Rogi Remillard
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First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 1Rogi is a tall, skinny, shabby bookseller in Hanover who owns The Eloquent Page; he calls himself the most insignificant Remillard.
- Ch 1Rogi is 168 years old, a natural operant with modest metabilities, and gets little consolation from the Unity.
- Ch 1Rogi believes the Ghost used him as a catspaw for decades to manipulate various Remillards, and that nobody knew his role.
- Ch 1Rogi suspects the Ghost is a hallucination of his own mind and agrees to write only if it shows itself.
- Ch 1Rogi suspects the Ghost wants to manipulate Hagen and Cloud or their children; the Ghost says its request concerns them only indirectly.
- Ch 1Rogi is an old man who has long suspected Ghost, since Ghost knew more than probability analysis or proleptic metafunction could explain.
- Ch 1Rogi demands that Ghost reveal itself in exchange for his writing the memoirs; he opens his mind and accepts the compromise.
- Ch 1After Ghost's mental preparation, Rogi sees Ghost, reacts with a laugh and 'Goddam', and holds out a trembling hand.
- Ch 2Rogatien is writing a memoir chronicling the Family Remillard, covering his own lifetime from New Hampshire to interstellar space, told from several viewpoints, not all human.
- Ch 2Rogatien was Don's fraternal twin, was present with Denis and Lucille at the Intervention, and grew up in 1940s New England.
- Ch 2Rogatien has deep-sight but is not strong-minded enough to perceive molecular or subatomic structure, and has never experienced cosmic consciousness.
- Ch 2Rogatien believes the universe is a beautiful design rather than a game of chance.
- Ch 4Born 12 August 1945 in Berlin, New Hampshire, with twin Donatien; orphaned at birth when their mother died and father had already been killed at Iwo Jima.
- Ch 4At five, lost in the forest while raspberry-picking, he was rescued from a ravine by an invisible being who identified itself as a familiar ghost.
- Ch 4He lied to his cousins that he had thrown his pail at a bear, and told no one about the Family Ghost.
- Ch 6Rogatien is the introspective fraternal twin of Don; he learned to live with the psychological chasm separating operants from normal humanity.
- Ch 6Rogatien learned to raise mental walls and mind-screens to keep Don out, and could read only surface thoughts of others, but deeply read only Don.
- Ch 6As children the twins developed telepathy, farsight, minor self-healing and psychokinesis; by age nine they could farspeak across two or three kilometers.
- Ch 6Rogi, horrified by Don's blasphemy, slams his mind shut against him and returns to the kitchen, ignoring his pleading.
- Ch 6The twins were orphans raised by foster parents among nine cousins; the narrator writes these as his memoirs, recalling the Family Ghost encounter in the woods.
- Ch 8At twelve in 1958 he discovered science fiction and ESP stories, which gave a name to the mental powers he and Don had.
- Ch 8Finding no scientific books on ESP, he was given Stapledon's Odd John by a librarian and was frightened by its amoral, lonely hero.
- Ch 8He fears people will hate him and Don if their powers are discovered, as they did Odd John; he is bookish, insecure and plagued by religious guilt.
- Ch 8At sixteen he developed bilateral orchitis, a rare mumps complication, and privately believed it was punishment and that he would not recover.
- Ch 10Rogi loves Marie-Madeleine, who is marrying his twin Don; he plans to kill Don after the bachelor party out of jealousy.
- Ch 10Rogi works in the office of a paper mill and is to be Don's best man.
- Ch 10Rogi is sterile because orchitis five years earlier destroyed his semeniferous tubules; his self-redactive faculty could not repair it.
- Ch 10Rogi is told he will become friend and mentor to Don's future child, who will be a man of high destiny.
- Ch 10Rogi realizes this voice is not the Ghost he had known, yet he has met it before.
- Ch 12After Don and Sunny's wedding he was miserable for months, and he and Don kept mental barriers against each other, with no mind-to-mind communication.
- Ch 12He works in the mill's purchasing department, avoids using psychokinesis, and only gently nudges office manager Galusha Pratt with coercion while trying to live like a normal.
- Ch 12He tells Sunny of the brothers' telepathy and psychokinesis, but omits the Ghost, coercion, his belief that Don mesmerized her, and the wedding-eve events.
- Ch 12When Sunny panics, he throws a lilac vase with psychokinesis and coerces her to sit down, which he had never done to her before.
- Ch 12He argues Denis needs telepathic teaching from his father and him because Don and he grew up stunted in their powers.
- Ch 12He realizes that coercion is not what binds Don and Sunny; their devotion is genuine.
- Ch 12He had earlier committed attempted murder against Don while drunk, out of love for Sunny, and confessed it; Don never knew.
- Ch 12Rogi originally proposed the evening lessons for the kid, and is persuaded to help teach.
- Ch 15Rogi tutored baby Denis in metapsychic skills three evenings a week for nearly three years, calling the sessions 'head-lessons'.
- Ch 15Rogi thinks Denis was the most intellectually gifted of all the Remillards, including metapsychic giants Jack and Marc.
- Ch 18Rogatien secretly acts as Denis's confidant and tutor, teaching him about human relationships and values, and writes these memoirs 140 years later.
- Ch 18Rogatien is a metapsychic who climbs mountains to restore his spirit; he has farspeech, farsight and a limited healing ability.
- Ch 18Rogatien considered revealing Denis's metapsychic gifts but feared he would be exploited by psi laboratories.
- Ch 20Rogi is Denis's uncle, going by Roger Remillard at work; he is assistant convention manager at the White Mountain Resort Hotel.
- Ch 20Rogi used to work at a paper mill and dreams of buying a small bookstore in a quiet college town.
- Ch 20Rogi is telepathic and the one adult with whom Denis can freely mindspeak and share questions.
- Ch 20Rogi is worried that Don favours Victor, only opening his mind to Rogi when drunk.
- Ch 20Rogi tells Denis he thinks alien visitation 'may be possible'.
- Ch 20Rogi falls instantly in love with the woman hiker, a coup de foudre, and finally understands Sunny's feelings for Don.
- Ch 20Rogi decides to skip the train and wait at Summit House for the hikers, carrying Denis there.
- Ch 21Rogi works as an Assistant Convention Manager at the White Mountain Resort Hotel and is a Franco-American metapsychic with telepathy, coercion, redaction and psychokinesis.
- Ch 21Rogi was a virgin when he met Elaine; an earlier love ended badly because the woman could not open her mind to him.
- Ch 21Rogi tells Elaine a edited version of his encounter with a healing alien voice in the mountains, then reveals his true metapsychic nature to her.
- Ch 21Roger is sterile and a metapsychic who can read minds; he works at a hotel and holds old-fashioned Catholic faith.
- Ch 21Roger broke off his engagement to Elaine after reading her mind and learning that his brother Don fathered her child.
- Ch 21Roger was instructed by 'the Ghost' to reveal Denis's metapsychic abilities to Father Ellsworth, which he did in early September.
- Ch 26Rogi is Denis's uncle and, owing to Don's abdication of responsibility, his de facto guardian, making decisions about Denis's schooling.
- Ch 26Rogi has a weak telepathic faculty and little seekersense, but can share Denis's searches through mental rapport.
- Ch 31Rogatien is forty-four, works as a convention manager at the White Mountain Resort, and shares a telepathic link with his twin brother Don.
- Ch 31Rogatien experiences Don's death and his memories at the moment it happens, while sitting in Mass miles away.
- Ch 31Rogatien refuses to join Denis's group, feeling inexplicable revulsion, and instead decides to open a bookshop called The Eloquent Page.
- Ch 34Roger acted in loco parentis to Denis, works at a White Mountains resort and was preparing to quit out of fear of Victor.
- Ch 35Rogi started his bookshop in 1990 at age forty-five after changing careers, and still runs it in the 2100s at 68 South Main Street.
- Ch 35He is serving as a lab subject for Denis, fears Victor, and practices seekersense, detecting strong operants within about ten meters.
- Ch 35Rogi is secretly assisting Denis at the Ghost's direction and resents the Ghost's coldness, but cannot refuse.
- Ch 35Rogi decides to sign the lease on a bookshop in the Gates House building, with an apartment upstairs.
- Ch 39Rogatien opened a one-man used science-fiction and fantasy bookshop, the Eloquent Page, in Hanover in 1991, stocking it by touring New England sales and jobbers.
- Ch 39Rogatien refuses operancy training, PsiQ measurement and metafaculty assays, wanting to keep his operant nature hidden as protective coloration.
- Ch 39Rogatien is haunted by his dead brother Don's mind, drinks heavily, suffers psi decline, and fears he will end as a damned suicide like Don.
- Ch 39Rogatien tries yogic meditation from a book Elaine once praised, but is poor at it and finds it chilling.
- Ch 41Rogatien, frightened that the Edinburgh telecast will expose operants, uses a risky out-spiral chakra meditation to farspeak his nephew Denis despite his weakened mind.
- Ch 41Rogatien refuses to join Denis's group mentally, believing a Franco father cannot stand naked before his son, and wants to conceal his powers.
- Ch 41Rogatien discovers a smooth quarter-inch hole in his window, exactly at his own height, and concludes he has a new 'mind-zap' power.
- Ch 41Rogatien runs a bookshop and decides to triple his order of Metapsychology, expecting Denis's fame to boost sales.
- Ch 43Rogatien was present and performed in front of the network cameras during the 60 Minutes program.
- Ch 44Roger owns the Eloquent Page Bookshop in Hanover and is Remillard's uncle; he shows psychokinesis too, saying such powers run in the family.
- Ch 45Rogatien, drunk and flippant, topped his nephew Denis's psychokinesis demonstration with his own on a TV taping, exposing his closely guarded secret power.
- Ch 45After the taping Rogatien went on a long binge and missed both the 60 Minutes broadcast and the Metapsychology Lab party.
- Ch 45Rogatien privately realizes he has been instructed to break up Lucille's love affair with Dr. Bill Sampson, and he sees himself as a tool once again.
- Ch 45Rogatien plans to break up the couple by showing Sampson what operancy can mean: Lucille's potential for cruelty, coercion, PK and contempt for normals.
- Ch 47Rogatien, writing his memoirs, calls himself the last surviving Rebel, neither a normal human nor an operant integrated into the Milieu's Unity.
