Dragaera

Vlad's not a Jhereg at heart

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Wed Mar 23 11:46:55 PST 2005

Gaertk at aol.com writes:

> 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.

He seems to do well enough as an Easterner of no house.  His important
relationships don't seem to depend on his house membership at all. 

In fact, that might be a non-eventful way to resolve the problem --
formally expell him from House Jhereg, in lieu of killing him (with a
little fancy footwork to explain why that's actually worse, of
course).  Then he could get on with his life.
-- 
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