# Undines

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Jan 1998*

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### Alice Turner
*27 Jan 1998, 09:27*

Xury,

>        I cannot help but to wonder that if, supposing, Severian had his
> fate set up from the beginning, a life predestined by whomever (an earlier
> Severian or such) and the Forces of Entropy were determined to prevent this
> catalyst from bringing the New Sun, then why did the undine save him as a
> child? She saved him so he could gain the Phoenix Throne, but they must
> know
> he would bring the New Sun also, thus bringing their own destruction.

Apart from larger questions of free will v. predestination----the undines
survived the New Sun splendidly, and are seen cavorting in the flood waves.
Practically the last act Severian does in the series is to make a
sentimental sacrifice to Juturna.

-alga-

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