(urth) Exultants

[Jeff Wilson]

> 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?

Sev mentions children who arrive with clients are sized and distributed
accordingly. If there is no Dad or other next of kin available to take the
client's child at the time of the arrest, there may be no later
opportunity to claim them from the soldiers, and the Seekers certainly
will not release them without orders.