him into using the E15.
- Ch 13Lynelle uses mental compulsion to make Marc agree to demonstrate the E15, after he rejects her sexual advances.
- Ch 13Lynelle put on the helmet and, with her creativity enhanced, overpowered Marc's extracerebral neurons and drew him into an erotic, painful mental union.
- Ch 13Lynelle told Marc he would forget the details of the catalysis but that the result would stay with him always.
- Ch 13Lynelle said she loves and hates Marc and that someday she will kill him in just this way, but not now.
- Ch 20Madeleine was one of the attackers, posing as the drowned boy Mikey; she restrained herself from striking Dee mentally to avoid revealing her mental signature.
- Ch 22Madeleine, Jack's sister, and her cousin Parnell escaped through other secret exits of the death-cave.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 9Madeleine is Paul's prodigal child, hiding somewhere and believed to be plotting.
- Ch 9Madeleine was a child of Paul and Teresa whose genes were not flawed.
- Ch 13Paul's younger daughter Madeleine, Marc's sister, is now Fury's only remaining confederate.
- Ch 18Madeleine is the last surviving Hydra, still at large, according to Dorothea.
- Ch 19Posing as Terekev's Chief of Staff, she is really the Hydra persona, who has accepted second place beneath Fury.
- Ch 19She once plotted to eliminate Fury and become Mental Man's master, but now realizes she needs him to run the coming Rebellion.
- Ch 19Arrived on Astrakhan as an immigrant from Rostov-na-Donu; her predecessor died in a groundcar crash and she purged the office.
- Ch 19Lyudmila poses as a tourist from Astrakhan and, with Ruslan, subdues and kills three Hibernians as 'the Hydra', feeding on their psychic energy.
- Ch 19Lyudmila teaches Ruslan to drink from the seven chakra points along head and spine; she is devoted to him and kneels in awe.
- Ch 20Pat Castellane's executive assistant who, in 2078, hinted to Rory that Astrakhan could supply warships; she died in a climbing accident days later.
- Ch 20Terekev's Chief of Staff, a formidable, dark-haired woman rumored to be his lover and apparently the dominant partner.
- Ch 20Lyudmila, Ruslan Terekev's Chief of Staff, secretly probed the Rebel Council's minds, then tried to draw Marc into intimacy.
- Ch 24Madeleine Remillard walks among the fetuses in disguise and is called Saskia by the New Ones, who chose her as their master.
- Ch 24Madeleine intends to leave soon and, on return, announce a new name; the New Ones are told to obey only her, not even Fury.
- Ch 24Madeleine turned off the alarm so as not to disturb the others when Conlan's vital signs went flat.
- Ch 26Lyudmila Arsanova is Terekev's Chief of Staff and, per Terekev's claim, is Marc's sister Madeleine, the last original Hydra.
- Ch 26Lyudmila planned to fake a solar flare to blind Astrakhan's orbital monitors while the dreadnoughts escape into the gray limbo.
- Ch 26Madeleine is Marc's sister, the sole surviving original Hydra, according to Terekev.
- Ch 26Madeleine is Marc's sister and the strongest surviving first-generation Hydra, hiding under the names Lyudmila Arsanova and earlier Saskia Apeldoorn.
- Ch 26Madeleine, as Saskia Apeldoorn, was chief technician at the Orcas Island gestatorium, which let her subvert the Mental Man fetuses.
- Ch 26Madeleine claims Mental Man was hers and Marc's, with ova from her rather than Rosamund, and that Marc's dreams had accepted this.
- Ch 26Madeleine's vegetative body is placed in cryogenic storage by the Keoghs; Marc will decide later what to do with it.
- Ch 27Madeleine, a Hydra, could not harm her master Fury when he told her to kill him if Denis broke free.
- Ch 30Madeleine was Marc's sister and a Hydra, condemned in absentia by the First Magnate; her ova had been used to conceive the Mental Man children.
Connections
- family ofMarcbrother and sister
- family ofJacksister
- member ofHydraLynelle is a Hydra unit, apparently Maddy/Madeleine
- family ofPauldaughter
- family ofQuentinwife and husband
- part ofHydra
- member ofPatricia Castellanespecial assistant
- enemy ofMarcseeks to ensnare him on Fury's behalf
- partner ofMarcMental union forced by Lynelle; Marc's repressed desire surfaces
- created byDenisMaddy says Fury created them
- partner ofParnell
- enemy ofDiamond Mask
- ally ofDenis
- related toRuslan Vakhavich TerekevHydra serves Fury as his subordinate persona and Chief of Staff
- partner ofRuslan Vakhavich Terekev
- leadsMental Man
- related toDeniswas once chosen by Fury along with four Hydra-units; now secretly keeps the New Ones from Fury's command
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 23Krondak enclave tour
Marc takes seven young cousins to Lurakal, where Loga'etoo Tilk'ai hosts them and shows them the connubial vat's viewing chamber.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Marc reveals secret to siblings
Marc tells Marie, Maddy and Luc that their mother is alive and pregnant, then blocks their minds to prevent leaks.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Shark deaths near Rye
From late May through summer, several operants vanished or died while swimming or sailing off the New Hampshire coast, attributed to a shark; the Remillard children were allowed to keep swimming in groups.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Hydra children's ambush of Rogi
Madeleine and others lure Rogi to Paul's house with a false emergency and try to coerce him. He recognizes them, shields his mind and uses the Great Carbuncle; a flash of light returns him to his garage.
