Jose Marquez wrote on Aug 24, 2004 >Hmm. Doesn't Loiosh have 4 limbs (two legs, two wings) rather than 6 >(two legs, two arms, two wings)? Casey Rousseau wrote on Aug 24, 2004 >Indeed. S. Hickman's cover art notwithstanding, Steve has confirmed many >times that jhereg have two legs not four. paul w wrote on Aug 24, 2004 > Sigh... somehow I missed that fact, and have been using > the covers as reference. ...Thanx... I think! ;] >-paul- Hi, On Paul's wonderful animation of Loiosh (cover art version) and his comment on missing the fact that jhereg have only two legs: The fact that Loiosh has only two legs and no arms is not in the Vlad Taltos Novels or the Khaavren Romances or The Viscount of Adrilankha. I think I found out that fact by using dragaera search or reading some articles on the Internet. Loiosh is a snake with bat wings. The best description of how this might look is in The Book of Athyra Athyra page 104 "each wing when folded forms a perfect triangle" and "Yet seen from the front, it looked like there was a snake's head bobbing up and down between the walls of two houses that had been built too close together." I think the legs are not mentioned because they are blocked from view by the snake's head or snake's body. I still tend to visualize Loiosh as the cover art of the first Steven Brust book I bought Jhereg. It is a great cover. Would I have bought a book with a snake with bat wings coming out of an egg on the cover? I think Vlad looks like Steven Brust. I realized just recently that you do not capitalize the animal name (jhereg) and when you refer to the House you capitalize the word (House of Jhereg). Now Howard Brazee's email on Aug. 10, 2004 responding to Paul W's email about a Jhereg's nest makes sense to me. Bye. Linda G.