RnRPaintGrL at aol.com wrote: >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. > See, dragons mess me up. I have the traditional image of a dragon in my mind, and the described tentacles for Dragaeran dragons... well, I don't know how to place them, and so the validity of my dragon image is called into question. But for some reason, I have no problem imagining Loiosh and other jhereg as 4-limbed (two legs, two wings), rather than 6-limbed. My mind is weird. Jose -- Jose Marquez | There are 10 types of people in jhereg69 at earthlink.net | the world: those who understand http://www.hackwater.com | binary, and those who don't.