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On 20/12/10 20:46, Lee Berman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">the relevant puzzle pieces are:
1. The Mandragora- fetal man-dragon's conversation with Severian seems an important linkage.
2. Severian's relationship to FATHER Inire.
3. How are Father Inire and Typhon related? Did Typhon have a vizier? If so, I think he is easy to spot
in UotNS. He may even make an appearance in Long/Short Sun.
I'll leave it at that for now, with hopes others can provide insight.
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Don't know if it's helpful or not but it appears to me at least that
toward the end of RTTW Cilinia / Scylla (a thirteen or fourteen year
old girl, who has suffered the huge misfortune of being born
male-chauvinist-pig Typhon's eldest child) finally lays herself to rest
in a small casket ... in a mausoleum that Severian has already, several
volumes beforehand, determined is destined to be his own. <br>
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As Scylla / Cilinia tells us, she must have (physically) died not long
after she was 'downloaded' to become one of the major 'deities' of the
Whorl. Her casket is tucked away in a corner of what Severian thinks of
as <b>his own</b> mausoleum. I have to say I was quite perturbed by
this on my first (and so far only) reading of RTTW - strongly suggests
that actually, Severian is a blood relative of Typhon, and will
eventually, after many time-travelling excursions, be interred in the
Monarch's family monument. <br>
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Sev loathes Typhon and kills him at the first opportunity (giving the
reader by the way an insight into why the 'Messiah' of Urth has to be a
trained executioner; he's been taught how to strike without holding
back, and he does so once he knows what he has to strike at). How
ironical it would be if it turned out that Severian was actually
Typhon's father, brother or uncle. <br>
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jd<br>
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For me<br>
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