Paul
Names: PaulPaul RemillardPapaIntendant RemillardIntendant Associate Paul RemillardFirst MagnateFirst Magnate of the Human PolityPapa's youngest sonNumber One
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 35Paul will be Denis and Lucille's youngest son, father of Marc and Jon, and the first human on the Galactic Concilium.
- Ch 47Rogatien's grandnephew Paul addressed the Galactic Concilium in 2052, when human magnates were admitted after Earth's proctoring by the Simbiari ended.
- Ch 47Paul said operant minds pay two prices: alienation from latent humans, and an obligation to love and serve those below them.
- Ch 54Paul, the youngest Remillard child, was conceived after the Intervention and nurtured in utero on Galactic Milieu mental precepts; he was brilliant and controversial.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 4Paul is Jack's father and met his son's disincarnation with clinical detachment.
- Ch 5Paul is Denis's youngest son, a rising planetary statesman who refuses to let his baby son Marc join the metaconcert.
- Ch 5Paul is the youngest Remillard sibling, tall and princely, with perhaps the most powerful metafaculties in the human race; married to soprano Teresa Kendall.
- Ch 6Marc's father, away in Concord; Marc has learned to shrug off his power to hurt him. Paul is unaware of Teresa's pregnancy.
- Ch 7Paul is a politician heading the list of newly announced human Magnates and expected to be First Magnate when humanity joins the Concilium in January.
- Ch 7Paul is Marc's father and Teresa's husband; he may need to denounce her to protect his reputation, and his mind is almost reamproof.
- Ch 8Born in 2014, Paul is the youngest Remillard sibling, educated in utero by Milieu techniques, and acknowledged as the first human Grand Master metapsychic.
- Ch 8Paul rose to Intendant Associate in the North American Intendancy and lobbied to make Concord, New Hampshire Earth's capital in 2040, earning the nickname The Man Who Sold New Hampshire.
- Ch 8After Teresa lost her fertility license, Paul secretly fathered children with other women of superior genetic stock, despite his Catholic scruples.
- Ch 8Paul and Teresa married in 2036-37 on the Met stage, in the set of The Snow Maiden, less than five months after meeting.
- Ch 8Paul coached his siblings, and all seven Remillard siblings became Grand Masters and Intendant Associates, the beginning of the Remillard Dynasty.
- Ch 12Paul and the Magistratum are the pursuers from whom Rogi and Teresa are hiding.
- Ch 14Paul is a charismatic, powerful metapsychic and ardent champion of the Galactic Milieu and Unity, favored by the exotics for First Magnate.
- Ch 15Paul is an Intendant and Grand Master metapsychic who gave the summing-up speech in favor of the Denali ethnic planet proposal, which passed by a landslide.
- Ch 15Paul believes Teresa's illicit child was conceived during their March trip to Denali and that she planned it carefully; he wishes her dead rather than alive.
- Ch 15Paul reported the affair and Marc's role to the Magistratum, but did not tell the Proctors what Lucille and Severin planned.
- Ch 15Paul tried to coerce Marc mentally into revealing whether Teresa and Rogi are alive, but failed to breach his deepest levels.
- Ch 15Paul was adjudged not proven of contriving the deaths of Teresa Kendall and Rogatien Remillard, and of conspiring to conceive an illicit child; he feared his wife was alive.
- Ch 18Paul is soon to be First Magnate unless Davy MacGregor wins an upset; he decided the family will not report Teresa's whereabouts.
- Ch 18Paul reported Teresa's illicit pregnancy to the Magistratum at 1346 hours on 24th, before Brett was killed over fourteen hours later.
- Ch 18Paul stayed alone in his Concord apartment the night of Brett's murder, making him a viable suspect.
- Ch 19Magnate-Designate who requested a place in Golden Gate, near the Central Concourse and meeting chambers.
