![]() ![]() With the revealing of several dire secrets, Dorcas leaves Severian to return to Nessus and uncover the truth of her past.ġ980’s The Shadow of the Torturer is a coming-of-age tale of Severian’s passage into young adulthood and out of the safe confines of his guild’s tower. ![]() Severian hopes to return the life-restoring gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, to the traveling sisterhood from which Agia stole it back in the first book, The Shadow of the Torturer. His refusal to employ his guild talents for the personal desire of Thrax’s ruler leads him to flee northward - that and the fiery salamander sent to kill him by an agent of his old nemesis, Agia. Eventually she leaves him and takes up residence in a tavern. No matter how rationally he makes his case for legal torture and execution, she is more and more disturbed by his work. More importantly, he serves in his trained capacity as torturer and executioner. It is his latter duties that lead to a rift between Severian and Dorcas. Severian has finally arrived in the fortress town Thrax and taken up his duties as lictor, or “he who binds”, and jailor. ![]()
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