- Ch 47In 1992 he runs a bookshop in New England and is telepathic, shielding his mind with a mental barrier.
- Ch 47He subverted Bill Sampson's trust in Lucille over about eight months, as part of what he calls his 'Ghostly mission', which he believed was for Lucille's and Sampson's good.
- Ch 47He once melted a small hole in a window with a 'Kundalini zap' while terrified after the Edinburgh Demonstration.
- Ch 47He drinks to excess; he calls himself an alcohol abuser, not an alcoholic.
- Ch 47Roger is forty-seven, a bookshop owner, struggling with sobriety and sadness; his creative metafunctions are latent and he is wary of the operant community.
- Ch 47Under controlled conditions Roger could generate no detectable energy; after eight weeks he was dismissed from the creativity project as a nonstarter.
- Ch 47Roger's brother Donnie weighs on his mind; Ume tells him not to think of his poor brother during their lovemaking.
- Ch 52Operant bookseller from Hanover and Denis's uncle who attends Boskone yearly; he drinks heavily and is regarded as the family black sheep.
- Ch 52Used coercion and projected flattering images to calm normals frightened by his metapsychic powers, while reflecting such fixes are only temporary.
- Ch 52Rogi breaks Victor's coercive mental hold and fights back with a ball of psychocreative energy that burns a furrow along Victor's skull.
- Ch 52Rogi hides under a camper, then is saved when an unseen operant knocks Victor unconscious; Rogi decides to return to the hotel desk and cancel his checkout.
- Ch 53Uncle Rogi urged Denis to marry and suggested Lucille as the ideal mate.
- Ch 54Rogatien suggested the couple buy the house near his bookshop and spent many hours monthly with the family; he abetted the marriage.
- Ch 54Rogatien fell in a thunderbolt of love when he first saw Elaine, and shared a sexual relationship with Ume Kimura.
- Ch 58Rogatien, Denis's uncle, felt George's death by farspeech, visited Sunny daily, and re-enacted old metapsychic teaching games with her.
- Ch 63Rogi owns a bookshop in Hanover and is only an honorary member of the Coterie; he writes these memoirs long afterward.
- Ch 63Rogi knew through Ghostly confidences that Philip, Maurice and Severin would become Founding Magnates of the Concilium, but not that one would die in the 2083 Metapsychic Rebellion.
- Ch 65Rogatien, the memoirist, never liked Gerry Tremblay and describes Americans as arrogantly confident about operant dangers.
- Ch 67Rogi lives above his bookshop in Hanover. He has modest telepathic ability, uses larger faculties grudgingly, and finds excorporeal excursion exhausting.
- Ch 67Rogi fears the Chinese could act unseen behind the screen, provoking an arms race or pre-emptive strike with Russia.
- Ch 72Rogatien runs a bookshop in Hanover, across the street from the post office, and is writing these memoirs looking back on events.
- Ch 72Rogatien was Ume Kimura's lover and close friend; he could not bring himself to destroy her final videogram, and he wept despite her request.
- Ch 72Rogatien had warned Denis not to force the issue of operant political activism at the Congress.
- Ch 74Rogatien, nearly sixty-eight in 2013, looks about forty-five and says longevity runs in his family; he once worked as the resort's convention manager and left in 1990.
- Ch 74He arranges the Congress banquet and, after the Ghost's urging, books it at the Summit Chalet despite the budget strain.
- Ch 74Rogatien does not believe in extraterrestrial redeemers but keeps his encounter secret from Denis, unwilling to make a fool of himself.
- Ch 75Rogi is Denis's uncle, the Congress liaison with the hotel, a New Hampshire native who once worked at the hotel.
- Ch 75Rogi feared a more professional type of troublemaker might join the pickets, and EE watchdogs are too few to cover everything.
- Ch 75Rogi explained the Superman legend and kryptonite to Pyotr, who had never heard of them.
- Ch 75Rogi felt the pickets' mob mind was a primitive metaconcert, a mass mentality with its own will, which frightened him.
- Ch 75Rogi agreed to look after Severin and recruited him to help set up power cables for MacGregor's demonstration.
- Ch 76Rogi searches the hotel for Shannon, finds Victor, and is coerced aboard a cog train; he escapes by leaping out and warns Denis.
- Ch 76Rogi, the narrator, is hurt and freezing as he climbs the rock-field, and is pursued by armed men from the crashed aircraft.
- Ch 76Rogi is addressed as Uncle Rogi by Severin and curses in French when shot at.
- Ch 78Rogi killed a straggling mercenary with a blow from a rock and took his electric suit to survive exposure on the mountain.
- Ch 78Injured and hypothermic, Rogi lacked farsight and farspeech because of storm-borne ions, and he crept toward the chalet where 2,800 operants were trapped.
- Ch 78Rogi belatedly tried to deliver the Ghost's message to Denis: unite minds in metaconcert, renounce violence, and starfaring beings will befriend Earth.
- Ch 78Rogi used a psychocreative out-spiral of core energy to defeat Victor, leaving him auraless but breathing, and was himself drained.
- Ch 79Rogi has just finished writing a section of the story on a transcriber in his bookshop's back room and plans to write the Ghost's part next.
- Ch 79Rogi now realizes the Ghost's true identity is Marc, though he does not yet know why or how.
- Ch 79Rogi was in Hanover, New Hampshire, on 26 April 2113 and plans a skiing vacation, possibly at Denali, which was one of Marc's favorites.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 3Rogi is 167 years old, looks about fifty thanks to Remillard self-rejuvenation genes, and is writing family Memoirs as a journalist.
- Ch 3Rogi spent three weeks ski-touring Denali's park and resists ending his vacation, but accepts Unifex's plan and is whisked home with his gear.
- Ch 3Rogi knows of the Lylmik's pain mitigator for hyperspatial travel, as Ti-Jean had told him, and agrees to keep it secret.
- Ch 4Rogatien narrates these Memoirs; he was recalled from a skiing holiday on Denali to Earth and commanded to resume writing them.
- Ch 4Rogatien is a bookseller who runs an antiquarian bookshop of old fantasy and science fiction in Hanover, New Hampshire, and has meager metapsychic powers.
- Ch 4Rogatien has killed three people in cold blood, one of whom he loved deeply, and never married.
- Ch 4Rogatien and his twin Donatien were born in 1945 in Berlin, New Hampshire, orphaned at birth, and raised by an aunt and uncle.
- Ch 4Rogatien was rendered sterile by a childhood illness; Denis became his foster son.
- Ch 4Rogatien has telepathy, psychokinesis and metacoercion, and has long had a recurring nightmare about Jack's disincarnation and the Rebellion.
- Ch 5Rogi reluctantly came to the Good Friday ritual because Denis insisted. He hopes Victor will be dead before next Easter and drives manually, disliking autopilot.
- Ch 5Rogi is Denis's uncle and adoptive father figure, raised by Onc' Louie; he fears Victor and Denis and keeps his mental shields up.
- Ch 5Rogi refused to join the metaconcert at the last moment, so the others completed it without him.
- Ch 5Rogi carries a key ring with a red glass marble fob, which he grips in terror and which relates to the red sphere that rescues him.
- Ch 6Marc's great-granduncle, a bookseller living a block and a half from the family home, who seems to be drunk and unreachable by farspeech.
- Ch 7Rogi is the oldest surviving Remillard, runs the bookshop, has unexceptional operant powers, and has tried hard to reach Marc emotionally.
- Ch 7Rogi believes aborting Teresa's illegal fetus is the only sensible course and thinks she has gone mad; he nevertheless helps Marc.
- Ch 7Rogi is a French-speaking bookseller and Marc's great-uncle-like figure, who has a book-buying friend whose connivance gave him access to a possible hiding place.
- Ch 7Rogi is initially panicked and thinks of backing out, but is nudged into helping by a Lylmik voice, which he calls Ghost.
- Ch 9Rogi owns a bookshop and is coerced and charmed into accompanying Teresa to a disused log cabin for four months.
- Ch 9Rogi has visited the Reserve before and was met at Bella Coola by his friend Bill.
- Ch 9Rogatien narrates the memoir scene and travels in the egg with Marc and Teresa.
- Ch 10Rogi believes the Family Ghost, which ordered him to undertake the trip, would not send him to his death.
- Ch 10Rogi bought a Winchester Model 70 .30-06 rifle in Williams Lake out of fear of grizzly bears; he has never hunted and has three homicides in his past.
- Ch 10Rogi forgot to bring snowshoes and a compass, and plans to make snowshoes and steal Bill's map of the area.
- Ch 10Rogi and Teresa must lie low for another week until September so chimney smoke won't be spotted by anything human.
- Ch 12Rogi is afraid of the isolation and of his responsibility for hiding Teresa, an unstable, inexperienced woman carrying a child with a Galactic destiny, in the wilderness.
- Ch 12He has weak seekersense, and he has never built anything more elaborate than a predrilled bookcase, but he resolves to repair the cabin before snowfall.
- Ch 12He visited the Ape Lake cabin eight years earlier and once watched a Sasquatch family from its north window.
- Ch 13Narrator of the memoirs; calls himself the last of the Metapsychic Rebels, left unharmed because of a Lylmik he calls le Fantôme Familier.
- Ch 15Rogi is Paul's brother and Marc's uncle; his body, like Teresa's, has not been found.
- Ch 17Rogatien is nearly a hundred years old and a keen hiker, with only weak psychokinesis. He says he has never experienced cosmic consciousness or true coadunation.
- Ch 17He senses the 'soul' of Ape Lake and the gentle operant minds watching from it, which seem willing to let the humans live there.
- Ch 17He solves the problem of moving logs across the lake by planning to push cut lumber across the water with psychokinesis on a calm day.
- Ch 18Rogi is Denis's uncle, whom Denis loves like a son; the blue orchid is also his favorite.
- Ch 20Rogi heard Denis's furious telepathic blast calling his name across the planet but hid his reaction and told Teresa nothing, hoping Denis could not locate them.
- Ch 20Rogi is hiding with Teresa at Ape Lake until Jack is born, the Remillard Dynasty is inaugurated into the Concilium, and they are safe from the law.
