Inigo
Names: Inigothe Dreamerthe Waterwalkerthe reluctant messiahYigoEarlDreamer Inigoex-Dreamersubject alphahuman messiahthe true original Dreamerex-messiahIngosoul brothermind-brother
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 1A new observer arriving at Centurion Station for a one-year stay, with Higher biononics, who hides this heritage and wants to escape it.
- Ch 1He suppresses using his biononics openly, suiting up like others and holding back from scanning the director, to avoid showing off.
- Ch 1At the end of the chapter, Inigo dreams his first dream at Centurion Station, and the dream is not his own.
- Ch 2Inigo is the Dreamer who gave the Commonwealth the dreams, built the city, and has slipped away from public life.
- Ch 2Inigo, the Dreamer, has disappeared, apparently reluctant to Pilgrimage; Ethan believes he is watching from somewhere and cheering them on.
- Ch 2Inigo built Makkathran2 and decreed that no powered transport crosses the park around it, to keep the movement's citadel authentic like Querencia.
- Ch 2He founded the Living Dream movement, was regarded as incorruptible, and left his followers; his dreams of the Void inspired them.
- Ch 4His dreams and telepathic ability gave a glimpse inside the Void; he has been dead for millennia of internal time.
- Ch 6Inigo, founder of Living Dream, has hidden himself and vanished; many people are looking for him and he had grown withdrawn for years beforehand.
- Ch 6Inigo founded Living Dream, was born on Anagaska, and periodically took sabbaticals, claiming to visit family.
- Ch 6Inigo's mother downloaded into ANA in 3440 after becoming Higher; she had a twin sister, estranged after an old trauma.
- Ch 6Inigo was born in Kuhmo, was seemingly Higher from birth, and studied astrophysics before Centurion Station.
- Ch 6Aaron suspects Inigo's official past is a cover story, and that Inigo's birth was the result of a radical infiltration.
- Ch 8Inigo was born to Sabine about two weeks apart from his cousin, possibly as part of a Higher infiltration plan, yet appeared to be a normal human.
- Ch 8Inigo bought a rejuvenation policy to fool the Protectorate, so an electronic copy of his young personality may exist on Anagaska.
- Ch 10The memorycell Telfer targeted was Inigo's pre-Living Dream store, last updated in 3320, the year he left on his Centurion Station mission.
- Ch 10Inigo returned to Anagaska in 3415 to dedicate Living Dream's central fane in Kuhmo; he has since disappeared, though he has not joined Ozzie.
- Ch 10Inigo's memorycell holds nearly forty years of his life up to his Centurion Station mission; he founded Living Dream and dreams the lives of humans inside the Void.
- Ch 10He began dreaming of the Void while at Centurion Station.
- Ch 12Inigo dreams the Void, and was long watched by the Protectorate while posing as an ordinary Advancer; he volunteered for Centurion Station out of guilt.
- Ch 12Inigo's father died soon after his birth, which his mother treated bitterly, fuelling his fixation on Hanko, his people's ancestral home.
- Ch 12Inigo was born a Higher, which was not on any file; Qatux learned this from reviewing his memorycell.
- Ch 12Inigo, the Waterwalker, transformed human society in dreams and revealed the Void's true nature and power.
- Ch 14Inigo is the lost messiah, hiding on Hanko under the name Earl with a disguised face, working on a Restoration project dig.
- Ch 14Inigo refuses to go back with Aaron and says he has no starship hidden for escape.
- Ch 14Inigo admits he is glad it was Corrie-Lyn who found him.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 3Inigo, the 'lost messiah', owns a hidden private starship in a cavern 700 km southeast of the Olhava camp and is expert with power blades.
- Ch 3Inigo betrays Aaron by firing a disrupter pulse that splits off the ice prominence Aaron stands on, sending him down a mile-high cliff.
- Ch 8Inigo and Corrie-Lyn are crossing a freezing, quaking world in a ground crawler toward his starship 200 km away, and Inigo believes they will not make it.
