Abaia and the undines

David Stockhoff · 10 Dec 2008, 15:22 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:22:49 -0500
Subject: (urth) Abaia and the undines
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Exactly. If he is granted that power or is "favored" by the sea fairies, he can breathe water, whether he has a companion or not. 

However, in TUotNS, he dives deep down to drowned Nessus with no problem because he is an aquastor who cannot be killed. When the gun of the Tower fires on him, he is struck, killed, and recovers instantly; there is no reason to apply narrow concepts of "living" or "dead" to him now. Juturna basically tells him this.

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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:04:21 -0600
From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Abaia and the undines
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David Stockhoff wrote:

> > And to pick up another thread, I think it's helpful to view TBotNS's
> > cosmology from a faerie or Greek perspective. Severian need not be
> > related to the undines, but that's one way of explaining why he does
> > indeed seem to have a water-sprite connection.
>   

That was my thought at first, but Severian goes on to survive watery 
peril without a companion undine at hand.

-- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > 
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