Wind God

entonio at gmail.com · 07 Nov 2010, 01:25 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (entonio at gmail.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 01:25:26 +0000
Subject: (urth) Wind God
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No dia 2010/11/05, ?s 22:01, Andrew Mason  
<andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu:

> Lee Berman wrote:
>
> But if Severian had doppelgangers who continued to
>> appear in Typhon's realm healing and purifying lust and whatnot,  
>> perhaps Typhon really did accept that
>> the Conciliator had superhuman powers, by the time he died on his  
>> couch.
>>
>
> Just to clarify: what I had in mind was reappearances at long
> intervals (thus reconciling the 'thirty thousand years' thing with
> Typhon's dates - though that might alos be explained through a change
> of plan on Wolfe's part). More than one appearance in Typhon's reign
> is also possible, though, I guess.

I must be missing something. Isn't it generally accepted that Severian  
paid several visits to that time period alone? He at least says he  
likes to think some of the people who came to help him at the inn were  
himself - or am I mixing things up?

If not then I certainly think the Concilliator was active both before  
and at the same time (in various places) as the short sojourn we're  
described. So when he came to Typhon his curriculum was much  
lenghthier than we we presenced. So that Cyrius Howsespelt had plenty  
of time to set his sight on him.

> (But I had an idea that Typhon died
> shortly after Severian's meeting with him - does this have a
> foundation?)

Just what happened to Typhon is left quite vague. We might say that he  
was left without followers and so vanished from scene, not unlike  
Europe's pagan gods.
As to why, the world was maybe ripe for the taking, and the so-called  
cult of the Concilliator may have done it.

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