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Now for the clues I mentioned. Notice that the uturuncu carries "a staff crooked as himself, topped with the dried head of a monkey." Who else carries a similar staff? Moreover, this staff-carrier has a mythic name--which makes him an alien. I also mentioned him in a post not that very long ago. (Think younger, earlier--a herald.)
That would be Ceryx, zombificator Zamae. Lexicon Urthus tells us his name means "a herald". But he seems most unlike Inire to me.
On the other hand, Severian gets the definite feeling that Ceryx had traveled by similar paths. Maybe he represents a sort of "Dark side of the Force".
-- Dan Rabin