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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/546",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 546,
    "subject": "Seven Severians",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-05-02T20:22:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-03T17:30:43+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0067@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.geis.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-02T20:22:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Seven Severians",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Sev1: ProtoS, proto-Severian, Severian the Cruel.  Goes to Thrax,\nWar, gains Throne, goes to Yesod, comes back.\n\nSev2: the putative Narrator, the optimized Severian.  Gets Claw;\nmeets Apu; goes to Thrax; meets Typhon; meets Ash; gains Throne; gets\non ship bound for Yesod--dies on ship.\n\nSev3: Avatar of Change, The Conciliator.  Goes to Yesod; <trigger\npoint> creates the white fountain (not blood magic this time);\nreturns to Urth as Conciliator; <trigger point> gives Claw to\nsoldiers (then dies on Mount Typhon and goes independent of Severian\nthe Narrator?); goes to the Deluge; dies in Deluge (go to Sev6).\n\nSev4: the white fountain.  Linked to Severian the Narrator.  Enters\nnew phase (not so closely bound to Severian) when it merges with\nthe Old Sun to create the New Sun.\n\nSev5: the Claw of the Conciliator.  Independent, but possibly has\nmemories of Sev1's penitence in Yesod--this becomes the guide for\nmiracles.\n\nSev6: Avatar of Culture.  Apu Punchau.  Goes as far back in time as\nhe can; teaches civilization; is murdered; becomes independent of\nSeverian the Narrator <trigger point>.\n\nSev7: the Sleeper God of Ushas.\n\nStill unaccounted for: Severian armiger of the mausoleum in the\nnecropolis at the Citadel of the Autarch.  Best candidate for this\nsoldier at the dawn of the Age of the Autarch would be a revived,\nindependent sliver of Sev3, after the Narrative spirit had moved on.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0070@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "C R Culver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-03T17:30:43+00:00",
      "subject": "Re:  (urth) Seven Severians",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0010-0067@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "Mantis said:\n<Still unaccounted for: Severian armiger of the mausoleum in the\nnecropolis at the Citadel of the Autarch.>\n\nThe fact that people believe in Sev's time that the Conciliator died leads me\nto suspect they had a body as evidence. So, when Severian \"stepped into a new\nplace\" from Mount Typhon, his new sliver left behind a body. Perhaps the\npeople loyal to the Conciliator cold have taken his body back to Nessus and\nput it in the tomb then. However, this does not answer the question of what\nthe symbols on the tomb mean.\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}