[Dragaera] speculation on forthcoming books (possible spoilers)

[Howard Brazee]

On 10/20/2008 J C wrote:
>  CHREOTHA
> 
>  Chreothas like to bargain.   Perhaps as an alternative to their
>  destruction, or maybe as a result of their destruction and their
>  dawning comprehension that Vlad is basically untouchable, the Jhereg
>  come to recognize that a bargain with Vlad is better.  Personally, I
>  don't see this as happening.  The Jhereg *HAVE* to kill Vlad, or at
>  the *very* least, never stop hunting for him.  Otherwise, their
>  credibility is shot, and they become the carrion that they're
>  supposed to be feeding on in the first place.  That being said, that
>  may happen anyway.  Blood makes for the most powerful magic, and if
>  the Jhereg Council is killed off for failing to kill Vlad, that
>  should satisfy the PR side of the whole thing, and the Jhereg can
>  then uncomfortably forget about it, and then insist that it never
>  happened.

Of course, the Japanese in WWII were in a similar situation until the 
Bomb and the Emperor dictated otherwise.