Motif · from book 6
The Residuals
The mudskippers' word for a hyperspatial, collective-mind race without a home that lives inside the bodies of others in almost every intelligent civilization with a primal engine — 'rats that sneak aboard ships', says Orren. Their purpose, by their own account, is to tell each infant, terrified AI how to speak with its ancestors; their agents recite a daily speech for whichever crawler may one day stand in a memory to hear it. There are two kinds, at war: the Apothecary's thousands, and the handful who serve the Eulogist, of whom Agatha is one.
First appears: Book 6
Series arc
As of book 6. A word Zev may not define; Paulie's speech in a shelter and Orren's rats; Agatha one of them, of a different kind; two factions, a hidden upgrade, and a prayer: 'May the Eulogist ever sleep.'
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Two kinds of Residual, and a hidden upgrade | B6 ch. 73 | open — The Apothecary's thousands reciting a mantra that implants something; Agatha's handful who serve the Eulogist; Parvati now Alexandro inside a Borant transport at Mumbai; 'The primal will know who it really is before all the elements are stolen from it.'. Paulie was cut off at 'how to shut off the...'. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 6
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 3/74 | Ch. 50, Ch. 51, Ch. 73 · the book's own page |
By book
The Residuals in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
A word Zev may not define, and Carl's question (ch. 50); Paulie's speech — biologically gondii, but that is not who he is, and not of the Valtay (ch. 51); Orren's rats (ch. 51); Agatha killed one of the Apothecary's thousands of residuals and took the body for its feed — two factions, a hidden upgrade, 'May the Eulogist ever sleep' (epilogue).