On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Noam Izenberg wrote: Greetings, and welcome to this humble list. >Has there ever been a professional/amateur effort to graphically >depict (i.e. draw/paint/psiprint) the animals of the 17 houses? If >so, are they collected/accessible anywhere, and if not, why not? > Well. I nearly think that I have the honor to have been able to search and find exactly what you are looking for; indeed, I not only have found such things but have in fact posted them before. Not only have I posted them before, but I have saved the information, and, since you seem to have the desire to in point of fact view those selfsame images, I believe I can satisfy that curiosity by providing the links once again. Ahem. That sonofabitch is completely out of control, isn't he? Anyway, the artist who has done the most with Brust's Dragaeran Cycle is Kathy Grantham (she who was once named Kathy Marschall - you may notice a certain similarity between that name and another name from the books; this is not a coincidence). Here is what she has done: Phoenix: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/k/a/kathyg/phoenixcolor96.jpg.html Dzur Mountain (including an actual dzur): http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/k/a/kathyg/dzur96.jpg.html Tiassa: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/k/a/kathyg/tiassa.jpg.html Orca: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/k/a/kathyg/orca.jpg.html Issola: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/k/a/kathyg/issola.jpg.html Jhereg: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/k/a/kathyg/jhereg.jpg.html Note that the jhereg doesn't look much like the one on the bookcovers, but is apparantly closer to Steve's actual mental image. Here's another jhereg, by a different artist: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/d/a/danisylv/jhereg.jpg.html Oh, and Steve Hickman, who did the cover of /Dragon/, has a nice picture of a jhereg, even if it isn't quite the way it should actually look: http://www.ulster.net/~shickman/welcome.html And that is all I could find, the last time I looked. There may be more out there since that time, but I haven't looked recently.
