(urth) The Two Coins...

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Ryan Dunn" <ryan at liftingfaces.com>

> Since the false coins are never used, is it possible these coins bear
> Severian's face? I mean, after all, we've come to a bit of consensus that
> Dorcas is his grandmother based on a waiter's comment on Ouen and Severian
> having a similar profile.

No, there was positive ID from Ouen's locket, and lots of supporting 
evidence.  Also the narrator plays detective and finds this out with no 
particular reason for us to doubt it, which IMO is a literary signal that 
this is canon.

The hypothesis that Dorcas is Severian's grandmother has distinctive 
characteristics that many such hypotheses lack...

- Gerry Quinn