Interpretations
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Interpretations abound in a variety of other books such as Michael Andre Druissi's Lexicon Urthus, Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus, John Clute's Strokes, and Robert Borski's Solar Labyrinth. Among other theories:
- Severian's home city of Nessus is actually a future Buenos Aires.
- The characters Agia and Agilus are Severian's cousins.
- Father Inire and Ossipago are not only the same character, but the offspring of Severian and one of the Hierodules.
- Wolfe's earlier book The Fifth Head of Cerberus is in fact set in the same universe, and is a prequel to the Book of the New Sun, the Book of the Long Sun, and the successor Short Sun books.
- Severian's companion and lover Dorcas is his paternal grandmother (Ouen the waiter is her son, and is hinted to be Severian's father).
- The Autarch is Thecla's father.
- Merryn is Severian's sister. Alternatively, as proposed by Robert Borski, Jolenta may be Severian's sister.
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