[Dragaera] *slaps head about Tukko* *AGYAR SPOILERS*

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: "Eugene Zaretskiy" <eugene.zar at gmail.com>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, J C wrote:
> >
> >> Sethra is undead.  Not only is she undead, she is a specific type of
> >> undead: A vampire.
> >>
> >> Would it be completely impossible that Tukko is one too?
> >
> > Very nice hypo.  I think it's rather unlikely that vampirism and being part
> > of the machinery of Dzur Mountain would be related, but whatever.
> >
> > One has to wonder why Loiosh doesn't notice.  Tukko/Chaz puts on rather
> > an act for Vlad in _Taltos_, but bothers to hide that he's a vampire?
> > Actually, I don't recall if he appears to be not undead.  Also I don't
> > exactly recall if there is a differentiation between "vampire" and "undead".
> >  Certainly the Necromancer is the latter but I don't think
> > the former.  Loraan never offers to drink Vlad's blood - never threatens to
> > drink from Savn - and L&V don't think of him in those
> > terms that I recall.
> 
> Speaking of blood drinking, does Sethra herself ever mention doing
> this? Do Draegeran vampires drink blood...?

Yes. 

Vlad does make comments at one point about Sethra needing to consume "very little blood". There are hints about this at the end of /Orca/, in the dining scene in /Issola/, as well as a few other scattered places. 

Majikjon