# Digest urth.v006.n008 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Jan 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### urth-errors *02 Jan 1998, 23:02* -------------- BEGIN urth.v006.n008 -------------- 001 - CRCulver at aol.com - Severian's Family URTH Digest -- for discussion of Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works --------------- MESSAGE urth.v006.n008.1 --------------- From: CRCulver at aol.com Subject: Severian's Family Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 01:30:00 -0500 (EST) Friends, We know (have guessed, rather) that Severian's mother is Katherine and his sister is Merryn (previously Severa). My question is: who is Severian's father. If Katherine was being tortured whilst in the Citadel, and was pregnant with Severian and Merryn, where did she come from? I tend to think that Katherine was in much the same position as Thecla, i.e. she was an exultant who was captured and taken to the Guild of Torturers. Then, can we say that Severian's father was an Exultant? I seem to recall Severian mentioning his exultant-like height somewhere in the BotNS. Yes, ii's shaky reasoning, but I'm good at it So, what do you all think? Christopher R. Culver http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html ------------------------------------------------ "Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path" -Brendan Perry --------------- END urth.v006.n008 --------------- ---