Severian's Height

John Smith · 30 Jun 2008, 21:07 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: jsmith2627 at att.net (John Smith)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:07:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Severian's Height
Message-ID: <383331.35910.qm at web83721.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

b sharp wrote:
>>I still don't see that any effort should be made to
find a source of
exultant blood for Severian. He is tall compared to
most people but at
 least
a head shorter than every single exultant he meets. In
other words, he
 is of
armiger height just like (who I think are) his family
members,
 Catherine,
Cyriaca and Jolenta.<<

Does Severian's height mean his mother has to be an
armiger?

If Ouen is a commoner and Catherine is an exultant,
wouldn't Severian be in-between in height?   He is
taller than the common commoner, shorter than true
exultants, and close in size to armigers.

Jack

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