[Dragaera] various

[Steve Rapaport]

On 10 February 2010 19:39, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <3928.95881.qm at web52107.mail.re2.yahoo.com>,
> stlatos at yahoo.com (Sean Whalen) wrote:
>
> > Why wouldn't Sethra be a normal vampire (fangs,
> > drinks blood, etc.)?
>
> Because it's a principle of Brust's writing that nothing in the world is
> quite as a reader of generic fantasy would expect.


This is lampshaded<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging>in
Athyra, p. 78, where Loraan's undead status comes up between Vlad and
Savn:

"So perhaps he is not a vampire.  Although that proves nothing"
[...]
"What other sorts of undead are there?"
"I'm not an expert on the subject.  Perhaps dear Lord Smallcliff will let me
use his library to look it up."


-- 
\Steve