Brust, Steven Easter Egg - Devera

Most hardcore Brust fans know this already, but all Brust novels include either an appearance or a mention of a young brown-eyed girl who never quite seems to exist in reality... This is Devera, a curious character who is the daughter of [SPOILER] in the Dragaera series but also shows up for no apparent reason in Brust's other novels.

For a definitive list of her appearances (chock-full of spoilers about the Dragaera series, so consider yourself warned), check out http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/brust/devfaq.html. Or just try to find her yourself; a few appearances are a stretch, but Brust himself has said she's always there.