- Ch 20Rogi was the best friend and metapsychic mentor of baby Denis more than eighty years earlier and enjoys being needed again.
- Ch 20Rogi rebuilt the cabin in two months, finishing 23 October, and made bear-paw snowshoes from willow withes, expecting to use them only near the cabin.
- Ch 20Rogi narrates that the crude snowshoes would one day make the difference between living and starving to death.
- Ch 22Rogatien fears Marc is dead or off-world because Marc never returned with food and ignored twenty telepathic calls; he hides his panic from Teresa.
- Ch 22Rogatien decides to leave Ape Lake to hunt large game through Ape Creek Canyon, since food will last under three weeks.
- Ch 22Rogatien is an operant whose farsight is weak but whose skill at screening his thoughts is good.
- Ch 22Rogatien spared the Bigfoot, unable to kill a fellow operant, after it expressed wonder at the aurora; it vanished when he waved.
- Ch 22Rogi is 106 years old and is struggling to survive and hunt in the winter wilderness, clambering down a canyon on snowshoes.
- Ch 22He concludes that he will survive so Teresa will not face her ordeal alone in winter.
- Ch 22Rogi shoots a young bull moose weighing over 450 kilos, using the Winchester and guidance from the Wilderness Survival Handbook.
- Ch 22Rogi sends an unintended telepathic shout of joy along Teresa's intimate mode, which Denis receives.
- Ch 24Rogi has been guided for years by a Lylmik he calls the Family Ghost, which ordered him to help Marc and Teresa.
- Ch 24Rogi gorged on moose liver, fell violently sick, and nearly froze on Ape Lake's ice before being brought into the cabin.
- Ch 24He slept nearly twenty hours after collapsing on the frozen lake in a storm, and woke in the cabin bed.
- Ch 24While delirious on the ice, he called his rescuer by his grandmother's name.
- Ch 24He had carried meat, a pack, a rifle and equipment, and wore snowshoes when he was found near the Ape Creek outflow.
- Ch 27Rogi whittles gifts for Teresa: wooden safety pins and a papoose carrier for the baby.
- Ch 27Rogi saw the opera once at Teresa and Paul's wedding but remembered almost nothing of it.
- Ch 27Rogi splits wood and lives with Teresa in a tiny cabin at Ape Lake, where they keep Christmas.
- Ch 27Applauds Teresa's performance until his hands hurt, helps her to bed, and hides his alarm that she has overdone it.
- Ch 29Rogi acted as Teresa's amateur midwife in the cabin and lied to Denis that no labor had begun, to protect Teresa's secrecy.
- Ch 29Rogi writes the memoirs with the help of an Entity that declined to augment his memory.
- Ch 29Rogi assists Teresa's labor, catches Jack, spanks him to start his breathing, and ties and cuts the umbilical cord.
- Ch 29Rogi earlier perceived a 'monster' hiding in the infant's mind; Teresa suggests it was a construct of Jack's unconscious.
- Ch 29Rogi senses strange, wonderful vibes coming from Jack, unlike any human aura he knew.
- Ch 30Rogi is an old man who has sheltered Teresa and Jack at the cabin, hunting moose, and baptized Jack.
- Ch 31Rogi will likely claim the whole escape was his own doing to shield Marc, telling lawyers he conceived it after the canoe upset.
- Ch 31Rogi shot a moose for the family at Ape Lake and has farsight.
- Ch 31Rogi is Marc's great-granduncle and urges Marc to accept Teresa's acceptance of Paul's decisions.
- Ch 32Rogi runs a bookshop that is nearly insolvent and fears a fine would bankrupt him.
- Ch 33Uncle Rogi took sole responsibility for Teresa's flight and concealment, and the media made him a hero.
- Ch 34He runs a bookshop in Hanover, refuses metapsychiatric editing of his personality, and drinks heavily when frightened.
- Ch 34He has an old Lylmik friend, the Family Ghost, and decides to tell Marc about this ally.
- Ch 35Rogi is an aging bookseller who took the full blame for helping Teresa flee in order to shield the juvenile Marc.
- Ch 35Under MacGregor's coercion Rogi confessed everything about Fury, Hydra, Vic, baby Jack and the seven deaths, feeling like a stool pigeon.
- Ch 37Rogi has weak mindpowers but apparently stopped Victor on the night of the Great Intervention, perhaps through stress-amplified psychocreativity; he is hazy on how.
- Ch 38Rogi, aged 108, runs the bookshop The Eloquent Page and had a casual affair with Perdita Manion after being celebrated for rescuing Teresa.
- Ch 39Rogatien is sterile from mumps in adolescence and has declined regen-tank treatment; he made Jack's original papoose-board backpack carrier.
- Ch 40Rogi, an old bookseller, organized the Remillard cousins into Christmas carolers to cheer the bedridden Teresa and Jack, who couldn't attend the family party.
- Ch 40Rogi carries a flask of rum and drinks from it during the caroling; he lives in an apartment above his bookshop.
- Ch 40Rogi saw a phantom, beardless and more muscular than Paul, kissing sleeping Teresa's forehead, with a vaguely familiar air.
- Ch 41Rogi is skeptical of Malama's claims but is chilled by the possibility of surviving malignant spirits, possibly akin to Fury and Hydra.
- Ch 42Rogi is a bookseller, grumpy and drinking heavily, upset that Perdita left him and will marry a college sociologist; he doubts Hydra suspicions.
- Ch 43Rogi is a gruff old bookseller, Denis's uncle, who came to the race pretending he only wanted to pray for Marc.
- Ch 44Rogi is drunk on Wild Turkey but agrees to go guard Jack at the hospital in Hitchcock.
- Ch 44Rogi, an old bookseller, hurries to the hospital to protect Jack after Marc warns of danger, but is lured away by the Hydra children on the way.
- Ch 44Rogi was partly drunk and confused, and recalled Victor draining Shannon's life and later controlling him like a marionette beneath a chalet.
- Ch 44Rogi raised the Great Carbuncle fob, which flashed a blaze of light and sent him back to his garage unharmed.
- Ch 45Rogi initially suspected the four Hydras of the attack; later the culprit was proved to be Fury.
- Ch 47Rogatien is writing the Memoirs, runs a bookshop, and has loved and lost Sunny, Elaine, Umi and Teresa; he took part in the Rebellion.
- Ch 47Rogatien does not know whether the Ghost will release his chronicle or whether he will survive writing it.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1Rogi is a 168-year-old bookseller and amateur ornithologist who is writing a Remillard family chronicle at the Ghost's urging, and he finally photographs the rare o'o-a'a bird.
- Ch 1Rogi is only a weak metapsychic operant, lacking strong pathfinding skills, and he fled to Kauai while drunk to avoid continuing his memoirs.
- Ch 1Rogi has the self-rejuvenating gene complex shared by all Remillards except Ti-Jean; he has been haunted by the Ghost since age five.
- Ch 1An elderly man writing his memoirs, he hears the Family Ghost's voice in Keaku Cave and half-believes it is a figment of his drinking.
- Ch 1He mistakes a man's face in the smoke for someone he remembers clearly and tries to embrace it, but grasps only smoke.
- Ch 1He is an amateur ornithologist and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his cat Marcel.
- Ch 1Thinking of Elaine once pained him, but he says it no longer does.
- Ch 1He dreams of a silvery-eyed, strawberry blonde woman who first smiled at him on Mount Washington, and forgets the dream by morning.
- Ch 2Rogatien is an old bookseller with meager metapsychic powers, writing memoirs, and claims to be the last unconverted human operant who has refused to join Unity.
- Ch 2He calls himself a Rebel and believes his apparent immunity from Unity was part of the Family Ghost's plot, so his past deeds stayed hidden.
- Ch 2He has been told uncounted billions of unborn entities will read his memoirs, but not what consequences he will face once they are published.
- Ch 3Rogi is Marc and Jack's eccentric great-granduncle; he is a weak meta whose mind resists redactive infiltration and he taught Marc French vulgarities.
- Ch 5An elderly Franco-American metapsychic operant who ran an antiquarian bookshop in New Hampshire; he loved Dorothée and calls her by the French form of her name.
- Ch 5At the direction of the Family Ghost, he introduced Kyle Macdonald to Masha MacGregor-Gawrys in 2029, bringing about their romance.
- Ch 7Rogatien is Denis's foster father and refused to join the family's metaconcerted prayer for Victor, so avoided Fury's possession.
- Ch 7Rogatien was coerced into telling Davy MacGregor about Fury, Hydra and Addie's death, giving legal grounds for a new interrogation.
- Ch 11Rogi is 117, owns a bookshop in Hanover NH, has immortality genes, and a strong mind-screen as his only powerful metafaculty.
- Ch 11Rogi eavesdropped on the young men's telepathic talk aboard the ship by feigning drunken naps.
- Ch 11Rogi suspects a hidden rapport between Marc and Lynelle and would welcome a love affair as aid to Marc's psychomaturation, but distrusts Lynelle.
- Ch 12Rogi is Jack's old uncle, whose farsight is nearly useless and who never lets others into his head.
- Ch 14Rogi owns the Hanover bookshop The Eloquent Page, drinks heavily, and dislikes his operant powers, having had a breakdown after revealing them in 1991.
- Ch 14Rogi angrily refuses Jack's offer to help develop his creativity, resenting that many relatives want him to develop his powers.
- Ch 18Rogi runs a specialty bookshop in Hanover, New Hampshire, selling rare twentieth-century science fiction and fantasy; he is 127 years old in 2072 and is an operant.
- Ch 18Rogi became a confidant and father figure to Dorothée, who needed an adult operant with no axe to grind.
- Ch 18Rogi discovered through Severin's redaction that someone had secretly probed his mind for about two years, damaging his libido, and concluded Dorothée must be responsible.
- Ch 18Rogi has modest operant talents, is grumpy but kind, and is rated 52 percent likely to harbor Fury by Dorothée.
- Ch 18Rogi tries to stop Dorothée's suicidal plan, fears Hydra will identify him as the one who brought her, and plans to hide on Kauai.
- Ch 18Rogi secretly asks Ti-Jean for help by subspace call and farspeech, and invites Dorothée to the party as a ruse.
