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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/903",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 903,
    "subject": "Severian as the Conciliator",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-03T00:09:36+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-03T00:09:36+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0086@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "J. Schultz",
        "address": "jschultz at wcnet.org"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-03T00:09:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Severian as the Conciliator",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Addressing the hints that Sev. is the Conciliator found in the BotNS\n\nApology in advance, I am writing this quickly late at night....\n\nWhile their arn't very many hints that Sev is the Con, their are several\nthat he is the New Sun.  I will not go into all of them, as most have been\naddressed in previous discussions.  The invovement of the Undines, the\ndisapearance of Ash, his identity as Apu-Paunchu, etc, all point to the fact\nthat Sev IS the New Sun.\nFact Two:  The New Sun is the Conciliator returning to Urth.  In the BofNS\nthe text makes it clear that according to Urth theology the Conciliator came\nto Urth to bring about a conciliation between humans and the powers that be.\nHaving done this he will later return to Urth to bring about its renewal.\nFew people, including Sev, think that the New Sun is ACTUALLY a sun.\nAlthough it turns out that it is both a man and a star.\nUsing logic we deduce that Sev is both the New Sun and Conciliator.  How\ncould this be possible?  Sev. tells us while pondering the time travel of\nthe Green Man that the Concilliator (who is so powerful) must also have time\nat his command.  Sev deduces that this is how the New Sun is really the\nConciliator come again.  And it turns out he's right.\n\nFunkMonkey\nJ. Schutlz\njschultz at wcnet.org"
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