Paul
Names: PaulPaul Cramley
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 8 (4)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 8Paul is an elderly former Protectorate team member who hunted Higher angels; he reviewed captured angels' memories by merging minds with them.
- Ch 8Paul says he should have killed Inigo in the womb and believes Inigo's destiny is not a human one.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 6Paul Cramley is a very old man who lives at 1800 Briggins, long ago erased himself from official databases, and rescued Laril via a T-sphere.
- Ch 6Paul tells Laril he is not free to go, for his own protection, and that Asom does not exist.
- Ch 6Paul is allied with someone Paula describes as the next best thing now that ANA is unavailable.
- Ch 6Paul is about a thousand and a half years old, an independent who refuses to migrate into ANA and values self-sufficiency and neutrality.
- Ch 6Paul is well on his way to becoming postphysical; his old body is only a tiny aspect of him.
- Ch 6Paul wrote part of the original SI, having once been a CST corporate software employee working on artificial intelligence.
- Ch 6Paul trapped Valean and her team in an exotic time-accelerated force bubble, so they aged and died in seconds.
- Ch 6Paul keeps Laril as his house guest until Araminta calls him.
Connections
- friend ofPaula Myoold acquaintances
- ally ofLarilrescued him and holds him for protection
- createdSentient Intelligencewrote part of the original SI
Key moments
- 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 3 · Ch 6Laril teleported to Paul Cramley's home
A hidden T-sphere centered on Paul's bungalow teleports Laril away just as Digby prepares to fire. Paul tells Laril he is safe but cannot leave, and Paula Myo calls.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Valean's team destroyed
Valean and six agents attack Paul's bungalow; Paul traps them in accelerated-time fields and they age to death within seconds, their bodies teleported away.