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where's this from? i want to read more about the averns

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The 8 Severians include the ones revealed in Urth, I don't want to spoil Urth for you if you haven't read it. Michael Andre-Driussi explains all this better than I could in his Lexicon Urthus so I have taken a picture of the relevant pages (Severian 8 is on the next page, he is builder of the mausoleum that houses Severian 1). Again:

WARNING
PIC RELATED SPOILS BOOK OF THE NEW SUN AND URTH
PLEASE DON'T VIEW IF YOU HAVEN'T READ BOTH

>little severian and the narrator/protagonist.
Little Severian is a completely different character unrelated to protagonist Severian except for his name and the fact that they meet up. He's not the same as Severian.


>that part at the end of the 4th book where he just starts mentioning all these different severians but i thought he meant it in a metaphorical way.
I think he only mentions Severian 1 at that point (narrator is Severian 2). It's not metaphorical it's literal.


If you HAVEN'T read Urth and don't want spoilers (so you haven't viewed pic related), but want more detail on one of the Severians mentioned in New Sun, let me know and I'll try to explain more.

>what are you going on about? are you saying the conciliator was a severian?
Yeah. The Conciliator was a Severian but not the "first Severian" (who was a failure).

>ok so you're saying its book of the new sun, the one severian has written. please tell me how this makes any kind of sense.
If you're going to die and you're even slightly religious what book do you ask for? The bible, the Book of the New Son i.e. the future garbled version of the New Testament which is nothing more than another version of the Book of the New Sun. However for various reasons I think the Book of the New Sun taken out of the library is a different version to the one we are reading (cast out into space by Severian, drifted into its past/our present, discovered and translated by Gene Wolfe).

P.S. can you please use spoilers so people who haven't read BotNS don't get caught out?

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