(urth) Exultants

[António Pedro Marques]

Jeff Wilson wrote (30-06-2010 01:41):
>> 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.

I think it can be economically explained by their simply not knowing who the
father was.