Dragaera

Vlad's choice of friends

Mon Apr 11 13:21:54 PDT 2005

>> Aha! That's a very interesting way of putting it. Although we're going
>> to need a new vocabulary to distinguish "humans" from "humans," as
>> species go.

>Easterner. Dragaeran.

Actually, that's a Vlad-centric view of things and it shows how limited his
perspective is. A Dragaeran is pretty specifically someone who is a citizen
of the Dragaeran Empire. An Elde Islander or a Greenairian would likely be
offended at the implication that they are "Dragaeran", though they likely
use the same word for "human" that Vlad renders as "Dragaeran" when talking
about them. They ARE "human" but they're definitely not "Dragaeran". Vlad,
however, subscribes to this "us and them" attitude that refuses to
differentiate. He's every bit as racist as the Dragaerans that he hates for
their racism.