(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[Adam Thornton]

On 06/18/2010 05:17 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> The fact is that Agia's whole purpose from beginning to end seems to 
> be to work as an antagonist to Severian. To me this suggests that the 
> character is much more important and mysterious that it seems at first 
> sight, and that the oddities about her beg for some grand explanation. 
> Iow, I don't think the odd hints point to her being a robot, but 
> rather to something much more extraordinary (whether part of it is 
> being a robot or not, and bearing in mind that pretty much everything 
> in Wolfe's books is extraordinary, both in etymological and pedestrian 
> sense). Just what, I have absokutely no idea at all. I certainly don't 
> think she's the Devil, she's not that powerful.

She's a werewolf.

I argue purely from textual probabilities.

Adam