Abaia and the undines

David Stockhoff · 12 Dec 2008, 15:01 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:01:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) Abaia and the undines
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Witz wrote:

Though his portrait as Autarch is horribly scarred, at least on the coin.
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Said you gave him a chrisos like none he'd seen." 
"He may return it, if he wishes. Do you want to see one of our coins?" 
...
 I passed a chrisos across the table. 
He examined it, bit it, and gave it back to me. "Gold all right. Looks a trifle like you, 'cept he seems to have got himself cut up. Don't suppose you noticed." 

The Chrisos Severian has is from his reign, one Idas brought with when he boarded along with Sev. unless I'm mistaken.

If Severian returns significantly more cut up than when he left, that would also explain why Valeria weeps, but not why he was depicted that way in the House Absolute.

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