[Dragaera] Vlad's passivity

[Maximilian Wilson]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Friedman
<jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Instead of "reactive" and "proactive", maybe the distinction
> is whether Vlad is trying to prevent someone from messing
> up a long-standing acceptable situation or trying to improve
> a long-standing situation.  In the three books you named,
> Vlad is doing acceptably till Mellar, Loraan, and Fornia
> threaten him (and in two cases, his friends).  Alexx's
> point may be that we have not seen Vlad, unthreatened, say,
> "It may seem like things always have to be this way, but I'm
> going to change them."

Like, say, suddenly deciding to go back East to organize a defense
against a possible future invasion by Sethra the Younger?

-Max

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