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Athyra
Athyra is a fantasy novel by American writer Steven Brust, the sixth book in his Vlad Taltos series, set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. Originally published in 1993, by Ace Books, it was reprinted in 2003 along with "Orca" in the omnibus "The Book of Athyra". Following the trend of the Vlad Taltos books, it is named after one of the Great Houses and features that House as an important element to its plot.
Plot summary.
Vlad has traveled through Dragaera for
colony on the Marmara shore called Athyra (), also known as Athyras. 
In 443 AD, the armies of Attila the Hun took this settlement and its associated fort, and this was presumably his last conquest of that campaign before turning around.
The earliest mention of the bishopric of Athyra in a list of dioceses is of the late 15th century, but a seal has been found of a 10th-century Bishop Orestes of the see. No longer a residential bishopric, Athyra is today listed by the Catholic Church