(urth) Five Severians - Severian-as-clone

[David Stockhoff]

On 12/20/2013 12:32 PM, Paul Watson wrote:
> The other theory is that - since mausolea were typically tombs for 
> deceased leaders of importance, then the mausoleum is built for the 
> bodies of those brave autarchs who chose to face the test on Yesod. 
> Two coffins are open and unoccupied (Severian's and the current 
> Autarch) because those two are still alive. Ymar was the last autarch 
> before the current one to be tested, so his body is in one of the 
> closed coffins, leaving two other Autarchs prior to Ymar who were 
> tested and failed in the other 2 closed coffins

That's possible. Severian can only see the features of one that is loose 
and that he cleaned, but does not mention the other one. The blazon 
could depict the arms of the Space Autarchs. It does actually fit the 
"family" aspect better than three bronze Severians.