Undines

Lee Berman · 20 Jul 2010, 18:18 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:18:43 -0400
Subject: (urth) Undines
Message-ID: <SNT123-W192538D20564C3542E254DCFA00 at phx.gbl>

>Jeff Wilson: Presumably an aquastor can be tuned to not need air

Wow, that is a very interesting consideration. Severian has various
superhuman powers...could each of them have been endowed during his
duplication as an eidolon?

If so, perhaps his first divine manifestation, healing and resurrection,
occurred during his "rescue" from drowning by the undine. It was fairly
soon after that when his first miracle occurred (Triskele).

We are led to believe Severian gains his connection to the New Sun/White
Fountain via intercourse with Apheta. I hope she didn't have to kill him
for that to happen (though many female bugs do that sort of thing).

Elsewhere, aren't we told that Severian's Yesod tests were all a sham? 
And that Tzadkiel had already imbued Severian with his White Fountain 
connection on the ship. Again we have the possibility that eidolon 
formation allows this.

(on a side note, how did Baldanders gain the ability to breathe under 
water? Some have pointed to evidence that he met up with an undine at 
the end of shadow and that was the mysterious incident at the gate.

If not that then perhaps he became a water-breathing eidolon at the end
of Sword. He had B, F and O above him and perhaps Juturna and Abaia in the
lake below him. Perhaps either were capable of doing it though one seems 
more likely than the other. 		 	   		  
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