- Ch 8Inigo says he left Living Dream because he was tired of expectations, the Council and adulation, and claims he would not have stayed so long but for Corrie-Lyn.
- Ch 8Inigo had a further dream showing the life of a Waterwalker descendant in Makkathran after the Waterwalker's death, who used the gift perfectly; he says it merely affected him personally.
- Ch 8Inigo and Corrie-Lyn survive the crawler's tumble, which ends wedged nose-down in a fissure, and Inigo tends to her with a first-aid pack.
- Ch 8Inigo sustained hope in billions for centuries through the Waterwalker's dreams and refuses to reveal or dream the final dream.
- Ch 11Inigo is being taken by Aaron to an unknown party; some faction's ideological wish fulfillment makes this unwelcome to him.
- Ch 11Inigo is the Dreamer, whom Aaron was sent to find; he earlier tried to harm Aaron with a glacier.
- Ch 11Inigo is the Dreamer and also an accomplished analyst; he offers to trace the pathways of Aaron's implanted memories if Aaron opens to the gaiafield.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 8Inigo notes Aaron's mind has suppressed emotional fibers and is out of balance, unlike any mind he has met.
- Ch 8Inigo left Living Dream after a final dream convinced him the Void is a monster that should be destroyed, and that dreams turn to dust.
- Ch 8Inigo was originally an astrophysicist, but says his knowledge is centuries out of date and he has no idea how to stop the Void.
- Ch 8Inigo reasons Aaron's masters oppose the Pilgrimage, since they are taking him to Ozzie, who opposed Living Dream; he suspects they expect Ozzie and him to team up.
- Ch 10Inigo is no longer quite the messiah he was, but is determined; he and Corrie-Lyn are reunited on the Lindau.
- Ch 10Inigo has felt thoughts from the Void and observed it from Centurion Station, so he claims it cannot be stopped.
- Ch 10Inigo talks Aaron down by arguing the distress is from Aaron's own subconscious, and that the effect is Ozzie's telepathy rather than an attack.
- Ch 10Inigo is recognized by Octoron citizens, who react with anger and resentment toward him.
- Ch 10Inigo monitors Aaron's datatraffic and notes that the telepathy effect exposes everyone, so Isaacs already knows they have arrived.
- Ch 10Inigo has had no contact with Edeard for over a century and a half.
- Ch 12Inigo fought a whole army of Chikoya in Entranceway Plaza, then vanished from mindspace along with Corrie-Lyn and his bodyguard.
- Ch 12Ozzie resents Inigo as the man who subverted his hopes for the gaiafield with seditious dreams.
- Ch 12Inigo, a past Dreamer, forbade capsules from flying above Makkathran2 and began planning the Pilgrimage over fifty years ago.
- Ch 13This chapter is Inigo's forty-seventh dream, in which Edeard's life is shown.
- Ch 14Inigo wakes at Ozzie's house after being sedated; he and Ozzie never got along.
- Ch 14Inigo renounces the Void as a symbol of attainable Nirvana, admitting he was wrong; he says one reaches the Heart only after fulfillment.
- Ch 14Inigo dreamed the Void from thirty thousand light-years away, with no booster circuitry, possibly because he and Edeard were related.
- Ch 14Inigo says he cannot simply activate dreaming and that Araminta controls the ability far better than he ever did.
- Ch 14Inigo believes perfection is something to strive for but never achieve; utopia does not exist, and removing struggle removes any reason to exist.
- Ch 14Inigo says nothing in Makkathran can put them in touch with the Heart.
- Ch 15Inigo narrates a dream of the far future, in which he is a descendant of the Waterwalker and has lived a full life.
- Ch 15Inigo's mother is the granddaughter of the grandson of the Waterwalker's twins, making him a bloodline descendant of the Waterwalker.
- Ch 15Inigo will not have more children, nor will his two remaining children; he feels his people are history and the pinnacle of life.
- Ch 15Inigo plans to ascend to those who guide once his home is in order, and conjures a last manifestation honoring past figures.
