What is the chronology of Vachons life?
Most of Vachon’s life has apparently been spent running from the Inca, an idea implied in “Black Buddha.” Presumably born in Spain, Vachon becomes a vampire near Lake Titicaca, in the Andes mountains of South America, in 1531, after serving in Pizarro’s army (BB2), but his whereabouts for the next two centuries are unknown. If he is Screed’s master, he must have encountered the Englishman some time around 1580 (Fever); those who accept that speculation frequently picture Vachon returning to Europe when he brings the sailor across. Vachon spent most of the eighteenth century fighting on various sides of the French and Indian Wars in North America, killing a “French regular” in the 1720s (BW) and signing a treaty as a representative of the Mississauga people in 1787(BW); Vachon says he spent “years” searching for proof of that treaty after the party was ambushed and the deed lost (BW). He is next seen in 1792 Spain in the company of Screed and Bourbon (MBIAV). A century later, in 1890 Ne
