Tyzak
First appears in Book 3: The Evolutionary Void, chapter 16 (NINE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 16Tyzak is an elderly Anomine, an old-father of his village, who agrees to walk the Delivery Man to the place of separation, two days away.
- Ch 16Tyzak says the Anomine do not dislike machines but choose not to use them, and that their planet should choose the nature of their final days.
- Ch 16Tyzak is an old Anomine guiding the Delivery Man across wild country toward an abandoned city; he sleeps outdoors and carries a cudgel ax.
- Ch 16Tyzak is an elderly Anomine who guides the Delivery Man and says the city speaks to him in small stories, showing where his ancestors left.
- Ch 16Tyzak refuses to ask the elevation machine to reactivate, saying it has served its purpose and the planet has destined the Anomine for something different.
- Ch 18Tyzak, an old Anomine, believes only the planet can determine his race's future, but agrees to ask the elevation mechanism.
- Ch 19Tyzak is an Anomine who is slowly showing interest in Gore's story and accompanies him; he speaks in a high-pitched twitter.
- Ch 20Tyzak treats the siphon as just another sensor system and is not told the truth; his species' way of life conflicts with the Delivery Man's mission.
- Ch 20Tyzak, an old Anomine, accepts elevation by the mechanism as his planet is doomed, believing the planet knew its purpose.
Connections
- member ofAnomine
- ally ofDelivery Man
- related toGore Burnellipersuading him to awaken the elevation mechanism
- ally ofGore Burnelli
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 16Meeting Tyzak
The Delivery Man lands near an Anomine village, greets the elder Tyzak through a translator, and learns the Anomine reject technology by choice and preserve history through stories.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Journey to the place of separation
Tyzak agrees to walk the Delivery Man two days to the place of separation, which Gore and the Delivery Man deduce is the city with a wormhole stabilizer; they set off on foot.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Trek to the abandoned city
The Delivery Man and Tyzak hike for two days toward the abandoned Anomine city, swapping stories and fending off night beasts, while Gore studies the wormhole device.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Journey to the plaza
The Delivery Man and Tyzak walk fifteen hours through forest and the Anomine city, sensing the city's dormant neural AI, and reach the plaza where Gore landed.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Tyzak refuses to activate the machine
Tyzak reveals the plaza is the elevation mechanism but declines to reawaken it, so Gore plans to hack it and checks its power source.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Elevation mechanism awakened and refuses Gore
Tyzak agrees to ask the elevation mechanism to awaken, but it refuses to elevate Gore, so Gore plans to hack it after reactivating the siphon.
- 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 20Gore's elevation
Using the nova's power through the Anomine elevation mechanism, Gore transcends and shares the method with the Firstlife and the Heart, showing an alternative to Ilanthe's inversion.