- 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 2 · Ch 46Maddy discovers prey on Islay
Maddy senses numerous bright auras of natural suboperants on Islay's south coast and the group resolves to proceed cautiously so as not to give themselves away.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Dee meets the MacKendals on the ferry
En route to Islay, Dee meets John Quentin and Magdala MacKendal, who probe her mind-screen; Magdala tells her the Kilnave Fiend legend.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Dee wakes as ferry docks
Dee wakes from a vivid dream of Magdala's tale, finds her book-plaque matching the dream, and follows Ken off the ferry at Port Askaig.
- 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 7Hydra children flee to Islay
After Hydra's attacks on Rogatien, Marc and Jack failed in 2054, the four Hydra children vanished and hid at Sanaigmore Farm on Islay under false identities.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Arrival at Orb and meeting Lynelle
Rogi and Marc's four friends arrive at Orb; Marc introduces Lynelle Rogers, whose beauty and unreadable mind unsettle Rogi, and explains the lodging mix-up.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Sleigh ride to Fred's tree-house
Lynelle drives the group by robotic yingi sleigh to Fred's tree-home in Biriton Enclave, where he welcomes them; Marc declines to stay.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Rogi and Fred discuss Marc
Over drinks, Fred tells Rogi about the Concilium's debate on E15; Rogi voices his worries about Marc and Lynelle, and Marc later tells him to mind his own business.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Seduction and compulsion
Lynelle visits Marc, offers him Okanagon funding, tries to seduce him, and is refused. She then mentally compels him to demonstrate the E15.
- Book 3 · Ch 13E15 demonstration
Marc dons the E15 helmet and creates a flame manikin that compresses a piece of charcoal into a tiny crystal octahedron, astonishing Lynelle.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Lynelle dons the helmet
While Marc tends the fire under the Hydra's coercion, Lynelle puts on the CE helmet and uses the diamond to overpower him mentally, drawing him into an intense erotic and painful union that she says will teach him who he is.
- 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 22Fight in the caves
Chased by the Hydra units, Dee is burned but kills Celine's monster form with stones and escapes via a hurricane blast of cave-wind, landing in a bog.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Arrival on Hibernia and the drive
Terekev and Arsanova arrive at Gaillimh, decline a chauffeur, and drive along the Loch Mór coast toward Dumha Sí, secretly hunting for victims to feed Terekev.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Possible victims sensed in a cove
After several false alarms, Terekev senses three weakly operant people in a cove near Inisfáil; Lyudmila speeds there but a cruifall alert triggers autodeceleration.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Cruifall at the cove
A red worm-fall blinds the car; the computer explains cruifall and the pair drive down to a cove where scavengers are butchering a stranded ollphéistmhara.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Feeding on the Hibernians
Lyudmila and Ruslan coerce the three operant scavengers, kill them and feed on their psychic energy; Ruslan achieves full empowerment of all metafaculties.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Rogers' hint about Astrakhan
In 2078 Lynelle Rogers obliquely told Rory that Astrakhan could supply warships and urged him to inform Marc. She died soon after; Astrakhan later won the shipbuilding contract and Terekev proposed a meeting.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Terekev and Arsanova arrive on Hibernia
Rory collects the Russians from Granuaile House, has the Garda stop questioning them about a sea-beast attack, and takes them to Inisfáil to meet Rebel leaders.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Madeleine binds the New Ones
Disguised, Madeleine reinforces the New Ones' loyalty, ensuring they obey only her via the Reward, then puts them to sleep and finds Conlan apparently dead in his capsule.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Earthquake at Castellane's reception
A moderate quake hits Chelan Metro during the Rebel reception. Terekev is injured and acts strangely; fleet officers settle plans for his dreadnoughts.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Terekev's warning and disappearance
Terekev tells Marc that Lyudmila is Madeleine and that Mental Man has been turned into Hydras. Marc refuses to probe the children and vanishes after Terekev escapes.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Marc confronts Madeleine
Marc, in his CE rig, summons Madeleine, who admits Mental Man was theirs; he refuses to listen and destroys her cerebral cortex.
- 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.