(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

Exactly---if A&A are particularly Asian in appearance, they could be 
from the deep past, before such mixing. If they are human, that is.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 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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