> here's a short list of creatures in each group, off the top of my > head and without having the time to dig through my books atm. > Perhaps someone can add more to it? > > 6 legs: > chreotha I don't remember a reference to the # of limbs the chreotha has. > dragons This has been discussed before; I have found no references to Dragaeran dragons having wings. They appear to have four limbs, a tail, and a number of large appendages on their neck and three smaller ones on their chins that are described as being tentaclelike and possibly serve some psionic purpose. Bryan (who is way way behind on the next version of the map of Dragaera) ... Here's the references to dragons I've found so far (SPOILERS): Book of Taltos 100-101 - I saw a stylized dzur head ... a stylized chreotha, then later a hawk, then a dragon. 117 - a high stone arch with a massive dragon's head carved into it 126 - It is really hard to conceive of just how big a dragon is. I can tell you that it could eat me, perhaps without the need for a second bite. I can mention that it has tentaclelike things all around its head, each of which is longer than I am tall, and as big around as my thigh. I could let you know that, at the shoulders, it was around eighteen feet high and much, much longer than that ... one of its eyes was fixed on me, the other, I assume, on Morrolan ... it turned around (not a minor undertaking) and walked back out of sight. Issola (hardcover) 226-227 - there was even a dragon which, from across a long distance, seemed almost to catch my eye for an instant, as if it knew me. I stared back. Could it be that one from the Paths of the Dead? No, for some reason, it didn't seem like that dragon. Eventually it looked away, leaving me wondering. 230 - We all stopped and looked, and discovered that we were, in fact, not the only ones moving directly at the Jenoine: the dragon was, too. 234 - one of the Jenoine was down indeed, and wouldn't be getting up again, and there was no mystery about what had taken it out: the dragon was holding it down with two paws and tearing chunks out of the thing with its teeth, and scattering it in all directions, as if to tell us that good, old-fashioned gore did, indeed, belong in a battle of gods, demigods, and wizardry ... another continued to be dismembered and gutted by the dragon, who wanted to make a thorough job of it 235 - the dragon, which had finished its meal and was now trying to get at the Jenoine who was holding off the Lords of Judgement, turned toward us, then, its mouth open, showing teeth the size of Blackwand, and began to move in our direction ... the dragon, for no reason that I could see, stopped as if it had struck a wall, rolled over--something that big does a lot of rolling over when it rolls--and then came to its feet once more, and shook its head in a very human gesture. 236 - then aliera went flying backward, tumbling backward like a seed bag without the seed, landing next to the dragon. I thought she was dead, or at least injured, but she put her hand on the dragon's head, and, using it like a handhold, rose to her feet at once, shook her head in a gesture terribly reminiscent of the dragon's, then turned back toward the battle. It was terrifying to think that one of those things was entertaining the Demon Goddes, Sethra Lavode, teh Necromancer, a dragon, and Aliera e'Kieron. 237-238 - of all the sorceries and Great Weapons and gods and dragons and necromancies, it was that attack with that weapon that got through. 247 - they were gone, leaving only half the gods in the world, one very large dragon, and our little group standing on the spot of Adron's Disaster. 248 - the gods and even the dragon were gone as well. Brokedown Palace (paperback) 44 - [Miklos] looked over to where the movement had appeared and had a sudden, clear vision of a monstrous head--narrow, triangular, reptillian ... Three small tentacles, which Miklos knew to be sense organs, descended from its chin. There would be larger ones around its neck. 45 - Miklos ... watched the dragon, trying to guess its path. Even from this vantage, forty feet above the floor of the forest, he could only rarely glimpse the massive form of the beast, weaving in and out of trees that it doubtless found as strange as Miklos did. Odd how silently a dragon could move, even on unfamiliar terrain. The dragon was a mountain animal, he reflected ... The dragon stopped suddenly, and the Prince could see its neck tentacles becoming hard and rigid. 46 - He had never before been so close to a dragon. It is one thing to know that a dragon's head is taller than you are, another to see one close up. The dragon wasn't looking at him but at the dzur, and all of its tentacles were fully erect. 47 - [The River] was cool and pleasant to his legs. Lifting his head to look downstream through a tunnel of elms dotted with occasional willows, he was certain it was cool and pleasant to the dragon's feet as well. 49 - [Miklos] was fifty feet away when Vilmos leapt onto the dragon's back (I would have to quote almost the entire chapter to include every reference to the dragon in the above; I just included a few relevant passages -- it fought three "battles" in this chapter, one against an athrya settled with its mouth and possibly its psionic abilities, the 2nd against a dzur is not described, the 3rd is against an easterner, and it uses its mouth, claws, and tail -- it doesn't fly, doesn't breathe fire, doesn't use magic or even psionics).