(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

Exactly.

You make me think of Famulimus/Ossipago/Barbatus. Could Agia be a robot 
on that level of technology, rather than Typhon's Whorl tech?

António Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Well, the proverb doesn't describe female assassins---just women. So
>> it's ambiguous. She could certainly be a trained or experienced female
>> assassin, in addition to being either nonhuman or nonfemale. But since
>> Wolfe probably made up the "proverb," it was with a purpose, and there
>> are no clues that Agia is simply an angry trained human female assassin.
>> (Unless she wears secret assassin armor on her head.)
>
> I just find that Agia is the single most important character in the 
> whole story and precious little is known about her. Maybe Wolfe's 
> hints are not in the sense of her being a robot, but something else - 
> though just what I can't guess.
>
> - She is there almost from the beginning until the end - even as 
> Severian becomes Autarch, she becomes the Autarch's antagonist, 
> seemingly out of nothing - what's she got to do with the Vodelarii??
>
> - Compare Agia's omnipresence to Thecla's, who Severian is always 
> mentioning, yet barely appears in the story in person - by contrast, 
> Agia has a will of her own to remain relevant.
>
> - Why the obsession with Severian? He killed her brother/lover, ok, 
> but it's not like it was undeserved, and he did it merely as an 
> instrument of Law - not to mention that A&A went to great lengths to 
> entrap Severian before he did anything - can anyone believe that the 
> twins' usual business was killing unwary travellers in avern duels?
>
> 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.
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