- Ch 21Intendant Associate and candidate for First Magnate, he is a Dartmouth alumnus, publicly involved with Laura Tremblay, and was educated in the womb at Colette Roy's suggestion.
- Ch 21Paul will likely be unopposed as First Magnate, humanity's first spokesman in the Galactic Concilium, because Davy declined.
- Ch 23Paul Remillard, soon to be First Magnate, is seen in the Krondak connubial vat with Laura Tremblay.
- Ch 23Paul learns of Margaret's death from the Magistratum and is turned away by Davy at the apartment.
- Ch 24Paul will not divorce Teresa and will back seeking her pardon, but the marriage is beyond repair and he likely won't speak to her.
- Ch 25Paul is Adrien's brother and a pro-Milieu human.
- Ch 26Candidate for First Magnate; shaken that Davy MacGregor is still running, he campaigns even on Christmas Eve with ally Ilya Gawrys.
- Ch 26Paul Remillard is a candidate in the election against Davy; he would be expected to install family members in steering committees or the Directorate.
- Ch 28Paul was elected First Magnate of the Human Polity by a small margin and gave an inspiring speech to the Concilium.
- Ch 29Paul was elected First Magnate, 59 votes to Davy MacGregor's 41; most believe he is a widower, and he is estranged from Teresa.
- Ch 30Paul plans to introduce a resolution granting Teresa and Rogi a retroactive pardon once the Intendant Assembly reconvenes.
- Ch 31Paul visited Teresa and Jack on Kauai with lawyers and Colette Roy, was kind, but said other matters would dominate his time.
- Ch 31Paul is First Magnate of the Concilium; there will be no divorce or open separation from Teresa.
- Ch 32Paul voted against the rider pardoning Teresa and Rogi, the only Dynasty member to do so; he has not visited Jack.
- Ch 33Paul, First Magnate, abstained on the pardon vote and feels exhausted and dispirited; he never asks Teresa about Jack.
- Ch 33Paul Remillard is the father of Marc and Jack. He swims out at sea and heads back to shore after Marc's frantic call.
- Ch 34He kept his suspicions from the Magistratum and resolved to investigate Hydra privately, fearing a threat to the Human Polity.
- Ch 36Paul wept and reconciled with Teresa in her dressing room after opening night, then moved back into the family home in Hanover.
- Ch 39Paul left the family home twice during Jack's illness, returning once to help Teresa and teach Jack every known redactive, metacoercive and creative program.
- Ch 40Paul is Teresa's husband, bearded and tall; Rogi briefly mistakes a phantom figure for him.
- Ch 41Paul took a month's seclusion on Denali with Laura Tremblay in January 2054 and offered to resign as First Magnate after the scandal.
- Ch 47Paul recommended that all Remillards resign Concilium seats and be incarcerated, and that human probation be extended indefinitely until Fury and Hydra were found.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 7Paul won the election for First Magnate of the Human Polity over Davy MacGregor; he privately believed Fury and Hydra were real and tied to his family.
- Ch 7First Magnate of the Human Polity; felt uneasy about the Edinburgh study but told no one, and was furious at Dorothée's refusal.
- Ch 8Paul is First Magnate of the Human Polity, aged 48, and was reelected by a huge majority; he has settled permanently in Concord.
- Ch 8Paul built a carpenter-gothic cottage in Concord at his own expense, favors old-fashioned roses and grass, and has a whimsical streak.
- Ch 8Paul summoned his six siblings for an emergency family council about the Unity dispute and other matters; he used coercion to quiet their bickering.
- Ch 8After Laura Tremblay's death in 2059 he pursued many publicized liaisons; the family hopes he will remarry.
- Ch 8Paul mentally controlled luna moths to fly to the summerhouse and orbit Catherine.
- Ch 8As First Magnate, Paul convenes a shielded family conference and reveals Hydra has committed three new murders in Scotland.
- Ch 8Paul offered the Lylmik the family's joint resignation and voluntary incarceration; the Lylmik refused, wanting the family to keep positions and the matter kept confidential.
