(urth) Severian's sister/ancestry - query.

[Jeff Wilson]

On 8/5/2010 9:15 PM, Paul B wrote:
> One possible explanation is that it's guild tradition not to tell (sorta
> like an adoption agency, see), and Severian didn't want to resort to
> something like having Palaemon or Gurloes tortured for the information.
> I find that all the more plausible since Severian seems to be the sort
> of guy who doesn't contradict rules, especially ones he was raised in,
> even if he technically can now.

Dude, are we reading the same books? Sev says multiple times he's broken 
every oath he's ever made, every guild stricture, ...he breaks rules 
left and right, starting with treason as he breaks curfew on his way 
home from playing truant and swimming in polluted water. He is 
*literally* a rebellious youth from opening page until he crowns his 
career of evil by eating the king's brains!

Then he takes about a decade break and only lies,, cheats, and steals in 
the approved fashion of statecraft before he shows he still has what it 
takes to break all the rules by allying with alien monsters from another 
universe that help him destroy the world!

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