- Ch 19Rogi danced with Diamond Mask and knows her identity, forcing Kyle to swear secrecy.
- Ch 19Rogi is told to make sure Dorothea sees the news and then take her to Kauai under Malama's protection.
- Ch 20Rogi is Jack's uncle, a bookseller who persuaded Dee to visit Malama; he warns that Hydra could kill her with physical means such as a coconut dropped by PK.
- Ch 20Rogi told Dee she had no broken bones, just a sprained right arm.
- Ch 23Rogi narrates these memoirs, drinks with Kyle Macdonald at the Sap Bucket Tavern, and is converted to the Rebel cause by Kyle.
- Ch 23Rogi was assigned by the Rebels to convert his paramount great-grandnephew Marc to their cause but failed.
- Ch 23Rogi fears being in a permanent mind-meld with the exotic races and believes his Family Ghost is connected to the Lylmik.
- Ch 23Rogi, the narrator, is Uncle to the Remillards and is called by Dorothée after the survey results, then calls Jack.
- Ch 24Rogi is Jack's great-granduncle, a bookseller who pressed Jack to get involved and was kept in hibernation during the trip.
- Ch 24Traded his lucky Great Carbuncle key-ring fob to Dorothée for the diamond, hoping it will protect her during the operation.
- Ch 24Secretly appeals aloud to 'Ghost' to save Jon and Dorothée, believing it is watching.
- Ch 25Rogi is Jack's great-granduncle and a centenarian who waited in a safety bunker 20 kilometers away; he told Dorothea of Jack's loneliness.
- Ch 26Rogi got drunk in the bunker during the operation and secretly sent a telepathic call to Marc, which he disavowed, blaming the Family Ghost.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 1Rogi is an aging bookseller from Hanover, New Hampshire, writing memoirs of the Remillard family; he finishes the penultimate volume at dawn on Kauai in 2113.
- Ch 1Rogi loved Elaine Donovan 139 years ago; his pride prevented marriage. He hopes she will visit him but she does not.
- Ch 1Rogi has a weak seeker-sense (farsensing) and can telepathically communicate with his cat Marcel.
- Ch 1Rogi is furious that the Lylmik did not prevent the Fury horror, the Mental Man fiasco and the Rebellion, and demands the Family Ghost explain.
- Ch 2Rogatien is writing memoirs; after learning horrors from Cloud and Hagen on Kauai, he can no longer think of Marc or the Family Ghost as before.
- Ch 2Rogatien worked as a convention manager at the White Mountain Hotel, then became an antiquarian bookseller in Hanover at Denis's urging.
- Ch 2Rogatien is a metapsychic operant who feared his own metafunctions and, irrationally, his nephew Denis's powers.
- Ch 2Rogatien served as ring-bearer at Jack and Dorothée's 2078 wedding and killed a man for the second time in his life.
- Ch 3Owns The Eloquent Page bookshop, lives above it, and is known as Uncle Rogi by everyone in town; weakly metapsychic.
- Ch 3Was on Caledonia, watched the diatreme eruption on monitors, and persuaded Marc Remillard to intervene in the geophysical operation.
- Ch 3Is a Rebel opposed to Unity, wants Remillard reputations kept intact so the Rebel cause can win over powerful minds.
- Ch 3Told Kyle about Fury while drunk and now insists Kyle keep the secret, especially from Davy MacGregor.
- Ch 3Plans to give mint copies of Donovan's Brain and Star of the Unborn plus granite bookends as wedding presents to Ti-Jean and Dorothée.
- Ch 5Rogi was present at Fury's birth at Victor's deathbed and was saved from Fury by another good entity; he also helped fend Fury off at Ti-Jean's 2052 birth.
- Ch 5Because he stands in loco parentis to Denis, Rogi cannot be coerced by Fury, which is why Anne came to him first.
- Ch 5Rogi privately suspects Anne herself might be Fury and keeps his mental shield up, agreeing only to consider her request.
- Ch 5Rogi lives in a third-floor apartment in the Gates House building above a bookshop, with his cat Marcel.
- Ch 5Rogi suggests using cerebroenergetic enhancement hats in the healing metaconcert to supply the extra mental power needed against Fury.
- Ch 5Rogi has an invulnerable mindscreen and agrees to let only Dorothée probe his mind for repressed Fury memories.
- Ch 5Rogi proposes Jack build the CE hats secretly, since Marc's corporation has Rebels who would leak the news.
- Ch 8Rogatien owns a bookshop in Hanover, is a Rebel sympathizer, and was keeping unusually sober while watching his back.
- Ch 8He believes Fury ordered Hydra-units to kill Anne because she was closing in on Fury and could arrange Denis's exorcism.
- Ch 8Rogatien knows Anne's secret about Fury and must tell Jack and Dorothée before their honeymoon, but cannot safely contact their ship in hyperspace.
- Ch 8Rogi, the narrator, nearly drowned in a springhole, tethered by fishing line to a sunken log, and was revived after clinical death.
- Ch 8Rogi believes Parnell, Adrien's son, tried to kill him by disguising himself as a killer trout, calling it a Hydra.
- Ch 8Rogi sent a mental distress call ('farsqueak') only when almost too late; Denis heard it.
- Ch 9Rogi is an old bookseller, great-granduncle of Marc, who got drunk at the wedding; he told Jack about his transcendent experience with Elaine Donovan, whom he still loves.
- Ch 10Rogatien is 133 years old, a drinker, and serves as ring-bearer at Jack and Dorothée's wedding.
- Ch 10Rogatien suspects either Anne or Denis is Fury and plans to tell Jack and Dorothée after the ceremony.
- Ch 10Rogatien fled to Kauai after the drowning attempt to hide from Hydra, then returned for the wedding rehearsal.
- Ch 10Marc's coercion forces Rogatien to serve as acolyte at the mass, leaving him unable to speak telepathically except with Marc.
- Ch 10Rogi serves as altar boy at the wedding of Jack and Dorothée and is carrying a satin ring pillow.
- Ch 10Rogi tells Jack and Dorothée the secret of Fury's identity by dropping his mindscreen and letting them read his mind.
- Ch 10Rogi is not normally operant in creativity, but uses a pranic outspiral to unleash a metacreative bolt that incinerates Parnell.
- Ch 10Rogi had previously killed a man once before, and he feels no remorse for killing Parnell.
- Ch 10After killing Parnell, Rogi hides the remains by flushing them down a toilet, then returns to the wedding.
- Ch 11Fury regards Rogi as a buffoon but with formidable latent mental power, and says it underestimated him.
- Ch 11Rogi told Jack and Dorothea he psychozapped Parnell, and believes Denis is Fury and that he has a peculiar relationship with the Lylmik.
- Ch 13Rogi killed Parnell Remillard, a Hydra disguised as a waiter, with a mind-zap in the hotel bar, claiming self-defense.
- Ch 13Rogi can mind-zap only when terrified; he once put Vic Remillard into a twenty-six-year coma on the night of the Great Intervention.
- Ch 13Dorothée assessed Rogi's creative metafaculty as almost normally puny; any mind-zapping talent is deeply latent.
- Ch 13Rogi withheld from investigators the Hydra's motive for wanting him dead, and received a postcoercive suggestion from Jack to keep the exorcism secret.
- Ch 15Rogatien is an antiquarian fantasy bookseller in New Hampshire who is 133 or older, and is foster father to Denis.
- Ch 15Rogatien believes Denis cannot be Fury, but dreads that the Dynasty will proceed with the metaconcert redaction of Denis anyway.
- Ch 15Rogatien is the designated 'Judas-goat': Denis cannot read his mind, so he must lead Denis to the metaconcert at the Christmas réveillon.
- Ch 15Rogatien dislikes Unity and coadunation, fearing they threaten the privacy of his thoughts and judging humanity unready for them.
- Ch 15Rogatien's brain was healed through summer 2078 after Dorothée's painful mental probing; he was kept teetotal for a time.
- Ch 17Rogi secretly killed Parnell, the Hydra, and dreads the family finding out; he feels guilty offering condolences to Parnell's parents Adrien and Cheri.
- Ch 17Rogi is forced to witness the exorcism of Denis through an El8 helmet and realizes that Denis and Fury are the same person.
- Ch 17Rogi mourns Donny's ruin of Denis and Victor as helpless children.
- Ch 18Rogi stubbornly believes Denis is still alive, which worries Paul; others in the Dynasty are comfortable with the idea he is dead.
- Ch 21Rogi urged Marc to tell Cyndia about Mental Man and to make love to her, and he was told the project was still vapor.
- Ch 21Rogi runs a bookstore in Hanover, New Hampshire, and is rekindling a relationship with Sally Lapidus.
- Ch 22Rogi babysits Hagen at the Orcas Island house and is the godson-giver of Hagen; he also taught Denis and cared for Jack.
- Ch 22Rogi is an old man in a dark nursery with a wailing baby, who sees an apparition he addresses as his son Denis.
- Ch 23Rogi tells Ti-Jean and Dorothée of seeing Denis's spectre; a ream of his memory is inconclusive about whether it was real.
- Ch 23Rogi is a staunch Rebel who believes the Milieu wants to force humans into an inhuman mold; he later calls himself the last of the Rebels.
- Ch 23Rogi owns a bookshop in Hanover with a back-room office, where Marcel the Maine Coon cat lives.
- Ch 27On 28 October he flew his egg from Hanover to Mount Washington for a last hiking trip of the season, seeking distraction from politics.
- Ch 27Rogi is losing enthusiasm for the Rebellion and doubts whether he is willing to pay the price of secession that Marc and others risk.
- Ch 27He is 137 years old, and nearly dies of hypothermia in an icy fog after forgetting his phone and misjudging the weather.
- Ch 27Rogi previously killed the Hydra Parni with an outspiral of metacreative energy, in a state of panic and self-defense.
- Ch 27He fell in love with Elaine Donovan at first sight and lost her through his pride; he regrets not forgiving her for betraying him with Don.
- Ch 27The narrator is Denis's father; he holds an X-posture and spirals vital energy through his body, feeding it with his own life.
- Ch 27The narrator owns a bookshop, an apartment and a garage, whose keys he carries on the ring with the Carbuncle.
