You make excellent points. I also submit to the jury Captain Carrot, who I’ve always loved. You’ve got to appreciate how he can go from apparently too stupid for words to having outsmarted everyone in no time flat, and all with the same expression on his face. And Vetinari. Especially since Pratchett said that he imagined Vetinari being played by Alan Rickman. Mmm.
Oh. Topic? What?
I think it was clever of the author to introduce the temperance league, and the conditions surrounding giving up blood. But what about Arthur and his wife from “Reaper Man.” Are they exempt because of the hereditary nature of their vampirism? Had he just not worked out the rules yet? Is there a way for us to fanwank an obsession for them into place?