On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: #On Paul's wonderful animation of Loiosh (cover art version) Which I haven't been able to get to work for me. :-( #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. Steve said it or wrote it to somebody and it was posted on this list or a predecessor of this list. But it does not appear anywhere in canonical text. #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. AND TWO LEGS. We have plenty of description of Loiosh holding onto Vlad's shoulder, tightening his claws to remind Vlad of something, daintily picking up a piece of food with one foot and carrying it to his mouth, and so on. #I think Vlad looks like Steven Brust. You're not the only one. #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. In Dragon, at least in the first hardcover edition, there was a major editing blunder: somebody, somewhere along the line, saw "Dragon" and "Jhereg" and decided that ALL occurrences of those words should be capitalized, and did it. VERY confusing to us longtime Brust fans. -- Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website