(urth) Exultants

[David Stockhoff]

Right, that does make sense. And if Severian were the exultant norm, 
that would be one thing---but he's not. Presumably he's half-exultant. 
I'm sure someone has worked all that out.

Would Severian's mother have had to give birth while she was in the 
hands of the torturers for him to have been kept and raised in the 
guild, since his father supposedly is alive?

Gerry Quinn wrote:
> From: "David Stockhoff" <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>
>> Does anyone know whether exultants have simply retained our unnatural 
>> 21st century height while everyone else shrank with the new ice age, 
>> or exultants were actually made taller by breeding or other means? 
>> 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. Are any units of measurement or comparisons 
>> used that could tell us?
>
> Didn't Jonas say "those old families are the newest of all"?  This 
> suggests that it is the exultants who differ.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
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