- Ch 8Paul proposes that the family personally hunt down and kill Fury and Hydra, and the siblings reluctantly agree.
- Ch 8Paul considers shutting down Marc's research by executive fiat, fearing creativity enhancement could let Fury enslave the Milieu, but ultimately allows it to continue.
- Ch 8As First Magnate, Paul alone decides the matter and reports to the Lylmik Supervisors.
- Ch 11Paul fathered thirty-eight natural children plus Marc, Marie, Madeleine, Luc and Jack, and had a liaison with Laura Tremblay.
- Ch 11Paul tried to steer Marc away from research tied to left-wing Dynasty members like Severin and Adrien.
- Ch 11Rumored to have persuaded the Lylmik not to nominate Marc to the Concilium two years earlier; described as passionate and driven to advance humanity in the Milieu.
- Ch 12Paul is First Magnate and a loyalist who believes Unity would benefit human mental evolution and who thinks the Rebels can be disproved.
- Ch 12Paul Remillard is the First Magnate of the Human Polity of the Galactic Milieu; he is knocked out cold by Rory at a Saint Patrick's Day party.
- Ch 12Paul's face turned livid during Rory's speech, and he stepped toward Rory, pleading with him in God's name, before being punched.
- Ch 14As First Magnate, Paul carried on his duties efficiently after the incident; he reportedly became more careful about the mental health of his mistresses.
- Ch 18Paul is a Jesuit priest and Milieu champion, rated 64 percent Fury suspect by Dorothée.
- Ch 21Paul argues against condemning the Rebels or imposing a loyalty oath, insisting humans must be persuaded of Unity rather than forced.
- Ch 21Paul does not know who Fury is and wonders whether it is Marc or himself.
- Ch 21Paul suspects Unifex's talk of sin was camouflage and that the real reason to question Anne concerns Anne herself.
- Ch 21Paul is First Magnate; the Supervisory Body summoned him that night over condemning the Rebel movement, and he argued against loyalty oaths.
- Ch 21Paul tried to probe Anne's mind to learn Fury's identity but could not penetrate her mental shield.
- Ch 23The First Magnate, angry that Jack and Dorothée set a Hydra trap without telling him.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 4Paul Remillard, First Magnate of the Human Polity, testified that exotics fear CE would skew human evolution away from Unity, and favors a moratorium.
- Ch 4Marc scorns Paul for fathering children with many grandmasterclass women, and suspects Paul wants to appease the exotics.
- Ch 5Anne will especially hide the plan from Paul, fearing he would resign as First Magnate or turn the family in, harming their pro-Unity agenda.
- Ch 7Paul, the First Magnate, intends to keep the Hydra angle of the crash investigation secret; there will be no Hydra hunt.
- Ch 9Paul is First Magnate of the Human Polity, sixty-four years old but looks half that due to his family's self-rejuvenating gene complex.
- Ch 9Paul gave his children to their grandparents Denis and Lucille when Jon was five, and his parental instincts atrophied; he is formal and distant with his children.
- Ch 9Paul considers appointing Davy MacGregor as Unity Directorate chairman pro tem because Jack lacks experience and toughness to face the Rebel magnates.
- Ch 9Paul first saw his wife Teresa in 2036 at the Metropolitan Opera, when he was twenty-two and she debuted at nineteen in Lucia di Lammermoor.
- Ch 9Paul married Teresa five months after meeting her, on the stage at the Met, after her voice acted on him like an aphrodisiac.
- Ch 9Paul admits being a galaxy-class womanizer; he fell out of love with Teresa and took other lovers, though he says he never acted callously.
- Ch 9Paul says his true passion is his work for the Galactic Milieu, and he privately wonders whether he is the biggest fool in the galaxy.
- Ch 9Paul has never known the sexual transcendence Rogi described, and tells Jack not to take him as a role model.
