# prime calcula/his citadel and other quotes *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 15 Jan 2011* > 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. --- ### Andrew Mason *15 Jan 2011, 22:28* Marc Aramini wrpte: . ?And yes, I do think the place where the embryo's were kept was the citadel of Pas, One thing that worries me a bit is that if the place the embryos are kept is _the_ citadel of Pas, it's not clear why it would be under Viron. If there are special embryos of whorlwide significance, I would expect them to be kept at Mainframe. Now, I can see scenarios in which an embryo from mainframe might get to Viron; but given that there was a store of embryos under Viron, and it has been raided, the natural conclusion is that Silk came from there. I don''t see it as improbable that Silk is just one of many embryos with exceptional skills, provided to all the cities as potential leaders at the time of the exodus. This doesn't rule out his being Pas's son. It would, I think, be utterly typical of Typhon to think that the best way to provide his cities with exceptional leaders is to father them all. (If, as Crane suggests, they are fertilised in vitro, he doesn't actually need to meet all their mothers.) ---