Guion

Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (1991).

Guion:

plainly dressed, short, slender, large-headed, aristocratically featured, of a future race;

drinks Scotch and soda;

of at least equal rank to Unattached Everard;

 

seeks "'...a clue to...the hyper-matrix of the continuum...'" (p. 8);

 

asks whether apparent accidents are more deeply significant - because such knowledge might help track down the last Exaltationists and might have a larger meaning;

 

stays in No 207, Faculty Lodge, where doors disappear and reappear, at the Time Patrol Academy;

says that "'...chaos itself has a certain basic coherence...'" (p. 136);

is concerned because "Monitors have observed anomalous variations in reality" (p. 261);

works within the Patrol;

 

points out that, if the Patrol is to watch and guard the ages, it must also watch itself;

 

is not from the Danellian era;

is interested in Everard's handling of the Altamont case.

We may infer that the random causality violations in medieval Europe were what Guion was trying to detect. A Danellian confirms that the Patrol stabilizes "'...a reality forever liable to chaos...'" (p. 435) (my emphasis).