--- Alma Gaiz <almagaiz at gmail.com> wrote: > Lyorn is red, and Phoenix is either red and gold or just gold...I > gotta go check this, but I believe Teckla is green, and I know in Orca > when Vlad's pretending to be a Choretha he mentions their colors. > Dzur...are black, no? Jhereg is predominantly gray, I think there's > also mention of gray/black attire. Issola are green/white, I believe. Here are the House colors that we know of, as summarized on my web site at http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/Cracks-and-Shards/characteristics.html: Phoenix gold Dragon black & silver Lyorn red & golden-brown (warriors only: skirt) Tiassa pale blue & white Hawk Dzur black & white Issola green & white Tsalmoth red & silver Vallista Jhereg black & grey Iorich Chreotha Yendi [none] Orca pale blue & green Teckla yellow, green, & brown Jhegaala brown & yellow Athyra red & white; (often a hooded robe) The orca is an Earth species, also known as the killer whale. The lyorn has a horn: "Lyorn growls and lowers horn" in the Cycle poem. It is probably a predator: "Everyone is a predator" at the top of Chapter 3 of _Jhereg_. (These quotations and sources are also found on the same page of my web site.) The dzur is apparently something like a panther, possibly black ("Dzur stalks and blends with night" -- Cycle poem). The tiassa is a winged feline, smaller than the dzur: Vlad says that the cat-centaurs he and Morrolan met "from the waist down appeared to be feline, smaller than the dzur, perhaps the size of the tiassa but without wings." (_Taltos_, Chapter 9, page 92 in the 1988 Ace edition.) We also know things, or have ideas, about some of the other creatures, including a really weird description of the tsalmoth from Steve himself by oral tradition. I don't have them handy. -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250