(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[Jeff Wilson]

On 6/19/2010 8:45 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> It doesn't explain the eye color change, though perhaps that is such a
> minor alteration as to allow us to jettison the "facedancer" technology
> (she never changes gender either), except for one point. How does she
> resemble Agilus so closely? Is that just Severian's inability to
> distinguish Asians? Or is Agilus fresh off the ship too, and Nessus has
> not seen his kind for millennia? Why do they not have Asian names?

After many chiliads of racial mixing from mechanized travel, there would 
be a  much smoother distribution of "Asian" features. Severian has seen 
many people with broad cheekbones and elongated eyes, at least by the 
time of his writing.

> Who made her? How is she so light and yet so strong? Are those common
> sex-doll specs?

She's light because she's a slender woman, and Severian has been trained 
to be able to handle even burly men. Her strength comes from her 
determination of purpose and her acquired disregard for human life over 
many con jobs and murders for profit. Was it Severian or Latro who 
discusses learning to overcome the common reluctance to strike another 
person with full force? It's the same thing here.


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