(urth) Father Inire-Hethor

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/20/2011 3:17 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> ---Inire = grandfather. There is no evidence Inire directly helped 
> Sev. We can imagine he did, and we can guess Inire knew who he was and 
> acted accordingly, but that requires going a step beyond evidence. The 
> slight clues to Inire as boatman are contradicted severely by the 
> death of the boatman. If Inire is a time traveler who died before he 
> worked for the Autarch Severian, that could work. But the 
> circumstantial evidence that he time-travels (or 
> time-dilation-travels) are contradicted by arguments that Inire is 
> stuck on Urth.
I want to partly retract the above. I think I meant to write that 
Inire-as-boatman did not help Sev.

Inire definitely was involved in guiding Severian, as I implied earlier 
in the post.