(urth) Abaia and the undines
Son of Witz
sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Fri Dec 12 07:21:28 PST 2008
On Dec 12, 2008, at 7:01 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Witz wrote:
>
> Though his portrait as Autarch is horribly scarred, at least on the
> coin.
> """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> Said you gave him a chrisos like none he'd seen." "He may return it,
> if he wishes. Do you want to see one of our coins?" ...
> I passed a chrisos across the table. He examined it, bit it, and
> gave it back to me. "Gold all right. Looks a trifle like you, 'cept
> he seems to have got himself cut up. Don't suppose you noticed."
> The Chrisos Severian has is from his reign, one Idas brought with
> when he boarded along with Sev. unless I'm mistaken.
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> If Severian returns significantly more cut up than when he left,
> that would also explain why Valeria weeps, but not why he was
> depicted that way in the House Absolute.
I don't follow. he's scarred about the time he becomes Autarch. so
when he reigns in the House Absolute, he's scarred.
when he returns later, he's fixed, but he has a smaller new/different
scar from his fight with the Monarch's guards, but that happens after
the Chrisos scene above.
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