# Albia *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Jul 2010* > 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. --- ### Nicholas Jost *02 Jul 2010, 22:19* Actually I like my Abia=Severiantheory the more I think about it. Erebus is evil, we know he enslaved the Ascians but we don't know about Abia. There's even some indications that he has fought Erebus in the past isn't there? Severian notes that the Storm God is evil, but the priest corrects him. Prior to the fight with Badlanders Severian ties the God of the Lake and Abia together and then notes that he has become like the God of the Lake (who's name I forget). Tying this into my crack-pot "Guest" theory, the squid God is also served by Giant women, though they don't seem to be as pretty. Maybe it takes time to shape them. Abia only tries to kill Severian once and in doing so sends an incompetent child which drives him further into the arms of the one woman who is able to tip the balance at his trial...which saves him... ---