I've always wondered, and I hope to figure it all out someday, but here's my question. Each house is named after an animal, and consiquently the members of each house to one degree or another are very similar to those animals. now some are rather easy to imagine, for example, dragon. I can picture what a dragon is, how I think it should behave and for the most part the characters who are of the dragon house pretty well hold up to that. ( my goodness I'm getting wordy) ok ok my question is, what animals are each house? I can figure out some, like dragon, phoenix, hawk, orca, but others I'm completely baffled. and a few have been given away to us, like in Taltos on the paths of the dead, an athyra talks to Vlad and he says quite plainly its a brown bird. I really would love to know what each houses animal is at least similar to. ( did any of that make sense?) Christine