Talk:Dettlaff van der Eretein/@comment-91.67.95.240-20160727084255/@comment-27722422-20181002153016

All the logic you display is human and obviously, you cannot imagine a situation when you'd behave like Dettlaff, but he is not a human. Why do you think that the whole process of thinking of a higher vampire reduces to something as simple as 'humans are insects'?

For Dettlaff who never felt love or fear or boredom before, never was blackmailed or fraud in any bad way (remember, that he doesn't care about anything a human could: money, fame, status, respect, relationships etc.), and who spends his time mostly with pretty mindless beasts somehow communicating with them, the thought of betrayal and feeling of being used by someone he understood as the part of the pack (remember the notion of the pack Regis introduced) justifies the price of several human (disconnected from him in any way) lives - give or take a hundred. Of course he inderstands that sometimes a human could be a friend like count d.l.C. or a love interest like Sianna herself but that doesn't change the attititude towards mankind - they are going to die eventually, sooner of later, their lives are so short that they are not even worth living, and since he doesn't understand the idea of death and fear of it, the death of several humans who will anyway die doesn't bother him, he just understands that other humans could care about their deceased kin.

And can you imagine the amount of patience and self-control the Unseen Elder should have had then? Probably it's not the case especially talking about vampires?