kdvorenkamp at gmail.com wrote on dated 9/18/2005 4:04:03 PM >I was wondering if there are any instances of the animal dragon in any of >the books besides the one Vlad met in the Paths of the Dead (or was that one >a god?) Hi, I do not think we know who or what the dragon was that Vlad met in Taltos. >From the Old Mailing List Archives in a posting on House Pictures that was related to t-shirts and other cool stuff that hopefully will be out next spring along with the book Dzur (which is in editing) : dragon "Haughty dragon yearns to slay." "had a sudden, clear vision of a monstrous head--narrow, triangular, and reptilian. He had never seen it before, but his stay in Faerie had taught him to recognize it. Three small tentacles, which Miklos knew to be sense organs, descended from its chin, there would be larger ones around its neck, Miklos didn't remain to see them." Brokedown Palace, Chapter 3, page 44 "The dragon stopped suddenly, and the Prince could see its neck tentacles becoming hard and rigid. He chuckled to himself at the vaguely sexual impression it gave. Then he realized that the dragon was standing in almost the same place he had vacated a few minutes before, and he was very pleased he had moved. But what had it found? The athyra. Brokedown Palace, Chapter 3, page 45 "It is one thing to know that a dragon's head is taller than you are, another to see one close up. The dragon wasn't looking at him but at the dzur; and all of its tentacles were fully erect. This time Miklos found nothing amusing about it. He stared mesmerized, until he heard a louder snarl than he'd hear yet, and a thin black streak launched itself across his line of sight and into the dragon's face." Brokedown Palace, Chapter 3, page 46 "He was fifty feet away when Vilmos leapt onto the dragon's back, crying, 'I said I'd strange you, and by the Demon Goddess I will!'" "Even his massive hands couldn't come close to actually fitting around the dragon's throat, but he took one of its great tentacles and twisted and pulled it." ... "Teeth, however, are not the dragon's only weapon. A claw that was as big as Vilmos himself swung out too quickly to be seen," ... "Miklos saw the dragon's tail whipping around." Brokedown Palace, Chapter 3, page 49 "The dragon...turned toward us, then, its mouth open, showing teeth the size of Blackwand, and began to move in our direction." Issola, Chapter 15, paperback, page 235 The size of Blackwand: "It was small for a longsword" The Book of Taltos, Taltos, Chapter 6, page 60 "It is really hard to conceive of just how big a dragon is, I can tell you that that it could eat me, perhaps without the need for a second bite. I can mention that it has tentaclelike things all around its head, each of which is longer than I am tall and as big around as my thigh. I could let you know that, at the shoulders, it was eighteen feet high and much, much longer than that. But, until you've seen one up close, you just can't really image it." The Book of Taltos, Taltos, Chapter 12, page 126 On the t-shirts and other cool stuff: Rion Bergquist wrote on Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:36:23 -0600 in a posting Re: House characteristics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- >As far a cycle animals... >I am still working on these, I have half a dozen artists doing various >renderings of what they think the house icons look like. Steve has seen and >approved roughly half of them. It is my hope to have both line drawing and >color versions of both. Once we have the art all done we will send them to >the list. In addition to the basic art we are doing a Cycle portrait, a >tarot deck, several of the games from the book, shirts, and I am helping >Steve Broker a deal to get a Dragaera RPG going. >So yes stuff is in the works, the deadline for all of these things is by >Opus 06 (May 19-21) >Rion - www.opusfest.com Bye. Linda G.