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*** The Draka did appreciate fine art, especially Greco-Roman and Renaissance work. They systematically looted the Vatican specifically for its art collection.
* [[Villain Sue]]: Several readers have noted multiple instances of [[Plot Induced Stupidity]] acting in the favor of the Draka during their rise to power; as mentioned above, much of the point of the Draka is to have [[The Empire]] ''win'' "for a change". Still it's somewhat unlikely and Stirling shows complete favouritism.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215010450/http://www.alternatehistory.com/gateway/analyses/Drakaproblems.html This site] does a fairly decent job pointing out the many problems with the whole Draka concept (and uses the phrase "act of God" eight times). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527183344/http://gateway.alternatehistory.com/timelines/Alternatedraka.html This site] presents a much more likely scenario for Draka history.
*** Although the first link is made a bit suspect when early on it makes the error of claiming no significant eruption happened in Iceland 1783-86. SM Stirling gets it right since it was actually the most devastating eruption in Icelandic history and killed a third of the population. Considering the rest of the points, having a large proportion of the population settle somewhere else isn't so unrealistic-half the current population is a bit of a stretch though.
*** One review of the ''Wraeththu'' RPG described the Draka books as "handing them an I Win button."
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