>>18036079You see, severian is a torturer. He was raised in the guild of torturers and doesn't know any other life. The guild is in the matachin tower, next to the witches tower, they rest in the citadel.
I wont spoil anything but he becomes expelled by the guild in a way and is forced to become the lictor ofna far away city, and that is when his journey begins.
But knowing this is all his written account he reveals he is now the Autarch of Urth and rules over it, but is only writing this book of the new sun because he is preparing to be tested by the mant eyed heirodules to save Urth from its dying sun.