- Ch 28Rogi runs The Eloquent Page bookshop and is Cyndia's Uncle Rogi; he confirms the visitor was truly Batège, who has now died.
- Ch 28Rogi says the family's skeletons are all dead, and agrees to try to come to Okanagon to talk about Marc and the children.
- Ch 29Rogi narrates; after Denis's death on Mount Washington he gave Denis's ashes to Lucille and flew to Kauai, where Malama eased his grief with a redaction.
- Ch 29Rogi withheld from Jack Fury's remarks about Hydra's rebirth in Mental Man, but later told Cyndia.
- Ch 29Rogi promised Cyndia not to tell Jack about the Mental Man project, but left her in a rage, doubting she could change Marc.
- Ch 29Rogi would not see Hagen and Cloud again for nearly thirty-one years, when they returned from the Pliocene through the time-gate.
- Ch 32He is a minor Rebel insurgent who runs a bookshop in New Hampshire and watched the broadcast with Kyle Macdonald.
- Ch 34Rogi wished humanity free of the Milieu yet feared Marc's tactics; he held back from joining the Song of Unity.
- Ch 35Rogi finishes writing a long account for the Family Ghost, just under the Ghost's deadline, on 31 December 2113.
- Ch 35Rogi is an old bookseller living in a third-floor flat in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his cat Marcel.
Connections
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- related toMarcelowner and petRogi's pet cat
- related toThe Family Ghostmentor and manipulator who works through him
- family ofDonfraternal twin
- family ofLouis Remillarduncle who adopted him
- family ofAdèlemother
- family ofJosephfather
- ally ofThe Family Ghost
- partner ofMarie-Madeleine Fabrechaste dating
- family ofAlbertyounger cousin
- family ofJeanneyounger cousin
- family ofMargueriteyounger cousin
- family ofDenisuncle and godfather at baptism
- related toGalusha Prattoffice manager supervising Rogi
- member ofWhite Mountain Resort Hotelworks there as assistant convention manager
- partner ofElaine Donovan HarringtonLovers who plan to marry in November
- related toMrs. Mallorylandlady renting him the bookshop and apartment
- createdThe Eloquent Pageowner
- friend ofLucille
- family ofPaulgrandnephew
- enemy ofDr. SampsonRogatien secretly undermined Sampson's trust in Lucille
- friend ofUme Kimuracreative partners and occasional lovers
- family ofVictoruncle
- partner ofElaineformer love
- enemy ofVictornephew who attacks his uncle
- partner ofUme Kimura
- family ofMarie-Madeleine Fabre
- family ofPhilipgreat-uncle
- family ofMauricegreat-uncle
- family ofSeveringreat-uncle
- member ofDartmouth Coteriehonorary member
- related toElijah Shelbycustomer and acquaintance
- family ofThe Family GhostMarc calls him Uncle Rogi
- friend ofAtoning Unifexlongtime companion who guides Rogi's writing
- family ofJackgreat-granduncle
- inHanover
- family ofMarcgreat-grandnephew
- ally ofMarc
- related toLylmikLylmik telepathically pressures Rogi to help
- friend ofBill
- related toPerdita Manionminds his bookshop
- friend ofBill Parmentier
- ally ofTeresahides her in the wilderness and protects her
- friend ofJackJack is willing to learn to love Rogi
- friend ofTeresaclose companion at Ape Lake; Jack calls him uncle
- related toTeresaCares for her; attends her performance and tends her afterward
- friend ofThe Family Ghost
- partner ofPerdita Manioncasual affair
- related toAtoning Unifexhaunted by and reluctantly cooperating with the Ghost; calls him 'mon fils'
- friend ofKyle Macdonald
- friend ofDiamond Mask
- friend ofFritiso-Prontinalin
- related toDiamond Maskniece-figure who coerces him into helping
- family ofDiamond Maskshe calls him Uncle Rogi
- ally ofJack
- friend ofMalama Johnson
- related tored glass marble key ringowner
- related toMarcel LaPlume IXowner and companion
- member ofRebellion
- related toGates Househis apartment building
- ally ofAnne
- enemy ofParnell
- related toDenisrescued Rogi from drowning
- friend ofMarc
- family ofDonnybrother
- partner ofSally Lapidus
- family ofHagengodfather
- family ofCyndia Muldowneyniece by marriage
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1The Ghost confronts Rogi at the Winter Carnival
The Ghost follows Rogi through the Dartmouth Winter Carnival fireworks, and Rogi angrily rails at it for using him and for the deaths of his family.
- Book 1 · Ch 1The Ghost demands Rogi's memoirs
In his apartment above The Eloquent Page, Rogi learns the Ghost's last assignment is to write the full history of the Remillards. He demands the Ghost show itself and doubts it exists.
- Book 1 · Ch 1Rogi bargains to see Ghost
Rogi insists Ghost show itself before he will write the memoirs. Ghost compromises, uses calming impulses on his mind, and lets him see it as it was. Rogi sees it and is shaken.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Rogatien's walk along the frozen river
Rogatien snowshoes up the icebound Connecticut at dawn, recalls Marc and Jack's boyhood talks in the pine woods, reflects on pattern in the cosmos, and resolves to write the Remillard chronicle.
- Book 1 · Ch 4Birth of the twins
Rogatien and Donatien were born in Berlin, NH on 12 August 1945; their mother Adèle died in childbirth, and they were taken in by Uncle Louis.
- Book 1 · Ch 4Rogi meets the Family Ghost
Lost in the forest at age five, Rogi fled a bear, heard Don's mind-voice, and was snatched back from a ravine edge by the invisible Family Ghost, who led him out and told him to keep silent.
- Book 1 · Ch 6The gym fight with O'Shaughnessy
Older boy O'Shaughnessy catches the ten-year-old twins using PK on a basketball, hurts Don, and demands the 'gimmick'. Rogi smashes the ball into his face, and the twins in metaconcert stuff him headfirst into the basket.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Failing grades and Don's blasphemy
One' Louie scolds the twins over failing grades. On the porch Don blames God for their minds; Rogi shuts him out and goes inside.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Rogatien reads Odd John
Unable to find ESP books, Rogatien is given Stapledon's Odd John. Frightened, he pressures Don to read it; Don dismisses it and warns him to keep their powers secret.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Remillard Christmas reunion and mumps
In 1961 the extended family gathers for Christmas. Seventeen days later the five young cousins get mumps; Rogatien develops severe bilateral orchitis.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Rogi's farewell to Sunny
By the river, Marie-Madeleine begs Rogi to accept her marriage to Don; Rogi, resolved to kill Don, pretends to agree and says goodbye.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Attempted murder on the bridge
After the bachelor party, Rogi goads drunken Don into walking the bridge rail and uses PK and coercion to dislodge him. The Ghost blinds Rogi and halts the attempt.
- Book 1 · Ch 10The Ghost's revelation
The Ghost heals Don, erases his memory, tells Rogi of Don's destined child and Rogi's role as mentor, and reveals Rogi is sterile.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Denis's baptism and first mindspeech
At baptism, cold water makes the infant Denis cry; Rogi soothes him telepathically and Denis responds with a logical mental synthesis, bonding with Rogi.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Rogi reveals the truth to Sunny
Rogi tells Sunny about telepathy and Denis's gifts; she denies it, so he uses PK and coercion, calms her, and persuades her to have Don teach Denis.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Don agrees to teach Denis
Rogi tells Don; after an argument, Sunny's passionate defense wins Don over and he agrees to mindspeak with Denis.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Rogi agrees to help teach the kid
Don suggests Rogi join him and Sunny in teaching the kid. After a mental plea from the bedroom, Rogi gives in and agrees, and Don turns to asking about supper.
- Book 1 · Ch 15The LSD cocoa incident
In February 1970 Don offered Rogi cocoa laced with LSD. Denis had read the plan from Don's mind and warned Sunny, who slapped the cup away. Her telepathy training by Denis was revealed.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Don bars Rogi from the house
After Denis coerced Don never to harm him, Don ended Rogi's evening visits and announced Sunny's pregnancy. Denis privately told Rogi they would find a way to continue.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Northfield Hall scholarship collapses
Don refuses Denis's place at Northfield Hall and angers the school, splitting the Remillard family; Rogatien is left frustrated.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Ghost rescues Rogatien on Mount Success
Injured by a fall and caught in a storm, Rogatien calls the Ghost, who heals him, directs Denis to Brebeuf Academy, reveals it is an extraterrestrial, and transports him to Gentian Pond Shelter.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Denis visits Rogi at the hotel
Rogi picks up Denis and shows him the White Mountain Resort Hotel. Denis confides that his mother has withdrawn and his father favours Victor, who torments the twin babies.
- 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 20Rogi and Denis sense a telepath
Rogi and Denis perceive a woman hiker whose mind radiates music and farspeech. Denis confirms she is a telepath like them. Rogi is overwhelmed by love for her, and they decide to miss the train and wait for her.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Waiting at Summit House
Rogi carries Denis into Summit House, where a climber helps them. Denis wants to buy guidebooks, maps and tissues, and they go to tidy up before the woman arrives.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Rogi meets Elaine
Aided by Denis's mind-reading, Rogi meets Elaine at Summit House; she arranges to give him a copy of Visitant that night at the hotel's Grotto Lounge.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Rogi seduces Elaine
Rogi tells Elaine an edited UFO encounter story, dances with her, then in her suite awakens her latent telepathy and they make love; he proposes and she accepts.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Summer together
Elaine rents a house in Bretton Woods and they spend four happy months together, planning to marry in November once her divorce is final.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Disastrous Fourth of July barbecue
Roger introduced Elaine to his Remillard relatives at Cousin Gerard's barbecue in Berlin; she clashed with them, and Don used coercion to seduce her once.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Elaine reveals her pregnancy; Roger leaves her
At a New Hampshire inn near Franconia in October, Elaine told Roger she was pregnant. He read her memories, discovered Don was the father, and ended their relationship.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Roger tells Father Ellsworth about Denis
In early September Roger returned Denis to Brebeuf Academy and revealed his metapsychic abilities to Father Ellsworth, as the Ghost had instructed.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Rogi redirects Denis from Georgetown to Dartmouth
Following the Ghost's advice, Rogi tells Fathers Ellsworth and Dubois that Denis will attend Dartmouth, not Georgetown, citing infiltration risks in Washington.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Invention of Operation Witch Hazel
On a November walk, Denis and Rogi conceive dowsing for telepaths with a forked witch hazel stick and a map, leading to the seekersense.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Founding of the Dartmouth Coterie
Using seekersense from 1979, Denis locates Glenn Dalembert, Sally Doyle and others, then more operants at Dartmouth, forming the Coterie.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Rogatien shares Don's death
During Mass, Rogatien loses his senses and experiences Don's life memories and his suicide by feller-buncher, learning Don hated him.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Breakfast with Denis
Denis tells Rogatien that Victor suppressed his siblings' powers and drove Don to suicide, and urges him to join the Hanover group. Rogatien deflects with a plan for a bookstore.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Rogi is steered to the Gates House shop
Rogi detects the Ghost's aura in a vacant shop shown by Mrs. Mallory; the Ghost admits arranging that he take it because of its proximity to the future Remillard home.
