# Unmanned Autarch *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 26 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. --- ### CRCulver *26 Jan 1998, 01:09* Said Alga: > Besides, it wasn't the one Autarch, it was the whole string of them. Yep, we specifically learn that Ymar and the Autarch's predecessor were also unmanned, as well as the other autarchs in between. What about Typhon? BTW, someone in _Citadel_ refers to the Autarch as "Legion," because he is many (Biblical reference, Luke 32, I think). Is this his real name? If not, what is? Christopher R. Culver http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html ------------------------------------------------ "Ignorance, that light of fools steers a wayward path" -Brendan Perry --- ### m.driussi *27 Jan 1998, 14:39 · follows CRCulver* Reply: Item #0147191 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Correction: The text tells us: (1) autarchs who fail the Test are unmanned; (2) there have been autarchs since Ymar, and he died about a chiliad before Severian's birth; (3) yet only three autarchs have actually taken the Test--Ymar, the Old Autarch, and Severian. Typhon was a Monarch, the last of the Monarchs. The Old Autarch's name is most likely "Appian" (see "The Cat" in ENDANGERED SPECIES). =mantis= ---