Tomansio McFoster Stewart
Names: Tomansio McFoster StewartTomansio
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 12 (6)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 12Tomansio, a Knight Guardian, met Oscar at the sanctuary; his father gave Oscar the contact code eighty-six years earlier.
- Ch 12Tomansio is a Knight Guardian who welcomes Oscar and agrees to lead a team in less than an hour to protect the Second Dreamer.
- Ch 12Tomansio admires the Cat as evil but noble, saying she gave the Guardians purpose and brought them together with the Barsoomians.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 3Tomansio leads the covert team and forbids use of biononic field functions, since the welcome team would detect them.
- Ch 5Tomansio leads the group and orders Liatris to lay a false data trail to mislead Major Honilar, to protect Araminta.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Tomansio and Beckia, Knights Guardian, now work for Oscar rather than obeying the Cat, their creator.
- Ch 3Tomansio belongs to the Knights Guardian, which was founded by the Cat; he says they remain loyal to clients and have outgrown their founder.
- Ch 8Tomansio insists the woman on the news feed is not the real Araminta.
- Ch 8Tomansio believes Araminta has been mentally taken over by Living Dream and is a puppet, a double bluff benefiting Ethan.
- Ch 14Tomansio expects the Knights Guardian to survive by relocating to a new world in a fresh galaxy and offers Oscar a place with them.
- Ch 16Tomansio distrusts Aaron, questioning which side the Mutineer is on, but leads the Knights Guardian in defending the house.
- Ch 16Tomansio refuses to rescue Cheriton, saying a true Knights Guardian wouldn't expect it and it would jeopardize the mission.
- Ch 16Tomansio promises a ceremony of renewal: Cheriton would be grown a new body and given his secure memory store.
- Ch 18Tomansio distrusts the starship's reliability and showed telekinesis by moving a tea cup after entering the Void.
- Ch 20Tomansio taunts Aaron that what he spills into the Void may replicate his ex-girlfriend, as happened with Kazimir.
- Ch 20Tomansio tranquilizes Aaron when he breaks down, rendering him unconscious.
Connections
- member ofKnights Guardian
- ally ofOscar Monroe
- leadsLiatris McPeierl
- ally ofBeckia McKratz
- ally ofCheriton McOnna
- ally ofLiatris McPeierl
- friend ofOscar Monroe
- leadsKnights Guardian
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 12Oscar returns to Far Away
Oscar lands at Armstrong City, visits the Kime Sanctuary at Mount Herculaneum where he died, and is met by Tomansio of the Knights Guardian.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Journey to Knights Guardian lands
Tomansio navigates Oscar's capsule to the Knights Guardian's valley, which appears via the T-sphere teleport.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Oscar welcomed on Far Away
Oscar is greeted with ceremony by the Knights Guardians, sees the Cat's shrine, and asks Tomansio to help find and protect the Second Dreamer; Tomansio agrees and will lead a team.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Oscar briefs the Knights Guardians
Aboard the ship, Oscar argues history with the Knights Guardians and outlines a plan to infiltrate Living Dream's search on Viotia and seize the Second Dreamer.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Elvin's Payback sneaks into Colwyn docks
Using stealth and hacked networks, Oscar's crew lands the ship unseen in a barge repair bay at the docks in the rainy night.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Oscar's team prepares to intercept
Oscar, Beckia and Tomansio ride in a captured police capsule, learning that Living Dream's welcome team is heavily armed and discussing whether biononics work in the Void.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Raid on Danal's apartment block
Welcome team and support troops, including Oscar's covert team, seal the building and round up thirty-three residents, but the Second Dreamer has already escaped.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Search of apartment four
Oscar and Tomansio find signs of recent habitation in Araminta's half-refurbished apartment and plan to trace her.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Oscar deduces Araminta is the Second Dreamer
Over breakfast Oscar's team reviews Liatris's findings and Oscar concludes Araminta, who vanished, is the Second Dreamer. They decide to mislead Honilar and return to the apartment.
- Book 2 · Ch 8False Araminta seized in Colwyn City
Honilar's welcome team violently captures an innocent lookalike on Daryad Avenue. Oscar's team watches, and Oscar feels guilt. The team then meets Cheriton, who reports on Living Dream.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Confrontation with the Cat at Tandra's house
Oscar's team finds the Cat already at Tandra's home holding the twins hostage. Oscar bluffs and threatens, forcing a shared-information truce, and learns Araminta slept there the night before the Bodant Park fight.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Confrontation with the Cat at Tandra's home
Oscar, Tomansio and Beckia watch the Cat question Tandra about Araminta. She leaves after learning little, Oscar warns the family to flee, and he reports to Paula.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Oscar's team confronts Mr. Bovey
Oscar, Beckia and Tomansio press Mr. Bovey to reveal Araminta's whereabouts, warning others will come. Cheriton and Liatris then report Living Dream has located her after she shared Inigo's Eighth Dream.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Path stirs at Francola Wood
Oscar senses the Silfen path changing; Welcome Team members rush toward the woods and Oscar and Beckia arm up, calling Tomansio. A disrupter pulse shatters their window and they run out.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Oscar's group reacts
Watching the news, Oscar, Tomansio, Beckia and Liatris debate whether the woman is truly Araminta and what it means.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Watchers debate Araminta's motives
Oscar's team and Paula, with Admiral Juliaca, discuss whether Araminta is a puppet or has a plan; Oscar is told to keep seeking contact.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Araminta calls Oscar
Oscar and his team, preparing to give up and flee, receive a call using his onetime code from someone claiming to be Araminta, who asks to meet.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Oscar meets Araminta-two
Oscar's team meets Araminta-two in a Viotia restaurant and whisks her aboard Elvin's Payback. Tomansio verifies her; she asks for Ozzie's help and the ship heads to the Spike.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Aaron recognized as the Mutineer
When Oscar's party arrives at Ozzie's house, Tomansio recognizes Aaron as Lennox McFoster, the Mutineer who defied the Cat, shocking Aaron.
- 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 16Chikoya attack Ozzie's house
Forty armored Chikoya teleport in, surrounding the house; Ozzie vanishes, and Oscar and the Knights Guardian fight them back while Aaron guards the Dreamers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Myraian slaughters the Chikoya
Myraian dances untouched through Chikoya fire and kills one with a kiss. The Knights' combatbots arrive and the Chikoya flee or teleport out.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Cheriton teleported away
Chikoya establish a T-sphere around Cheriton, who cannot counterprogram it, and teleport him to the Farloy compartment. Tomansio forbids pursuit and the team evacuates the Dreamers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16The Cat tortures Cheriton by gifting
Cheriton contacts the team via gaiafield. The Cat, having mutilated him, rewrites his memories to torment him. The team flees FTL as he is forced to relive shooting his family.
- Book 3 · Ch 18The Cat ambushes Mellanie's Redemption
The Cat catches Mellanie's Redemption as Troblum prepares the FTL device. Paula intervenes, the ship flees, then launches the device into the star while Paula draws the Cat away.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Passage into the Void
The Raiel let Mellanie's Redemption pass. The Skylord opens the boundary, pulls the ship in, and speeds it toward Querencia, three light-months away.
- 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.