Alright boys get your tin foil hats out, it's time for theories about the series. I'll start
>Severian died when he was fighting with Vodalus
>Dr. Thalos gives him the same coin that Vodalus gives him
>the coin is fake
When you go back to the first book and read what he says about symbols he says that all symbols are lies and we merely accept the precepts of reality and continue forward.
>The coin is a metaphor for the lie that we accept and proceed with the story
From there we continue the story as is, it could be a line or it could not be, time is supposed to be viewed as a sea.
The key to the story and its meaning is that there is a sea of outcomes that the reader doesn't grasp, to be perfect and memory and an unreliable narrator, how is that possible? Severian is a vehicle to represent the possibilities of time and the infinite, all are equally remember-able, but what is true is a matter of faith.
spoiler this
>>7848199
please tell me how, i don't know
>>7848191
bump
>>7848204
https://www.4chan.org/faq#spoiler
>being so imconpetended
>>7848191
>Severian died when he was fighting with Vodalus
That's pretty much common beliefI think Agia and Agilus are extra-terrestrials, if not hieros themselves. Hethor was a sailor and is infatuated with Agia. Agia gave Sev the Claw to begin with, and her pursuit of him made sure he was always heading north. Severian remarks in their shop how Agilus has mask strings behind his ears even after he took the mask off, much like how the Hierodules wore (at least) two masks.
>>7848308
Did Severian also kill Dusseldorf?
>>7848308
I really like this one
>>7848191
reddit general?
>>7848371
shitposting general?
>>7848368
You're certainly on the right path as BOTNS is dense with symbolism, even just with small things like the coin
>>7848377
true, fantasy and genre fiction posting is shitposting by default
>>7848545
>bait