(urth) Undines

[Jeff Wilson]

On 7/20/2010 10:24 AM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 7/19/2010 11:25 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> Juturna doesn't seem to have literal resurrection, though she does
>> save the life of Severian after he has ceased to breathe. But maybe
>> she was preventing him from discovering his water breathing gift too
>> soon?
>
> I thought the implication of the skull Severian finds at the bottom of
> the Gyoll after the flood is that he drowned when she met him at the
> beginning of Shadow of the Torturer. The boy that left the river was an
> aquastor.

Is he also an aquastor/eidolon at the time he finds the skull, though? 
Presumably an aquastor can be tuned to not need air, but Aquastor 
Malrubius says the spacecraft from Yesod have a projection limitation of 
a few thousand years - after Sev takes his leave of Juturna at the 
flooded Citadel, he immediately steps onto Apu Punchau's pampas in a 
time at least 6400 years previous.


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