Jhereg

Jhereg has three meanings, all of which are intrinsically linked.

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A jhereg is a fictitious animal on the fictitious planet of Dragaera, two of whom (a mated pair, Loiosh and Rocza) feature in the bestselling series of novels by Steven Brust.

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The House of the Jhereg is the Dragaeran Noble House to which the novels' protagonist Vlad Taltos belongs. Members of House Jhereg are referred to as Jhereg, not jhereg: the animal's name is not capitalized.

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Jhereg is the name of the first novel in the series, which was published in 1983. Steven Brust's JHEREG is a graphic novel adaptation published by Marvel Comics in 1987, and The Book of Jhereg is a (slightly-amended) omnibus collection of the first three books in the series — Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla — published in 1999.

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Dragaera: Dragaera is the fictional world in which a series of novels by Steven Brust is set. The word "Dragaera" can refer to the planet, the Dragaeran Empire, or its former capital, Dragaera City....

Steven Brust: Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, and Patricia Wrede, and also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellow...

Noble House: Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is part of Clavell's Asian Saga....