I can't wait for _Sethra Lavode_ to come out in paper back. I can't find *any* of the other books hard copy. It's ok by me though. It's easier to take a book in a tree if it's paperback! -Crystal ^..^ In a message dated 12/22/2004 1:05:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, FRIEDA2133 at aol.com writes: >Hi David and others, > >So Sethra Lavode is being published in paperback next year and I need >some Lavode stuff...but everything has to be in black... > >So I was looking around cafepress.com and searched for black >t-shirts and they have a few. I am wondering if they are sold >only under the Premium shops. > >I would like a black t-shirt (short-sleeve, woman's t-shirt) with >word "LAVODE" in white on back and "LAVODE" in white on the front >pocket. Website dragaera.info and/or Steven Brust's name on pocket >and/or back in smaller font. Or without pocket if necessary. > >If possible, "white Dragon's Head and Dzur's Claw" above word LAVODE. > >To make this happen, I am willing to send a check to keep the >Premium shop running (either $4.99 or the $7.00 David mentioned) for >1 month. David, just tell me who to write the check out to and where >to mail it or whatever. > >Also need a black book/tote bag similar design or maybe with >Sethra Lavode written on it. Or a white tote almost all covered >in black. > >To make this happen, I am willing to send a check to keep the >premium shop running (either $4.99 or the $7.00 David mentioned) for >1 month. > >Cool tile boxes...just what you need to keep a vial of the blood >of a goddess in. > >Maybe a poster of Stephen Hickman's art from Jhereg cover or Dragon >cover with Loiosh's name above it. > >The black t-shirts that the search brought up did not have a lot of >color in them. If it was possible, I would like a black t-shirt >(short-sleeve, woman's t-shirt) with word "Loiosh" above Stephen >Hickman's artwork from Jhereg and/or Dragon, "Loiosh" and artwork >on front pocket. Website dragaera.info and/or Steven Brust's name >on pocket and/or back in smaller font. If possible, Stephen Hickman's >name near artwork to show that this was authorized by the artist. > >To make this happen, I am willing to send a check to keep the >premium shop running (either $4.99 or the $7.00 David mentioned) for >1 month. > >****************************** >So three months. Anyone else? >****************************** > >Bye. > >Linda G. > >"white Dragon's Head and Dzur's Claw against black" > >Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Eighth, page 103 > >"The earliest authentic records of Sethra predate the founding of the >Lavodes, and consist of a rough drawing of her device, which appears >to have remained unchanged throughout her life, consisting of white >Dragon's Head and Dzur's Claw against black--unquestionably the >simplest device in use at the time, and the most unadorned on >record from any time, saving only the Silver Sword on Black of the >most ancient line of Kieron the Conqueror himself. In the oldest >drawings of her device, a motto is shown at the top, but not only >is the language one which no scholar has penetrated, there are even >a few unfamiliar symbols, as if the very alphabet in which it was >written were ancient and forgotten. This is certainly possible, >and there has been endless speculation on the subject, though >to no conclusion. Sethra has, by all reports, been silent on the >subject, even to those few who have been close enough to be >considered her friends." >