# Regency *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 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. --- ### Charles Dye *09 Jul 1998, 16:43* adam louis stephanides writes: > 2) The entry for Valeria states that "she becomes regent during the > decades of [Severian's] absence." I don't think this is correct. > In _Urth_, ch. IV, p. 27 (hardcover), Severian says: "'I was the > Autarch--the ruler--of the Commonwealth; now I'm the surrogate of Urth, > and its ambassador.'" Later, there's this dialogue: "'Then you still > claim you're really the Autarch?' 'I was,' I told him." (ch. XVI, p. 115) > These passages indicate clearly that when Severian left Urth, he ceased to > be the Autarch. That being the case, Valeria could not have been > Severian's regent. Furthermore, Eata refers to Valeria as being Autarch > before she marries Dux Caesidius. (ch. XLVI, p. 328) I also disagree, though for a different reason. Near the top of chapter 34 of "Urth" Severian indicates that Father Inire is minding the store. I could be mistaken, but I think the last regency in England was George the Fourth's, after George III was declared insane ... raster at highfiber.com ---