Sumala Volos

Also known as Thinking One, Thinker, Professor Volos

Supporting
First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 37

Sumala Volos is a supporting character in Glass Immortals (Book 1).

Gender: female
First appears: Book 1 · Ch. 37
Books: 1

Sumala Volos, known as the Thinking One, is a Marnish engineer whose writing explores petroleum as a source of heat and whose inventions include the lightning rod. Her book records lightning-rod testing locations and informs Thessa’s notes and instructions for the phoenix channel experiment. When she appears, she hops down from an ox-drawn wagon, tastes the air, and gathers Montego and Kizzie close.

Description

Sumala Volos is shown lifting her head toward the northwest, clasping her hands behind her back, and rolling up her sleeves. She stretches out her tongue to taste the air, then hops down from an ox-drawn wagon. She carries Montego on her shoulder and Kizzie in her other hand.

Connections

Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals

Kissandra Vorcien-Montegorescuer
Volos diagnoses Kizzie’s severe resonance poisoning, promises she will recover, and carries her away with Montego to help them.
Thessa Foleertechnical collaborator
Thessa follows Professor Volos’s instructions for grounding the phoenix channel, relying on his technical guidance for the dangerous lightning experiment.
Baby Montegorescuer
Volos discovers Montego alive despite his catastrophic wounds and carries him away to receive surgery.
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Yuglidmember of the same race
Volos and the Tall Man are Yuglid. She disapproves of Aristanes’s cause and treats the dead creature as a fellow being, calling it the Angry One.
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AristanesEnemy
Volos opposes Aristanes’s plan to destroy human civilization and refuses to let him kill Kizzie and Montego. Their exchange reveals longstanding ideological hostility and mutual caution.