On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Nytemuse wrote: >On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, David Silberstein wrote: >> Er. Is this how a jhereg should look? I don't like the way the >> scales stick up. >> http://members.limitless.org/~morpheum/jhereg.jpg > >Um, I was always under the impression that a jhereg should like like this: >http://www.crowfire.com/images/brust.gif > I believe Steve has stated that none of the cover artists' renditions were what he had in mind - frex, the jhereg's head is supposed to be more snakelike (which is what I think the artist that I linked to was trying to do). <*greps & googles...*> Here's the cite: http://dragaera.info/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?1:msp:174:gknlagjinepdjbcnnkjc ] As I've said before, I think the covers are wonderful, but neither ] Vlad nor Loiosh look in the least the way I envision them. [...] ] (In my own vision of Loiosh, he has two legs, is smaller, smoother, ] his head is more snakelike, and his wings more batlike). See also: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=YzL61.1260$E34.5680889@ptah.visi.com (While searching for cites, I turned this up, which is also amusing): http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=QYn22.1765$i63.6005491@ptah.visi.com ] As a matter of fact, Loiosh is a transliteration of the ] Hungarian Lajos, which was the name of a dog my father had as a ] child. And the bio is wrong--we changed the parrot's name to Lojo ] upon discovering that she wasn't quite as masculine as we had first ] thought. So now we know how Loiosh's name should be spelled in Fenario. :-)
