(urth) Appearances of Inire

[Ryan Dunn]

On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:52 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:

> There is a detailed discussion of exultant families and their dwindling---this suggests to me a dying race of world-rulers, not a created class of freaks.


Yes, there used to be more families over the course of histories, but it seemed to me that Gurloes was impressing upon Severian the VASTNESS of the exultant families still going, no?

There are nearly 3,000 exultant blood lines still going, based on this math...

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"He turned, and after searching the disorderly shelves behind his chair produced a squat book. 'Have you any notion how many exulted families there are? This lists only the ones that are still going. A compendium of the extinguished ones would take an encyclopedia, I suppose. I've extinguished a few of them myself.'

He laughed and I laughed with him.

'It gives about half a page to each. There are seven hundred and forty- six pages.'"

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...ryan