Mount Washington
Names: Mount Washingtonthe mountain
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 20 (19)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 27Its icy fog and sudden weather shifts have killed over 150 people, more than on any other North American peak.
Connections
- containsSummit Chalet
Key moments
- 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 59Shannon deceives Victor and reveals Kieran's methods
Shannon feeds Victor a decoy scheme while secretly scanning him, then reveals how her father bonds operants, showing him telepathically, and enlists his cooperation to bring Kieran down.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Rogi discovers Shannon's murder
Searching the hotel's computer center, Rogi finds Victor emerging from a storeroom with Shannon's burned corpse; Victor coerces him.
- Book 1 · Ch 77Kieran O'Connor dies
In the wrecked coach, Kieran admits he forced the metaconcert to teach the pacifists their power, taunts Victor, speaks of the Black Mother and dies screaming.
- 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 1 · Ch 78The Great Intervention begins
Pete returns the Great Carbuncle to Rogi and disappears; the sky fills with the Galactic Milieu's starships.
- 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 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 27Rogi nearly freezes on Mount Washington
Rogi hikes toward the summit, gets caught by icy fog and snow, develops hypothermia and collapses near the Gulf Tank before a beckoning figure guides him to a shed.
- 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.