# Multiple Severian Disorder *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 May 1998* > 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. --- ### Dan'l Danehy Oakes *12 May 1998, 14:58* While we can count the various resurrected Severians (Severiim? Severiani?) as different, they're all part of the same "release" -- I'd call them Sev2.1, Sev2.2, etc., as opposed to Sev1, the un-White-Fountained version. And (I repeat) the most reasonable explanation of _that_ "first Severian" is that he lived in an "erased" timeline, one where the Hierodules et alia did not interfere in his life. On the other hand, I am in complete awe of the Severian-as-Archie Andrews theory. It explains so much. Valeria, obviously, is Sabrina, the Teen-Aged Witch. Triskele is Hot Dog. Dr. Talos is, obviously, Mr. Wetherbee, while the Old Autarch is Pop of Pop's Soda Shoppe. I clearly have wasted too much time on the religious aspects of this series; it all seems so clear now... --Roach ---