Dragaera

Vlad's not a Jhereg at heart

Gaertk at aol.com Gaertk at aol.com
Wed Mar 23 11:11:04 PST 2005

In a message dated Mar/23/2005 1:48:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> writes:

> P.S. Much as he would hate to admit it, I think Vlad fits in better
> with the Dragons than with the Jhereg. He's got too much concern 
> for honor. Jhereg, as Sethra points out in Taltos, would be glad to
> sit down and listen to a business proposal no matter how they were 
> brought into it. Vlad is, much as he would hate to admit it, more 
> like Aliera in "Jhereg" when she volunteers to feed herself to a 
> Morganti blade because it gives her a better chance of survival 
> than making Morrolan kill her or letting him start a war. Declaring
> war on Boralinoi for Cawti's sake--is _that_ Jhereg behavior? More 
> like a honor vendetta.  Rescuing Morrolan and Aliera from the 
> Jenoine? Spending a year of his life wandering Dragaera nursing 
> Savn back to health?  I'm not saying Vlad/Dolivar fits in well with
> the Dragons--relative preferences for hot meals vs. fighting come 
> to mind--but I don't really think he ever really fit in with the 
> Organization and it's not really a surprise that he got the boot.

If the Organization revokes his Baronetcy, he could always fight his
way into House Dzur.  I think he fits better as a greedy hero than
soldier.


--KG