| Denotation | Thomas del Eden’d (Greek: twin; all Goliath emanations have the surname del Eden’d, Skarsian: of Eden.) |
| Numeration | 30th emanation of Ashtara; 5th branch of Goliath; 14 in the correspondence chart. |
| Age | 36 |
| Hotness | 7/10 |
| Vital Statistics | 1.715 meters tall, cock size 15.54 cm when erect. |
| Description | A duplicate of Tommy, but Thomas is thinner and more fit; his dark hair is slicked back. Dresses like he stepped out of the 22nd century rocketbilly revival – a bowling shirt, jeans with the cuffs rolled, blue suede shoes, a wrist chronometer with all the old-school scientific equipment built in – everything from a magnetic tweezer to a micro-particle image velocimeter to an ellipsometric contrast microscope. |
| Skills | Disco singer and nightclub proprietor. As a musician, capable of keeping time inside of the pleroma. |
| Sexual Prowess and Kinks | Enjoys really long encounters in the pleroma. |
| Average Duration of Play | 7 hours, 46 minutes. |
| Totem Tree | Phoenix reclinata, the wild date palm. |
| Fixed Star | Pollux, much wine, one of the Gemini twins (β Gem), also called Yang, masculine energy or Kuruka’di, the wise, skillful white iguana twin, of the Wati Kutjara. |
| Color |  |
| Esoteric Symbol | The Archimedean solid truncated dodecahedron. |
| Function | Establishing insight. |
| Official Title | Most Magnificent Mixologist to Her Eminence the Matriarch. |
| His Prophecy | A piece of candy with a surprising center. |
| Dessert | Sweet date gemblong (caramelized coconut fritters) with nau’gsh Prosecco agar shots |
Biography:
Thomas first appears in a gyre vision in Eden Blues. When Tara awakens from the vision, she mistakenly thinks she has seen Tommy, but is baffled that his clothing, hairstyle and the type of music he is singing all seem wrong. In the vision, he pushes her away, saying “I don’t even know if I’ll be allowed to be born…I want to live so that I can love you.”
Thomas emanates as a reaction to Ari’s trauma over driving Tara away. He finds himself in Tommy’s room over Tom O’Bedlam’s in Dalgherdia City. He notes that of all the Goliath branches, he wasn’t spliced from Atlas branches but is an exact duplicate of Tommy. Then he notes that he has radically different tastes in clothing and home decoration. He runs into Eloise, and has a conversation about the future of Dalgherdia – he’d like to remake the club into a 1970s disco.
Thomas changes into the mothman and pursues Tara’s flagship. When he emanates there, she is delighted to see him. They consider their options under a Terran attack. Thomas says that if CenGov takes Dumati, Aran could just make cercrotic mulch – the Goliath emanations care much less about the traditions established by the Cantor.
Tara and Thomas have dinner. She attempts to seduce him, but amazingly, he resists. He says that until Atlas and Goliath are connected, it will only cause more conflict between Ailann and Ari. Tara grudgingly admits that he is right.
They go to Eden to return the fallen K’ntasari to the land, and to fulfil Tara’s promise to Ari. Thomas accompanies her to Goliath, but the moment she lays her hand upon the bark, he transforms into the mothman.
Thomas takes part in the press conference with the new emanations, but rather than delivering a profound message, he chooses to sing a contemporary club number. This makes him the most popular of the new emanations.
In The Poison Garden, Thomas and Tommy have a bit of a dispute over the relative value of disco vs. curfling. Thomas is supposed to emanate for the re-opening of Tom O’Bedlam’s, but the club gets bombed and Ailann takes over. He does not reappear in the narrative.
In The Perpetual Rose, Tommy points out that Thomas is still a virgin, encouraging Tara to hook up with him. She goes to Thomas’ apartment and is amazed at how tasteful and clean it is, especially compared to the tacky disarray of Tommy’s place. She is a bit disconcerted by Thomas’ similarities and differences to Tommy, noting that she never felt that way about the twins Whirljack and Blackjack. This is her first sexual encounter in the pleroma, and she is shocked to learn that it lasted 7 hours, forty-six minutes – the sensation of the passage of time is much different in the pleroma, hence the importance of timekeepers.