- Ch 9Paul privately admits he begat Jack by accident without love, was revolted by his mutation, avoided him, and feels he owes him reparation.
- Ch 9Paul agrees to give Jack his memories of sexual arousal as a wedding gift, embracing him.
- Ch 12Paul, the First Magnate, offered Davy the Unity Directorate headship and was quoted as very disappointed at the refusal.
- Ch 13As First Magnate, Paul believed Rogi's story and decided against subjecting him to a mechanical mind-ream in Cambridge.
- Ch 16Paul, the First Magnate, coerced Severin into coming to Hanover and cannot force him to join the healing operation.
- Ch 16Paul, the First Magnate, was the youngest of the Dynasty, trained from the womb with exotic preceptive techniques.
- Ch 16Paul decides to proceed with the dummy configuration rather than abort and wait for Anne to recover.
- Ch 17Paul coordinated the plan, cued Rogi to bring Denis downstairs, and participated in the metaconcert.
- Ch 21Paul attacked Steinbrenner's credentials, demanded an independent study of the embryonic assay technique, and hinted Mental Man might be a hoax to support the Rebel Party.
- Ch 23Paul leads the pro-Milieu loyalists, who still form a majority among Human Polity magnates, and tries in vain to maneuver Marc into public debate.
- Ch 25First Magnate who performed badly in the debate, appearing a pompous elitist against Terekev, and suspects Marc of arming militant Rebel factions.
- Ch 25He vowed to prove the Rebels are stockpiling weapons and then demand the loyalty oath in the Concilium to expel Rebel hard-liners.
- Ch 25He says there is one Remillard he cannot control, and warns Davy to watch his back.
- Ch 25As First Magnate, he fears the Rebels' militant faction and may propose a weapons-based defensive strategy to the Lylmik Supervisors.
- Ch 25Fury attacked him with a brainburning chakra drain on a dark Caledonian lane, leaving him gravely brain-injured but alive.
- Ch 25With his last words before collapsing he told his father Denis to 'Go to Rogi.'
- Ch 27Paul, the First Magnate, was nearly killed in an attack blamed on Rebel extremists and is recovering slowly.
- Ch 34Paul, weakened but determined, acted as telergic transfer monitor from a shuttlecraft, helping concentrate nonoperants' mental emanations.
- Ch 34Paul was killed when the nova destroyed Scurra's area; his shuttle vanished microseconds after Scurra.
Connections
- family ofDenisfuture youngest son
- family ofRogi Remillardgrandnephew
- family ofJackfather
- family ofMarcson
- family ofTeresawife
- partner ofTeresamarried
- family ofLucilleson
- friend ofDavidclose friend and rival
- family ofAnnesister and brother; she mentored him politically
- partner ofLaura Tremblayalleged by Rory
- family ofColette Roygodmother
- family ofAdrienbrothers
- friend ofIlya
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- related toColette Roygodmother
- family ofMadeleinedaughter
- related toAsahel Fitchcook employed by
- leadsHuman PolityFirst Magnate
- related toLylmikreports to the Lylmik Supervisors
- enemy ofMarcopposed him in the Concilium
- enemy ofRory MuldowneyRory publicly accuses Paul over Laura and punches him
- member ofConciliumMagnate
- friend ofFritiso-Prontinalin
- friend ofMinatipa-Pinakrodin
- leadsGalactic MilieuFirst Magnate
- family ofCatherinesister
- family ofSeverinolder brother
- friend ofFred
- family ofCyndia Muldowneytrue father
Key moments
- 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 2 · Ch 4Rogi's recurring nightmare
Rogi recounts his nightmare: Jack's birth, his body's disintegration, his brain surviving, Marc's turn to enhancement, and the Metapsychic Rebellion ending in a planet's destruction.