- Ch 15Inigo lives in a home on the slopes above the sea in Tolonan with his family.
- Ch 16Inigo tells Corrie-Lyn that the transcended beings are no longer human, live in ennui, and contribute nothing.
- Ch 16Inigo had kept the Last Dream bottled up for about seventy years before releasing it.
- Ch 16Inigo believes the Heart can defeat Ilanthe, and that Ilanthe must now be factored into the plan.
- Ch 16Inigo has tried for five days to dream a Skylord without success; he was born Higher and hid a possible Brandt Dynasty ancestry.
- Ch 16Inigo opposes restarting mindspace, calling it mental fascism and the end of humanity; he trusts the Mutineer.
- Ch 17Inigo's dreams showed the nebulae Odin's Sea, Buluku and Honious, which Justine recognises from Querencia's sky.
- Ch 20Inigo says the Waterwalker is gone, only a dream, and reacts with shock to Aaron's demand.
- Ch 20Inigo brought Edeard out of the Void's memory; he chose this Edeard for his determination, the moment on which Edeard's later triumph was built.
- Ch 20Inigo admits he showed people Edeard's life, which spurred more ships to come to the Void; he blames himself for being besotted with it.
- Ch 20Inigo helps Edeard stay himself by strengthening their bond.
- Ch 20Inigo and Corrie-Lyn decline the Firstlife's offer; Oscar and Edeard also decline, choosing to stay.
- Ch 21Inigo returns to Ellezelin to assume the presidency Araminta abdicated, tasked with dismantling Living Dream.
Connections
- related toCNE Caraganatravelled as a passenger
- partner ofCorrie-Lynformer lovers
- enemy ofAaronhunting him
- friend ofCorrie-Lynformerly very close
- related toCorrie-Lynformer associate in Living Dream
- createdLiving Dreamfounder
- family ofSabinemother
- family ofErik Horovifather
- related toMakkathrancity as seen in Inigo's dreams
- related toAaroncustodian delivering Inigo as a package
- ally ofCorrie-Lyn
- enemy ofChikoyaattack to seize him
- enemy ofOzzie
- family ofWaterwalkerbloodline descendant through the Waterwalker's twins
- inTolonan
- ally ofAaron
- ally ofOscar Monroe
- friend ofEdeardmind-brother and soul brother
- family ofEdeardInigo calls him brother
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1Arrival at Centurion Station
The CNE Caragana lands at Centurion Station after 83 days; Inigo and the other new observers suit up and walk to the station.
- Book 1 · Ch 1Handover party and meeting the director
At the garden dome gala Inigo meets drunk director LionWalker Eyre, discusses the Void and sees DF7 rise, then goes to bed and dreams someone else's dream.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Safe house and breakfast
After arriving in Riasi and hiding in a rented apartment, Aaron cooks a lavish breakfast and tells Corrie-Lyn he must find Inigo, saying Living Dream will keep trying to kill her. She declines for now.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Plan to go to Anagaska
Corrie-Lyn reveals Inigo was secretly Higher and often visited Anagaska; Aaron resolves to seek Inigo's aunt. He remembers his starship, the Artful Dodger, and they board it.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Visit to the Inigo museum in Kuhmo
Posing as an anthropologist, Aaron tours the shrine to Inigo and finds Inigo's official biography suspicious. He decides they must ask the Protectorate.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Paul explains Inigo's origins
Paul tells Aaron how an angel infected Erik and Imelda, how Sabine's pregnancy led to Inigo, and how the Protectorate watched him for twenty-five years without finding biononics.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Aaron finds a lead on Inigo
Aaron deduces that Inigo's rejuvenation policy means a stored copy of his personality exists on Anagaska and plans to pursue it.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula takes over the clinic investigation
Paula Myo arrives at the ransacked vault, demands first access to all forensic data for ANA:Governance, and learns from Darval that Telfer was after Inigo's memorycell.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Aaron seeks the Raiel's help
Aaron and Corrie-Lyn dock the Artful Dodger at High Angel and are teleported to Qatux. Aaron asks him to absorb Inigo's memorycell to find Inigo and stop the Pilgrimage; Qatux agrees.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Qatux names Hanko
After reviewing Inigo's memories, Qatux tells Aaron and Corrie-Lyn that Inigo has likely gone to Hanko. Aaron decides to go there.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Paula learns Inigo may be on Hanko
