(urth) Mystery of Ascia/Agia

[António Pedro Marques]

Andrew Mason wrote:
> Just in case anyone still wants this:
>
> UOTNS chapter 10 (p. 73 in Orb paperback edition):
>
> ''The heterochthonous worlds must by this time have reshaped humanity
> to conform to their own spheres. On Urth, the mystes know that each
> continent has its own pattern for mankind, so that if people from one
> shift their abode to another,  they will in a short time - fifty
> generations or so - come to resemble the original inhabitants. The
> patterns of other worlds must be yet more distinct; and yet the human
> race would remain human still, I think.'

Well, this is vague enough not to be wrong. Extreme weather regions will 
favour slanted eyes, highly-radiated ones will favour darker skin. 'Each 
continent' on Severian's Urth can align with 'each biome'.