[Dragaera] Vlad

[Konrad Gaertner]

J C wrote:
> 
> Vlad is talking about killing people, without euphemism or 
> dissembling, to a recording device.
> 
> To say that this flies in the face of all of his acquired reflexes is
> to understate the point rather a little.

We're told in _Athyra_ "he was able to convince me no one would hear 
about it."

> "Writing" one's memoirs is very much the act of a person in advanced
> age---in this case age being relative to the time of one's death as
> opposed to the time of birth.  Vlad is presumably going to die very
> soon, or is at least feeling a little maudlin. 

We're told in _Dragon_ that Vlad narrated _Taltos_ right after the 
events happened.

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