# Severian as the Conciliator *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Jul 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. --- ### J. Schultz *03 Jul 1998, 00:09* Addressing the hints that Sev. is the Conciliator found in the BotNS Apology in advance, I am writing this quickly late at night.... While their arn't very many hints that Sev is the Con, their are several that he is the New Sun. I will not go into all of them, as most have been addressed in previous discussions. The invovement of the Undines, the disapearance of Ash, his identity as Apu-Paunchu, etc, all point to the fact that Sev IS the New Sun. Fact Two: The New Sun is the Conciliator returning to Urth. In the BofNS the text makes it clear that according to Urth theology the Conciliator came to Urth to bring about a conciliation between humans and the powers that be. Having done this he will later return to Urth to bring about its renewal. Few people, including Sev, think that the New Sun is ACTUALLY a sun. Although it turns out that it is both a man and a star. Using logic we deduce that Sev is both the New Sun and Conciliator. How could this be possible? Sev. tells us while pondering the time travel of the Green Man that the Concilliator (who is so powerful) must also have time at his command. Sev deduces that this is how the New Sun is really the Conciliator come again. And it turns out he's right. FunkMonkey J. Schutlz jschultz at wcnet.org ---