(urth) A new mystery ...

[Roy C. Lackey]

David Stockhoff wrote:
> Does anyone know whose body Severian took over after he fell from a
> great height inside the sailship?

It was a new aquastor body made by the Hierogrammates.

> And is it this body which writes the first three books? I would assume
> this must be.

No. The first four books were written by the body that became autarch. The
fifth book was written by the body created by the Hierodules B, F, & O in
Apu's tomb, in the fifth book.

-Roy