(urth) Agia branch off 'Silk as Typhon's clone'

Son of Witz Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Wed Jan 19 14:15:45 PST 2011


On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:01 PM, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Son of Witz wrote (19-01-2011 21:56):
> 
>> For whatever reason, I've always felt that Agia's revenge for Agilus was
>> only part of her motivation.
> 
> (And how can one talk of revenge when Severian was innocent in Agilus's killing? Revenge for what, for Severian's having not died in the duel which they contrived *apparently* in order to kill him and take his possessions? For Severian's employment as an executioner? Maybe for some deranged person, but very little in Agia points to derangement.)
> 

Yes, exactly. Not that revenge need be rational though, I guess.



>> Hethor has a thing for Severian that goes
>> beyond Agia's. They stalk him across urth, threaten and save him, and
>> Agia replaces Vodalus!  There is SOMETHING else going there, IMO.
> 
> Unfortunately I have no answers, but I think *this*, in conjunction with others, is the kind of thing that's supposed to be studied by the reader. Well, if GW expects to be debated for 300 years, we won't be around when someone finally grasps it all.

Seriously.
I can't grab the quote now, but Aramini just mentioned that he thinks Agia and Hethor appear in UotNS.  Where? As crew of Tzadkiel's ship? Somewhere else?


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