- 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 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 8Wedding of Paul and Teresa
Paul and Teresa married on the Met stage in the Snow Maiden set, officiated by the Archbishop of Manchester-in-New-Hampshire, with family and opera company attending.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Teresa's reproductive tragedies
After Marc, Marie, Madeleine and Luc, stillbirths and aborted defective fetuses led to revocation of Paul and Teresa's reproductive license, and Teresa's decline.
- 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 14Plan to help Davy MacGregor defeat Paul Remillard
Gerrit proposes spreading word of Paul's suspected involvement in the murder; Anna decides they will use every weapon to help Davy win, with strategy to be set that night.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Paul confronts Marc before the interrogation
Walking to the Proctorship, Paul begs Marc to open his mind about whether Teresa and Rogi are alive, then coerces him; Marc resists and Paul declares his love.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Acquittal of Paul and Marc Remillard
The Chief and Throma'eloo issue a pro tempore not-proven acquittal of Paul and Marc, continue the investigations, and Marc is released to an escort.
- 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 18Discussion of Brett's murder investigation
The family debates theories of the killer, including a Simbiari metaconcert, and resolves to mount its own investigation.
- 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 23Adults seen in the connubial vat
Through the viewing window, Marc sees Ilya Gawrys, Katy MacGregor, Davy MacGregor, Margaret Strayhorn, his father Paul and Laura Tremblay in the vat.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Paul reports Margaret's death
Paul tells Lucille that Margaret is dead, apparently a suicide, while Marc listens by farsense.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Lylmik crash the Inaugural Ball
The five Lylmik Supervisors arrive in human form at the ball and shock everyone by dancing with humans, including Paul, Lucille, Davy, and Laura.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc and Rogi argue about Paul
Marc resents Paul's coolness toward Teresa, but Rogi persuades him to accept it; Rogi shares news of Jack's pending genetic assay.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Pardon rider defeated
The Intendant Assembly passed the law easing penalties for operants violating the Reproductive Statutes, but a rider pardoning Teresa and Rogi was struck, with Paul voting against it. MacGregor signed the law on 10 May 2052.
- 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 33Marc runs to alert Paul
Horrified, Marc grabs Jack's cradleboard and runs down the beach, mind-screaming to his father to leave the water. Paul swims back to shore.
- 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 36Teresa's Turandot triumph
Teresa's opening night as Turandot in New York is a triumph; Paul reconciles with her backstage and moves back home to Hanover the next day.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Jack's cancers begin
From spring 2053 Jack develops toe carcinoma, testicular melanomas (removed surgically), then Ewing's sarcoma requiring limb amputations, and finally pancreatic cancer that metastasizes to vital organs, putting him on life support.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Teresa's collapse
Teresa breaks down, demands Jack be allowed to die, is sedated and bedded at home; Paul leaves again, and before Christmas she begins speaking of Jack in the past tense.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Jack's case leaked
A nurse sold details and videos of Jack's condition to the Tri-D, causing a scandal; the Lylmik blocked Paul's resignation and any end to Jack's treatment.
- 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 47Special Session and Lylmik veto
Paul presents proposals to incarcerate Remillards and extend probation indefinitely; some exotic magnates agree but the Lylmik Supervisory Body vetoes them, leaving the case open.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Dorothée refuses mind-probe
Dorothée refuses a drug-assisted memory probe; Paul seeks permission from her father Ian, who forbids it and agrees to take Dorothée and Kenneth to Caledonia.
- 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 8Luna moths summoned
At the summerhouse Paul mentally summons male luna moths, which circle Catherine before he releases them.
