(urth) Spiritual and Ecological Sucession

[Lee Berman]

>Jerry Friedman: Seriously again, there are hints that the Severian in /Short Sun/ is a different 
>iteration of him than the Severian in /New Sun/.  If that's true, there may be no Ushas in 
>the world of the /Short Sun/.  Urth may still be Urth.
 
This is an interesting idea that I hadn't heard before (from others). Do the hints about Severian you 
mention have to do with Merryn? Other things?