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

[Philip Hart]

>> Sure, that's correct.  But it does introduce the extra
>> complexity of explaining what a vampire is and why blood
>> drinking is significant. [...]
>> Then one needs to find out why Sethra is a vampire and not
>> just run-of-the-mill undead.  Then one needs to determine
>> what the implications are for whatever's special about
>> blood and whatever's special about vampirism for Sethra.
>
> There's a difference.  I do want to understand the
> characters' dialogue, but none of your questions above ever 
> occurred to me, and I'm not really interested in them unless 
> the answer makes a good story.

Well, if there are no vampires, then the exchange you pointed
to shows us a good deal about Vlad - how subtle and quick he is,
and how good with children.  Otherwise it just carries the
plot forward a bit but not in any essential way.

And we do care just from a plot perspective about the above issues,
I think - consider the end of _Taltos_, and its echo in _Dzur_.