(urth) Newbie - a theory and some questions.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 10:20:19 PST 2005


Welcome to some very good reading.

Regarding the Cacos - one of them is of the same nature as Jonas.

Interesting point about Agilus' mask. Masks in general are a huge
theme in tBotNS (the torturer's uniform includes one...)

Regarding your questions. "Wait and see" is semi-approipriate. I will
see if I can give you spoiler-free answers.

> 1)      Is the boatman who sails the Gyoll (he helped rescue Severian from
> drowning in Shadow of the Torturer and, later, ferried Severian to Dorcas's
> house in Citadel of the Autarch) Jonas? His speech patterns suggest so, as
> do some of his comments – but if so, who is his "niece", who rides with him
> in Citadel?

The speech patterns seem to be generic to sailors in the Urth part of 
this universe.

> 2)      Who/what is Erebus? I was never very clear on this.
> 3)      Is Abia an alien, or was it once an "enhanced" human, like its
> handmaidens and Baldanders?

This is a good example of the kind of thing you have to glerk from
context in Wolfe - he gives you the pieces, but you have to assemble
the puzzle yourself.

Erebus and Abaia are both huge alien(?) beings -- the sort of thing that
Baldanders may become in time - who play chess with humans as
pieces. Erebus lives at the South Pole, near the mountain of the same 
name; Abaia lives under the sea. There is a third, if you can catch the
name.

Welcome aboard.

--Dan'l (Blattid)

-- 
You probably do not want to know what that odor is.



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