(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[brunians at brunians.org]

Gene calls robots 'chems'.

Does he call them that because they are mechanical?

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> Agia is definitely a robot, and of a particularly expensive kind. But
> she was initially human. We can actually pinpoint the moment her
> robofication begins, when Severian sees her outside the rag shop:
>
> She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness,
> and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist,
> turning the skin there to palest gold.
> TSOTT, chapter XVI
>
> Dorcas is also a robot:
>
> 'He wears armor,' Dorcas called again. 'This man has not even a
> shirt.' Her voice, always so soft before, rang in the twilight like a
> bell.
> TSOTT, chapter XXVII
>
> Bells are metal, just like hammers. How much more of a clue do you
> need? Of course, she's also Severian's grandmother so it follows that
> he is a robot too.
>
> Brunians wrote:
>> She and her brother are associated with Hethor, a sailor.
>>
>> They are ship's robots.
>
> That must be why all those cogs and wires fell out when Severian cut
> Agilus's head off.
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