[Dragaera] Vlad in the well of Deep Time

[Jerry Friedman via Dragaera]

From: Alexx Kay via Dragaera <dragaera at lists.dragaera.info>
Subject: [Dragaera] Vlad in the well of Deep Time



> Had a dream the other night in which I was reading a new Vlad book.

I like it, but it hasn't happened to me that I remember.

> It was, unusually, set in the extreme far future of the normal Dragaeran
> setting. Some historians (not necessarily any sort of human) were
> researching the Dragaeran Empire. Part of how they were proceeding was to
> create an AI simulation of Vlad. They were able to do this due to the
> large amount of documentation available on him; the books by SB, records
> in the Imperial Orb, and certain records from Dzur Mountain. He was a
> useful subject to 'resurrect' for many reasons. His wider travels among
> different cultures (and different class levels within those cultures) made
> him more likely than most to be able to adjust to the strange future he
> now found himself in. This wide experience also made him someone who was
> used to explaining strange cultural concepts to people who did not
> necessarily share the background to easily understand them, such as these
> researching historians. Another way in which Vlad is useful to them,
> though probably unplanned, is that he understands crime in a way that
> these academics living in a largely utopian setting do not. So Vlad ends
> up being the de facto detective when a murderer happens…


...and we're on familiar territory.

So was it a Communist utopia?

Jerry Friedman