- 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 1 · Ch 35Rogi signs the bookshop lease
After arguing with the Ghost about helping Denis in secret, Rogi finds a red marble key ring in the gutter and enters the real-estate office to sign the lease on the Gates House bookshop.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rogatien opens his bookshop
In 1991 Rogatien stocks and opens the Eloquent Page in Hanover, serving Denis's Coterie and mail-order customers.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rift over the Edinburgh demonstration
Rogatien learns telepathically that Denis has yielded to MacGregor's plan for a public demonstration; they quarrel and become estranged.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rogatien's breakdown and yoga
Troubled by dreams, Don's presence and drinking, Rogatien turns to yogic meditation as the Edinburgh conference nears.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Rogatien farspeaks Denis
Rogatien uses the out-spiral chakra meditation to hail Denis mentally; Denis, boarding a helicopter to Washington, explains the President's summons, MacGregor's reasons, and urges him to join the group.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Discovery of the mind-zap hole
Rogatien finds a neat hole in his window at his exact height, concludes the farspoken hail produced a new 'mind-zap' power, and keeps it quiet.
- Book 1 · Ch 4360 Minutes interview arranged
Tremblay arranged a November 1991 CBS 60 Minutes hour with Denis and a tour of the lab, a program that Rogatien says became nearly as memorable as MacGregor's Edinburgh demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Bookshop psychokinesis demonstration
At a signing, Remillard balances books in midair with psychokinesis for a fan and cameras; Uncle Roger then calls the books to him, revealing his own ability.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Lucille rescues Rogatien
Lucille finds Rogatien in a drunken stupor days after the taping, cleans him and his flat, feeds him by coercion, and proposes he see her analyst Sampson that afternoon.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Rogatien realizes his task
Hearing Lucille mention Sampson, Rogatien understands that she is the dragon that sent him on his drunken gesture and that he must separate her from Sampson by revealing the truth about operancy.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Lucille and Ume visit Rogatien's bookshop
On 21 September 1992 Lucille and Ume asked Rogatien to join their creativity experiments. Lucille tried a coercive probe, which he resisted, then fled in tears over Sampson. Rogatien admitted to Ume that he interfered.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Ume transmits a thought-construct
Ume asked Rogatien to work with her and sent him a complex telepathic construct on physical and psychic energy correlation, which he understood.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Roger agrees to the experiments
Ume persuades Roger to join her creativity experiments, promising to keep Lucille away and respect his wish for noninvolvement.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Night of carezza
At Ume's house, she shares her life story telepathically and leads Roger through slow carezza; they create a shared psychocreative vision and wake as best friends.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Experiments fail; Lucille reconciles
After eight weeks Roger is dismissed as a nonstarter. Lucille forgives him and gives him a kitten at Christmas 1992.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Rogatien meets Elaine at Boskone
At the masquerade party Rogatien dances with Elaine, meets her husband Gilbert Anderson and learns about her daughter Annarita, then flees dejected.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Victor abducts Rogatien
Victor finds Rogatien drunk, overrides his mind, confesses to murdering his sisters, and forces him to leave for Berlin to be used against Sunny's resistance.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Fight in the parking garage
Victor tries to force Rogi to leave with him; Rogi resists, wounds Victor with a psychocreative blast, and is nearly overcome before an unseen operant knocks Victor out.
- Book 1 · Ch 52Rescue and warning
The rescuer puts Victor unconscious in the Porsche, leaves Rogi's bags, and telepathically tells him Victor will blame Rogi and warns of Victor's threat to Sunny.
- Book 1 · Ch 58George and Pauline die
Told of her fate by Pauline, George bought a shotgun and killed her and himself by the Androscoggin River. Victor destroyed their note; Sunny later declined and died in March.
- 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 67Denis asks Rogi to join a metaconcert
Denis visits Rogi late at night after the President's call about a Chinese anomaly and asks for his help in a joint farsight excursion.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Metaconcert over Wuhan
Denis and Rogi fly mentally to Wuhan and watch a test subject trigger a mirrored dome mind-screen in a lab. They fail to penetrate it, and Rogi is left in agony.
- Book 1 · Ch 67Denis leaves shaken
Denis, drained, says the screen can be stopped only by destroying the generator and leaves, while Rogi fears the geopolitical consequences.
- Book 1 · Ch 72Rogatien receives Ume's farewell videogram
At the Hanover post office on 24 September 2012, Rogatien finds a videogram from Ume Kimura and realises she means to die; he runs to his shop to watch it.
- Book 1 · Ch 74Banquet planning at the resort
Rogatien meets Jasper Delacourt to plan the last Congress's banquet; Jasper pitches the costly Summit Chalet, and Rogatien agrees to inspect it.
- 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 1 · Ch 75Pyotr's vision on the mountain
On a dawn walk Pyotr sees Mount Washington shimmer and feels near a discovery; Rogi finds him, and Pyotr learns earthquakes are rare locally. Rogi explains Superman and kryptonite.
- 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 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 76Cog train toward the chalet
Victor takes Rogi and O'Connor by cog train toward the chalet. Near Jacob's Ladder, Victor's aircraft approach and Rogi escapes, warning Denis of the attack.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Cog train coach derailed
A third fireball wobbles and strikes the track ahead of the train, derailing the coach; the engine stops and a figure jumps from the cab as gunmen begin shooting at Rogi.
- Book 1 · Ch 78Rogi confronts Victor under the chalet
Rogi reaches the chalet's foundations as Victor plants explosives and signals his men to stop. Victor moves to mind-bond him; Rogi's out-spiral leaves Victor auraless and unconscious.
- 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 1 · Ch 79Rogi recognizes the Ghost as Marc
After finishing his section of the narrative, Rogi questions the Ghost about Victor's fate and its human guises, then confirms he knows the Ghost is Marc, and they exchange goodnights.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Unifex retrieves Rogi from the snow grotto
Unifex appears to Rogi in his Denali snow cave, restores the onion creatures he accidentally upset, then tells him his vacation is over and transports him home to New Hampshire.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Plan for the Memoirs
Unifex directs Rogi to resume his Memoirs with Jack's early life and disincarnation, Dorothea's role, and the Metapsychic Rebellion, skipping most of the Proctorship years.
- 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 4Rogi begins the retrospective
Rogi introduces himself and his family history, and begins the Galactic Milieu Trilogy memoirs with a retrospective.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Rogi drives Teresa and Marc to Berlin
Rogi drives Teresa and Marc to Berlin for the Good Friday ritual; Marc probes Rogi's mind and Teresa explains death and heaven to him.
- 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 5Deaths in the hall
After the metaconcert Victor appears to have died, and Yvonne, Louis and Leon are found dead in the hall; Rogi calms Marc and carries him downstairs.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc recruits Rogi
Marc returns to Hanover, wakes Rogi from a drunken doze with his redactive power and secretly tells him of Teresa's illegal pregnancy, asking for help and the car and camping gear.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc reveals the pregnancy
On the drive, Marc explains that Teresa is five months pregnant, that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion, and that he finds the fetus extraordinary and opposes aborting it; Rogi is unconvinced.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc enlists Rogi to hide Teresa
Outside Marc's home, Marc tells Rogi he plans to hide his illegally pregnant mother until the baby is born, and asks for Rogi's help.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Lylmik compels Rogi
After Rogi considers refusing, a Lylmik speaks mentally to him, insisting he help. The door nudges him inside and he goes upstairs.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Marc enlists Rogi to stay with Teresa
Teresa's packing proves hopelessly unsuitable; Marc decides Rogi must stay with her in the Reserve cabin and Rogi reluctantly agrees.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Coercing the Hertz agent
Marc paralyzes Siri Olafsdottir, wipes her memory, falsifies Hertz computer records and sends her away so the red rental egg can be used.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Flight to Boston to cover tracks
Marc disguises the egg, files a false flight plan and flies to Logan Airport to plant a false trail, before a multi-city route to British Columbia.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Escape from the airport gate in a disguised egg
Marc alters the egg's transponder during the five-minute parking limit, then orders the egg to exit. They re-enter controlled airspace at Cambridge under a new registration and head for Montréal at 2000 kph.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Supply shopping across the continent
En route west, Rogi, Teresa and Marc shop at Denver and Williams Lake for tools, clothing, and food for four months in the wilderness; Rogi also buys a rifle.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Departure into the Megapod Reserve
At Nimpo Lake, Parmentier loads the party onto his Beaver, unaware that Marc will coerce him to fly deeper into the Reserve.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Marc's farewell and coercion of Bill
Marc promises to bring supplies in early-to-mid November, says he cannot farspeak while under suspicion, thanks Rogi, then coerces Bill Parmentier to begin the last leg of the journey to Ape Lake.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Arrival at Ape Lake
A floatplane drops Rogi and Teresa at Ape Lake. Rogi hides their supplies, inspects the ruined cabin, pitches a tent, and finds a usable latrine hut.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Teresa sings again
At dusk Teresa fills a water container, then sings to the evening-star planet and her child. Her lost voice has returned, filling Rogi with awe and foreboding.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Unifex's judgment on the Remillards and the Proctorship
Unifex rules that Teresa and Rogi are alive but that the Magistratum won't be told, dismisses suspicion of Marc, and decides the Proctorship ends, with a one-year probation and colonization moratorium to be announced tactfully to Earth.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Settling in at Ape Lake
Rogatien and Teresa spend a week building a food cache, the shelter Le Pavillon and a stove porch, hiding from passing aircraft until September 1.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Exploring for timber
On a rest day Rogatien hikes around the lake and finds a stand of Engelmann spruce beyond Ape Creek. He plans to move the lumber by psychokinesis.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Giant footprint
Returning at dusk across the Ape Creek logjam, Rogatien finds a fresh gigantic naked footprint in the mud.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Denis's farspeech search for Rogi
Enraged, Denis calls Rogi mentally, catches a faint response from the northwest, and scans across North America without locating him.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Woodzapper ruined
On 19 October Rogi forgot to press STANDBY; the overnight freeze iced the D-water in the woodzapper's fusion unit, ruining it, so he split firewood with an axe thereafter.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Cabin completed
Rogi and Teresa finished repairing and furnishing the cabin by 23 October, with a new roof, stove, furniture, and snowshoes made ready for winter.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Heavy snow begins
On 30 October the lake froze over and heavy snow began, as Rogi reflected happily on their life halfway through their stay.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Rogatien sets out to hunt
With food running out and Marc absent, Rogatien leaves Teresa at the cabin and snowshoes down Ape Creek Canyon with a rifle, telling her to farspeak Denis if he is not back in six days.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Rogatien spares the Bigfoot
After a blizzard, Rogatien sees a Bigfoot under the aurora and aims to shoot it for meat, but its telepathic joy moves him to lower the rifle; it vanishes.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Rogi kills a moose
After demanding that the ghost provide game, Rogi finds moose tracks, spots a young bull moose and shoots it dead, planning to butcher it.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Denis finds Rogi
Rogi's triumphant telepathic shout, sent along Teresa's intimate mode, reaches Denis, who replies 'Gotcha Uncle Rogi!'
