Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

Gerry Quinn · 10 Jul 2010, 08:34 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:34:41 +0100
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
> On 7/9/2010 6:48 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>

>>> I think it is more like, they let it happen as late as they possibly
>>> could
>>> without endangering the success of the New Sun. This meant a dying urth
>>> about to disappear under its final ice age with a population in the
>>> millions rather than billions, so that the minimum loss of life would be
>>> necessary for the coming of Ushas.
>>
>> I think the coming of the New Sun is only a relatively short time after
>> Severian left; a matter of several decades. His (ex)wife is still alive.
>>
>> Ash's time, when the glaciers are finally closing in, is - if I recall
>> correctly - some four thousand years in the future.
>
> Sev mentions the land abutting the ice in his time - there could come a 
> point where even the rehabbed sun could not return the balance if the ice 
> advanced far enough. They know Severian takes the Phoenix throne and all 
> the other chiliads of  trials and hardhips have worn down the populace of 
> old Urth - best to strike then, to delay further could not be expected to 
> advance the cause of Ushas.

This may well be so, and certainly it makes sense not to have the advent of 
the New Sun delayed until the last possible moment.

I was just pointing out that Urth is populous at the time of the coming of 
the New Sun.

- Gerry Quinn

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