And at a later point, Severian calls the funeral bronze "my funeral bronze"… ) After reading all the books, though, including The Urth of the New Sun, (Interestingly enough, Severian mentions that on some of his visits to the hidden mausoleum, he rests/sleeps in one of the empty coffins. I suppose at this point in the book, knowing what little we do then about Severian's past before becoming a torturer at young age, we might suppose the dead man is Severian's father. My straight nose, deep-set eyes, and sunken cheeks were much like his, and I longed to know if he too had dark hair. In the light that pierced the little window I examined his face and meditated on my own as I saw it in the polished metal. The dead man lay at full length, his heavy-lidded eyes closed. There is a funeral bronze there depicting a man: There are five coffins in the mausoleum, two empty ones on the floor and three intact on a shelf along one wall. It's closed by the water masses when the Citadel is flooded. The door itself was sprung "long ago", and remains "eternally ajar" since it's too heavy to move. There is a device graved in bronze above the door, which Severian says he has adopted as his own. The young Severian often goes there to contemplate when he's in the Guild of Torturers. In The Book of the New Sun, there is a mausoleum in the necropolis of Nessus by the Citadel.
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