Qatux reveals Inigo was born Higher and likely hides on Hanko. Paula discusses the Pilgrimage with Qatux, then asks Kazimir to observe Hanko; he declines to intervene.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Crawler borrowed to hunt Inigo
Corrie-Lyn pleads and Purillar grants a ground crawler; Aaron finds Olhava province's team best, and they plan to leave in the morning.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Aaron and Corrie-Lyn find Inigo
At the Olhava dig, Aaron and Corrie-Lyn find Inigo disguised as Earl. Corrie-Lyn weeps and kisses him; Inigo refuses to return.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Inigo betrays Aaron
At a vast fissure on Hanko, Inigo blasts the ice with a disrupter pulse, splitting the prominence Aaron stands on; Aaron falls down the cliff in an avalanche.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Aaron loses the trail in the whiteout
Aaron suffers a whiteout hallucination, wrecks the ice, finds the crawler tracks erased, and turns toward Jajaani.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Inigo and Corrie-Lyn caught in a storm
As miniquakes and a blizzard worsen, Inigo and Corrie-Lyn drive toward his starship, and Inigo admits they will probably not make it.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Quake overturns the ground crawler
After Inigo admits to a final dream, a quake rips the ground; anchors tear free and the crawler tumbles into a fissure. Corrie-Lyn breaks her arm; Inigo treats her.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Hanko destroyed
Paula tells Oscar that a faction agent fired a black hole weapon into Hanko, which is imploding, with Inigo possibly on it.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Aaron intercepts Inigo and Corrie-Lyn
As Corrie-Lyn begs Inigo for his final dream, the storm halts and the crawler's rear is destroyed by a green flash; Aaron appears inside a force field.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Escape from Hanko aboard the Lindau
Aaron gets Corrie-Lyn and Inigo aboard the damaged Lindau, which launches off Hanko. They discover the crew dead, Corrie-Lyn is treated, and Aaron admits he does not know where to go next.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Hanko destroyed
From the Lindau, they watch the Hawking m-sink consume Hanko's core until the planet explodes.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Aaron chooses the Spike
Aaron decides the Lindau cannot risk Pulap and reveals that his implanted options point to the Spike, where Ozzie lives.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Araminta reaches Miledeep Water
Araminta crests a crater wall, discovers the oasis town of Miledeep Water on Chobamba, learns where she is from locals, and checks into the SideStar Motel before collapsing asleep.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Breakfast clash aboard the Lindau
After a nightmare, Aaron breakfasts with captives Inigo and Corrie-Lyn, argues with Corrie-Lyn, and tells Inigo he'd kill him if he were taken.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Inigo and Corrie-Lyn reconcile
Corrie-Lyn confronts Inigo about abandoning Living Dream; he explains his reasons, they pledge to stop the Void together and become intimate.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Aaron's nightmare shared
Corrie-Lyn is woken by Aaron's tormented memories via his gaiamotes. At breakfast she confronts him; he denies impairment while Inigo and she urge him to prepare for a breakdown.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Aaron breaks down
Under the amplified emotions of Ozzie's dream, Aaron blasts open the cabin door and threatens Inigo and Corrie-Lyn. Inigo persuades him the trauma is internal, and Aaron falls into an emotionless fallback mode.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Telepathy experiments
Inigo and Corrie-Lyn find they can sense each other's minds and emotions, and experiment with the effect for hours, finding it disquieting and exposing.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival at the Spike
The Lindau arrives, receives docking permission from the Spike's AI, and lands on a tube pad. Aaron decides to seek Isaacs in the largest human settlement.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Massacre in Octoron plaza
Aaron questions citizens for Isaacs's location, kills one, tortures another and fires on the plaza, killing several and wounding others, ignoring Inigo's pleas to let him talk.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Chikoya attack
