red glass marble key ring
Names: red glass marble key ringclearieskey ringGreat Carbunclethe CarbuncletalismanUncle Rogi's watch fobkey ring fobKauai gemgreat red diamond
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 35 (13)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 35A key ring with a silvery chain and a red glass marble fob in a wire cage, found by Rogi in the gutter.
- Ch 63A red-glass marble in a metal cage on Rogi's key chain, which he makes glow to amuse children.
- Ch 74Rogatien's key-ring fob, a red ball, is a flawless transparent substance of hardness ten on a platinum-iridium chain; the gemologist cannot identify it.
- Ch 74If it were a diamond it would weigh over twenty-five carats and be worth a couple million dollars.
- Ch 76Rogi's talisman, on which he swears, and which Denis is told to follow as a guiding ideal.
- Ch 78The Great Carbuncle is a Mount Washington folklore will-o'-the-wisp; Pete holds a real one and gives it back to Rogi.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 24The Great Carbuncle is Rogi's key-ring fob, a polished spherical twenty-five-carat red diamond given by the Lylmik, with an unknown additional purpose.
- Ch 44The key-ring fob, a red glass marble in a silvery cage, was given to Rogi by the Family Ghost and once called down the Intervention.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 1The Great Carbuncle is a red-glass fob on Rogi's key ring, used to summon the Family Ghost; he leaves it forgotten on the desk.
- Ch 11Jack deepscanned the Great Carbuncle and found a molecular anomaly at its centre, probably an artifact, possibly a subspace transmitter, which Lylmik technology could have produced.
- Ch 25Jack suddenly thinks of this object, Rogi's watch fob, and says he has a great idea concerning it.
- Ch 27The Great Carbuncle is a red-glass marble in a silvery cage on the narrator's key ring; it blazes and amplifies his energy spiral.
- Ch 27The narrator is told to take the Great Carbuncle to Jack in Hawaii.
- Ch 29A red gem in the fob of Rogi's key ring; Rogi believes it summons help from the Lylmik.
- Ch 34Rogi's red diamond sphere, reportedly given by the Lylmik, is the model for an enlarged gem built on Kauai with Lylmik machines at its heart.
- Ch 34The huge gem shrugged off the Rebel laser attack and concentrated the Mind of Humanity during the confrontation, surviving Scurra's destruction.
- Ch 35If Rogi is ever mortally endangered, his Great Carbuncle will summon four Lylmik colleagues of the Ghost, who wear human bodies, to help him.
Connections
- created byThe Family Ghostgave it to Rogi
- related toRogi Remillardowner
- created byJackbuilt the enlarged gem on Kauai
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 74The Ghost speaks on the summit
On the chalet balcony the Family Ghost instructs Rogatien to hold the banquet there, later tell Denis about it, and bring the Great Carbuncle to the Congress. Rogatien agrees to the banquet.
- Book 1 · Ch 74Carbuncle appraised
A Concord gemologist finds the Carbuncle is a hardness-ten non-glass material on a platinum-iridium chain; Rogatien passes it off as a friend's joke.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Diamond and Carbuncle exchanged
On a walk at Windlestrow Muir, Dorothée finds a diamond; she and Rogi swap it for the Great Carbuncle as luck charms. The small driller surfaces with the magma analysis and she runs back to train.
- 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.