- 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 24Denis finds Rogi and guides the moose butchering
Denis locates Rogi mentally, promises not to expose him, reveals the family already knows, and instructs him in butchering and caching the moose before a storm.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rogi confides about the Family Ghost, then collapses and is rescued
Rogi tells Denis about the Lylmik Family Ghost and the Great Carbuncle, falls ill from overeating, collapses on Ape Lake's ice hallucinating Elaine, and wakes in the cabin tended by Teresa.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rescue from the blizzard
The woman heard Rogi's mind calling, found him half-buried near the Ape Creek outflow, and could not drag him. She asked Jack to coerce him into walking. She then fetched his meat and gear before the blizzard.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rogi meets Jack mind to mind
Rogi touches his hand to her belly and calls to the baby. He experiences the womb through Jack's mind. Jack greets him and opens himself to him.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Christmas dinner and gifts
Rogi returns with firewood, and they share a moose dinner, hot buttered rum, and the lit candles. Rogi gives wooden safety pins and a papoose carrier plan.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Teresa performs The Snow Maiden
Teresa sings the opera for Rogi in costume, with Jack projecting illusory scenery from her memories; her singing voice is restored.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Teresa's performance of the Snow Maiden ends
After the opera's tragic finale, Teresa collapses exhausted but happy into Rogi's arms. He settles her on her bed and she explains the sacrificial rite behind the story.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Teresa prepares Jack for birth
After Jack 'lightened', Teresa spoke to him for hours about birth, pain and prayer, and promised he would be guarded.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Labor begins in the cabin
On Epiphany in extreme cold, Teresa prepares the cabin and bed for birth; Rogi lies to Denis about the labor and Teresa's waters break.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Rogi aids Jack through birth pain
Jack cries out in agony as he moves through the birth canal; Rogi merges minds with him and steadies him until Jack regains control.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Birth of Jack
With Rogi's help, Teresa delivers Jack in the cabin. Rogi revives him, cuts the cord, and Jack telepathically thanks them before his mind withdraws into infancy.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Champagne toast and Rogi goes out
After tending Teresa and the afterbirth, they toast with champagne. Near midnight Rogi goes out for firewood, unaware of creatures watching from the east.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Denis rescues the fugitives
Before dawn, Denis and Fred arrive in a Poltroyan orbiter above the cabin, terrifying Jack, and announce they will take Teresa, Rogi and Jack to Kauai to hide until pardons are arranged.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Jack meets Denis
Jack meets his grandfather Denis, accepts a pat but refuses mental contact and says he cannot love him. Denis then reports that Paul will not see them yet.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc tells Alex the hoax
While Alex tests the helmet, Marc telepathically reveals that his mother and Rogi are alive, hidden to save the baby Jack, and that the family is working to change the law.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc reunites with his mother
Mama farspeaks that she and Jack are back; Marc rides through the sleet to his grandfather's farm and finds her with the baby, under house arrest pending arraignment.
- 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 32Family reacts at Teresa's house
Rogi, Marc and the children gather with Teresa. She explains the pardon options; Marc angrily criticizes Paul, and Rogi sends him away.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Marc tells Rogi about Fury
Marc reveals to Rogi the hidden controller Fury; Rogi recalls meeting Fury on Good Friday and at Jack's birth, and Marc proves by mind-contact that he himself is not Fury.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Marc threatens to erase Rogi's alcoholism
Marc coerces Rogi and prepares to redact his drinking, but desists after Rogi's plea. They agree to do nothing for now, and Rogi offers to share his ghost story.
- Book 2 · Ch 35Teresa and Rogi pardoned
Facing media hounding, Teresa and Rogi meet Dirigent MacGregor alone; he asks his questions and pardons both without condition.
- Book 2 · Ch 35MacGregor interrogates Rogi
MacGregor coerces Rogi into revealing all he knows about the murderers of Brett McAllister and Margaret Strayhorn, then reveals a new interrogation machine will test the Remillard magnates.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Jack's cancers return
Marc tells Rogatien that Jack's bone cancers have returned and are attacking his spine and skull. Marc's mother copes by imagining Jack already dead, and Marc thinks this is sensible.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Remillard Christmas caroling
Rogi led thirty-four cousins in carols under Teresa's window, then took hay wagons to the hospital to carol for Jack, who gave each child a miniature white rose.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Teresa found dead
After midnight mass, Rogi visited Teresa's room, glimpsed a phantom man kissing her, then found her hand cold and an empty pill bottle.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Teresa's ashes taken to Keaku Cave
After a service at Saint Raphael's, Rogi, Marc and Malama took Teresa's ashes to Keaku Cave, where Malama and Marc placed them with leis.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Marc warns Rogi
At the bookshop Marc warns Rogi to avoid the Dynasty and lock up while sleeping; Rogi dismisses the danger but becomes anxious about Jack.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Ice-cycle race crash
At the loop, an out-of-control bike strikes Marc's Honda and explodes. Marc, warned by Jack, survives; the other rider, Gordon McAllister, dies.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc reveals Hydra theory to Rogi
Marc farspeaks Rogi, explaining Gordo was Hydra, that Hydra is five prenatally touched children, and that an adult Fury is behind it. He asks Rogi to guard Jack.
- 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 44Rogi reaches the burning hospital
After hearing a rhocraft take off with a sonic boom, Rogi drives to the hospital and sees a red-orange window. Marc arrives and urges him into his car as fire engines approach.
- Book 2 · Ch 45Fire in Jack's hospital room
An intruder coerces the guard, enters Jack's locked room and starts a fire, feeding it with the oxygen line. Firefighters, Marc and Rogi break through the sigma-field and door.
- Book 2 · Ch 45Jack emerges alive and bodiless
In the ruined room Marc and Rogi find Jack, who shifts from a young man to a brain to a small boy. Rogi carries him out, to the firefighters' astonishment.
- Book 2 · Ch 47Aftermath of the fire and the stolen egg
Marc and Rogatien take Jack from the hospital; Anne's egg is found stolen untraceably, the four Hydra children vanish, and the Magistratum searches in secret without success.
- Book 2 · Ch 47Human enfranchisement and Teresa's ashes
On 3 October 2054 humanity becomes a full Milieu member; afterward Marc, Rogatien and Jack scatter Teresa's ashes over Kauai.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Rogi photographs the o'o-a'a
After four days searching the Alakai Swamp, Rogi finds and photographs the elusive o'o-a'a, completing his Hawaiian bird checklist.
- Book 3 · Ch 1The Ghost's confession in Keaku Cave
The Ghost reveals it is Atoning Unifex, a Lylmik nearing the end of its life, explains its motives and penance, and urges Rogi to finish the chronicle before year's end.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Rogi agrees to the dream-filter
Rogi reluctantly allows the Ghost to install a dream-filter against Fury nightmares so he can write Dorothée's story on Kauai, refusing any Unity programming.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Rogi agrees to write at Elaine's lodge
The Family Ghost persuades Rogi to write his memoirs at Elaine Donovan's lodge near Pohakumano. Rogi hesitates over Elaine's memory but agrees, then the Ghost leaves.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Night in Keaku Cave
Rogi eats supper, sleeps in the cave, smells Dorothée's perfume Bal à Versailles, and dreams of a woman from Mount Washington.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Rogatien begins his memoirs
With Atoning Unifex's tenure ended and the Family Ghost's reappearance, Rogatien sets down the Remillard family's secrets, now safe to reveal, for countless future readers.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Rogatben brings Kyle and Masha together
Commanded by the Family Ghost, Rogatben lured Masha to the 2029 World Fantasy Convention in London to meet Kyle; they fell in love, and Masha left Oxford and became pregnant with Ian.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Victor's death and Fury's birth
On Good Friday 2040 Victor died during the family prayer vigil. Fury appeared and tried to take Rogatien, who escaped with the Family Ghost's help.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Voyage to Orb aboard the Skykomish River
In 2063 Rogi and Marc's four friends travel to Orb for Marc's accession; Rogi overhears their conversations and learns Marc is a self-imposed virgin.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Arrival at Telonis
The ship drops out of hyperspace near Telonis, hurting an unmedicated Rogi. The travelers see the altered white dwarf and nebula; Alex explains it is a Lylmik artifact.
