Maurice
Names: MauriceMauryMaurice RemillardMaurie
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 54 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 75Maurice is fourteen, finishing a B.A. at Dartmouth, and considering philosophy before medical school.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 16Maurice finds CE addictive and terrible and believes the Concilium must eventually ban it, though it must be used against Fury now.
Connections
- family ofDenischild
- family ofRogi Remillardgreat-uncle
- family ofCecilia Ashewife
- partner ofCecilia Ashemarried
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- family ofPhilip Remillardbrothers
- enemy ofCreativityopposed Marc's CE research in Concilium
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 63Halloween prank at the bookshop
Denis's three sons, dressed as imps, flood Rogi's shop with spaghetti 'worms' and scatter his cash. Rogi freezes them with coercion, takes their picture, and makes them clean up.
- 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 2 · Ch 8Remillard siblings enter politics
Paul draws his siblings into Human Polity politics; all seven become Grand Master Intendant Associates, and Paul secures Concord as capital in 2040.
- 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 3 · Ch 8Family council at Paul's home
Paul gathers his six siblings at his Concord cottage to await Denis; amid arguments over Unity between Rebels Severin and Adrien and Anne, he uses coercion to hold the debate until they are in a sigma-shielded summerhouse.
- 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 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 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 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.