Seven Severians

C R Culver · 03 May 1998, 17:30 · from urth-v0010.mbox · original

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From: C R Culver <CRCulver at aol.com>
Subject: Re:  (urth) Seven Severians
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 13:30:43 EDT
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Mantis said:
<Still unaccounted for: Severian armiger of the mausoleum in the
necropolis at the Citadel of the Autarch.>

The fact that people believe in Sev's time that the Conciliator died leads =
me
to suspect they had a body as evidence. So, when Severian "stepped into a n=
ew
place" from Mount Typhon, his new sliver left behind a body. Perhaps the
people loyal to the Conciliator cold have taken his body back to Nessus and
put it in the tomb then. However, this does not answer the question of what
the symbols on the tomb mean.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html

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