(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[brunians at brunians.org]

There's different ethnic groups in Severian's time.

Everyone isn't homogenized.

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> Exactly---if A&A are particularly Asian in appearance, they could be
> from the deep past, before such mixing. If they are human, that is.
>
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> On 6/19/2010 8:45 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>> It doesn't explain the eye color change, though perhaps that is such a
>>> minor alteration as to allow us to jettison the "facedancer" technology
>>> (she never changes gender either), except for one point. How does she
>>> resemble Agilus so closely? Is that just Severian's inability to
>>> distinguish Asians? Or is Agilus fresh off the ship too, and Nessus has
>>> not seen his kind for millennia? Why do they not have Asian names?
>>
>> After many chiliads of racial mixing from mechanized travel, there
>> would be a  much smoother distribution of "Asian" features. Severian
>> has seen many people with broad cheekbones and elongated eyes, at
>> least by the time of his writing.
>>
>>> Who made her? How is she so light and yet so strong? Are those common
>>> sex-doll specs?
>>
>> She's light because she's a slender woman, and Severian has been
>> trained to be able to handle even burly men. Her strength comes from
>> her determination of purpose and her acquired disregard for human life
>> over many con jobs and murders for profit. Was it Severian or Latro
>> who discusses learning to overcome the common reluctance to strike
>> another person with full force? It's the same thing here.
>>
>>
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