# guild mystery *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 10 Feb 2009* > 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. --- ### Philip Authier *10 Feb 2009, 03:18* Hi I am new to the urth list and I have halfway completed my third read thru of BOTNS. In each read thru I have looked for information on the guild mystery that Severian supposedly revealed. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Philip --- ### Roy C. Lackey *10 Feb 2009, 08:19 · in reply to Philip Authier* >> Philip Authier wrote: >> Hi I am new to the urth list and I have halfway completed my third read >> thru of BOTNS. In each read thru I have looked for information on the guild >> mystery that Severian supposedly revealed. Can anyone point me in the right >> direction?<< "And the secret is only that we torturers obey." See the last page of chapter XXXI, SWORD. -Roy ---