I don't know, obviously Irenicus was not nobel prize worthy fiction but I found his part in the story quite convincing and even if he is a bit one dimensional at least he's an actual villain. About his lab underneath the city, never bothered me, I mean the same city that has a crashed planar sphere spaceship in the slums and conspiring vampires running the graveyard district ? Don't see Irenicus as particularly inconsistent, but maybe that's just me, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree then
