(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[brunians at brunians.org]

True.

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> Ossipago is not.
>
> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> They are biological and short lived.
>>
>> I think they are biological.
>>
>> .
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>>> 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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