(urth) Abaia and the undines

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Thu Dec 11 15:39:01 PST 2008


Severian has horrible facial scars all the time he is ruling, from Agia
smacking him with her leopardman claws, I forget what Wolfe called them.



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> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> And now that I understand that he did not move into a new body on the
>> starsailship but was recreated by Tzadkiel, I don't understand why his
>> face
>> was changed when he returned from Yesod. Valeria recognized him for the
>> first
>> time then.
>> ...I asked the chiliarch whether he had been a junior officer when I sat
>> the
>> Phoenix Throne.
>> "No, Autarch. I was only a boy."
>> "Yet clearly you recall me."
>> "It's my duty to know the House Absolute, Autarch. There are pictures
>> and
>> busts of you in some parts of it."
>> "They..."
>> The voice was so weak I scarcely heard it. I turned to make sure it was
>> indeed Valeria who spoke.
>> "They don't really look as you did. They look the way I thought---"
>> I waited, wondering.
>> She waved a hand. It was a weak old woman's gesture. "As I thought you
>> might
>> when you came back to me, back to our family tower in the Old Citadel.
>> They
>> look the way you do now." She laughed, and began to sob.
>>
>> It couldn't be age. Severian has been gone for weeks or months at most.
>
> He looks younger/less damaged, I assume.
>
> David Duffy.
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