Introduction and Chapter 1 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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Severean and the Autarky
The book is set in Commonwealth, a kingdom ruled by an autark or self-ruler. Severean kills Vodalas to prove that he and the exultants had a relationship. He then goes on to hate his former government for what it stands for.
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