(urth) heartburn was: Re: travelling north

[Roy C. Lackey]

Jeff Wilson quoted and wrote:
> > Ossipago was afraid that the first light from the White Fountain would
> > penetrate a chink in the tomb and revive the strangled corpse -- which
is
> > exactly what happened after BF&O left. If the two versions of Sev in the
> > tomb had touched or come too close, one would have been cancelled out.
The
> > one who would have been cancelled out was the newly-created eidolon of
Sev.
>
> Why would that be bad?

Obviously it would be bad for the newly-created eidolon, because he would
cease to exist. That eidolon walked the Corridors to get back to Ushas,
where he eventually penned his second manuscript, the account we are reading
of how he came to be in that tomb.

>Does the trio have some influence over the
> eidolon of a resurrected Severian that they would not have over the
> all-meat resurrected Severian?

I can't answer that. But the all-meat Sev, resurrected by the light of the
White Fountain, must eventually become the Apu that young Sev grappled with
in the stone town in the first manuscript. That's why Famulimus warned the
eidolon Sev not to destroy the corpse; it would change future history, so to
speak, and the two Sevs in that tomb could not live in the same place at the
same time. I suspect that after the eidolon went to Ushas and became solid
flesh, he went on to travel in time to perform various feats attributed to
the Conciliator that our Sev had not yet personally experienced. He may also
heve tinkered in the life of his younger self. (Someone caused that
necropolis mausoleum to be built and messed with the coffins in it.)

-Roy