“There you go again, my dear. There is no room for ‘but’ in our vocabulary. Verence was right, oddly enough. There’s a new world coming, and there won’t be any room in it for those ghastly little gnomes or witches or centaurs and especially not for the firebirds! Away with them! Let us progress! They are unfitted for survival!”
Countess Magpyr: class warfare, eugenics, racial egocentrism; seems like a Lady Macbeth figure while the Count seems comparatively more benign and more focused on overcoming vampiric hereditary drawbacks