- 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 14Rogi dissuades Jack from visiting Dorothea
In 2067 at his bookshop, Rogi persuades Jack not to go to Caledonia to confront Dorothea. They discuss the Hydra threat and Jack agrees to consult the Lylmik.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi meets Dorothée
In March 2069 twelve-year-old Dorothée visits Rogi's bookshop to buy a birthday gift for her brother, befriends Marcel, and begins a long friendship with Rogi.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Severin discovers the mind probing
In October 2072 Severin redacts Rogi to cure his impotence and finds evidence of long-term coercive-redactive probing, leading Rogi to suspect Dorothée.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi confronts Dorothée
During a birdwatching outing by the Connecticut River, Rogi accuses Dorothée, who admits she probed him and other Remillards for a private research project.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Dorothée confides her secret
Dorothée tells Rogi about Fury and Hydra, her mother's death, Fury's dreams, and her Remillard suspect probabilities, after Rogi was hurt by her probing.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Plan to infiltrate Okanagon
Dorothée explains the clue from Gran Masha about a suspicious aide to Castellane, and pressures Rogi into accompanying her to Okanagon in early November to probe him.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Dorothée reveals her plan to probe a Hydra suspect
Dorothée explains she can identify Hydra by its true metapsychic signature and intends to probe a suspect at Okanagon, with illegal evidence forcing her to use herself as bait. Rogi, alarmed, resolves to stop her.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi enlists Ti-Jean and lures Dorothée to the masquerade
From Kauai, Rogi calls Ti-Jean, who proposes Marc's Halloween party on Orcas Island. Rogi persuades Dorothée to attend, introduced as his girlfriend Surya, before they leave for Okanagon.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Halloween party on Orcas Island
Marc hosts a masquerade for metas at his house. Satsuma visitors, Dynasty members and friends mingle in costume.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Alvarez framed and arrested
The clown has Lek arrange a faked vehicular homicide charge and publicity so Alvarez is jailed on Okanagon, to stop Dorothea's trip and draw out a Hydra member.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Dee decides to hunt Hydra alone
Dee takes a walk to Spouting Horn, resolves to lure Hydra into a trap before her birthday, and decides to confide in neither Jack, Marc nor the Magistratum.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Dee recovers and learns Mikey vanished
Dee wakes healed in Malama's house and learns no child was found, realising the 'Mikey' was part of an ambush.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Wedding of Kenneth and Luc
In 2076, Kenneth Macdonald and Luc Remillard marry in Hanover; Dorothée and Rogi renew their friendship at the reception.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Dorothée asks the Remillards for help
At a wedding, Dorothée explains Caledonia's seismic threat and hopes Marc and Jack will test CEREM equipment there. Rogi's joke about her three grandmasters embarrasses her, and she leaves.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Marc refuses and Jack's feelings revealed
Marc refuses the geozap, accusing Jack of being in love with Dorothée, then storms off. Jack deflects with sarcasm while Rogi tears up.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Magma reservoir confirmed
After Hamilton's death and Dorothée's appointment as Dirigent, surveyors confirm the Clyde reservoir will erupt within two to three years; Dorothée calls Rogi, who calls Jack.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Arrival at Windlestrow Muir
Scurra II lands in a downpour at the geophysical camp; Dorothea and Calum Sorley meet Jack and Rogi, and Jack and Dorothea quarrel over his involvement.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Catastrophe simulation
MacNabb shows a Tri-D model of the rising volatile magma reservoir and its eruption; he tells Jack conventional CE modification has no chance.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Supper council
The operators discuss Neelya's diversion plan and its risks; Jack says yes to designing a new approach using two metaconcerts to separate volatiles and delay eruption.
- 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 3 · Ch 24Rogi appeals to Ghost
- Book 3 · Ch 26Marc confronts drunken Rogi
Marc arrives furious at the bunker after a telepathic cry for help, finds Rogi drunk, and is persuaded to drive a drill-rig below to watch over Jack and Dorothée.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Dorothea's aftermath and engagement
Dorothea, injured, toured the quake-damaged regions in a diamond-decorated mask and flying suit, winning deep respect. She and Jack announced their wedding plans.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Rogi finishes the volume and is rebuffed by the Ghost
At dawn Rogi completes the memoir volume, is troubled by a final line about Fury, and angrily demands answers from the silent Family Ghost. Malama telepathically tells him to visit her that afternoon.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Meeting with Cloud and Hagen
At Malama's house Rogi meets Cloud and Hagen, sent by Lylmik Unifex to discuss their Pliocene exile. They reveal Unifex is their father Marc, and Rogi asks them to tell the Mental Man story.
- Book 4 · Ch 2Breakfast at the White Mountain Hotel
Returning from Kauai, Rogatien detours to the hotel at Bretton Woods for breakfast, recalls past events there, then flies home to resume writing.
- 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 3Memory extraction for the rudalm
MulMul Ziml visits Rogi, who initially refuses a mind-probe and makes the Gi faint, then agrees to let the extractor record memories of the Caledonia diatreme under Kyle's supervision.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Rogi and Kyle discuss the Fury secret
Rogi insists Kyle keep secret that Fury is probably a Remillard, explaining the cover-up and the need to keep Davy MacGregor ignorant; Kyle reluctantly agrees.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Anne reveals Denis is Fury
Anne Remillard arrives unexpectedly in the snowstorm and tells Rogi she suspects her father Denis has a split personality and is Fury.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Anne names Denis as Fury
Over an omelet in Rogi's kitchen, Anne lays out evidence, the 2054 hospital fire timing, her dream-temptation and Denis's psychology, that her father Denis is Fury. Rogi, after initial denial, nearly accepts it.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Anne asks to mind-ream Rogi
Anne proposes probing Rogi's memory of Fury's birth to help treat Denis. Rogi, suspicious she might be Fury, noncommittally says he will consider it.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Plan to cure Denis agreed
Anne and Rogi plan a secret CE-enhanced coercive-redactive metaconcert to cure Denis and destroy Fury, with Jack building equipment and Dorothée probing Rogi's memories; the plan is kept from the rest of the family.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Fishing at White Moose Lodge
Rogatien arrives at the lodge on June 11, finds Marc, and they fish the lake at dusk while waiting for friends.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Parnell attacks Rogatien
Rogatien hooks a huge brook trout that is actually Parnell; it strikes him, tangles him in flyline, and drags him under, leaving him drowning.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Rogi's rescue from the springhole
After nearly drowning and a near-death experience, Rogi is revived on shore by Denis and Marc using redaction, and accuses Parnell of the attempt on his life.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Flight to Colebrook
Marc and Denis load Rogi into Marc's egg at the lodge and fly him to the hospital in Colebrook; Rogi discovers Denis was his rescuer.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Drunk Rogi subdued
Rogi, drunk on champagne Jack coerced him to drink, tries to flee redaction; Marc freezes him with coercion and takes him to sober up.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Rogatien hides in Kauai
After surviving the drowning attempt, Rogatien flies to Kauai where Malama protects him, then returns for the wedding rehearsal.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Wedding of Jack and Dorothée
Jack and Dorothée marry in a nuptial mass. Rogatien spots Hydra among the waiters, but Marc cannot see him and blocks Rogatien's farspeech. After the kiss, Dorothée's diamond mask vanishes briefly.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Rogi reveals Fury's identity
Rogi locks Jack and Dorothée in the Roosevelt Parlor after the wedding and opens his mind so they can read what he knows of Fury's identity.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Rogi kills Parnell
Parnell, disguised as a bartender, traps Rogi in the Cave Lounge. Rogi uses a pranic outspiral to loose a metacreative bolt that reduces Parnell to white ash, then disposes of the remains.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Honeymoon arrival on Kauai
Jack and Dorothea see the green flash, discuss Rogi's revelations and plans to heal Denis, and arrive at Jack's fortified Lawai Kai home.
- 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 13Rogi's mind is reamed for the exorcism
Jack and Dorothée secretly visit Hanover and redact Rogi's memories for data on Fury, then explain the plan to heal Denis on Christmas at Marie's farm.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Rogatien's depression and dread
After recovering over the summer, Rogatien grows depressed in autumn 2078, rejecting that Denis is Fury yet knowing the metaconcert redaction of Denis will proceed at Christmas with his own participation.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Trip to Lyon symposium
Kyle drags Rogatien to France with Masha and Sally for a Unity symposium; Rebel scholars talk of Marc's coming announcement and fighting Unity.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Visit to L'Auberge du Portail
Kyle and Rogatien find the inn with Guderian's time-gate, join a tour about the Pliocene Exile, and Rogatien takes an application form despite learning metapsychics are barred.
- 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 21Wedding of Marc and Cyndia
Marc and Cyndia wed in a small evening ceremony at Saint Patrick's Cathedral's Lady Chapel on Hibernia. Hibernian reservations dissolved in joy, and the couple exchanged Claddagh rings.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Cyndia confides in Rogi, and Rogi confronts Marc
Cyndia tells Rogi she is pregnant and that Marc has withdrawn, fixated on Mental Man. Rogi explains the project, then tells Marc to attend to his wife and eventually tell her.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Fury appears before Rogi
While babysitting Hagen, Rogi hears the Family Ghost's warning about danger from Marc, then turns to see a bloodied fair-haired man in the nursery.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Denis's apparition in the nursery
A vision of Denis begs Rogi for help to save humanity and the Milieu, then vanishes, leaving Rogi alone with a crying baby.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Rogi's ream and argument
Dorothée reams Rogi's memory of seeing Denis's spectre; the result is inconclusive. Rogi argues with Jack and Dorothée over Marc, whom they fear is preparing for war.
- 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.
- 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 28Cyndia calls Rogi
Cyndia secretly phones Rogi on Earth, learns the visitor was really Batège and is now dead, and that only Marc remains of the family's dark secret.
- 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.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Cyndia reveals the Mental Man secret
On Okanagon, Cyndia admits Marc kept the Mental Man embryos, that Denis killed the babies, and that Marc will restart the project. She refuses help and makes Rogi promise silence.
- 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 35Rogi finishes the manuscript and bids the Ghost farewell
Rogi completes the account for the Family Ghost, is told to give it to Marie for publication, learns of the Lylmik helpers, and shares a farewell handshake with the departing Ghost.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Elaine Donovan's New Year's reunion
Elaine appears at Rogi's door with champagne, kisses him and says they have years to catch up on; the two begin a romantic reunion.