- 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 12Debate over Unity
Paul, Davy, Tamara, Alan, Patricia, Fred and Minnie discuss whether Unity threatens human identity and whether the Milieu would let humanity secede.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Rory Muldowney denounces Paul
Drunk Rory publicly accuses Paul Remillard of destroying his wife Laura Tremblay, projecting an image of her frozen body to the horrified crowd.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Rory punches Paul Remillard
After a bitter public speech at a Saint Patrick's Day party about his lost love Laura, the Dirigent of Hibernia knocks First Magnate Paul Remillard unconscious with an uppercut.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Five years of relative peace
After Lucille's 2063 wish, the Polity stays peaceful; Marc works in seclusion on CE, Jack grows up, and Paul recovers from the Muldowney incident.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Supervisors reject outlawing the Rebels
Paul persuades the Lylmik Supervisors not to condemn the Rebels or impose a loyalty oath; Unifex agrees, reveals the Lylmik are dying, and tells Paul to consult Anne about Fury.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Paul finds Anne in church
Paul tracks Anne to the church of St. Julian the Poor in Rive Gauche, waits while she prays tearfully, and she invites him to her apartment.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Paul reports on the Supervisory Body meeting
Paul tells Anne the Supervisors dropped the loyalty-oath inquisition of the Rebels, and that the Lylmik warn the family to stop Fury infiltrating the Rebels.
- 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 3 · Ch 23Aftermath on Islay
Dorothée is healed with Jack's help; Magistratum agents take over, the attacker is identified as Celine Remillard and her ashes are scattered, with the case sealed.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Anne's courier ship crash
Anne's express courier was deliberately crashed on Okanagon, possibly by a coerced pilot. She survived and said 'Hydra', raising fears of a hidden Hydra on Okanagon; the case is kept quiet.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Paul discusses Unity crisis with Poltroyans
Paul tells Minnie and Fred that coadunation news will spark conflict with Rebel magnates and that he plans to ask Davy MacGregor to chair the Directorate, despite risks.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Jack asks Paul for sexual guidance
Jack reincarnates in a new body and confesses he needs help with erotic imagination before his wedding night; Paul recounts first seeing Teresa.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Paul speaks of his marriage and infidelity
While Jack dresses for his wedding, Paul recounts falling for Teresa, the family's genetic tragedies, the end of their love, and his promiscuity, with Jack asking probing questions.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Jack asks for Paul's sexual memories
Jack explains that he needs a human male's memories of arousal and asks Paul to share them. After inner turmoil, Paul agrees, embracing Jack as a wedding gift.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Interrogation over the Hydra's death
Marc and Laroche press hungover Rogi until he admits killing Parnell Remillard, a Hydra, in self-defense; Paul accepts the story and Parnell is listed as probably deceased.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Severin confesses his fear of Victor
En route to Hanover, Severin refuses to join the metaconcert and shows Paul a memory, revealing Victor tried to control him as a child.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Severin refuses the metaconcert
Severin confesses his lifelong fear of Victor/Fury and says he cannot join the metaconcert. Paul fails to persuade him and decides to farspeak Jack about aborting.
- 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 17Christmas Eve réveillon at the farm
After midnight mass, the family gathers at Marie's farm; Rogi detects a mindscreened cellar while one by one the conspirators slip away.
- 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 23Public campaign over Mental Man and Unity
Through 2081 loyalists and Poltroyan advocates push Unity while Marc wins public sympathy on Tri-D, defending human independence and justifying Mental Man.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Tri-D debate and tense green room
After the televised debate, loyalists and Rebels spar over the loyalty oath, arms buildup and sequestration; Paul vows to prove the Rebels are stockpiling weapons.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Dorothea reveals her face and coadunating children
At the Couthy 'Shroom, Dorothea removes her mask; the group learns children are coadunating and that Jack and Dorothea have had an unprecedented experience, to be kept secret.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Davy agrees to lobby Rebels
Paul and Fred propose Davy approach Rebel and undecided magnates before February's Concilium; Davy accepts if the Remillards do not interfere.
- 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 34Departure for Okanagon
Jack and Dorothea return the Carbuncle to Rogi, collect Paul after verifying his neural recovery, and set out to confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Confrontation ends
Humanity, including many Rebels, joins the Song of Unity. Marc's blast destroys Scurra and Paul, but the Mind of Humanity crystallizes in the Carbuncle.