(urth) Father Inire theory cont.

[David Stockhoff]

Awesome. You're right of course.

BTW, placing Iubar Street, with its Bringer of the Sun symbolism,  so 
close to a blind man who is associated with the almost sacred theme of 
books ... almost suggests an illumination or revealing of all knowledge, 
gathered and hidden.

On 12/11/2010 2:57 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> And on a complete tangent: I don't think Ultan is a servant of the
> Autarch. In his note at the end of COTC, GW says that all the
> residents of the Citadel except Ultan are servants of the throne. I
> originally took this just to mean that he was an exultant. But that's
> weird; Pelerines can be both exultant by birth and religious by
> vocation; why can't Ultan be both exultant by birth and servant of the
> throne by vocation? Cyriaca (as so often) provides the clue. the first
> keeper of the archives was appointed by Tyupon, and he appointed his
> successor, and the succession continues to this day, faithful to the
> charge given them by Typhon. It is a trust that existed before the
> autarchy and is not bound by it.


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