# Silk/Malrubius

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 15 Aug 2002*

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### Craig Brewer
*15 Aug 2002, 17:43*

I've finally finished reading through the archives,
and I'm left with a question (which I hope I just
haven't overlooked).

In an interview, GW mentions a possible connection
between Silk and Master Malrubius (I can't locate the
interview at the moment). I was wondering if anyone
else had determined how/why this connection would be
made. Why, for example, would an aquastor (as I recall
Malrubius is) Silk be used to communicate with
Severian? I find it an intriguing connection between
the books, but I'm having trouble understanding what
purpose it would serve.

Craig

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### Christopher Culver
*16 Aug 2002, 05:29 · follows Craig Brewer*

> Craig wrote: 
> In an interview, GW mentions a possible connection
> between Silk and Master Malrubius (I can't locate the
> interview at the moment). I was wondering if anyone
> else had determined how/why this connection would be
> made. Why, for example, would an aquastor (as I recall
> Malrubius is) Silk be used to communicate with
> Severian?

I assume that Severian's incidental visions of Malrubius were actually
of Silk, but the machine which saves Severian from the Ascians chose to
create an aquastor of Malrubius because Sev's visions of
Malrubius-really-Silk had made such an impression on him.

Christopher Culver

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