Aycharaych And Axor

The Day Of Their Return, 3.

Aycharaych knows of the Chinese Taiping Rebellion and tells Desai:

"'The leaders were inspired by a militant form of Christianity - scarcely what Jesus had in mind, no?'" (p. 92)

We receive various data later in this novel, then in later novels:

Aycharych is a Chereionite;

the Chereionites were the Ancients;

Fr Axor will seek for evidence of the Universal Incarnation among inscriptions of the Ancients;

Aycharaych is probably killed when Flandry orders the bombardment of Chereion - but not necessarily;

if Aycharaych survives, then he will no longer have any reason to work for the Merseians and might even work against them;

Axor might stay in touch with the Terran Intelligence agent, Targovi.

And a speculative outcome of all that - Axor and Aycharaych meet and together research the Ancients, starting with whatever Aycharaych remembers of the immense base of knowledge that he had had (and that Flandry destroyed) on Chereion.