Dragaera

What is an iorich?

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Fri Feb 13 17:15:16 PST 2004

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Bryan Newell wrote:

>That's okay, I found another one:
>
>Book of Jhereg, pg 123 -
>	a teckla's squawk
>
>Dzurlord -
>	The teckla is a salt marsh harvest mouse
>
>So I'm betting a Teckla is the Dragaeran equivalent of a chicken?  Or
>some other type of squawking bird? 

Or "squawk" is a typo for "squeak".  You know, the sound a mouse
makes.

Or perhaps the teckla is a mouse that squawks.  No need to bring in
chickens just because it makes a certain noise.

>Has anyone made an attempt to compile a list of just what all the
>house animals are?  I've been using the descriptions in Dzurlord, but
>if they're not right.... 

I don't think anyone knows what a Jhegaala looks like.

   http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=388CA700.A2168A83@yahoo.com

Ilona Berry writes:

   Also, for readers of the Vlad books, anyone have an idea of what a
   jhegaala looks like (the animal)?  [...]  You would think that
   having the author's input would be enough, but alas, its not.


However, Kathy Grantham's depictions appear to match the text in
Dzurlord, although they are obviously not the full cycle.