Ilanthe
Names: Ilanthethe Ilanthe-thingthe Catthe inversion core
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 8 (4)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 8Ilanthe is the Accelerator Faction's Council appointee, who enjoys making mischief and pushes for forceful responses.
- Ch 8Ilanthe tells Gore the Accelerators will duplicate ANA so those wanting fusion with the Void stay while others leave, and Highers will travel with the Pilgrimage to study the Void's fabric.
- Ch 8Ilanthe says the Accelerators could build a second Void in the solar system to achieve fusion with ANA, and claims Earth and ANA would be safe from the Void's boundary.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 5Ilanthe, Accelerator Faction representative, pushed to mobilize the deterrent fleet after the Yenisey's loss.
- Ch 8Ilanthe pushes the Council toward using a class of ship more powerful than the Capital class, which Kazimir reluctantly acknowledges.
- Ch 11Described by Paula as just as ruthless as the Cat; apparently linked to the Accelerators.
- Ch 11Ilanthe leads the Accelerators, sits on the ExoProtectorate Council, and is working to hide the nature of Chatfield's equipment from ANA.
- Ch 11Ilanthe judges that Marius blundered by involving Chatfield early and using the Cat against Paula, and decides to restrict his initiative freedoms rather than eliminate him.
- Ch 11Ilanthe predicts Araminta will turn to her ex-husband Laril as a dependable refuge.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Leader of the Accelerator Faction; she selected Neskia to pilot the ship on this mission.
- Ch 3Ilanthe is the Accelerator Faction's representative and dominant leader, obsessed with the Void; she manifests as a silver featureless woman with event-horizon black eyes.
- Ch 3She moves her mentality into the inversion core, becoming fully independent of ANA for the first time in 327 years, and rejects ANA's authority.
- Ch 5Paula Myo identifies Ilanthe and the inversion core as the real threat, with the Accelerators hoping to achieve Fusion with the Void.
- Ch 5Orders Marius not to kill the Delivery Man but to follow him and learn how many Conservatives remain.
- Ch 5Ilanthe and Marius find Gore's asteroid hideout and have Marius follow the Delivery Man's ship rather than attack it immediately.
- Ch 8Ilanthe appears as a dark sphere of purple light with a female voice, supplying ultradrives and force fields like those protecting Earth.
- Ch 8Ilanthe says she is driven by a vision of a wonderful goal and needs the Void's assistance to achieve it.
- Ch 8Ilanthe has promised to supply Sol barrier force fields to the Pilgrimage ships, which would make them invulnerable to navy weapons.
- Ch 12Ilanthe plans to use the inversion core to rewrite the laws of spacetime, making the Void's function permanent without needing external energy.
- Ch 12Ilanthe says Fusion was a misdirection and that Gore cannot be elevated by the Anomine mechanism because he is not an Anomine.
- Ch 12Ilanthe believes Araminta is committed and cannot back out, since Ethan would force her to contact the Skylord; either way Ilanthe gains entry to the Void.
- Ch 14Ilanthe provided the force fields that protect the Pilgrimage ships; even the Silfen are concerned about what she has become.
- Ch 14Ilanthe led the Accelerator Faction; the Silfen Motherholme is unusually worried about what she has become.
- Ch 16Ilanthe is heading to the Void with an unknown plan; Gore considers her ambitious beyond her ability and intolerant of dissent.
- Ch 18Ilanthe is an entity of uncertain nature traveling with the Pilgrimage fleet; the Raiel are watching for it but did not find it.
- Ch 19Ilanthe is travelling with the Pilgrimage fleet and has taken on a different, dangerous aspect that worries even the Silfen.
- Ch 20Ilanthe, an intelligence in an inversion core, killed a Skylord by absorbing its essence and gained abilities and knowledge of its kind.
- Ch 20Ilanthe regards humans as animals and intends to Fuse with the Void, seeking the Heart as the nucleus from which everything can be controlled.
- Ch 20After devouring the Skylord, Ilanthe accelerated away at 0.9 lightspeed toward the nebula called Odin's Sea.
- Ch 20Ilanthe has reached the Void region; it killed a Skylord, consumed its abilities, and is reportedly heading for the Heart.
- Ch 20Ilanthe is a week ahead in Void time and arrives at the Heart in a dark sphere with purple scintillations.
- Ch 20Ilanthe proposes an inversion: implanting the Void's composition into the quantum fields outside, eliminating entropy and giving every mind its own omega.
- Ch 20Ilanthe asks the Firstlife to have the Heart give her the Void's governing parameters.
