(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

Ossipago is not.

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> They are biological and short lived.
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> I think they are biological.
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>> Exactly.
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>> You make me think of Famulimus/Ossipago/Barbatus. Could Agia be a robot
>> on that level of technology, rather than Typhon's Whorl tech?
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>> António Pedro Marques wrote:
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>>> David Stockhoff wrote:
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>>>> 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.)
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>>> 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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