(urth) The Simplest Definition of an Aquastor?

[Jeff Wilson]

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> On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
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>>>> the controller of their projecting machinery
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>>> Is the controller, in the case of Severian, in fact, Severian? Or
>>> someone
>>> else (Father Inire? The Autarch?).
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>> The only controllers we can confirm are FB&O. Inire is almost certainly
>> one, and some of the squatty, long-armed characters suspected to be him
>> in
>> disguise might be his aquastor proxies instead.
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> Ah yes, I always assumed Ossipago was Father Inire (same with the picture
> cleaner, and Palaemon).

I think they are of a race and in league, but not the same person.
Ossipago's quite gruff, while Inire's kindly; Ossipago goes where he is
needed, Inire holds down the fort.

> But can the projectors send the aquastor visions from anywhere, or do they
> have to be within proximity?

The LEXICON URTHUS author also wrote a role-playing supplement on the
setting, and IIRC in it he speculates they have planetary range. There
seem to be more powerful ones at work in Yesod and/or on the Ship that
maintain the newly eidoloned Severian during his leap between universes
and can reach across a century of time.