Armored Chikoya teleport in demanding Inigo; Aaron fights them, retreats through buildings, then sedates Inigo and Corrie-Lyn to hide them from telepathic tracking.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Meeting with Aaron
Guided by a hijacked capsule to a remote spot by a water column, Ozzie meets Aaron, who holds unconscious Inigo and Corrie-Lyn. Under threat against Corrie-Lyn, Ozzie switches off mindspace.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Aaron delivers Inigo to Ozzie
Aaron brings sedated Inigo and Corrie-Lyn to Ozzie's island house, where Ozzie is rude. Inigo wakes, and Aaron says he will give his plan when Ozzie comes down.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Ozzie confronted
Aaron forces a reluctant Ozzie to meet Inigo; Ozzie gives them access to his house net and says to talk in the morning.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Breakfast strategy talk
Over breakfast they discuss Ilanthe, Ozzie's discarded memory copy, and the limits of the gaiafield and mindspace. Ozzie suggests Inigo or a Skylord, or Gore, as ways to reach the Void.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Debate on reaching the Heart
The group discusses how to contact the Heart without an ultradrive ship. Aaron proposes moving the Spike, which Ozzie flatly refuses, questioning Aaron's programming.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Inigo's dream of perfection
Ozzie challenges Inigo on why he abandoned his gospel. Inigo says Edeard did not truly win, and answers Corrie-Lyn's plea by saying he dreamed of perfection.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Anniversary ascension
On the thousand-year anniversary of the Waterwalker's ascension, a thousand people ascend through Eyrie's towers to the Heart of the Void while Inigo and family fly over Makkathran and bid farewell.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Inigo's tribute in Golden Park
Inigo manifests a vision of historical figures in Golden Park as a final tribute, then resolves to ascend once his home is in order.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Inigo's dream discussion
Inigo tells Corrie-Lyn the transcended beings' lives are worthless ennui, while she insists they achieved fulfillment.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Inigo discusses the Last Dream
After Inigo shares the Last Dream, Corrie-Lyn storms out, Ozzie and Inigo interpret it as the Void's utopia ending in stagnation, and she later returns accepting it.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Qatux contacts Ozzie
Forced by Aaron, Ozzie calls the High Angel; Qatux cannot get them into the Void but says someone important, escorted by Oscar Monroe, will arrive in three days.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Inigo releases the Last Dream to followers
Persuaded by Ozzie and Corrie-Lyn, Inigo opens his gaiamotes and gifts the Last Dream to all his followers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Troblum offers wormhole transport
Troblum reveals his ship's Anomine-derived novabomb-powered wormhole engine that could reach the galactic core ahead of the Pilgrimage fleet. The group agrees to go, with extra suspension chambers being built for Void time.
- 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 18Wormhole crossing
The planetary FTL device opens a wormhole through the star, and the Mellanie's Redemption crosses 28,000 light-years to emerge near the Void.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Arrival at Makkathran
After Oscar suffers Aaron's nightmare, the crew lands near the Silverbird; Justine greets them, and Aaron says Inigo must bring forth the Waterwalker.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Edeard appears
Inigo's summoning brings Edeard out of the Void's memory to the empty Eyrie tower; he finds the city lifeless and bellows for his family.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Edeard meets Inigo and learns the truth
Edeard is reunited with Inigo, who explains he was brought from the Void's memory, that his life is past, all humans have left, and the outside universe threatens the Void.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Plan to reach the Heart
Gore tells the group to engage the Heart and persuade it to stop; Skylord-guided Edeard is the way in, and the group will use Makkathran as their ship.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Makkathran launches
Edeard persuades Makkathran, which encases itself in a crystal dome, shatters the land and sea, and lifts into space as a warship.
- 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.