maybe I am nuts but i always thought of Aliera as being like a tall human, maybe 6'3 or 4" or something, and Vlad as being just under 6 feet-ish. i swear he really did wear like 8 inch platform shoes when he was playing Dragaeran. anyhow. but maybe shes stumpy for a Dragaeran. seems like their petite at 6 feet is like our petite at 5. Curtis <crhaden at gotrain.org> wrote: Sethra wrote: On Apr 6, 2005 4:25 PM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Peter H. Granzeau wrote: Aliera is about 6 feet [tall...] Do we know this? I think we'd know if Vlad was as tall or taller than A.,so that would set an upper bound on his height. I thought it was mentioned (however tall A is) that A was "a head"taller than Vlad, and that she was concidered short.Who wants to do a research project?! Look in all he books for anymention of height and we can figure the math to the closestapproximation possible. Like those stupid "If Larry was next to Sueand Sue was across from the fat one and Carl is fat... Who is acrossfrom Carl?" It seems to me that I've seen Aliera described as around six feet tall in one of the books. I haven't found it yet, but then, I got my wife hooked, and I'm now missing several of the 'Vladiad'. I do know that in chapter one, page 20 of Jhereg, Vlad, speaking of Kragar, says, "I studied his 7-foot frame sitting comfortably facing me against the back wall of my office." Kragar is notoriously non-descript, so we can safely assume (?) that seven feet tall is rather average. In Jhereg, chapter seven, page 81, Vlad observes, "His cousin Aliera, however, was the shortest Dragaeran I have ever known; she could have been mistaken for a tall human." Once again, in Jhereg, chapter 11, page 135, Vlad, making observations about Mellar, "He had been hard to spot because there was nothing particularly distinctive about him. He stood just under seven feet tall." I can't find Taltos, and I'm really curious to re-read the initial description of Aliera as Verra brings her back to her body in the Halls of Judgement. Is that where I seem to remember her being described as around six feet tall? Someone help. :-) I realize that this is bringing us nowhere closer to realizing Vlad's height, but it entertained me for a couple hours...heh. I've been paid. -- Life, thy name is Irony ...Or, something like that. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.4 - Release Date: 4/6/2005 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun.