Severin
Names: Severinbaby SeverinSewySevvySeverin RemillardUncle SevvyUncle SeverinSevvie
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 54 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 63Four-year-old Severin, nicknamed Sewy, helped make the spaghetti worms prank.
- Ch 75Severin is a ten-year-old operant who is angry at the Sons of Earth and tempted to retaliate, though he wants normals to like operants.
- Ch 76Severin warns Rogi telepathically of gunmen with infrared sight, offers to create decoy body glow, and urges him up the mountain before a sleetstorm.
- Ch 77Young Severin urges fighting back and clobbering the attackers; Lucille turns him over to his older brothers.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 6Performed the genetic assay confirming at least three intractable lethal traits in the fetus, making himself an accessory to Teresa's crime.
- Ch 18As a boy of nine, Severin sensed Victor's evil at the 2012 Christmas party in Berlin.
- Ch 31Severin, a decent neurosurgeon but no geneticist, did the original secret genetic tests on Jack, which diagnosed three lethal genes.
- Ch 44Severin is coercively redacting the cousins who had contact with Gordon to learn his motives.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 8Severin, a former doctor, belongs to the Rebel faction opposing Unity and favors dashing Regency clothing.
- Ch 8Severin says Marc has been approached several times by the Rebel group, agrees human mental autonomy matters, but has declined to join; Severin calls him a cold fish.
- Ch 16A former neurosurgeon consulted by Marc, he stole the design specifications of Marc's CE rig for Annushka.
- Ch 18Severin is a sixty-nine-year-old Remillard, part-time redactor and neurosurgeon, and a Rebel magnate who would lead the Metapsychic Rebellion in 2083.
- Ch 18Severin repaired Rogi's hypothalamus and limbic septum and told him someone powerful had coercively probed his mind for two years or more.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 16Severin, 75, is a retired neurologist who refuses to join the metaconcert, afraid he is a weak link vulnerable to Fury.
- Ch 16Severin reveals that Victor tried to seize control of him in childhood and afterward, leaving him terrified of Victor.
- Ch 16Severin, a former brain surgeon and Magnate of the Concilium, was harassed by Victor in childhood and believes Victor's spirit, as Fury, tried to steal his soul.
- Ch 16Severin cannot take part in the metaconcert because his unresolved childhood trauma could make him a weak point open to Fury's invasion; he is willing to be sedated.
- Ch 16Severin believes Victor lives on in Denis's brain and fears Fury would subsume them all if he cracked.
- Ch 17Severin signed the false death certificate for Denis.
- Ch 30Severin is a reluctant participant who jokes about wrecking a world, admits to guilt, and chooses to stay in the metaconcert despite offered withdrawal.
Connections
- family ofDenischild
- family ofRogi Remillardgreat-uncle
- family ofMaeve O'Neillwife
- partner ofMaeve O'Neillmarried
- ally ofLucille
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- leadsRebellion
- ally ofAnna
- member ofRebellion
- family ofQuentinson
- family ofPaulolder brother
- related toDenissigned false death certificate
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 63Halloween prank at the bookshop
Denis's three sons, dressed as imps, flood Rogi's shop with spaghetti 'worms' and scatter his cash. Rogi freezes them with coercion, takes their picture, and makes them clean up.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Breakfast amid tension
The Remillard family breakfasts uneasily as pickets gather again. Denis offers to send the boys home, but Severin stays, and Rogi takes him to help set up for MacGregor's demonstration.
- Book 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 2 · Ch 6Marc spies on Lucille and Teresa
Marc secretly scans his mother and grandmother, learning Teresa is five months pregnant illegally and that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion the next morning.
- 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 8Remillard siblings enter politics
Paul draws his siblings into Human Polity politics; all seven become Grand Master Intendant Associates, and Paul secures Concord as capital in 2040.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Remillard family conference
The seven siblings and parents learn Teresa and Rogi are alive, Paul decides not to report them, Anne is assigned to take Marc to Orb, and Catherine accepts her Concilium duty.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Discussion of Brett's murder investigation
The family debates theories of the killer, including a Simbiari metaconcert, and resolves to mount its own investigation.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Denis reveals the ash-pattern link to Victor
Denis tells Philip, Maurice, Severin and Lucille that Brett's ash patterns match Shannon's, killed by Victor, and fears Victor's mind passed to a family member.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Family agrees to wait and plan a probe
The family agrees to leave the investigation to the Magistratum; Denis will design a human metaconcert probe, seeking Krondak help at Concilium Orb, and no one will act beforehand.
- Book 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 3 · Ch 8Family council at Paul's home
Paul gathers his six siblings at his Concord cottage to await Denis; amid arguments over Unity between Rebels Severin and Adrien and Anne, he uses coercion to hold the debate until they are in a sigma-shielded summerhouse.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Family conference under sigma shield
Paul tells the Remillard magnates and Denis that Hydra killed three researchers on Islay, that the Lylmik want it kept secret, and that Fury altered vital-statistic databases to hide the fugitives.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Paul's decision on Marc and the Fury hunt
After family debate, Paul rules that Marc's research continues, condemns Fury and the Hydra-units subject to Lylmik approval, and assigns every family member a role in the hunt, coordinating with him.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Meeting ends
Paul reminds the family of the next day's Magistratum interrogation, turns off the sigma-field and leaves; the family says good night.
- Book 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 4 · Ch 16Severin confesses his fear of Victor
En route to Hanover, Severin refuses to join the metaconcert and shows Paul a memory, revealing Victor tried to control him as a child.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Severin refuses the metaconcert
Severin confesses his lifelong fear of Victor/Fury and says he cannot join the metaconcert. Paul fails to persuade him and decides to farspeak Jack about aborting.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Dummy-unit plan agreed
Jack proposes using Severin as a sedated dummy participant, as done on the Siberian planet. Paul agrees to proceed, and prepares to cue the others and bring Denis downstairs.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Christmas Eve réveillon at the farm
After midnight mass, the family gathers at Marie's farm; Rogi detects a mindscreened cellar while one by one the conspirators slip away.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Integration of Denis and Fury
Rogi lures Denis to the cellar, where eight minds forge a metaconcert, subdue him, and force the fusion of Denis and Fury, leaving an unnamed merged personality that then vanishes.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Denis's faked death
After Denis vanishes, Lucille confronts the narrator. Jack fabricates a body, Severin signs the death certificate, and the First Magnate arranges formalities. Fake ashes are interred in Berlin, New Hampshire, and memorials follow.
- Book 4 · Ch 30The Cible exercise
During Diobsud's eclipse of Cible, Marc's metaconcert of ten focus members and many Grand Masters transformed the moon's core, shattering its ice crust and ruining its atmosphere while a mock planetesimal masked the cause.