(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 40, Issue 15

[Ashley Crill]

> To confuse the geography further, Folia seems to come from the
> pampas:  "My land is the land ... of grass and wind and galloping 
> hoofs."
> But of the three suitors in her story, one goes "north toward the
> jungles," one "east toward the mountains," and one "west toward
> the restless sea."
> 
> My interpretation of this was that the mountains were on the wrong
> side of the continent because continental drift had switched
> and was now sending South America in the other direction: east.
> 
I'm pretty sure that the Cordillera Real(Royal Mountains) is the range where Severian ventured, which would fit very well with a clockwise rotation of South America. He would then have reach them buy traveling up the Parana and perhaps its major tributary the Pilcomayo, and then traveling northeast. This also fits in with the fact that Typhon's mountain faced westward, and that Severian could look out of his right eye and see the coastal plain and see to the northeast. I think that Typhon's mountain was actually Illimani(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illimani), the highest mountain in that chain and known as the 'father mountain' of Bolivia. This tectonic shift would also place Lake Titcaca to the northwest of Typhon's mountain, with the war front north and northeast. Fanciful speculations, but the pieces fit together fairly well.

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