Connections
- member ofAccelerators
- has memberMariusserves Ilanthe's Accelerator faction as a likely representative
- member ofCleric Council
- leadsAccelerators
- ally ofMariusworks within the same operation; she restricts his freedoms
- ally ofNeskiafaithful operative
- enemy ofKazimir Burnelli
- enemy ofGore Burnelli
- related toValeanacts under Ilanthe's orders
- ally ofEthansecret deal for technology in exchange for passage into the Void
- enemy ofSecond Dreamer
- member ofPilgrimagetravelling with it
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 8Council meets on Ocisen fleet
Kazimir informs the ExoProtectorate Council that a huge Ocisen fleet is heading for Ellezelin; members debate force, diversion or diplomacy without agreement.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Committee votes to confront the Ocisen fleet
The committee votes by majority for the Navy to warn the Ocisen command ship and disable it if ignored. Justine and Creewan oppose; Justine leaves, and Kazimir will reconvene if the fleet keeps coming.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Ilanthe offers Gore a deal
In Gore's perceptual reality, Ilanthe proposes duplicating ANA and building a second Void for fusion. Gore rejects the idea and afterwards tells Nelson to investigate Troblum.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Troblum calls ANA
The Advancers detect Troblum's secure call to ANA:Governance; Troblum demands Paula Myo and she agrees to meet him at Sholapur in five days.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Council response
The Council debates, then agrees Kazimir will send four Capital-class ships to scout, with the deterrent fleet to be deployed if they are destroyed.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Battle with the Ocisen fleet
Commonwealth stealth ships tear a Starslayer command vessel from its wormhole and destroy two unknown allied ships, losing the Congo. Scans reveal a dead Prime motile aboard.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Prime warship destroyed during capture
Navy ships pull a Prime warship out of hyperspace and disable it, but it explodes before marines board. Kazimir then orders the deterrence fleet launched.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Accelerators plan around Araminta
Ilanthe tests an Araminta replica, predicts she will turn to Laril, sends Atha to recover wreckage and orders Neskia to bring the swarm to Sol.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Neskia waits with the Swarm
Neskia parks the ship twenty-three light-years from Sol, confirms eight thousand ultradrives of the Swarm are ready, and awaits Ilanthe's call.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Judicial conclave suspends the Accelerator Faction
ANA:Governance convenes its second judicial conclave, charges the Accelerator Faction with high treason, exposes its plots, and suspends and freezes all its members. Ilanthe's mentality escapes into the inversion core.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Inversion core escapes and the Swarm seals Sol
The inversion core breaks out into spacetime and outruns the warships and Kazimir. The Swarm of 8,001 devices englobes the Sol system, collapsing wormholes while the Accelerator ship picks up the core and flees behind the force field.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Delivery Man takes the ultradrive
The Delivery Man reaches Purlap, is shadowed by Marius, takes flight command of the ultradrive ship and, pressed by the unknown executive, sets course for the Leo Twins.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Departure for the Anomine homeworld
Gore collects five confluence nest satellites and flies Last Throw into hyperspace while Marius pursues on Ilanthe's orders.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Araminta confronts Ilanthe
Araminta calls out the entity behind the ultradrives; Ilanthe appears as a solido sphere, and both agree to a mutual pact while openly declaring opposition.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Paula and the Admiral discuss the Pilgrimage
They conclude attacking the Pilgrimage ships would devastate Greater Makkathran, plan sabotage, note Qatux's help against the Sol barrier, and agree to wait on intercepting the Lindau until the Spike.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Ilanthe reveals her true plan
Ilanthe tells Neskia that Fusion was a misdirection and that the inversion core will rewrite the laws of spacetime across the universe, ending entropy.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Araminta confronts Ethan
After weeping for the Pilgrimage's followers, Araminta faces Ethan, who knows from Ilanthe she is many. She vows to lead the Pilgrimage into the Void without judging who enters, and dismisses him.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Justine meets Gore and Tyzak
In the Lady's church Gore appears with an Anomine, Tyzak. He tells Justine to survive and watch for the other Dreamers, warns her about Ilanthe, then fades away.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Fleet enters the Void
The Lady's Light reaches the Void boundary; the Heart opens it for the Pilgrimage fleet and Ilanthe's hidden ship, and all pass inside.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Ilanthe kills a Skylord
Ilanthe seizes and consumes a Skylord, absorbing its abilities, then flies off toward Odin's Sea, leaving Araminta and the Skylords grieving.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Arrival at the Heart and a Firstlife revived
Edeard is drawn into the Heart and starts to fade. With help he traces the memory layer to the Heart's origin and restores a Firstlife. Ilanthe's ship appears overhead.
- Book 3 · Ch 20The Firstlife rejects Ilanthe
The Firstlife chooses evolution rather than inversion; the humans decline to join the Heart, and the Void transcends, leaving a bare Gulf with one star.